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Conan’s final show to be on June 24th
Posted on 5/4/21 at 2:55 pm
Posted on 5/4/21 at 2:55 pm
Barstool Sports
Well, really hoping his HBO Max show is a lot more like a podcast and the interviews last hours, because I think Conan could pull that off well. Only late night hosts left worth a shite are him and Maher, but Conan was always my favorite of all the late night talk show hosts. Never really fully understood Letterman’s appeal all that much to be honest (I’m probably missing something here), but always been a huge Conan fan. In that video clip Conan is still clearly funny unlike the vast majority of the late night talk show hosts whose shows have devolved into half baked political podcasts that couldn’t gain an audience if they started from scratch if they tried. God Speed, Conan!
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I've been watching Conan for as long as I can remember. From 12:30, to 11:30, to TBS, to Youtube and Netflix, to the podcast app, and I will undoubtedly be following him to HBO Max. Mostly because I believe the freedom from structure which HBO Max will allow him is exciting as frick. Conan's always described himself as "vaudevillian." He wants to give you music, sketches, interviews, some standup, all of it packed into one show. The restraints of time blocks and segments made sense in 1993. From where I'm sitting, it looks like once Conan started traveling for longer episodes, and doing a podcast with guests he actually wanted to talk to, something clicked. As if he said, "I don't have to do this shite anymore."
You see what Jimmy Fallon and James Corden have been doing, they're not all too concerned with hosting traditional late night talk shows, either. They're constantly hunting viral moments to be shared by your aunt on Facebook three weeks after they aired live. The Beatles aren't making their American debut on Jimmy Kimmel, you know? That's dead, and has been dead for some time. David Letterman's original show was groundbreaking for its era, his modern counterpart isn't on ABC, CBS, or NBC. It's Eric Andre on Adult Swim, openly mocking the entire genre. It's Joe Rogan, only talking to people he wants to talk to for three hours at a time on his schedule in his studio. In an era where authenticity is being used as a selling point, a seven minute interview between perfect strangers in an attempt to sell something isn't cutting it anymore.
Yet podcasts, which are more than ever leaning on video components, don't have time limits. They can, and people will begin to format them in ways that make them more clean cut and far less organic because we can't have nice things. But for someone who has been mired by structure for 30 years, it must be nice to have a good conversation and not have a producer in your ear telling you to send it to commercial. Put that shite in in post. I'm actually surprised it took Conan as long as it did to get into podcasting given the Serious Jibber-Jabber interviews he did on Youtube eight years ago.
The allure of hosting a late night talk show on one of the major networks isn't what it once was. Seeing Conan accept that and wade into the waters of diversifying content should be a green light for everyone else traversing that same path. In my eyes, Conan is the youngest member of Old Hollywood, and I mean that in the nicest way possible. This is someone who wrote on prime "SNL" before graduating to the early years of "The Simpsons" before replacing Letterman at 12:30. All massive accomplishments, a resumé few can contend with. But, to modernize that comparison, it would be like writing for "SNL Digital," then joining the writer's room of "Bob's Burgers" before replacing Seth Meyers. Doesn't have quite the same umph to it. Conan becoming a podcaster with another show behind a paywall should only be viewed as a win for anyone else grinding away making content in a similar fashion. If a vaudevillian can adapt to the times, an entire industry can shift in this direction.
As for the HBO Max show, how could you not be excited? That could be literally anything, different every single episode. As long as he doesn't proclaim that billionaires should pay for their own fricking stadiums I think he'll be ok. The late night talk show is dead, and if NBC didn't bow down to Jay Leno who knows how these dominos tumble. But we're here now and I, for one, am stoked to see how this all plays out.
Well, really hoping his HBO Max show is a lot more like a podcast and the interviews last hours, because I think Conan could pull that off well. Only late night hosts left worth a shite are him and Maher, but Conan was always my favorite of all the late night talk show hosts. Never really fully understood Letterman’s appeal all that much to be honest (I’m probably missing something here), but always been a huge Conan fan. In that video clip Conan is still clearly funny unlike the vast majority of the late night talk show hosts whose shows have devolved into half baked political podcasts that couldn’t gain an audience if they started from scratch if they tried. God Speed, Conan!
Posted on 5/4/21 at 4:16 pm to OMLandshark
Letterman was good until early 2000s when he lost his way
Posted on 5/4/21 at 4:20 pm to OMLandshark
Still don’t know why certain shows persist, but other shows die.
Up until he switched to the 30 minute format, I was an avid watcher of Conan’s TBS show. He is funnier than Colbert, Kimmel, Fallon, Corden, and Meyers.
Up until he switched to the 30 minute format, I was an avid watcher of Conan’s TBS show. He is funnier than Colbert, Kimmel, Fallon, Corden, and Meyers.
Posted on 5/4/21 at 5:13 pm to OMLandshark
Both his final late show and tonight show eps were absolutely fantastic.
Haven’t watched in years but I’ll tune in for this.
Haven’t watched in years but I’ll tune in for this.
Posted on 5/4/21 at 5:17 pm to OMLandshark
Good luck to him. I hope his HBO show turns out well. I'll certainly give it a go.
Posted on 5/4/21 at 5:18 pm to OMLandshark
I'm still #TeamCoco from when NBC completely screw him. Like you said, he's the only late night host worth a shite. Looking forward to the new show
Posted on 5/4/21 at 8:14 pm to OMLandshark
Posted on 5/4/21 at 9:07 pm to OMLandshark
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Yet podcasts, which are more than ever leaning on video components, don't have time limits. They can, and people will begin to format them in ways that make them more clean cut and far less organic because we can't have nice things. But for someone who has been mired by structure for 30 years, it must be nice to have a good conversation and not have a producer in your ear telling you to send it to commercial. Put that shite in in post. I'm actually surprised it took Conan as long as it did to get into podcasting given the Serious Jibber-Jabber interviews he did on Youtube eight years ago.
Someone doesn't understand people. Talk shows worked because people have only a few moments left at the end of their day to find out something that might be new. No one now, nor back when, have time to listen to multiple podcasts a day, just to gain new info.
If you're sitting around listening to other people podcast for hours a day, just admit you have no life. So whatever the hell you glean from any podcast is just a waste, because you then have no outlet to use that info (other than to post about it on a message board).
Posted on 5/5/21 at 12:25 am to OMLandshark
When Conan did turtle races by putting the turtles on remote control cars ...
To pick the super bowl winner he put mini football helmets on their shells.
Holy shite, I found a link: LINK
This was a short race but they got more elaborate over time and they’d have the turtles race into the elevators and move onto another floor, etc...
Writer’s strike Conan was awesome.
To pick the super bowl winner he put mini football helmets on their shells.
Holy shite, I found a link: LINK
This was a short race but they got more elaborate over time and they’d have the turtles race into the elevators and move onto another floor, etc...
Writer’s strike Conan was awesome.
This post was edited on 5/5/21 at 12:30 am
Posted on 5/5/21 at 7:29 am to OMLandshark
Conan will always be my favorite talkshow host of all time. I remember those summers in elementary school staying up every night and watching his late night show every single night. But I don’t know, he seems like a relic of the past now, just trying to hop on to whatever the new thing is to cling to relevancy. I get those type of vibes from a guy like Joel McHale as well. Like the article says, I certainly hope he gets to write his own ticket at HBO Max, but I’ve moved on
Posted on 5/5/21 at 8:13 am to OMLandshark
I grew up watching David Letterman. When he left NBC and became the marquis man, he lost a lot of that late night renegade quality I liked so much. Conan filled that void, and was the most clever thing on TV for a while. I don't think his quality dropped off so much as the market was flooded with late night talk formula shows, and he got lost in the shuffle.
I wish him well and I hope his projects work out. Maybe he should go back to comedy writing and do a movie.
I wish him well and I hope his projects work out. Maybe he should go back to comedy writing and do a movie.
Posted on 5/5/21 at 8:34 am to OMLandshark
I can honestly say I've never watched a single late night talk show in decades. No Conan, Kimmel, Fallon, etc.
I did use to watch the old Johnny Carson Show for years when Carson was the host and caught a few with Leno but opted out from then on.
I did use to watch the old Johnny Carson Show for years when Carson was the host and caught a few with Leno but opted out from then on.
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