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Conan Gets It Off His Chest: "I Wouldn't Have Done" What Jay Did
CBS’ 60 Minutes has teased some bits of Steve Kroft’s interview with Conan O’Brien, which airs Sunday. It turns out that Coco was pretty forthcoming with what he thought about the events of the Jaypocalypse—specifically Jay Leno’s taking back The Tonight Show after handing him the keys in 2009 (and saying in 2004 that he’s had a long …
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Conan Speaks—On 60 Minutes
Conan O’Brien‘s contractual TV-interview-muzzle agreement with NBC reportedly expires on Saturday, May 1, and the next night O’Brien will be giving his first on-air interview since the Jaypocalypse to Steve Kroft on 60 Minutes.
The gag order’s expiration is timed fortuitously, promotion-wise, since it comes after Conan’s deal with TBS, …
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Conan Hits the Road
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[Update: An enterprising YouTuber posted the above footage of the Masturbating Bear’s curtain call at Conan’s Eugene show. For more clips—spoilers!—see Variety’s On the Air blog.]
With a freshly-inked cable-TV deal in hand, Conan O’Brien kicked off what could now be renamed the …
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While I Was Out
I’m back from staycation, and big thanks to Steven James Snyder for going above and beyond the call with a wide-ranging series of guest posts last week, on top of his work at Techland. But party’s over now, kids—it’s back to your regularly scheduled half-assed mediocrity with yours truly. Here’s some of what I missed in …
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Jay On Top; Dave & Jimmy Still Sniping; Conan and Fox Getting Closer?
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In your late-night update for the week:
* Two weeks into his restoration, Jay Leno is still leading David Letterman in the ratings, albeit with fewer viewers than when he left the Tonight Show.
* Dave, meanwhile, had fellow Leno-basher Jimmy Kimmel on his own show (above) to fondly …
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CoCo Show a Go
It’s official: Conan O’Brien is launching a 32-city nationwide stage tour, starting April 12. You can get tickets for the Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television tour here, or here. Unless they’re already sold out and you can’t. (Conan has already announced extra dates in New York—at Radio City, natch, right by NBC’s 30 Rock …
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CoCo to Go-Go: Conan O'Brien Reportedly Taking Show on Road
Not content with taking over Twitter, Conan O’Brien will, as previously rumored, do a live tour of the country this spring, likely with sidekick Andy Richter and Max Weinberg, report TMZ and The Hollywood Reporter (though the two sources disagree on the details). The tour plans to stop on Jay Leno’s doorstep in Los Angeles, among other …
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BREAKING: Conan O'Brien Has Tweeted a Tweet!
When Conan O’Brien was being defenestrated by NBC in the Jaypocalypse, Twitter came loudly to his defense. And now Conan O’Brien—of Twitter Tracker fame—has come to Twitter! Yesterday, O’Brien debuted a Twitter account with a single (as of this writing) tweet:
Today I interviewed a squirrel in my backyard and then threw to
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While I Was Out: You Say Goodbye, I Say Hello
Did you miss me? Don’t answer that question! Instead, while I start digging out from under my pile of mail, let’s look at a few of the things I missed (or, at least, ignored) while staycationing last week:
* Tiger Woods showed off his sweet new blue curtain, and said that he was very, very sorry for letting you down. (Where “you” = …
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NBC: There Was Never a Conan O'Brien
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Tonight, there will likely not be a dry eye in the house, as America says goodbye to Jay Leno. Again. This time for three whole weeks.
After The Jay Leno Show ends tonight, Jay will head back to the Tonight show beginning March 1. And what can you do in the meantime, while Tonight is on hiatus …
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Murdoch Go-Go on CoCo, If He Can Bring the Dough-Dough
It’s been a while since we’ve done an update on the aftermath of the Jaypocalypse, the next act of which remains seeing where Conan O’Brien ends up next. The latest news is—well, no news, but News Corp head Rupert Murdoch commented on it briefly in an earnings conference call this week. Fox has not had serious talks with Conan, but …
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Leno Takes His Case to the Oprah Nation
If you are celebrity trying to get past a major public controversy, one time-tested option is to do a dramatic interview on late-night TV. If you are the once and future host of the Tonight Show, however, and the hosts of every other late-night show apparently think you are the biggest jerk in showbiz, that is not so much of an …