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A Chunk of Wednesday’s LATE NIGHT WITH JIMMY FALLON Test Show Hits The Internet!!
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Jimmy Fallon officially takes over NBC’s “Late Night” Monday with an interview with Robert DeNiro, a giant movie star and one of the dullest talk-show guests on the planet.
But Fallon is already cranking out “test shows” with an audience and the band and the new set, and you can see what it all looks like now:
The guest list for the first two weeks:
LISTINGS FOR "LATE NIGHT WITH JIMMY FALLON"
UPDATED February 26
**Monday, March 2 – Show 0001 - Guests include Robert De Niro, Justin Timberlake, and musical guest Van Morrison
Tuesday, March 3 – Show 0002 - Guests include Tina Fey (NBC's "30 Rock"), Jon Bon Jovi, and musical guest Santigold
**Wednesday, March 4 – Show 0003 - Guests include Cameron Diaz, Billy Crudup, and musical guest Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Thursday, March 5 – Show 0004 - Guests include Donald Trump (NBC's "The Celebrity Apprentice"), Serena Williams, and musical guest Ludacris
**Friday, March 6 – Show 0005 - Guests include Drew Barrymore, Chace Crawford, and Mario Batali
**Monday, March 9 – Show 0006 - Guests include Rose Byrne and musical guest The Lonely Island
**Tuesday, March 10 – Show 0007 - Guests include Emily Blunt, Michael Stipe, and musical guest Pussycat Dolls
**Wednesday, March 11 – Show 0008 – Guests include Russell Brand, Kevin Rose & Alex Albrecht, and musical guest The Virgins
**Thursday, March 12 – Show 0009 – Guests include Tracy Morgan (NBC's "30 Rock") and Malin Akerman
**Friday, March 13 – Show 0010 – Guests include Brian Williams (NBC's "Nightly News with Brian Williams"), Kristen Wiig (NBC's "Saturday Night Live"), and musical guest Trace Adkins
** denotes changes or additions.
These listings are subject to change.
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UPDATED February 26
**Monday, March 2 – Show 0001 - Guests include Robert De Niro, Justin Timberlake, and musical guest Van Morrison
Tuesday, March 3 – Show 0002 - Guests include Tina Fey (NBC's "30 Rock"), Jon Bon Jovi, and musical guest Santigold
**Wednesday, March 4 – Show 0003 - Guests include Cameron Diaz, Billy Crudup, and musical guest Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Thursday, March 5 – Show 0004 - Guests include Donald Trump (NBC's "The Celebrity Apprentice"), Serena Williams, and musical guest Ludacris
**Friday, March 6 – Show 0005 - Guests include Drew Barrymore, Chace Crawford, and Mario Batali
**Monday, March 9 – Show 0006 - Guests include Rose Byrne and musical guest The Lonely Island
**Tuesday, March 10 – Show 0007 - Guests include Emily Blunt, Michael Stipe, and musical guest Pussycat Dolls
**Wednesday, March 11 – Show 0008 – Guests include Russell Brand, Kevin Rose & Alex Albrecht, and musical guest The Virgins
**Thursday, March 12 – Show 0009 – Guests include Tracy Morgan (NBC's "30 Rock") and Malin Akerman
**Friday, March 13 – Show 0010 – Guests include Brian Williams (NBC's "Nightly News with Brian Williams"), Kristen Wiig (NBC's "Saturday Night Live"), and musical guest Trace Adkins
** denotes changes or additions.
These listings are subject to change.
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Needs to just fuck off and die already, but as hes good at slurping Feys juices that might not happen anytime soon.
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That was terrible.
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I mean, who could have guessed?
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You think he sucks because you've made up your mind somehow that he sucks. It was a 3 minute clip, hardly showcasing much of anything. No monologue or anything. Let's reserve judgement until the first show.
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it's this is how Jimmy has always talked. It's not exactly smooth TV talk like we are used to, but I think he could get better later on. I'm not betting on it, but regardless he will be better then Carson Daily.
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Just wing it thats what Conan does. Just have basic outline and just let it flow.
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I would like to see any of you do a better job.
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determines whether or not other shows are worth watching, then all of television is fantastic.
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That is my favorite argument for EVERYTHING (especially when referring to people in entertainment & politics). It doesn't matter if we could do a better job... WE'RE NOT THE ONES DOING THE JOB. If HE can't do a better job they need to find someone who CAN. **note that I'm not really ranting about Fallon, I think he'll do ok but not great. I'm really just ranting about douchebags who use that phrase to try to argue in favor of people that possess no real qualities to get behind.)
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he has the roots. lorne michaels would do well to force fallon's resignation and hire ?uestlove to take over the desk. YES WE CAN!!!
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Agreed! I HATE that argument. It's like, of COURSE I couldn't do a better job. But I'm not being paid bucketloads of money to try, am I?
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God, his first year was all pain. If Jimmy still sucks in a year then we'll talk. I'll be turning on Craig over at CBS if I'm up at that time.
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really, wtf is the internet??? If you block content, why bother putting it out??? it always leeds to someone posting a bypass... Really what a BS excercise in stupidity...
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This guy doesn't deserve one digit, let alone four of them. Should Jimmy Fallon host 1000+ episodes of ANYTHING?
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...before he took over late night. What has Fallon ever given us?
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He has a friendly, warm on screen persona, an awesome house band (Roots), and smart humor. He needs time to settle into his own and separate his show from Conan's. Conan will also rock at 11:30. In about a year, both will be comfortable in their slots and a great lineup for the next 10-15 years.
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Watch out--he is growing into the best late night show period. And I say that as a die hard Conan fan of 13 years.
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I saw how you snuck that in, Gunter. Nice try.
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yes that's right, Joel McHale.
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stupid stupid. What's the world coming to?
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I love Conan now, so give Jimmy a break. Not to say I'm a big fan, but I would give him a few months to get into his groove, then judge him. The first few weeks will be rough, especially with everyone comparing him to Conan. He won't be as good or polished as Conan. Hopefully he has some good writers like Conan had.
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uh hell yeah! Mchale though is sort of untested on a full hour of TV. He's great in teh short bursts of the soup and such but I wonder if he could handle a full hour 5 times a week.
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Yeah so what i said it. he was terrible at most times on snl(Heres looking at you weekend update) but theres something about that guy that is genuinely likeable. I dont means as a comedian or what have you, but he seems like the guy you played video games with in junior high. And i want that kind of guy to have his own tv show. Here's hoping he finds a groove and the show is good.
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That Joel Mchale coulda done a better job. Just out of curiousity, are any of these mchale outburst substantiated by...well, anything? I mean i think the guy is funny aswell but im just curious if its and idea a couple of talkbackers had and decided to run with, or if it was leaked or whatnot that he was actually in the running for the show. I mean, I'm surprised they didn't go to casey mccall, he probably woulda been game even tho he turned down the show when they offered it to conan(whose a real tv nerd, and actually gets the reference i just made.)
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DeNiro is a terrible first guest for him to have. I mean sure, its a big star, but people who watch latenight tv dont give a shit about big stars, they want to see guests who seem to get along with the host and watch them have fun. Timberlake and Fallon will be interesting however. I'm gonna set my tivo and watch....probably the whole first week until i write it off.
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...Carson Daly, that is. - Whether I've thought he was funny or not, Jimmy has always seemed like a really nice guy. So good luck to him.
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Someday, I will be able to specify the content on my cable access so that not only will shows never show up as available, the net down-voting by all subscribers will ultimately mean it will be cheaper for NBC to just send Jimmy Fallon to the one house that watches.It will be a win-win, cuz he'll get an NBC-paid trip to visit his mother.
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Feb 26, 2009 5:23:38 PM CST
They do the "im in this place" gag all the time on The Daily Sho
by mike_d
lame
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I think Jimmy Fallon will be fine, but Seth Meyers would have been amazing.
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Sorry I've been too busy watching The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson to actually give a shit about Jimmy or Conan.
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Come on guys....dont we pride ourselves (ok some of us) on our level of understanding of television and good entertainment? Give this guy a god damn break. First, hes not that bad, I actually got a few real good laughs from that (ok it was jack), but lets be real here....if his show DOES end up good, its not going to be for a couple years, just like Conan. So....cool off the hatred guys, my god.
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I've worked with him. He doesn't have a creative or funny bone anywhere in his body.
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I like what he's doing with his website. He is a modern person which is what we need right now. Conan wasn't great at first so i'm willing to given Fallon a chance.
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Nice.
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his inoffensive, predictable, generic jokes have been a cancer on late night tv for years. its a shame he will probably find a bigger audience of the mouth breathing idiots in prime time.
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Did you see Mel Gibson on his show the other day, and the spoof "The Colonel" trailer they made? Hilarious shit.
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in the ratings, that is.
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Like a bottle of 2-buck chuck he just gets worse with age!
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worked for Conan.
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Seriously, that show held viewers precisely because it was sooooo bad. Bad, like, "When are they gonna cancel this shit?" bad! Bad, like, "I feel sorry for Conan because he looks so uncomfortable" bad. We would watch it just to discuss how terrible it was. If Fallon gets even half the chance...
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Don't care for him much, but I already like him better than Carson Daily.
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Conan vs. Letterman introduces an age-appeal difference that didn't exist with Leno vs. Letterman. Old people will be able to watch Leno in prime time and go to bed earlier, or watch Leno and then Letterman. Conan will get younger viewers than Letterman. By the time Fallon and Ferguson are on the demographic split will be extreme, probably moreso than when the choice was Conan vs. Snyder.
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He's going to have the Diggnation guys on the second week of the show. He said video game designers as well. He's getting people on that more and more people are recognizing. People that the internet audience want to see in addition to the big normal celebs everyone knows. I'm hoping it all works out.
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Ferguson will actually have a conversation with his guests, instead of sitting back and letting them do preprepared schtick and movie plugs
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Van Morrison. Terrible.. So much so, even Ryan Cheesecrest is better than Fallon, though that's like saying TB is better than the Black Plague
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now he knows how to talk...
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I promise I will never, ever watch Fallon's "Late Night." I've seen enough of this guy to know I don't like him.
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I'm not watching it either. For me, he made SNL unwatchable. Him and Horacio Sans and Keenan Thompson.
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The interviews would be great; no matter what the guest was talking about, he'd steer the conversation back towards how great the shamwow is, complete with demonstrations.
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He doesn't seem great yet, maybe not even good yet, but better than Conan was for sure.
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Fallon was an idiotic choice.
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I thought they were quirky great. Why I stuck with it before it became trendy.
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Ohhh, he gets to interview his girlfriend! A guest from the same studio! What a coup!
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Yeah, he's gonna suck Tina's balls.
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WRONG. The noobs writing that are kids who have READ that in all those press stories and regurditate what they're told. Grats you're 20 and you never even saw Late Night until 2001. Conan was exactly the same in 93-94 as he is now... plus he had Andy. The Network hated him because he had been shoved down their throats but he was NOT terrible or really even different. It's all bullshit PR from NBC they invented back in 99-00 when Conan became popular to make him more sympathetic. And it worked nice work pavlov's dogs.
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he's a rip off artist and weak shade of whatever flavor he's mimicing. whether he's pretending to be sandler with his guitar or 80s letterman at his update desk. he sucks anyone who doesnt intrinsiclly see that probably love NBC's Office and How I met your mother. Best talk show hosts: 1)Letterman 84-91. 2)Jon Steward on his original MTV late night show 3)Dan Patrick and Keith Olbermann on 90s Sportscenter. 4)everyone else that you noobs think is "good"
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This might be pulled and pulled fast. The world knows Fallon's a talentless waste of shit.
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I will watch you, Jimmy Fallon. I will give you the benefit of the doubt. And at least you'll actually be broadcast in HD.
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He was awesome, people just didn't get it. Jimmy on late night is about as smooth as Tracey Morgan was on Scare Tactics. Stop reading and just do your thing man.
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I actually think he lost something the longer the show went on. When it first started the beauty of it exactly was just how weird and awkward the whole thing was. He was just some clever dork given his own TV show and the license that obscurity grants a late night talk show. He wasn't popular and the ratings were anemic, but he used that to his advantage by making the show his own weird little world, free from the expectation to 'Leno' his comedy for a mainstream audience. Pimpbot, Oldie, Masturbating Bear, NBC Peacock, the annoying pecking Ostrich, Sad little Timmy, every night was a fantastic cavalcade of bizarre and arcane humor. It's weird to see him mainstream now, I can't really wrap my head around him taking over Leno's spot. . .so many great memories of staying up late to watch his show on high school nights, usually stoned and just aghast at the fact this show was even aloud to exist. Good times.
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God I thought I was the only one who remembered that sketch. Ahh good times.
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The fact that some of you can waste so much energy on already hating a not extremely talented, but seemingly nice, guy before his new show has even been on a few months is really something. Wouldn't it make a bit more sense to hope he gets good instead of praying for cancellation? There a many people I like more and think could do a better job than Fallon, but I don't hate him for it.
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There *are* many people I like more and think could do a better job than Fallon, but I don't hate him for it.
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Wow, that was uncomfortable to watch. I have no issue with Fallon, hope he does well. Horatio as his sidekick would make this show much stronger and I know it would make me tune in. Jimmy has to be a bit more subtle with the cue cards and relax. Im sure it will come with time. His list of guests starts out strong but gets pretty weak very quickly. Good luck Jimmy.
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I agree 100% with Happy Boy, the people who write that Conan needed years to become funny are reciting some fictionalized party line rather than a personal observation.
I watched Conan regularly for maybe his first 8 years or so, past the time Andy left, and if anything, I'd say he started out stronger because he would do ANYTHING for a laugh and it was clear he had absolutely no tether so save him if he started tanking. Conan for me is stuff like the Masturbating Bear, constant Bill Clinton and Bob Dole interviews, Dippy the Hippie, Pimpbot, the Staring Contests, and other sketches that it sounds like some Fallon apologists here probably never even heard of.
I preferred the "anything goes" attitude of Conan's first few years to latter years, though I'd bet fans of Leno-style formulaic comedy feel the opposite towards him. The show might have been less slick than it is now but it was no less funny. -
the fact that the show wasn't getting the ratings allowed for them to book B through D list celebs that are far more interesting than the flavor-of-the-month. I recall Conan being excited that he got to interview Werner Klemperer, for example.
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An indulgent bore. Fuck Time and Eric, too.
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they run out of NBC cast members to appear on the show?
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Feb 27, 2009 6:12:37 AM CST
its not like it's his first time on television
by reginaldbarclaysinsecurities
i understand comparing this to Conan's first year because it's 'late night,' but the situation is way different. the majority of people didn't know who Conan was, or who wrote any given Simpsons episode. we were subjected to YEARS of Fallon on snl... how can they think this is a good idea? i was hoping that Peter Griffen beating him up for not being Carol Burnet was the last of it. and he doesn't deserve The Roots. i'd rather watch 'Roots' every night (though to be honest, i'm game for anything with Geordi. Reading Rainbow!). i'm sick of the red sox, i'm sick of Jimmy Fallon. and put away your 'if you don't like him then don't watch,' - I DONT WANT TO SEE HIM ON ANYTHING OTHER THAN UNSOLVED MYSTERIES
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Of people who thought Conan was awesome when he first started. I watched from the first episode and thought it was such a great, weird show. I still miss the Bob Dole and Arnold Swarzenegger faces with the moving lips. Those were awesome.
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Fallon was on Howard Stern 2 years ago bragging about a crazy deal he signed with NBC like 8 years ago to be Conan's replacement. He was getting payed something like 2 million a year to just sit by and wait for Conan to move to late night. NBC must of thought he was gonna become a huge star. This deal was made before his movie career tanked. Even if this show is a bomb NBC is stuck with him and he will already have made millions before having to do anything.
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Hell, I thought he was very good in "Fever Pitch." So, I just can't get worked up into a frenzy over this.
However, I will say that it's unlikely he will turn me away from Craig Ferguson. I saw that him in Vegas last year and nearly pissed myself laughing so hard. The man is legitimately funny and knows how to work an audience. -
This guy is TErrible
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His performance as a running corpse in Monkeybone is bizarrely fantastic. Of course, nobody ever sat through Monkeybone that long to see it.
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I'll only be watching the episode with Kevin and Alex. I'll pass on the rest.
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...was Chris Kattan.
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So they can giggle at each other through entire segments and fuck up line readings. It'd be great.
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It won't take long, especially since NBC next year will have only 2 hours of Primetime during the week, so that's fewer shows to pull from. And most of them will be too busy doing their shows and appearing on Leno's "The Tonight at 10 Show" and Conan's "Tonight Show" to have any time left for Fallon.
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I mean, they're talented musicians, but definitely not a band or genre I care about. It reminds me of the constant reggae and hip-hop I would hear blasting from a stereo as I walked past frat houses on my way to class while I was in college...and, probably not coincidentally, The Roots played my college town at least once or twice a year. In fact, it looks like they're playing there again in August.Anyway, no disrespect of The Roots, but if Conan had them as his band back in the day, it would've been as "meh" for me as Carson Daly's house bands. I'll take the ass-kicking awesomeness of the MAX WEINBERG 7 any day (and every day) on THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH CONAN O'BRIEN.
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You, of course mean, two hours of primetime programming EACH DAY (instead of three)... unless they're going to just start showing old reruns of F TROOP instead of new shows. ;)I still wish Conan would have filled his studio with a minty foam (as threatened so many times) for one of his last shows. That would have been epic (and yeah, probably hazardous to the those in the studio).
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in pretty much everything I've ever seen him do. He might be better on Late Night, where looking at the camera is what you're actually SUPPOSED to be doing, not just a nervous tick because he knows he's a hack. That being said... 3 more months til Conan is back.
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Im not sure what day, but I am convinced it will be sometime shortly after 12:35pm on a weeknight.
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Often had the most original and surreal bits, but they often weren't that funny. I watched him from midway through the first year on (they did not show him in Buffalo until February '94 when the Goo Goo Dolls were first on.) Part of it may that may my sensibility chaned or I grew more accustomed to his style, but I do not think he was a consistently funny then as he got to be by year 3 or 4. He also was extremely stiff during interviews in the beginning.
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were (1) the interesting guests he would get and (2) the AWESOME music acts. Whoever the music booker was was great at his/her job. So many cool indy bands played there first.
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...but my mom and dad used to hate Conan because all they saw were snippets of him in hotel rooms or random weekends. (They're old, don't stay up late)But then we vacationed in Florida and early re-runs would come on some random stations and they started to really like him. I think the "Leno Crowd" will come around once Canon gets a few shows in the earlier slot under his belt. He's not exactly doing the Masterbating Bear any more...but how cool would it be if that was his opening skit on the first night after his monologue!
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this mess is gonna get raw like sushi, so haters to the left!
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Are most of this guy's sketches going to come from off-base musings on message boards?
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