He might be biased, but Jerry Seinfeld thinks NBC's gamble on having Jay Leno host a prime-time talker five nights a week was not a bad bet. Seinfeld was, of course, the first guest to sit down for "The Jay Leno" show last year, but even after the news broke over the weekend that NBC had officially decided to pull the plug on the former "Tonight Show" host's failed prime-time experiment, Seinfeld said he thought the idea was courageous.

"I think there are a lot of things that happened there. ... I am glad NBC had the guts to try something original," Seinfeld said at the Television Critics Association press tour event over the weekend, where he was promoting a new reality show he's producing called "The Marriage Ref."

"I was thinking about the AOL Time Warner deal," he said. "Everyone says what a terrible deal it was ... but it was the right idea, just at the wrong time. That's the way I feel about this." As for whether he thought O'Brien should remain as the host of the "Tonight Show" — which will likely move to 12:05 a.m. following a new Leno program at 11:35 p.m. — Seinfeld said yes. "I don't think anyone is preventing people from watching Conan," he said, according to "Entertainment Tonight." "I am a stand-up comedian. Once they give you the camera, it is on you. I hope he stays. He is terrific."

While O'Brien made a number of swipes at NBC on his show Friday — including a biting joke in which he quipped, "Until this whole thing is sorted out, NBC lawyers have advised me to refer to this program as 'The Some Time at Night Show With Some White Guy' — to date, he has not responded to the media about the shake-up.

The Wall Street Journal reported over the weekend that O'Brien is considering his options at the moment, which include possibly jumping to a rival network. Citing a person familiar with the O'Brien camp, the paper said O'Brien has been approached by other networks, including Fox, since the news of the cancellation of Leno's show broke on Thursday.

If O'Brien doesn't agree to pushing his "Tonight Show" back a half hour, Leno could return to hosting "The Tonight Show" for its full hour. Leno is reportedly amenable to both situations, but it's unknown how O'Brien feels about the move. Since his debut in June, O'Brien has lost about half of the viewers that Leno typically drew and has been consistently beaten by rival "Late Show With David Letterman."