Conan O'Brien

February 27, 2010 at 5:06am PST

Well, sort of. Conan can't do anything on television until at least September, but that doesn't mean he can't still entertain us in the meantime.

Coco has become the latest celebrity to join Twitter yesterday.

His first tweet said: "Today I interviewed a squirrel in my backyard and threw to commercial. Somebody help me."

We wish we could, Coco. We wish we could.

 

January 26, 2010 at 7:31am PST

On Conan O'Brien's last (and awesome) episode of the Tonight Show on Friday, he announced who he wanted to play him in inevitable HBO movie version of the shake down: "Academy Award winner, Tilda Swinton." We hate to admit that the resemblence is uncanny.

But get this! She's totally game!

January 21, 2010 at 8:21am PST
Photos: NBC

Conan O'Brien is getting quite the severance package from NBC: $45 million worth actually. (Of that, $12 million goes toward taking care of his staff.)

His last day hosting The Tonight Show will be on Friday, where his guests will be Tom Hanks and Will Ferrell. Jay Leno will take over again on March 1st, after the show come back form its Olympic break.

January 19, 2010 at 4:30pm PST
Photos: NBC

It seems like everyone's chiming in on the Leno-Conan situation. They certainly were at the Golden Globes on Sunday. And now one more person has chimed in. Mariska Harigtay was no fan of Jay Leno's new show.

January 12, 2010 at 4:18pm PST

After days of tumult over at NBC, and lots of speculation, Conan O'Brien has decided to quit his job at The Tonight Show.

He sent out a very articulate and eloquent statement that said as much. The show was being moved to 12:05 to make wasy for Jay Leno at 11:35. O'Brien thought this was a huge problem.

October 2, 2009 at 11:02am PST

We don't know what shocks us more:

David Letterman's bizarre on-air confession-turned comedy routine?

Or that it was an Emmy-award winning producer of the CBS news magazine 48 Hours who was arrested and charged with attempted grand larceny for allegedly attempting to use Letterman's now-acknowledged sexual relationships with staff members to extort $2 million from him?

September 15, 2009 at 11:03am PST
Photos: NBC

Don't ever count Jay Leno out. After he was rather unceremoniously dumped from his job as host of The Tonight Show and replaced by Conan O'Brien, we all just thought he'd go back to collecting cars, shining his chin, or doing whatever it is he does when he's not on television. Instead his new primetime show on NBC debuted last night to huge numbers.

June 26, 2009 at 12:15pm PST
Photos: Universal Pictures

Yes, even more Brüno news! Sascha Baron Cohen continued promotion in character as Brüno last night on the Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien.

Watch the interview here.

March 3, 2009 at 9:54am PST
Photos: NBC

We fully expected Jimmy Fallon’s debut in Conan’s slot on NBC to be tragically terrible.

But it wasn’t.

Partially, he has his buddy Justin Timberlake to thank for that since nothing is ever bad when insanely talented Baby Daddy JT is in the house, but Jimmy also has a fun, affable, slightly spazzy delivery that we dug. After months of anticipating the worst, we were pleasantly surprised.

He was even able to make Robert DeNiro chuckle.

Welcome to late night, Fallon.

We look forward to falling asleep to you for years to come.

December 9, 2008 at 9:59am PST
Photos: NBC

Oh snap!

Earlier this year it was announced that Jay Leno had been rather unceremoniously dumped from the Tonight Show to make room for Conan O’Brien who had grown tired of his late late night slot. While many expected Leno to slink into oblivion once his enforced retirement took hold, The New York Times is saying NBC is going to announce that Leno is staying at the network.

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