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O'Brien: "It just felt like the tone went very quickly from 'Take your time, we understand this is a tough decision,' to, you know, 'let's go.'  You know, and that probably helped me a little bit feel like 'You know what? This environment doesn't feel right.'" (CBS)

Fresh out from under his nondisclosure agreement, Conan O'Brien broke his public silence on CBS' 60 Minutes — to mixed reviews.

The Washington Post's Celebritology blog says O'Brien's interview proved the high quality of his character.

"O'Brien was kicked to the curb in the most public way imaginable and yet he has shown all of us... it's possible to not only rise above other people's behavior, but even, potentially, to come out on top. Before last night's '60 Minutes' interview, I thought Conan O'Brien had class. Afterwards, I felt even more sure of that fact."

But a correspondent for MSNBC says O'Brien definitely had more words to say about Leno, but was muted by continuing legal obligations.

"It sounds like you're not going to see Conan and Jay do a Super Bowl commercial together anytime soon... Now he of course signed a non-disparagement agreement so he can't really say anything too bad about Jay or any NBC executives, but he does say that had the roles been reversed, he wouldn't have done the same thing."

The hosts of Fox News' "Fox and Friends" were less than impressed by Conan's demeanor during the interview.

Kroft: "Jay Leno thinks you got screwed. Jay Leno thinks he got screwed."
O'Brien: "How did he get screwed again? (laughs) Explain that part to me. Sorry."
Carlson: "I don't think he's doing himself any favors with people watching him, coming up with that kind of an attitude.  But that's — that's just me.  Maybe it's a woman's thing."

Kilmeade: "He laughed uncontrollably, I thought it was odd."

Doocy: "It seemed a little uncomfortable."

And finally, a writer for The Hollywood Reporter says the entire interview was a miscalculation on O'Brien's part, particularly because of the show he was on.

"Watching O'Brien describe his 'Tonight' exit with the gravity of a life-or-death ordeal seemed all the more bizarre in the context of '60 Minutes,' which so often delivers stories of true struggle and pain. Sorry, Conan, but the illegal immigrants I heard about in the news magazine's first segment who died trying to cross a canal to get into this country had it a tad worse than you."

We leave you with more of Coco's '60 Minutes' interview.

Kroft: "Do you think they wanted you to leave?"
O'Brien: "Yeah, that's crossed my mind.  I don't know how thought out this whole thing was, but if they wanted me to leave it worked!" (CBS)