Leno Replaces Conan on Tonight Show...

my friend and white stripes enthusiast reported that "we're going to be friends" is conan's favorite white stripes song, so i guess they re-worked it a little for him. i thought it was pretty dope personally, def had some levity. then again i was four beerz deep at that point so the emotionality might have hit me harder than normal

ack not levity... mind-blanking on the word but i mean that it seemed like the performance felt appropriate wrt to the "weight" of the situation

(gravity!)

like yeah i got that they were tryna sound fragile or cracked or whatnot and thats cool but it just wasn't what i expected at all

My wife immediately shouted "she's pregnant" when the camera panned out on Meg the first time. Can't seem to find anything confirming that, but that may have been part of it. Strenuous drum-bashing might be out for her right now.

your wife has weird tourettes

Yeah, its uncomfortable sometimes.

Really though, she thinks Meg is definitely pregnant.

Of course he will, though. I just hope it doesn't happen immediately.

I dunno why this is some universally accepted truth. Conan's sense of humor is what it is - he said he couldn't grow up if he wanted to, but I'd put it a little differently: he's incapable of selling Jay Leno's cheesy humor or David Letterman's cornball humor, and if he tried, he'd fail. So there's no particular reason to try.

I'm not saying he'll adopt a different style of humor, or that NBC would even try to coax it out of him. But Late Night of 1999 and 2009 were remarkably different in tone, and I'd expect the Tonight Show of 2019 (should he hold the seat that long) will be remarkably different again. It's not that he ever got less funny, or that his sense of humor and wit has changed, but he's seemed to develop a greater awareness that all-absurd-all-the-time only serves to dull his more inspired bits.

I just hope he doesn't get too aware and avoid the absurd altogether.

I can't see him avoiding it. If anything he'd make more of a point of that, knowing how watered down 'regular' TV is. I'm just excited to see what he does. Also will enjoy NOT pre-emptively flipping the channel at 11.35 to avoid Jay's chin.

xxpost -- I turned to my husband and said 'She's either sedated or drunk'. She seemed kinda out of it.

it's weird to think that i've known Conan was leaving Late Night for almost 5 years given when this thread started, and have probably been thinking "I need to start watching Conan again before he goes to the Tonight Show" that entire time and never watched a single episode. loved the show in the 90s, though.

that entire time and never watched a single episode

You missed out on some exquisite stuff during the writers strike OMG.

u guise andy is coming back to be conan's announcer on the tonight show!!!!

!!!

wow

i already said this on some other thread but ive been enjoying ferguson more than conan lately

― max, Thursday, February 19, 2009

this is otm btw and i didn't want to let it slip by

thanks hon

i already said this on some other thread but ive been enjoying ferguson more than conan lately

Thirding the OTM on this. Worth putting in your DVR if you're not around or awake.

Did we have a whole thread on him recently, or was that spinning off of something else?

Announcer?

Yeah, hold off on Ferguson for a second - Andy Richter is the...announcer?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/24/andy-richter-to-be-tonigh_n_169575.html

LOS ANGELES — NBC says Andy Richter and Conan O'Brien will be back together again on late-night TV.

Richter, who worked with O'Brien for seven years on NBC's "Late Night," will become the "Tonight" show announcer when O'Brien takes over from Jay Leno as host in June. NBC said Richter also will take part in comedy bits.

O'Brien called Richter a friend and one of the funniest people he knows, but couldn't resist a joke: O'Brien said he's looking forward to their reunion because Richter owes him $300.

After leaving "Late Night" in 2000, Richter starred in the TV series "Andy Richter Controls the Universe" and "Andy Barker, P.I.," and appeared in "Talladega Nights," "Blades of Glory" and other movies.

i had no idea Andy stuck around 'til 2000. it seemed like he left way earlier than that.

Did we have a whole thread on him recently, or was that spinning off of something else?

― nabisco, Tuesday, February 24, 2009 5:44 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ya it was the "late late show" thread

The Late, Late Show with Craig Kilborn....

i think ferguson deserves his own thread but i dont know what i would say in it that hasnt already been said

i expect conan to continue to act like an ass as promised, but i also expect him to be a little more showbiz-y, as expected, and smart, as he is but doesn't always show as much. the last shows were good in no small part because of the old material clipped in - the old-timey baseball thing was hilarious - but in general he's been pretty decent the last year or two, of what i've seen. i think the other-city visits helped charge his batteries a bit.

ferguson being 'better' than conan is some challops. obviously, the dude is more motivated at this point - he's the new guy begging for our attention every night whereas conan is the old friend who can count on us to come around every once in a while - and he's got the leprechaun-on-cocaine schtick to match. but while he's an indisputably great comic monologuist (super standup, really) - he regularly beats conan hands-down in the lead-in - i don't think he's yet a talkshow host the way the more established guys are. how many interviews have you actually watched him do?

Ferguson's interview style is manic and all over the place. I've never seen him follow a line of questioning to its conclusion.

oh, and the white stripes thing was kinda uncomfortable because while they clearly were doing a deconstructed version of the song, it seemed like meg's guitar was out of tune, and maybe she kinda didn't care about being there. which may have been intended, but who knows.

Now that I think about it, Conan moving to the Tonight Show represents *us* growing up, too. Pretty sad.

which is to say, in highschool I wanted to be a gonzo comedy writer, and now I'm going to be a lawyer. [sadtrombone.wav]

you will bring much-needed levity to the judicial system however

oh no, he's not going to be practicing law on the Tonight Show every night, is he?

No. When people take that "social trends" voice, they're usually talking about themselves or people they know. That's why I broke it down in that way.

to an extent

ferguson being 'better' than conan is some challops.

yeah it's funny how no one actually said that too.

I WILL ONLY WATCH IF HE BRINGS BACK ANDY (which might be plausible, given the shitty shows Andy's been getting).

― n/a

I heard Andy's going to be Conan's new announcer.

Watching this, I totally forgot about all those terrible costume characters they had back in the 90s. man, that show was so wonderfully cheap and crappy.

Opening taped bit set to Cheap Trick, he's kept his theme song, Andy is announcing. Let's see where he goes.

Also, Andy's mic is live so we'll have to hear him do the McMahon chuckle.

andy was super annoying tonight

needlessly distracting imo

The bit with him driving around in his 92 Taurus to "Get out of my dreams (get into my car)" was pretty funny. He relies a little too heavily on self deprecation though IMO.

Will Farrell is hilarious in his Conan appearances. Loved the entrance.

I was pretty pumped a week or so ago cuz I thought Andy Richter Controls The Universe was gettin airtime, but turned out he was just guesting on an episode of Malcolm In the Middle.

It felt weird for Max to be so quiet -- I wonder if he'll recede into the background now that Andy's there.

ill never recede into the background dude

hahah

this was okay, it really did feel like the tonight show, didn't it? I hope it starts to feel a bit more like Conan again.

The audience is so big! Part of Conan's charm was that his show was so little and cheap looking. I think he can grow into it tho.

I wish they would put Andy on the couch :(

the Clippers dig was great