Leno Replaces Conan on Tonight Show...

so bizarrely conan's first road show was tonight in eugene, OR, which is where i live. we rarely get awesome things right here in town so my sisters and i went. it was basically a two-hour homage to the best bits of the show and it was pretty satisfying. andy richter was there! tbh i was more excited about seeing him than anyone else.

conan performed like six songs with the band in between comedy bits, and Spoon was in town for a concert so they showed up and played "i summon you." he also brought back the walker texas ranger lever (for legal reasons now called the "chuck norris rural policeman handle") and randomly brought out jack mcbrayer from 30 rock to pull it. i don't think he said a word, he just grinned in that elfish way he has.

he only mentioned the TBS thing in passing, but he seemed to be in genuinely good spirits and he and the band and everyone really went all-out. no max weinberg, but plenty of la bamba.

How George Lopez started his show last night:

http://www.tbs.com/video/index.jsp?oid=214335

(Spoiler: He's not funny.)

all I know is that it's probably gonna suck. 'ugly americans' has got to be the worst thing on television right now.

― iatee, Monday, April 12, 2010 2:52 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

this show is mindblowingly bad

Lopez thing was pretty unfunny, until they busted on Jay Leno. I can get behind that from anyone.

a train on jay leno, is what you're saying

Last night George Lopez had Chris Rock on the show. He made three audience members play "Chris Rock Band". They recited Chris Rock routines to the audience while Chris Rock stood there and listened.

To say that Chris Rock looked mortified is an understatement.

lol probably about the same way i look whenever a person i know recites a Chris Rock routine irl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-ed3wjGWns

Conan will film on the Warner lot

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/17/conan-obrien-to-film-tbs-_n_578365.html

We should probably make the Conan on TBS anticipation thread sometime.

This was only fun when there was frantic hair-pulling and eye-gouging between Conan, Leno and the NBC execs.

I'm still looking forward to the show. Stewart and Colbert both repeat about 4 times per day, so I can catch them after the fact.

Roffle:

Big news on the late night TV battlefront today: The Tonight Show with Jay Leno posted its lowest-rated Q2 -- the first full quarter since Leno came back as host after Conan O'Brien was dumped -- since the Late Show with David Letterman launched on CBS in 1993.

ned, you have made me happy by posting that.

JAY "BIG JAW" LENO HAS DESTROYED THE TONIGHT-SHOW FRANCHISE

Read a review of Conan's live show somewhere and they said he mostly just made jokes about the controversy for most of the time. Is this true? Sounds like it would get old fast.

it's funny. i saw a "tweet" from o'brien the other day, riffing on the controversy, and it fell flat for me.

but he's a funny -- and, here's the key -- inventive guy. he'll find new material. also: bitterness can be a great springboard for comedy.

ConanOBrien

I don't care where LeBron James ends up... As long as it's not at 11pm on TBS.
about 3 hours ago via web

yeah. i love conan o'brien. but move on.

Perrin on the new Bill Carter book on the Conan-Leno war:

http://dennisperrin.blogspot.com/2010/12/giggle-in-beast.html

thanks for sharing that. it prompted me to reserve the book for when it's back at the library.