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Aaaaaaand another era of late night television has come to an end.  I have to say, Conan's show ending during a Pandemic, filmed in a studio they had to borrow, with a final guest (Jack Black) who inj

cambridgeguy
cambridgeguy

I don't think we'll ever see another Conan O'Brien story.  He mentioned it himself - handing a show to a writer most people had never heard of and giving him time to work out the kinks just wouldn't h

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VCRTracking

From Vulture.com: In Conversation: Conan O’Brien Excerpt: Count me as one of those fans watching when I was in high school. I still get nostalgic watching clips on YouTube from the 90

KAOS Agent

KAOS Agent

I tend not to watch when it's airing on TV, but I usually checkout clips on Youtube. I always watch any remotes and Clueless Gamer. Unfortunately, the commercials they require me to watch before each clip have started to get off-putting. The other day they tried to make me watch a 30 second commercial before showing a 1:15 clip. I understand the need for advertising dollars, but that's ridiculous.

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I'm glad this is back from it's break. I've never seen Justin Theroux interviewed before, but I thought it was great. He bounced off of Coco and Andy quite well.

 

In other news, former SNL'er Brooks Wheelan did his stand-up routine and he was awful. It just confirmed why he doesn't belong there.

Re: BW. Thanks for the review. I had been wondering, but didn't stick around that long.

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I thought Chris Hardwick was pretty funny and very nerdy. He has a TARDIS door that actually opens in his house! Ok, then. He said some sincerely nice things about his personal friend, Joan Rivers.

 

GaryE, glad you didn't waste any time watching BW's standup. Good call, wish I hadn't seen it. lol

 

I watch SNL, and you made it sound SO bad, so I went online to see it. Yikes. I'll never doubt you again.

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tarragon918

tarragon918

I love Conan, but haven't been watching this show--it's on a bit early for me here in Mtn. time zone. I did watch the performances for this week, the George Harrison tribute, and last night's appearance by Dhani Harrison was so far the very best of them.  Thank goodness for teamcoco.com, where you can watch what I assume are excerpts from the show.

HalcyonDays

HalcyonDays

Scheduled guests for the week of October 6th – October 9th - It's a week of repeats!

 

Monday:  Dwayne Johnson, Taye Diggs, Tori Amos -  (R 7/24/14)

Tuesday:  The cast of "Orange Is The New Black", Nikki Lane -  (R 8/4/14)

Wednesday:  Ethan Hawke, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Jamie Scott -  (R 8/5/14)

Thursday:  Megan Fox, Todd Glass - (R 8/7/14)

nowandlater

nowandlater

Yeah, I still watch Conan. I've always watched the TBS Conan, but I'd ususally just watch for the guests.

 

Now, I watch the monologue and comedy bits, too, which have gotten better in recent years. They're almost as good as the Late Night days.

 

But 2 things annoy the heck out of me:

 

1) The beginning of the show: The crowd is way too enthusiastic. It seems like it takes forever to settle down. And Conan's signature string dancing doesn't help. I always have to fast forward to get to the meat of the monologue.

 

2) Conan cooing at hot women. It's just so cringe-worthy. I don't see other male hosts do this. And I don't see him do it to "ugly" women. I wish he'd stop. He's almost 52. It's time to quit it with that.

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Kromm

Kromm

For example... here's an example of how ugly (and tasteless) the whole Leno Tonight Show culture was.  Now, years after the whole sequence with Leno going, Conan getting the show, then Conan being ditched in favor of Leno, just to stir the pot in a new book, former Leno writer Jon Macks goes below the belt talking about Conan's... deficiencies... as a late night host (in his opinion, I guess).

 

http://pagesix.com/2015/02/02/ex-leno-staffer-disses-conan-in-new-book/

nowandlater

nowandlater

So, what happened to Conan?

 

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/television/2015/05/conan_o_brien_from_late_night_to_tbs_how_did_coco_fade_from_the_pop_culture.html

 

I remember this thread on the TWOP board being so active during the Conan Tonight Show debacle. But it was deader than dead when TWoP. Now it's pretty much dead here.

 

I still watch  Conan every night, but, yeah, I could understand how people lose interest in him.

 

His studio audience is way too overenthusiastic, though.

roseha

roseha

I watched Conan the other week on vacation a little, and the only thing that occurs to me is that he seems to be continually dumbing himself down for  his perceived audience.  He's over 50 now, I don't think he needs to work at appealing to teenagers any more.   He's obviously a very smart guy, so if he hates gaming, for instance, why do segments on it?  Maybe if he went with his instincts more often things would improve.

That said, it's also too bad he didn't stay in New York, as others have done, but maybe he should be on the lookout for more oddball guests out west.

nowandlater

nowandlater

I watched Conan the other week on vacation a little, and the only thing that occurs to me is that he seems to be continually dumbing himself down for  his perceived audience.  He's over 50 now, I don't think he needs to work at appealing to teenagers any more.   He's obviously a very smart guy, so if he hates gaming, for instance, why do segments on it?  Maybe if he went with his instincts more often things would improve.

That said, it's also too bad he didn't stay in New York, as others have done, but maybe he should be on the lookout for more oddball guests out west.

 

 

Actually, the Clueless Gamer segment is supposed to be "A smart guy who hates video games playing video games."

 

I agree that Conan should start acting his age, especially with younger attractive actresses. It's cringeworthy when he purrs at  somebody nearly 3 decades his junior. (2 decades his junior is okay.) But he really ought to drop that shtick.

Fisher King

Fisher King

This should probably go in the media thread - I don't know  - BUT, Does anyone else remember back in the  Conan "Late Night" days, Andy Richter said that he was a student in the high school where Dennis Hastert (then Speaker of the House) was a wrestling coach?

 

With Hastert being in the news these days - especially now that there may be sexual misconduct dating back to those days - I'm wondering of the subject will be broached by Conan & Andy.

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