Farewell Conan

Well, it's finally over.

After only 7 months of hosting the Tonight Show, Conan O'Brien is gone. I know I've said before that I'm more of a Leno fan, but this was a pretty lousy situation overall. I don't understand how NBC can give someone a show, especially the Tonight Show, for 7 months and then basically boot them off.

Conan's a smart, genuine, and hilarious guy and I am very sure we will see him or his work in the very near future.

But for now, he's a Free Bird (ha!)

Best of luck man.

Jay vs Conan

I'm sure by now most people have heard at least something about this whole NBC, Jay Leno, and Conan O'Brien thing going on. Basically, after a few months of Conan running "The Tonight Show" and Jay being moved down to 10:00 to host his own "Jay Leno Show", ratings for both shows have gone down. CBS's "Late Show with David Letterman" is beating NBC's "Tonight Show" and NBC is looking to do a little rearranging.

According to the Chicago Tribune,one solution would be to move Jay's show to 10:35 (for half an hour) and move the Tonight Show down to 11:05. A separate article from the Associated Press mentioned that:

NBC's contract with O'Brien reportedly allows the network to move "Tonight" to 12:05 a.m. EST but no later, at the risk of substantial financial penalties.

, which could also provide Leno with another spot (possibly 11:05?).

Yet another possibility, mentioned in the same article, is that NBC does away with Conan altogether, moves Jay back to the "Tonight Show", and Conan possibly gets picked up by Fox.

All this talk about time changes and shows moving around may bring about another issue that hasn't been addressed (at least to my knowledge), What will happen to Late Night with Jimmy Fallon or even Last Call with Carson Daly? It seems like there hasn't been any mention of what would happen to the time slots for these shows. There won't be an issue unless the other shows get pushed back to later slots but if they do, who is going to stay up until 3am or later every night watching these shows?

I don't have a solution; it just looks like NBC is sort of screwing things up here. I will say this though, I'm a fan of almost all late night TV (although it hasn't been that great in a while), but I've always been a Leno guy myself. I guess we'll have to wait and see what happens.

oh yeah. What's up Ludwig?

(photo from NY Post)

Grizzly Bear on Conan O'Brien

Last night Grizzly Bear performed their song "Two Weeks" on the Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien. I've heard this song about 100 times but I still think it's great. Pretty good performance, really cool stage set. Check it out.

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I am a rather big fan of outrageous comedic hilarity. This is such an example.



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The Takeover ( The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien)

Last night was Conan O'Brien's debut as the host of The Tonight Show, replacing Jay Leno who was the show's host for 17 years. Don't worry though, Jay will be back soon enough with his own show that will air on weeknights at 10:00. Apparently, according to "critics" (what the hell do they know anyway?) Conan's debut was met with some mixed reviews. Personally, I thought the show was pretty good, I'm not a huge fan of Conan (I don't hate him) but I thought it was a fairly solid debut. Some of the "sketches", which were more like full montages were a bit long but they had some high points as well. Also, the show's first guest, Will Ferrell, was funny as usual. One negative thing I must say is that Pearl Jam's performance at the end of the show was HORRIBLE. They had a huge amount of energy but I thought they sounded awful (was it just me?).

Anyway, I wish Conan good luck on his new show. I'm sure he will do a good job (but in my opinion not better than Jay) and have many memorable moments on the show in the years to come. Good luck.

Check out some clips from the show HERE. Also the full episode should be up pretty soon as well.