Topic: OH SHIT CONAN GOES ROGUE (Read 33042 times)

David_Dovey · « **Reply #50 on:** 14 Jan 2010, 02:54 »

Poor Carson Daly

(it's not like i like the guy but geeeez)

EDIT: ffffuck youuuu hulu

Thomas Edison · « **Reply #51 on:** 14 Jan 2010, 04:18 »

"This video contains content from Jimmy Kimmel Live, who has decided to block it in your country."

WELL FUCK YOU, JIMMY FUCKING KIMMEL.

Inlander · « **Reply #52 on:** 14 Jan 2010, 04:32 »

Jimmy Kimmel is a stupid name, anyway. What kind of a grown man calls himself Jimmy. We don't need to watch his shit.

pilsner · « **Reply #53 on:** 14 Jan 2010, 08:19 »

I don't know, he did fuck Sarah Silverman. This may have imbued him with magical powers.

Blyss · « **Reply #54 on:** 14 Jan 2010, 08:31 »

Quote from: pilsner on 14 Jan 2010, 08:19

I don't know, he did fuck Sarah Silverman. This may have imbued him with magical powers.

Quite simply one of the best quotes, EVER!

As for Leno, I hated him when he and his manager pulled their shit that drove out Letterman, and I simply ignore him now. I've not watched a single episode of the Tonight Show since he's hosted it.

What really just baffles me is how NBC consistently caves to his demands. What the fuck is up with that?

Zingoleb · « **Reply #55 on:** 14 Jan 2010, 09:15 »

What is up with that?

Orbert · « **Reply #56 on:** 14 Jan 2010, 10:52 »

Quote from: Inlander on 14 Jan 2010, 04:32

Jimmy Kimmel is a stupid name, anyway. What kind of a grown man calls himself Jimmy. We don't need to watch his shit.

I don't know, the guy who ruled the late night airwaves for decades unchallenged was named Johnny.

ImRonBurgundy? · « **Reply #57 on:** 14 Jan 2010, 11:04 »

Surprise! Jeff Zucker is a piece of shit.

http://www.deadline.com/hollywood/jeff-zucker-threatens-to-ice-conan-ill-keep-you-off-the-air-for-3-12-years/#more-22488

Be My Head · « **Reply #58 on:** 14 Jan 2010, 13:04 »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cALi_0AsfA

Also, the whole thing reeks of this.

KvP · « **Reply #59 on:** 14 Jan 2010, 20:48 »

Conan's last night will probably be next Friday - The Tonight Show was going on hiatus because of the Olympics anyway. TMZ sez Leno worked out a deal that gave him 11:35 to 12:35.

lol

Also, Kimmel fuckin' maims Leno to his face. It was like the lite version of Colbert's white house press corps speech.

KvP · « **Reply #60 on:** 14 Jan 2010, 22:33 »

The Cone Bone has taken a pay out and will not be stricken from the public record as some had thought.

I hope he doesn't go to Fox because then he would fail horribly. As per the suggestion of gawker.tv, a fictional meta-show like the Larry Sanders Show would be optimal.

Surgoshan · « **Reply #61 on:** 15 Jan 2010, 17:30 »

http://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv/clt/1551463643.html

Conan's selling the show.

johnny5 · « **Reply #62 on:** 15 Jan 2010, 22:42 »

Quote from: Orbert on 14 Jan 2010, 10:52

Quote from: Inlander on 14 Jan 2010, 04:32
Jimmy Kimmel is a stupid name, anyway. What kind of a grown man calls himself Jimmy. We don't need to watch his shit.

I don't know, the guy who ruled the late night airwaves for decades unchallenged was named Johnny.

hell yeah
Jack then starts chopping the bathroom door down with the axe and leers through the hole he has made, shouting the now iconic "Here's Johnny!" line, but backs off after Wendy slashes his hand with a butcher knife.

sean · « **Reply #63 on:** 16 Jan 2010, 17:08 »

man harry my uncle goes my jimmy sometimes and he is a tough ass dude. i am legitimately frightened of the dude. fuck that shit.

Inlander · « **Reply #64 on:** 16 Jan 2010, 17:21 »

Imagine how tough he'd be if he was named Sue!

David_Dovey · « **Reply #65 on:** 17 Jan 2010, 18:57 »

Nathan Rabin (usually of the A.V. Club) with some typically dead-on analysis:

Quote

To comedy writers, Leno’s massive success represents the triumph of mediocrity. It’s the tragedy of a prodigiously talented stand-up making a conscious decision to dumb down his material to reach the widest possible audience. He won over the masses while alienating comedy geeks. He came to symbolize everything crass and mercenary about comedy. As the years went on, Leno became synonymous with Monica Lewinsky and O.J. jokes. His name became shorthand for lazy, dumb and obvious comedy. To comedy snobs, “The Tonight Show” under his nightmare realm was one long Dancing Itos sketch.

full article here

pilsner · « **Reply #66 on:** 17 Jan 2010, 19:33 »

I like this OLD LENO video wherein he unintentionally mocks his future self. At one point he looks at Dave and there is palpable fear in his eyes.

KvP · « **Reply #67 on:** 19 Jan 2010, 17:04 »

It all makes sense now.

*edit - Holy shit this just went from mildly amusing to absurdly awesome.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #68 on:** 19 Jan 2010, 18:52 »

Are hey the same cats that made that Tiger Woods video as well?

KvP · « **Reply #69 on:** 19 Jan 2010, 19:06 »

yesss

michaelicious · « **Reply #70 on:** 19 Jan 2010, 19:25 »

you guys dig on all that bape shit

KvP · « **Reply #71 on:** 19 Jan 2010, 19:36 »

BAPE keeps me at my whitest!

KvP · « **Reply #72 on:** 19 Jan 2010, 22:00 »

Man Letterman is getting nasty with this. He is in his element.

Kugai · « **Reply #73 on:** 20 Jan 2010, 20:56 »

They say that revenge is sweet

Heliphyneau · « **Reply #74 on:** 20 Jan 2010, 22:34 »

Tonight Show was pretty great this evenin' -- gotta love Conan's stick-it-to-NBC $1.5 mil Bugatti mouse! Guess that's his way of fucking them right back.

knives · « **Reply #75 on:** 20 Jan 2010, 22:45 »

Conan is really spending their money like wild fire. It takes balls to use Zep.

Kugai · « **Reply #76 on:** 20 Jan 2010, 23:05 »

bortaS bIr jablu'DI' reH QaQqu' nay'

TheFuriousWombat · « **Reply #77 on:** 21 Jan 2010, 07:07 »

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100121/ap_on_en_tv/us_tv_leno_o_brien

That's a lota scratch

Caleb · « **Reply #78 on:** 21 Jan 2010, 09:44 »

Last night he had the Masturbating Bear on!

AWESOME.

Blyss · « **Reply #79 on:** 21 Jan 2010, 10:44 »

NBC, O'Brien reach deal to end his 'Tonight Show' tenure

JD · « **Reply #80 on:** 21 Jan 2010, 21:01 »

Oh Conan

Nodaisho · « **Reply #81 on:** 21 Jan 2010, 21:05 »

Wonder if he drove that car around at all? He is still driving that same old early '90s Taurus with a wasp nest in the trunk, I would think he would have gotten rid of it by now. Maybe when he gets his millions of settlement dollars.

Kugai · « **Reply #82 on:** 22 Jan 2010, 12:48 »

Frak me!

Nothing like going out in a vengeful hiss and a roar is there?

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #83 on:** 22 Jan 2010, 14:59 »

Conan's last show is tonight holy shit. gonna drink a bunch of beers and smoke a bunch of weed, and watch this with some friends.

Me try not cry, but me sad. Try hard anyway.

grunt

jhocking · « **Reply #84 on:** 22 Jan 2010, 15:17 »

At first I was like "wait what I thought he would last until Friday" and then I realized "oh shit it is Friday."

Yunior · « **Reply #85 on:** 22 Jan 2010, 15:43 »

How sad is it watching these last couple shows? Conan was practically a stand-in parent in my house growing up, so basically I vomit on Jay Leno's future and hope his return to Late Night tanks.

Caleb · « **Reply #86 on:** 23 Jan 2010, 07:56 »

God.

6 months until I can watch Conan again...

Boro_Bandito · « **Reply #87 on:** 24 Jan 2010, 00:45 »

Yeah but he might go to Fox. I just don't see that as being a good move.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #88 on:** 24 Jan 2010, 03:32 »

OK so I'm not sure why going to Fox is an unequivocally bad thing. Can someone explain that to me?

I understand that other talk shows they have had have been dismal failures but it's not like Conan isn't a proven entity. Unless he ended up having to acquiesce to an awful lot of network interference -which I can't particularly see happening considering the fact that his is a pretty lucrative personal brand and him & his team obviously know how to handle themselves, given that they just made filthy amounts of money out of getting the boot from NBC- there's no reason a new Conan show (whatever form that happens to take) couldn't succeed anywhere.

jhocking · « **Reply #89 on:** 24 Jan 2010, 05:04 »

The dude just walked away from the Tonight Show out of principle. Do you really think he would do a show butchered by network execs?

Surgoshan · « **Reply #90 on:** 24 Jan 2010, 06:02 »

Quote from: David_Dovey on 24 Jan 2010, 03:32

OK so I'm not sure why going to Fox is an unequivocally bad thing. Can someone explain that to me?

Fox is made of poo. Everything about it is poo.

michaelicious · « **Reply #91 on:** 24 Jan 2010, 07:39 »

Quote from: jhocking on 24 Jan 2010, 05:04

The dude just walked away from the Tonight Show out of principle. Do you really think he would do a show butchered by network execs?

Guy's got scruples.

TheFuriousWombat · « **Reply #92 on:** 24 Jan 2010, 08:03 »

I thought his exit speech, of sorts, was really terrific and heartfelt. Thanking NBC for the 20 years he had worked there seemed really big of him and he seemed to choke up a bit when he thanked everyone for all the support - letters and internet tirades and even rallies. Ending on that note about cynicism, how it was his least favorite quality and how he implored people not to be cynical about the whole fiasco and said just be a good person and such could have been overly sentimental or cliche but the way he said it made it feel incredibly genuine and from the heart. What a cool guy! So sad to see him go, I grew up watching him afterall. Truly the end of an era. I doff my cap and all that.

I Am Not Amused · « **Reply #93 on:** 24 Jan 2010, 12:46 »

Quote from: Surgoshan on 24 Jan 2010, 06:02

Quote from: David_Dovey on 24 Jan 2010, 03:32
OK so I'm not sure why going to Fox is an unequivocally bad thing. Can someone explain that to me?
Fox is made of poo. Everything about it is poo.

Disagree. Not that I'm a huge Fox fan or anything, but it is pretty much the best choice for Conan.

Someone mentioned earlier a quasi-Larry Sanders show would be optimum but I couldn't disagree harder. Conan wants to stay on Network TV and a show like that would NEVER survive on one of the major networks.

Going to Fox, on the other hand, he goes to a staff that has an excellent time slot for a late-night host, wants the demo that Conan pulls in, and would have the money to allow Conan to struggle in the ratings for a few years until his show gets its voice against Leno and Letterman. And I think they WANT a potential late night competitor too bad to interfere too much with Conan's vision.

Or maybe they'll treat him like they've treated every Joss Whedon show post-Buffy.

Heliphyneau · « **Reply #94 on:** 25 Jan 2010, 10:44 »

I'd almost rather Conan take his show to cable than go to Fox. If he did a late night show on Fox at 11:30pm to compete with Jay, he'd be following the Wanda Sykes Show (nothing against her, I think she's funny, but I don't know if he'd want to follow a half hour talk show), which follows Fox News. AND going network means being subject to the same outdated Neilson Ratings System. In its inception, Fox used to take some chances with programming, but these days they're as trigger-happy with cancellations as NBC is. Conan's a smart guy. I hope he figures out a way to be competitive without significantly compromising his show or his ideals.

And I agree about his farewell speech -- he kept it classy, but better than that, he was genuine. How fucking rare is THAT on TV.

In the meantime, I would like Conan to appear in a sequel to Dr. Horrible.

Let's make that happen.

*sends smoke signals to Joss Whedon*

Lummer · « **Reply #95 on:** 25 Jan 2010, 11:39 »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfkvpcjNk7c

Oh god... First Bill Hicks was right about Iraq (again), and now this.

"His brains blew out, forming an NBC peacock on the wall behind him."

I Am Not Amused · « **Reply #96 on:** 25 Jan 2010, 14:07 »

What I've heard is that his show would replace the Wanda Sykes show, starting at 11pm and going to 12pm.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #97 on:** 27 Jan 2010, 04:10 »

Quote from: Lummer on 25 Jan 2010, 11:39

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfkvpcjNk7c

Oh god... First Bill Hicks was right about Iraq (again), and now this.

"His brains blew out, forming an NBC peacock on the wall behind him."

Now we just need to find the 2010 equivalent of Patrick Duffy and Joey Lawrence.

Lummer · « **Reply #98 on:** 27 Jan 2010, 08:03 »

Jonas Brothers. srsly.

Theriandros · « **Reply #99 on:** 27 Jan 2010, 09:34 »

Somehow, I don't see Fox clamping down on Conan too hard if he decides to come over to them. He's proven his value already, and Fox has shown that some shows are given a long leash on stuff. (Case in point, The Simpsons and The Seth McFarlane Variety Hour-and-a-Half get away with a lot of crap against the network.)

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