Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding drama troupe surprisingly, to us, named Jay Leno as its Man of the Year. Leno will get his pudding pot on February 4 and will be properly roasted by the Hasty Pudding crew.
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Although convicted of bribery, Chuck Turner is ready to get back to work on the City Council. [Dorchester Reporter]
The priest who stalked Conan O'Brien says he's fine and wants to get back to work, but the Boston Archdiocese is on Team Coco. [MyFoxBoston]
The contractor working on the exploding house has a record of safety violations. [Boston Channel]
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Conan O'Brien almost has 300,000 followers after one tweet. [NY Times]
CoCo has a long way to catch up to the cat from Waltham with more than a million followers. [Boston Globe]
Springfield wants to host an Obama-Brown hoops match, and it might happen. [The Hill]
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The newest version of Conan O'Brien's talk show, "Conan," makes its much anticipated debut on Monday at 11 p.m. on TBS.
Jay Leno was out riding in California in one of his many antique cars recently and he had a problem. Leno's 1907 White Steam Car started spewing smoke, causing him to stop for repairs. Leno corrected the problem with help from random people who got him some much needed water. Given the state of the ratings on "The Tonight Show," the irony of Andover's own riding around in an outdated vehicle isn't lost on us. We wondered if Conan O'Brien have pee'd on Leno's car to fend off the smoke?
Conan O'Brien was last seen serving as a Jimmy Fallon punchline, and a nominee, at the 2010 Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday.
A crime happened at the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Someone allegedly stole clothes intended for the new band to be led by Rickey Minor, formerly the frontman for American Idol's band. The gear went missing from a facility in Hollywood. There are no suspects, and the LAPD is on the case. Bostonist wants to know if anything was stolen from the Tonight Show when Conan O'Brien was the host. That's right. We said it.
Hub-connected celebrities are fully engaged on Twitter. Just ask Conan O'Brien and Linda Pizzuti Henry. Okay, Mrs. Henry isn't a celebrity like Conan, or as funny as he is. You've heard of her. Or, at least, you've heard of her husband/Sox owner John Henry.
NBC reportedly told TMZ.com that Conan O'Brien lied to "60 Minutes" during his interview Sunday. NBC claimed Conan fibbed about not knowing his "Tonight Show" was losing money, and was wrong about Jay Leno having a bigger buyout. Bostonist's scale of believability goes like this: Conan O'Brien, Jay Leno, unnamed NBC "network sources". The NBC suits are a really distant third. [TMZ]
The paths of Conan O'Brien and Jay Leno crossed again this weekend as the two comedians/hosts each made prominent public appearences. The "coincidence" begs the question: What is the difference between Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien? One is Jay Leno and the other is funny.
Conan O'Brien's anticipated "60 Minutes" interview happened on Sunday. We assume you watched it, or read about it. Conan appeared quite at ease with himself and his peculiar looking beard. You've seen his hair so you shouldn't be surprised he rocks a crazy facial 'do.
We're totally on Team Conan in the O'Brien–Leno feud of late, maybe because we're insufferably white. 60 Minutes has a big interview with Conan coming up on Sunday, and released an excerpt in which O'Brien calls out the way Leno laid down for NBC and did whatever the network wanted. Conan says, if given the options Jay was presented, he woudl have "Done something else, go someplace else. I mean, that's just me." Conan will perform in Boston in june. [LiveFeed]
Conan O'Brien will return to the late-night talk show game in November on TBS with an 11:00 p.m. show from Monday to Thursday. Conan reportedly picked TBS because they have younger viewers. George Lopez approved in advance and will move from 11 p.m. to midnight. Conan didn't want to repeat the NBC fiasco. Conan already talked on Twitter about it.
Now that Jay Leno has returned to late-night television, Conan O'Brien is relegated to planning some kind of tour while entertaining us via Twitter. Twitter is ever so helpful as means for Conan to joke about the iPad and Peeps. Leno seems securely ensconced behind his new Tonight Show desk. He's reportedly beating David Letterman in the ratings, and also told Joy Behar "Conan got screwed and I got screwed...The reason [this] business pays a lot of money is, when you get screwed you have something left over." For what it's worth, CelebJihad.com said Leno said that comment was intended as an April Fool's Day joke.
Conan O'Brien is now legally prohibited from being funny on television, so he's decided to be legally funny in person instead. The Brookline native, sometime-robot, and short-lived Tonight Show host is going on tour to share his hilarity with the United States of America. He'll be in Boston (at the Wang) on June 4. Get your tickets now; we're reasonably sure they'll sell out fast.
If you've been missing Conan O'Brien, whose now-defunct Tonight Show is airing in reruns until Jay Leno brings old man smell to late night again, have no fear: Robo Coco is here. A very special Etsy crafter brings us robotic Conan O'Brien, a tiny wind-up toy body with a polymer clay Conan head. No longer must you watch O'Brien's awkward movements only on screen: now, experience them live and in person with this robotic toy, which recreates O'Brien's insane jittering in uncannily accurate form. Sadly, the robot is already sold out (really, how many of these could you make?), but perhaps the creator will manufacture a second run if pressed. Barring that, buy something else from this impressively odd artist (John Larriva).
- Now that Conan O'Brien's exit from NBC's talk-show train wreck is official, what will he do next? [Boston Globe]
- Bostonist has no complaints with Ted Reinstein. However, his opinion of Ted Kennedy's reaction to Tuesday's special election is in poor taste. [WCVB]
Joel McHale, star of Community and host of The Soup on E! is on Conan O'Brien's (doomed) Tonight Show this evening. McHale just offered O'Brien his Soup spot, citing sharing a network with Ryan Seacrest as a major benefit. The gesture was likely facetious, but wouldn't it be fun to see O'Brien cook up some Soup, at least on a guest basis?
Conan O'Brien and NBC are reportedly close to agreeing on a deal that would allow him to leave the network about six months after taking over "The Tonight Show" in 2009. Jay Leno would then return to hosting the show. The agreement reportedly must address how much the network owes O'Brien and any possible restrictions NBC wants on his future employment. [AP via Boston.com]
Conan O'Brien has apparently resorted to selling his talk show on Craigslist. It's "guaranteed to last for up to seven months" and has the following fun features:
Ahh, blogging synergy. Is Shepard Fairey Team Conan or Team Leno? No idea. But, his artistic stylings have inspired Conan O'Brien supporters to utilize Facebook to support the next ex-Tonight Show host. According to TMZ, a person named Mike Mitchell created a pro-Conan poster that is similar to Fairey's famous Obama "Hope" poster. Mitchell is planning to develop merchandisebased on the picture.
In a somewhat innovative move, NBC has confirmed that Jay Leno will shift to an 11:35 time slot but be followed by Conan O'Brien at 12:05, then Jimmy Fallon at 1:05, shaking up the traditional 11:35 / 12:35 / 1:35 late-night lineup. It's not clear whether any show will continue to be marketed as the Tonight Show. NBC hosts the Olympics in February, which would have disrupted late-night programming anyway, leaving open an opportunity to change the lineup. Regardless, it sounds like both of our local comedians are secure at NBC... for now.
Well, that was short-lived. Barely six months after Conan O'Brien took over the Tonight Show, rumors have surfaced on TMZ that he's being pulled from the timeslot to allow Jay Leno's return. Leno's 10pm show will go, moving the big-chinned Emerson grad to 11:30. Is Conan out all the way or will he be on (once again) after Jay? Update: Entertainment Weekly says NBC says Conan's still with the network, though no word on time slot.
Everybody's favorite just-not-that-funnyman Dane Cook was on Conan Wednesday night, and since we're days behind in everything, we only just watched the fabulous awkwardness that was Cook on Conan. Our buddy O'Brien was quite obviously disinterested in most of what Daney boy had to say, but he did his hostly best to accommodate Cook's inane stories about heading into the wrong dressing room and also having a stupid wife who doesn't understand that a "universal remote" doesn't work from anywhere in the world. Gee, it's so hilarious when women are dumb! it's even more hilarious when you've voluntarily committed yourself to one of the dumb ones!
If someone at Bostonist isn't rooting for our boy, Conan. Andy Richter is back. Max Weinberg moved to the Left Coast. Fingers are crossed that the masturbating bear hitched a ride...
We're big Conan O'Brien fans over here: ever since Late Night ended, we've drifted, helpless and alone, searching for meaning and tasteless jokes. Luckily for us, O'Brien's back tonight with his sparkly new take on The Tonight Show!
Follow along with Bostonist as we watch the first "Tonight Show" with Conan O'Brien.
Displaying little loyalty toward Brookline-born Conan O'Brien (as opposed to New York–born Jay Leno), Globe commenters wish failure on O'Brien as he prepares to take over The Tonight Show from Leno tomorrow evening. Comments quickly escalate from assigning O'Brien "little talent" to awarding him "no talent" to calling him a "total tiurnoff [sic]" and predicting "conan will tank." Some even accuse NBC of promoting an Obama agenda through O'Brien's assignment (which was made long before the election, right down to the date of the transition).
Jay Leno presented viewers of the Tonight Show with a clear definition of class as he hosted for the final time on Friday. Leno repeatedly tried to defer the focus from himself throughout the show even when he could have made it all about him. Conan O'Brien was the guest as Leno went out of his way to pass the torch and showcase the next guy. Leno praised James Taylor's logistical gymnastics that enabled Taylor to appear with Leno. Leno closed the show by assembling the children born to Tonight Show staffers during his tenure. It was surprising and satisfying.