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Over the weekend, Conan O’Brien gave his first post-late night shake up interview to 60 Minutes, and Jay Leno performed at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. You can watch the former here and the latter here. Or you can just watch this dude with a ponytail dancing with a sunflower. Or don’t watch any of them. Whatever.
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FINALLY! Thanks for making me wait so long, guy
Winwood, keep pedaling!
I think Conan’s been top-secretly conditioning his gravity-defying pompadour for that faithful day when it needs to defeat Jay’s chins in battle.
Hmm, now I want to see an M.C. Escher-esque pattern of Jay chins and Conan pompadours.
Amazing. How about it, science?
The first 60 Minutes joke about fighting over what’s in the bedroom… Very disappointing as a lead in to an interview with an actually funny man.
Even if Obama didn’t have the Daily Show writers write his speech, he still would have out-funnied Leno.
Bo could have written funnier jokes than Gabe, and he doesn’t have opposable thumbs
Excuse me?
I meant Jay not Gabe, I don’t know what happened so I’m just gonna blame Nick Madson, that guy’s a jerk right, right guys?
Hey!
I’m guessing Winwood is the one person who upvoted this?
he had the Daily Show writers write his speech?!
Yes, although I read it on a left leaning site that JO’s over anything obama or jon stewart. That is your grain of salt.
Comedy Central Insider?
I was really hoping for a LOST style recap of Jay bombing. I wanted to have someone funnier than me (Gabe) savor and eviscerate each and every bomb moment. Savor every last drop of utter shit that was that evening of comedy. I don’t have the skill set or abilities to do this. Bob Odinkirk (sp?) did a good job on his blog though so I appreciate that very much.
What? Where?
http://www.bobanddavid.com/2010/05/no_child_left_with_a_big_behin.html#more
Bob Odenkirk has a blog? Why was I not informed of this? Also, OMG!
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=bob+odenkirk+blog
Ponytail dude really embodies something about the human condition. He’s like a slug crawling along the edge of a razor and not getting cut. Or maybe he’s on drugs.
“Jay Leno is a fine and honorable man,” is one of the finest backhanded insults I’ve ever heard.
The video of ponytail dude makes me so happy. It’s hilarious but also joyful which is the perfect combination. okay, I’m going to go watch it again.
I watch 60 Minutes all the time b/c *age joke redacted* and I also enjoy sometimes tolerable journalism.
The Conan piece wasn’t very interesting. They basically just re-capped all that went on and Conan, rather expectedly, said all the right things. But that’s how all those big get interviews on the show go. If you’re not familiar with the story already, I suppose they’re interesting but if you are familiar , you’re just left sitting around waiting for a profound statement that will never come.
Let’s not focus Conan though, lets focus on how comically bad Anderson Cooper is as an interviewer and how they shoehorned Jose Andreas in after that immigration piece as some sort of counter point to all those lowly migrant workers and/or illegals who are affected by our increasingly asinine immigration laws. I mean, how many times do you need to force “American dream” and “he seems so American” dow our throats, CBS? This is such a dangerous view to present. It only re-enforces the notion that the only good immigrant is one who assimilates to our “American” culture.
Any takers? Didn’t think so.
Fuck Jay Leno.
The interview may not have provided much in terms of new information, but it hit me like a ton of bricks how truly hurt Conan was by the whole thing. Which makes me like him all the more with the way he’s moving forward.
What I found to be enlightening about the whole thing was the kill fee in their contracts, something I had never considered. So Conan’s kill fee (to just walk away and say bye) was $30million, where as Jay Leno’s kill fee was $500katrillion. So G.E.corp decided to save money on kill fees rather than make a qualitative judgment. That wasn’t something I had considered or had any way of knowing previously. Good story.
“Comedy isn’t funny anymore… You’ve got some big chinned slob reading typos from the Palookaville Post! Well, here’s a headline for ya. Nobody cares!”
-Nick Madson
Jay Leno is making fun of typos? Heyyy… that’s MY commentator meme! JAY LENO IS A PLAGIARIST COMMENTATOR!
You crazy Steve!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHmamHFlxrg
Don’t go to that link, I just wanted to make a .gif out of it. That’s why you leave the .giffing to the pros.
Ooooh choices! Videogum is like a pick your own adventure book! I watched the guy with a ponytail. Is he on acid or what!?
Was I the only one heartbroken when Conan was asked if Jay acted honorably and Conan just kind of stalled feeling so despaired?
Chin up large ginger man. We will watch you on TBS.
Conan’s wife is kinda very hot.
You were expecting maybe someone with similar hair?
I agree that Conan’s wife is pretty
Hi I’m new in the commenting sense, longtime fan in the comment-reading and also blog reading sense, hi you guys. I just wanted to say that Conan’s beard, on his face o’ conflicting emotions, is TBS Very Sexy.