So basically they said: “take and extended vacation and Les will keep you seat warm”.
No. That means he's toast. Six months from now, NBC will say 'Brian Who?"
I don't know (or really even care) what the guy will do with himself from here on out, but it is pretty obvious that he will always be ridiculed and laughed at no matter what it is.
He did an Alinsky on himself. Sad to watch a suicide.