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OH SHIT CONAN GOES ROGUE
Alex C:
Yeah, I really find the whole thing pretty depressing. This kinda thing is probably what the phrase selling out is intended for, but they've been around for 2 decades now and I don't really begrudge them a cent. Plus, whenever someone utters the words "sell-out", I have the most incredible urge to punch the speaker right in the neck.
Bleeargh.
squawk:
Man, Conan. My older siblings have been watching him since the beginning in 1993 so I've grown up being in love with this man.
Jay Leno is a butt, and I think the whole situation with NBC not completely letting him go is hilarious because I just imagine Jay blubbering while the NBC exces are like, "Uh... wait! We'll give you this!" and he is just like sniffling in thanks
but I've had mixed feelings about Conan taking the top spot. He's deserved it for ages, but I've always been worried about him having to switch up his style to try to gather in the old folks. I love him so much because he's just this goofy-ass dork with also a hilariously lacking budget, which is one thing I will miss if they slick things up. Honestly though, I haven't been keeping up in so long so... I'm probably not up to date.
I also am torn on his move to LA. Now he is so close to me! But I hate Los Angeles and Conan's a New York guy to me. I've tried so hard to get tickets and it's always been one of my dreams to go to NYC and see Conan, but oh well.
Edit: OH MY GOD IT'S 1864 BASEBALL
squawk:
Also, Jimmy Fallon sucks but it's better than that tool Carson Daly
I mean at least he's slightly sort of funny sometimes
Cartilage Head:
Jimmy Fallon is such an asshat. Also, for Conan's last episode it was pretty damn lacking. I really enjoyed the new arrangement of "We're Going To Be Friends" though.
KvP:
--- Quote from: squawk on 21 Feb 2009, 00:47 ---Also, Jimmy Fallon sucks but it's better than that tool Carson Daly
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I cannot believe that. Not being funny > laughing at all your own jokes.
Nathan Rabin over at the AV Club sums it up perfectly.
--- Quote ---I will never forget what Keith Phipps said when I asked him how he felt about the news that Conan O’Brien said would be taking over The Tonight Show. He said it reminded him of the scene in Goodfellas where Joe Pesci thinks he’s becoming a made man only to get assassinated gangland-style. It seemed too good to be true. Hot headed punks like Pesci don’t get to be Made Men and eight-foot-tall hyperactive, super-genius goofballs like Conan aren’t supposed to take over Johnny Carson’s vacated throne.
Keith wasn’t saying Conan wasn’t good enough to take over the most prestigious, high profile position in all of late-night comedy. He was saying that Conan was, if anything, too good, too weird and too brazenly original for The Tonight Show’s mass audience.
Watching Late Night With Conan O’Brien I’ve often had the feeling that Conan was getting away with something. Let the world have Jay Leno. Conan was and is for us; the comedy geeks, insomniacs, potheads, oddballs and night owls. Conan seemed to inhabit the same crazy upside down world as After Hours, a nighttime realm where the rules went out the window and a cosmic and comic anarchy reigned.
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I'm going to miss this show a lot. Somehow I don't see the Tonight Show featuring a great many trigger-happy golden retrievers. I started watching this show around the time it found its sea legs, and I know a whole lot of people who did the same. It came around at a time in my generation's life when we were just old enough to stay up till 12:40 in the morning just to watch a TV show. The only show that informed my sense of humor as a person to a greater extent was the Simpsons, a show that benefited in its golden years from Conan's input, and a show that shared his sensibility. Late Night was a barely contained madhouse, and it was as smart as it was willing to just throw shit out there. You couldn't tell the difference between the funny odd and the funny ha-ha.
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