I can't stay up that late anymore but from what I've seen, his show is still the best. I still think his commencement address to Dartmouth is the best I've ever seen.
Conan O'Brien's show is ending June 24th
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I miss the old late show on NBC. Originally I liked the TBS show but feel like it's been going downhill over the years. His remote and travel bits are still top notch however, that's where he really shines.
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You can still see him on HBO Max. We need a cage match with him and John Oliver.
Conan O'Brien Moving From TBS To HBO Max For Weekly Variety Show
Will Paul Rudd's Mac and Me gag go with him?
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Wait...Conan still has a show???
Been a while since I'd heard that speech - just listened to it all the way through again and it's hard to argue with your opinion. That's great.
Loved Conan back when he was on after Letterman. Some of skits killed me back in college like when he took his desk out for a drive with the green screen or of course the masturbating bear lol
Times have changed and that genre just isn't all the relevant anymore, especially culturally. I haven't seen Conan for a long time. I liked him back in the day but "back in the day" was the 90s and the 00s and a lot of things I liked back then are completely different so maybe Conan is too, I don't know.
The last good late night host was Craig Ferguson.
Went to a taping of his show while at Penn State - the only guest I remember was Fran Drescher. They did a few retakes and Conan spent a good amount of time entertaining the audience during breaks. This was before his hair started to atrophy. Always liked Conan though.
I enjoyed him after letterman as well. Haven't caught any of his new shows. The problem is, Late Night Shows just because way too political the past few years so I stopped watching them. I enjoyed Fallon when he first took over but same over the top shit over and over. Every guest is great and amazing and yada yada yada. I think he even started with some political bull shit. I can't explain why I liked late night but I liked the way Carson and Letterman did their shows. I don't recall any politics and just comedians and entertainers and a musical group. The jokes were just funnier for some reason.
Carson's and Letterman's jokes were funnier because they werent talentless hacks and could come up with original content without resorting to politics.
I remember watching him all the time in college. I remember those ridiculous skits where he had a celebrity's portrait with someone else's mouth doing the talking. The best was Arnold Schwarzenegger when everything always came back to "Jingle All the Way", like Arnold thought it was the best movie ever made.
I don't know if that kind of humor is over or what, but I don't like the late night hosts now. They are terrible. Nothing is even a little bit funny. I don't know how any of them surpassed Conan. Even Jay Leno was way better than the current group, and he wasn't good.
I don't know if that kind of humor is over or what, but I don't like the late night hosts now. They are terrible. Nothing is even a little bit funny. I don't know how any of them surpassed Conan. Even Jay Leno was way better than the current group, and he wasn't good.
I often wonder what kind of dirt he had on someone to get that gig. Wasn’t funny or interesting. He was like Gallagher with a talk show.
They all suck now. These shows are no longer funny, their political agendas are annoying. If you want to watch that go to CNN or Fox.
Letterman is/was a top notch interviewer, but I never liked his comedy as much as many.
I’ve always like Conan and think he is the best of the current late night crop. I have no idea how Colbert still has a job.
Good. I can't stand him. Steps all over everything his guests try to say and constantly interrupts them with unfunny quips.
Ferguson doesn't seem to be the type to give a shit about the PC police. They would probably feed him more. Of course, the TV execs would cave.
I mean, I think that's debatable. He got bigger than his job and that made his show a 100% Letterman indulgence. His interview with Lindsay Lohan, where he pressed her on obviously undiscussed topics was really, really bush league and borderline bullying.
I was there as my son was a member of the class of ‘11 at Dartmouth. It was a great speech.
That's fine but as you said, whether or not he'd get to be on TV isn't up to him. Almost all of Ferguson's "best of" material I see get shared includes a ton of flirting, objectification and innuendo with attractive female guests. Much of that wouldn't fly today, regardless if we or he agrees with it.
I was never a big late night show fan...aside from a short time in college with Tom Snyder.
I have similar feelings with Conan. He probably wrote a ton of very funny stuff in his time for others to do, he just has one thing I find very unappealing in his delivery...he seems to be prompting the viewer to laugh with his own grin and laugh....'See I'm funny'....pause and let me decide for myself. I tuned him in at the end of his first late night show's run just after he didn't get the prime late night gig when he was supposedly doing all this off the wall stuff and going over budget. That night he had Robin Williams on who was just adlibbing it from the start. Conan tried to keep up, but Robin was on a very different and higher level. I tuned him in during the pandemic when the network offerings were pretty sparse and his remote shows reminded me of those local public access offerings from someone's basement or garage...did the same with SNL-it was hard/impossible to be funny by yourself from a remote site.
With 24 hour and streaming options, I'm not sure what is worth waiting for with late night. One of our cable stations rebroadcasts of Johnny Carson's shows which I catch mainly for the stars early in their career (Jim Carrey's skit was very memorable, same with Jerry Seinfeld) and now deceased stars. But I wasn't impressed with Johnny.
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