Anybody misses the old Conan Obrian show

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Since he moved to Los Angeles it doesn't feel the same to me

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LA did give us the time Pierre Bernard wanted to buy female mannequins for a lamp.

NBC retained intellectual property rights over some of the material he created.

Also, Max Weinberg > Andy Richter

The bits they did where they inserted Robert Smigel's mouth into the faces of George W Bush, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Michael Jackson with him breaking the whole time was my favorite bit on late night.

I like some of the TBS bits. Do they still bring Minty the Candy Cane out at Christmas? That song has been stuck in my head for years.

His rapport with frequent guests is unparalleled in Late Night. Any time Paul Rudd, Norm MacDonald, or Timothy Olyphant is on, you know you're gonna laugh your arse off.

I am a Pimpbot. It is within my program to turn out all the hoes

Something about the old Conan show just felt unrehearsed and natural.

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His rapport with frequent guests is unparalleled in Late Night. Any time Paul Rudd, Norm MacDonald, or Timothy Olyphant is on, you know you're gonna laugh your arse off.

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Will Ferrell and Bill Burr are solid with him as well. His show is really the only one Burr can go on these days and for the audience to get his jokes and not be appalled.

There's some great old Howard Stern interviews from Conan's early days floating around the internet. In one from 1993, just months after the show premiered he basically said he and the staff were on week to week type contracts.

The ratings were terrible and Letterman 's shadow still swamped that show. But nbc stuck it out and created one of the most bizarre quirky and great talk shows ever.

His guests were always terrible, unless it was some bad boy era SNL star he previously worked with like Sandler, Farley, Norm, etc.

Leno was such a bore but had gigantic guests and as a kid Tom Snyder and Bob Costas doing long form interviews with no audience was not for me (of course now those shows are incredible to watch and I'd wish they'd come back)

But Conan was just made for the Generation Y kids. It was juvenile stupid, and creative but still very entertaining.

Its a shame how far Conan has fallen since the early days. He's on the same path as Letterman.

1. Public service announcements
2. Staring contests
3. In the year 2000