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re: Conan O'Brien's final week
Posted on 6/25/21 at 12:02 am to Will Munny
Posted on 6/25/21 at 12:02 am to Will Munny
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Hopefully he has Norm on his new HBO Max show, where he can be more unleashed like on that Byron Allen show
Could not be more LEASHED!
Looks like all the videos (and some that didn't fit the tv broadcast) are on Conan's youtube channel.
The final, final farewell and thanks to staff members youtube
Interesting he mentions meeting his wife on a remote from the original show. Houstonians who watched in those days will remember when he had a vote to bring Hilton or Mattress Mac to NY, because they were advertisers when KPRC in Houston had his show airing at like 2:40AM.
This is the remote where he met his wife for the first time:
youtube
And of course, Jordan Schlansky's final appearance from earlier this week:
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Posted on 6/25/21 at 3:42 am to SCTmo
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Paul Rudd as guests during the last week. Just always think of Conan's interviews with them (or just the running bit with he and Rudd).
Rudd shows up on the show with Bill Hader as the guest. They show a cool clip of a failed SNL skit Hader wrote featuring himself and Rudd.
Posted on 6/25/21 at 9:52 am to PowerTool
This guy pretty much nails it on Conan and what's left of the late night genre
Also last night when Conan said he stayed in that intersection of smart and stupid is pretty perfect
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And with that, he ends an era in late night talk shows. I honestly consider Conan to be the last of the late night hosts for whom comedy came first. And last. And everything in between. The whole existence of these shows is weird in that the set up of them hasn't really changed since the 1950s TV executives realized Americans were staying up past midnight and would be interested in having something on to watch. So they'd put a bunch of celebrities on a set with a host sitting at a desk in front of a backdrop that looked like the skyline of a city. And sometimes they'd just chat away about whatever for two hours, and it worked because it was cheap programming. Eventually comedians started hosting these shows, added monologues and sketches to the formula, which Johnny Carson perfected and David Letterman updated for the Boomers who grew up in front of their TVs and eventually begat Conan. As my friends younger brother put it to me back in the show's early days, "Conan is to guys my age what Letterman is to you guys."
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And it seems to me he was the last of that generation of hosts who was all about the joke and nothing else. I've heard him on his podcast talk about how, for the current crop of late night hosts (he didn't name names), it's become about some other thing. And I couldn't agree more. Jimmy Fallon is trying to be the non-threatening doofus who appeals to Middle America. James Corden is trying hard to be the Nice Guy Celebrity Worshiper. Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert have both done some incredibly funny and clever TV comedy in the past. But over the last few years got lost in the weeds of proving their progressive bona fides. Playing for applause breaks instead of actual laughs. I mean, show me where anything remotely resembling a joke is in this cringetastic song parody.
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Because, again, O'Brien's show was all about the comedy. Stupid, sophomoric, goofy, inane, silly and childish. But inventive and fricking hysterical. I've also heard him describe what he thinks is funny. And the prime example he used for the essence of comedy is this bit from Pink Panther Strikes Again:
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Which explains a lot. You could draw a through line from a pompous police inspector taking a digger down a flight of stairs and trying to act like nothing happened to most of his best bits. His show never took itself seriously, but never played it safe, either. He never tried to save the world, he just went for trying to make people who work hard all day and have a million other things to worry about a few goofy laughs. And in that respect, he was the last of a species that has gone extinct.
Also last night when Conan said he stayed in that intersection of smart and stupid is pretty perfect
This post was edited on 6/25/21 at 9:57 am
Posted on 6/25/21 at 10:04 am to BilJ
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This guy pretty much nails it on Conan and what's left of the late night genre
Conan's admitted that his persona is taken from the Bob Hope cowardly/greedy/horny imbecile. Carson idolized Jack Benny, Letterman was all about Steve Allen and Ernie Kovacs. Today's crop seems to be more about aping each other and current social commenters than the classics (even though Kimmel praises Letterman every chance he gets).
Posted on 6/25/21 at 12:57 pm to Fewer Kilometers
Posted on 6/25/21 at 1:47 pm to BilJ
Watched the show last night.
It was good. I really enjoyed the previous year's highlight sections but of course they could only go back to TBS days. Understandable but unfortunate that he couldn't highlight his 1st 17 years of work.
It was good. I really enjoyed the previous year's highlight sections but of course they could only go back to TBS days. Understandable but unfortunate that he couldn't highlight his 1st 17 years of work.
Posted on 6/25/21 at 2:45 pm to BilJ
That’s so good. 
Posted on 6/25/21 at 2:56 pm to BilJ
Extra points if you know why the band played Thanks for the Memories when Norm walked out.
Posted on 7/1/21 at 11:36 am to GeorgeTheGreek
Live Via Satellite
Devilish
actually forgot about these segments
also the early days of this show had a pretty stacked writing room
Devilish
actually forgot about these segments
also the early days of this show had a pretty stacked writing room
This post was edited on 7/1/21 at 12:33 pm
Posted on 7/1/21 at 2:45 pm to BilJ
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he just went for trying to make people who work hard all day and have a million other things to worry about a few goofy laughs.
Bingo. Absolutely nails it with this line. Comedy is supposed to be an escape. This shouldn’t be rocket science.
Posted on 7/1/21 at 3:03 pm to PowerTool
Conan O’Brien on nbc during the 90s- early 2000s was the goat.
Posted on 7/1/21 at 3:55 pm to Fewer Kilometers
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Extra points if you know why the band played Thanks for the Memories when Norm walked out.
Wasn't it Bob Hope's theme song? Norm had been Conan's best guest over many years and always has this thing for old timey comedians, so it made sense.
Btw, I posted that video in my op; thanks for ignoring me Bilj.
Posted on 7/1/21 at 6:00 pm to PowerTool
My bad…my bad
You didn’t post the Swedish German joke though
You didn’t post the Swedish German joke though
Posted on 7/2/21 at 9:32 am to johnqpublic
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Rudd shows up on the show with Bill Hader as the guest. They show a cool clip of a failed SNL skit Hader wrote featuring himself and Rudd.
so great
when he started mentioning that they have footage from the skit, I knew it was coming
Posted on 7/2/21 at 10:48 am to VinegarStrokes
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so great
when he started mentioning that they have footage from the skit, I knew it was coming
Everyone knew it was coming! That is what is so great about it. Then Rudd goes on to talk about another cringy scene that he was considering using instead of Mac and Me. He then goes on to show the “other” clip to the group and then BANG Mac and Me again!
Posted on 7/2/21 at 11:36 am to STEVED00
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