Conan

[chet seven]

http://novelasymas.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Conan-poster-2010.jpg

Who else is super pumped that he is finally back after tonight!? Can't wait to see what Jack White is going to play too. I hope Ferrell and/or Norm stop by tonight or this week. Finally have a reason to watch late night tv again, I'd only stop in to watch Fallon or Lettermen if they had really good guests and I completely boycotted watching Leno.

here are some of my favorite promos for the new show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9WGHGF3D7o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUus_-DEpTA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSFbf0f4Ch8&sns=fb

[genesis_pig]

I was super pumped that this thread was about the cimmerian.
:(

[chet seven]

aw sorray guy

http://media.threadless.com//product/2308/zoom.gif

[will.15]

That car promo is pretty lame, stealing stuff from Super Dave who did it funnier.

If Conan does real well, maybe CBS will hire him after Dave Letterman has another heart attack.

What happened to Letterman? Twenty years ago he was funny.

Conan was a good Simpsons writer.

[genesis_pig]

Is Super Dave still functional? :D
I used to love his show.

[Yoda]

I like all the promos just fine, but they're not all supposed to be hysterical; some are just supposed to be ridiculous and get your attention. They're promos, after all, not full comedy bits.

Anyway, they could advertise it with a piece of cardboard and a Sharpie marker for all I care; I've been counting the days. Hard to imagine I won't watch almost every night, assuming Conan is anything like himself at all. I liked both his stints and I fully expect to like this, though I might not watch the guest interviews night in and night out.

[spudracer]

It wasn't bad last night. Seth Rogen just seemed like he was being interrogated for a crime. Then again, I have little tolerance for Seth Rogen.

[chet seven]

Yeah it was a decent opening show I thought. Conan seemed kinda nervous during his monologue, moving around and pacing a lot more than he usually does but that's understandable. The part where there was a noise backstage during the interview with the chick from Glee was pretty funny.

The song he played with Jack White was definitely the highlight for me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys0Fyh5c2rk

[DexterRiley]

The opening monologue was pretty funny. I thought he tapped into Lettermen mode with the cracks at the expense of TBS rather well.

[TheUsualSuspect]

a lot of people are complaining that the show was underwhelming. What the hell did they expect? They think it was going to be a different format?

I dug it and am glad Conan is back.

I can't stand Leno, he's not funny.

Letterman's comedy is getting old and tiresome.

Fallon has weak monologue, but great sketches.

Ferguson has a good monologue.

Kimmel is the one host that I think actually has vested interest in his guests. Leno and Letterman simply have them sit there and plug their crap.

[will.15]

Kimmel should fire his Uncle Frank. I stopped watching because of that annoying dumb old fart.

[Gunny]

Conan is decent. He's not in the same league as Letterman and Leno, though.

Letterman is my current favorite.

[chet seven]

Conan's opener for his "legally prohibited from being funny tour" has been on his new show twice and has blown me away every time. It's some crazy creative satire of hip hop, soul, boogie woogie and comedy. pure entertainment

Reggie Watts Conan Appearance #1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK2De2eCebg

#2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz6d6ZS_r2w

[Yoda]

I think Watts has been on three times, actually. I wasn't sure what to make of him at first, but he's starting to grow on me. I read that what he does is mostly improv, too, which is intriguing.

Weird, wild stuff.

[will.15]

Proof Conan isn't all that funny. Contrast this with...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD1nwe5Esx0



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXoXEBod7bg

[chet seven]

You're right Yoda he was on the during the xmas week

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAbJV2IrvWc

[TheUsualSuspect]

I don't think some guy splicing together his version of a BEST OF bit from either show classifies which one is funnier or not.

[ChasingButterfly]

Am I the only person who thinks that the car promo is really sexy?

[Blue Lou]

I think his Late Night show was his best. He's funny on the TBS show but I think he could probably use some better writers.

One of my favorites from the old show:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zWNJHS9PBE

[will.15]

If you want to demonstrate Conan himself is funny, you have to show a clip with Conan in it.

[Blue Lou]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMpXbNI74_U&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLA8YA_wdQ0


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPGL427EoAc&feature=related

[Yoda]

There's no use dueling over this. I think he's hysterical. Blue_Lou thinks he's hysterical. Obviously will doesn't, but you're not going to "prove" it. Thank goodness for other channels.

Also, I don't know that any example clips would have to have him in it; he got his start as a comedy writer, and I'm sure he has a major hand in most of this stuff (though perhaps not the Triumph stuff). He's written for Saturday Night Live and The Simpsons (he wrote the now famous "Marge vs. the Monorail"), two of the most seminal modern comedic institutions in the country. Unfunny people don't get to work at either of these shows, let alone both.

So yeah, the guy's been dubbed seriously funny as determined by the most important and experienced people who make those sorts of determinations. If you don't like him anyway, what's there to say? No matter how funny or widely hailed someone or something is, someone always hates it.

[will.15]

You may think he is hysterical, but he is a ratings dissapointment on cable. They are paying ten miliion dollars a year for these kind of ratings?:








(Newser) – George Lopez's late-night talk show got booted to midnight (http://www.newser.com/story/125536/tbs-cancels-george-lopez-talk-show-lopez-tonight.html) to make room for Conan O'Brien. Sacrifices have to be made in the quest for fortune, right? Eh, maybe. Turns out Conan is barely more popular than Lopez Tonight was. The redhead's TBS show officially turned one this week, and the first-year stats are nothing to write home about. Yahoo (http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/cutline/conan-o-brien-drew-only-slightly-more-viewers-192332746.html) reports that he averaged 952,000 viewers a night, to Lopez's 911,000, per Nielsen. That's a serious drop from Conan's 4 million-viewer debut.
Combine slightly more viewers with the higher ad rates TBS was likely able to charge with Conan at the helm of the 11pm hour, and how does the network come out? Not on top, predicts the VP of research at Horizon Media. "Whatever ad-rate increase they got from marketers has to be offset by the cash TBS ponied up for O'Brien," which is rumored to be somewhere between $10 million and $15 million a year. "The question you have to ask is, 'What was the more financially prudent: Lopez or O'Brien?' I would vote for Lopez—but hindsight is 20/20."

[akatemple]

It's called get rid of that anchor around your neck called Andy Richter, I can't stand that guy. I am sure there was a good reason he was off the NBC show after a short while.

[Yoda]

Couldn't really care much less as long as he stays on the air, which he probably will.

People can think whatever they want. I think the idea that someone could write successsfully for SNL and The Simpsons without being funny is pretty much crazy talk, but my enjoyment of the program isn't really affected either way, so rock on, I guess.

Before the show launched they emphasized that they'd be focusing more on cultivating loyalty from diehard fans, and that's pretty much what they've done. Whether or not it'll end up being a good idea in a business sense, I don't know.

[Yoda]

It's called get rid of that anchor around your neck called Andy Richter, I can't stand that guy. I am sure there was a good reason he was off the NBC show after a short while.
He left to pursue other things, and did some good work elsewhere, though nothing that caught on.

Having seen him in pretty much all of his incarnations, I'm pretty sure he's not the problem. I remember loving his presence on the old show. But they're not using him right on TBS, for whatever reason. He's too ancillary; in the old late night days, they had a better rapport and he was more integral.