Watch and Discuss: Conan O'Brien Issues NBC's Response to GLAAD

There will only ever be one host of The Tonight Show to me - Johnny Carson is who I grew up with, and who I begged my parents to let me stay up and watch. He was a class act, and I truly believe somewhere Johnny Carson is rolling over in his grave.

This morning we released our take on GLAAD's third annual Network Responsibility Index. We took our time and reported on the whole report, and tried to give the subject the attention it deserved.

NBC received an 8% rating from GLAAD, a marginal improvement from its 6% failing grade it received in 2008. So you'd think the network that's at the bottom of the Neilsen ratings would be taking any and all input seriously.

Instead network Standards and Practices chose to let Conan O'Brien make a joke about NBC's standing in representing a minority community. Take a look at the video response that aired last night.

Maybe he's actually making fun of his bosses at NBC. But given Conan's history with gay humor in the couple of months he's had the big boy chair at NBC's flagship Tonight Show, I'm thinking it's just a cheap joke to O'Brien.

What do you think? Is the joke on NBC, or the gays? Would it have made it past Standards & Practices had it been any other minority group? And is it worse when a talk show takes the premeditated step of making a video as opposed to an off-the-cuff remark going badly?