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As you may have heard by now, on Friday night’s episode of The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien, Conan finally addressed the rumors about NBC’s late night line-up shuffle. In the above clip, he makes pointed jokes about his and Jay Leno’s futures and NBC’s bungling, my favorite joke being the last one, because haha and yikes. But at the opening of his monologue he also did a Jay Leno impression (watch here), and as WarmingGlow points out, Friday night was the first time Conan did his famous Late Night “string dance” since moving to the Tonight Show. PAH!
According to a press conference yesterday, NBC Chairman Jeff Gaspin officially confirmed the network’s plans to return Jay Leno to 11:30, and admitted that the futures of both Conan O’Brien and Jimmy Fallon were still up in the air. Smaaaaart.
Whatever. The whole thing feels like watching a friend burn their love life to the ground. You know when your friend dumps some asshole they have been dating and starts dating someone who is awesome, but then they get back with the asshole because your friend is an idiot, but by now you’ve become friends with the awesome person too, and you’re like “not only can you do better than my friend, but I hope that it hurts them because of how dumb they are.” I think the thing I like best about this metaphor is how easy it is to understand and how perfectly it sums up the situation between millionaire TV hosts and a multi-billion dollar network. (Nope.)
The point is: for the time being, Conan is BACK. And NBC is a moron. And they can keep their Jay Leno, because when this is all said and done, I think it is Conan who will be asking “WHO’S ON TOP AND WHO’S ON BOTTOM NOW, BILLY?”
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On a side note, did anyone see Patton on Conan last week.
The zombie uprising diet plan. Hilarious.
Yeah, he killed it. “I want all the ham!”
Eventually Jay’s Midwestern, over-70 fan base will die off, leaving Conan with the last laugh. Only problem is, will anyone still be watching late-night at that time? Seems like in previous eras late-night hosts built up an audience gradually – Letterman’s been on the air about 30 years – from a fan base younger than the older hosts with the better time slots. Can we say the same for this era, with a lot of other, non-talk show programming to watch at 11 or 12PM? I’m not so sure Conan will be able to sustain the under-40 crowd he needs for long enough to really get that audience, which may presage the end of the late-night talk-show spectacle once and for all.
Oh man, those deleted scenes from Waiting for Guffman get me every time.
“When’s the rain gonna stop, Momma?”
“Don’t rightly know child. Don’t rightly know.”
EVERY TIME.
We’re gonna need a bigger time slot bag…
Did anyone else see Conan on the simpsons special last night? He was bananas.
“if someone said to me that I could be paid a dollar a year to live in a beautiful pasture somehwere in spain and just drink cheap red wine and come up with weird things for mr burns to say and do… I would take that job”
He was funnier than Seth Macfarlane, that’s for sure.
I thought that comment and his idea for how he would end The Simpsons was very bizarre.
i think it would be great. a totally unfunny “realistic”* ending* where marge says “FUCK YOU!” but that will never happen because as Dr. Ruth said, there is nothing dysfunctional about their family…they are full of love. But I’m thinking I’m commenting on the wrong post….hmm…copy/paste?
*because when you think of a finally you think unfunny, right? srsly.
Today, string dance. Tomorrow, masturbating bear Wednesday, the world!
I just hope that this doesn’t turn out like high school, where if I take Conan’s side, NBC gets pissed at me and won’t let 30 Rock or The Office hang out with me in the cafeteria. And seriously, if NBC writes poorly worded insults on my locker and tells everyone I am a slut, I shall be most displeased.
I still wonder how Jay Leno sleeps at night. I mean, besides on a very expensive bed.
He transforms into an old car and sleeps in the garage.
i hate to be that person, but conan did the string dance during an interview in november… see this video at 39 seconds.
http://www.tonightshowwithconanobrien.com/video/clips/gabourey-sidibe-pt2-111309/1175763/
Conan O’Brien eats pieces of shit for breakfast?
And now there’s a super fun game!
http://tmz.vo.llnwd.net/o28//ConanContractGame/index.html
You should lose just to see Leno maniacal, evil laughter.
Any change we be welcomed as long as it includes dropping Andy Richter from the show. Can I get a wha what?
Once again I wish Hulu didn’t hate places that aren’t the US. Can someone reenact what happens in the clips?
Canucks: He laid down a Double Double of comedy to feast on.
Europeans: Il a coupé son nez à la rancune le visage.
Linux users: pwnage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDFRcnysZYg
What Patton Oswalt thinks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib5lVD8GBr8
This is what I get for not caring what Jerry Seinfeld thinks!