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Television Conan O'Brien

RollinJ said:

but, the question i ask of you:

is he better than Jon Stewart?
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Yes, by leaps and bounds (in my opinion, obviously).

Stewart is very very clever (more clever than 98 to 99 percent of professional comics, imo), but there are several others who are just as clever in a similar manner (e.g., Colbert, Carrell, Crystal, and that's just people whose last names start with "c").

Conan, on the other hand, is nearly once-in-a-generation brilliant (among Carson, Hedberg, and Baron-Cohen among the most original brilliant comic minds of the last fifty years, again, in my opinion).

As someone alluded to earlier, rewatch the early 90's Simpsons episodes Conan wrote.

As good as some of the non-Conan-written Simpsons episodes have been, if you watch them back-to-back with the Conan episodes (Homer Quits Beer For Thirty Days, The B-Sharps and Cape Fear, for example), Conan's off the charts genius is easy to detect.
 
psychetool said:
No doubt. You can't beat a guy who wrote for S&L.
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SNL? As in Saturday Night Live?

Sorry, I'm an asshole today. :D

I don't get to watch Conan a lot but when I do he's hilarious. Apparently he is making waves in Finland for backing one of its candidates for Presidency because of how similar her looks are to his. She really does look like him!
 
The Tonight Show with Conan O'brien

Did anyone catch the first show last night? I like that they brought Andy back. The show felt almost exactly like the Late Night show in NY. Did anyone feel it was any different?
 
The humor seems to be a bit more broad than the Late Show, but I think Conan will do fine. He got some laughs out of me last night. I hope he keeps some of his more unsavory characters from his old show.
 
The opening sketch (with him running across the country) and the universal tour he led were quite hilarious.

Also, I really want to see Andy have a much bigger role, he barely did anything last night.
 
Hello everyone!
I know it might be risky to revive such an old thread after many yrs, but I really would like to ask a question which I simply can not find the answer to no matter how much I google around...

I'm not sure if anyone happens to remember this very funny sketch made by/with Conan O'Brien some yrs ago, where he was trying to get back to the stage (I believe he was doing the Late night show then) after a break, and he was prevented re-entrance to his own show by a security guard who supposedly didn't recognize him!
If I remember it correctly, Conan tried his best to get this security guard to recognize him, there was also I think a big poster hanging on the wall of Conan, which he tried to show to the guard telling him "this is me, I am Conan!" but no use... and the security guard asked Conan what show he was hosting, whereby Conan says "The late night show, it's the one right after the Tonight show" and which was then immediately responded to by the security guard with "no sir I don't believe you, nobody would watch a show THAT late"!!! lol! I remember it vaguely after that, but I think the security guard then either used his taser gun or baton to struggle Conan down on the floor!

Anyways, I've tried to find that clip on youtube, with no luck.
I've tried to at least find the proper name for that particular sketch, but I'm not able to...

Should anyone happen to have the correct sketch name or even better, a link to that sketch, if you would recognize it by my description... I would be most appreciative if you could give me a hint, please :)
 
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Been watching through some team coco stuff on youtube, hes so funny... cracks me up... absolutely legend


5:15 onwards



3:45 onwards... brilliant

 
Yeah he's certainly not to the taste of general audiences, which is why he got canned from "Tonight," but c'mon, he's had success across mediums and has enjoyed a highly loyal following of relatively respectable fans forever. It's hard to argue he's not "funny," even if you don't like him. Mass audiences of southerners in the 70s didn't find Richard Pryor funny, but that owes to inbreeding and a surplus of chicken grease gumming up their brain bolts and spreading mental deficiencies throughout the population, not anything lacking with Pryor.
 
Conan's shtick got old a long time ago, but he's been doing talk shows for two decades. There isn't a talk show host, in the history of television, who's got to the fifteen year mark fresh. Conan, like Letterman, is an old-school talk-show host. I've been watching, on and off, for half my life.

I love the Report, but Colbert's show is heavily satirical and can't really be directly compared to Conan. I find Jon Stewart to be an annoying little dick, but he headlines one of the most popular talk-shows on US television: go figure?

If it wasn't for Andy Richter, who - in my opinion - is the best sidekick of all time, I might not watch Conan as much. The two of them, together, form an authentic chemistry that's difficult to find elsewhere. And, Conan is more likeable (as a television personality) than his talk-show host competition.

The writing has been a little sub-par, especially after the move to TBS: I will admit that.

I don't know...

I guess I have a special place in my heart for Conan.
 
You disagree that his shtick is getting old?

Name another talk-show host, 20 years into the gig, who still keeps it fresh.
 
I find Conan refreshingly stale. His self-deprecating routine during his monologue applies just as much to other talk-show hosts, as it does to him. Having to produce four or five shows a week, for years, inevitable results in a shitload of bad jokes. It doesn't matter whether or not you're talking about Stewart, Colbert, Letterman or Conan. There are bad jokes aplenty. The difference between the old-school talk-show hosts like Letterman and Conan, and the new generation (including Fallon) is a blatant and shameless lack of polish. They're defeated: like old dogs; rather than puppies, doing tricks and scrambling for your attention.

Jon Stewart is a pretentious pseudo-intellectual wannabe activist, who plays all the same ethically questionable cards he insists his opposition hides up their sleeves. He is the worst sort of hypocrite: the sort that goes around calling other people hypocrites. He comes across as the self-appointed savior of the far-left, as if he's the polar-opposite of Bill O'Reilly, which isn't what the world needs.
 
I dunno too much about your american talk show people or whatever, but that news bloke Bill O'Reilly is a dick... and letterman seems like a dick
 
Arci said:
Colbert, Stewart, Maher, Tosh
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Conan's writers can sometimes make him seem like an idiot but I think the dude himself is hilarious.

I basically just think of him as the guy that wrote for The Simpsons when I was growing up and that was the best cartoon in the world, so yeah... He's gotta do a lot of negative shit to fuck that up.



I honestly thought the show was cancelled again from TBS. Fuck if I know for sure, though, Comcast is still dickin' me around and I haven't had TBS for months now.




ColtDan said:
I dunno too much about your american talk show people or whatever, but that news bloke Bill O'Reilly is a dick... and letterman seems like a dick
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Yeah... I'd have to agree with you on those two.
 
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