This is really happened on the show. Promise.
This is a little different than the normal DDRR, as I’m reviewing something that was fairly successful. Not all cancelled shows are failures I always say. Alright, I don’t always say that, but I’ve said it at least once now. It can be my catch phrase along with my usual, “Hey, reviewing a talk show is a great idea.”
What? Shut up and talk about me!
I made this decision after watching CoCo and his gang in the recently released “Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop” and being rekindled with the love I felt back in high school when I’d fall asleep to the zany antics of Late Night. I faltered when he moved up an hour and stopped watching, as I think most did. Now on TBS he seems bored. His live show over the summer seemed fun, but the real goodness of Conan is from 1993(really around 1997) until 2009.
Tackling a show with hundreds of episodes a year that lasted 16 years is kind of overwhelming. So, since this isn’t a normal show, why review it normally? If you really want to answer that question, send your emails to me with your response and maybe you’ll be my featured reader of the week? What is that you ask? I don’t know, I just kind of made it up. I guess we’ll see.
Hi, can I be the winner?
No! You make early Conan look comfortable! Speaking of early Coco, let’s start with the man himself. Conan Christopher O’Brien. He was a writer for Saturday Night Live and The Simpsons before he got his big break replacing David Letterman in what seemed like a crazy move for NBC to make at the time. He was just some ginger writer, why would he make a good host? Well, it worked in the end, but it took some getting used to. Words used to describe Conan’s first few seasons on air: “Awkward. Very awkward. So awkward it’s kind of funny.” You get the picture. His first three seasons are so fondly remembered, on the 10th anniversary show; Mr. T. awarded Conan a plaque with number seven on it. When Conan questioned him, the eloquent T told him it was an award for the amount of time he was funny. You know, cause he was fatter and weirder at first.
Things got better as time went on. They say time heals all wounds, and even though it also kills us, it makes Conan funnier. You know what else makes Conan funnier? It’s skits, characters, musicians, and crazy announcers.
Joel is so dreamy.
Yes, Conan being more comfortable and amassing an array of funny things and stuff made his show worth staying up for. For people like me who couldn’t sleep, it made laying in bed tortured more fun. Everyone knows about the Masturbating Bear and Pimpbot 5000. In this case, I’m aiming at everyone meaning between 5 to 50,000,000 people. I want to shed light on some others things and people here. Who here remembers the Evil Puppy? Apparently almost no one on the internet because it is difficult to find anything on him. This cute little guy is still in hiding and biding his time to plunge us all into hell.
Don't look too long, you may die.
Everyone that went “AWWWW” is going to hell first, mark my words. Along with this evil dog, Conan had help from his trusty sidekick; Hollywood’s Andy Richter. He was everyone’s late night sidekick and helped our fledgling red head host wade his way through his growing pains. Sadly, Andy had bigger dreams and left about half way through the shows run, but is back now after a dozen or so failed sitcoms.
The Max Weinberg (Jewish) 7 was Conan’s band and kept up the tradition of having a live band on a talk show for no reason anymore since boom boxes were invented. I am glad Conan had his though, because after Andy left, they had to step up and be funny. Or in La Bamba’s case, stand there and look pissed.
So he’s got a band, a dog (better than Triumph), a bear, a sidekick, a scary announcer and a shock of red hair? That’s it? To answer my own rhetorical question: NO! He also has a zany charisma that draws in dorks everywhere. The same dorks he mocks right after doing the international symbol for Larry King. If you don’t know, pull fake suspenders then make glasses out of your fingers, you just summoned the King. He may take a while to get there because he’s 125 years old, but he’s coming. He hopped out of the curtain like a mad man and pulled strings on his sides that weren’t even there! This a Harvard man ladies and germs, making a fool of himself for our enjoyment. By god, I appreciated it. I’d also be dumb for not mentioned that point Conan performed during the writer’s strike a few years back. It was amazing. We were treated to Conan with no filter, and it really showed how smart and talented he really is.
There have been a bunch of people that hosted late night talk shows. Some have been old, some have been actors, some have been British and some voice big chinned super heroes in their spare time. None, I will boldly say, have been as good as Conan. I’m not old enough to know Carson, so spare me old timers, I’m talking my generation. I’d probably like Conan better anyways; he speaks to the newer sect. Hence his insane following at the end of last year after being booted. He is funny, smart, loves his fans and workers (if you watch his documentary, even if he is being intolerable, he still does everything for the people), and I think is fantastic interviewer. May he be on my television for a long time.
Oh right, I just said interviewer. I forgot. I was normally asleep at that point. He also talked to famous people. See:
It's Bradt Pitt
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