Leno Replaces Conan on Tonight Show...

I hope you're not talking about "Andy Richter Controls the Universe." That was a great show. And Paget Brewster still makes me feel funny down there.

Story?

I didn't like it.

I can't imagine him being anything but. Back in the old days, that was his whole appeal. The "man on the street being a dick to regular people" bits were mean-spirited and genius.

as opposed to the 200 proof undiluted power that is conan's current show? puhleeze. talk shows are lame.

am I the only one who felt like throwing a paperweight at Dan while reading this? Or am I the only ILXors with the boorish manners of a Yalie?

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Exactly.

I see where you're going with this point, but that would be totally awesome. I'd watch that every night. "Hney look! It's the Tranny Hitler Ass Pepper show!" I mean, how could that not be entertaining?

xp As far as cursing goes, that's pretty much restricted to premium cable.

TBS, along with WGN and WOR, was one of basic cable's first "superstations." It was an Atlanta market entity early on that just aired reruns of Gilligan's Island and I Dream of Jeannie and showed old black & white movies all night. It could be picked up over the air in Atlanta w/o having to subscribe to cable, but I have no idea if that's still the case.

Anyway, the audience will be a fraction of what he was getting on NBC, despite a huge portion of the country having access to TBS. Since TBS has no late local newscast, he suffers from not getting the traditional late night show lead-in.

tbs is better than fox simply because this way I don't have to watch fox.

but if he was going cable, I still don't see why he didn't try for comedy central - a block w/ the daily show and colbert would have been amazing and I think could get a sizeable audience in the long-term, esp since it's already starting out w/ one.

WTF is TBS?

^^^ new channel motto

you mean that's not their current motto?

10pm is Comedy Central's "prime time" for all their original shows like South Park, i don't think they'd move that around to have another nightly talk show.

btw my illusions are totally shattered right now, i <3 Weinberg and consider him such an integral part of the show. i mean if he's not a nice guy irl it's okay, but it seems odd since so much of his presence in the show's comedy was about inventing implausible ways in which he's supposedly a horrible person.

Since TBS has no late local newscast, he suffers from not getting the traditional late night show lead-in.

iirc payne and family guy reruns at 10 pm do pretty well and are likely very male heavy which should benefit conan

if the House of Payne viewership is male-heavy, I will eat a hat

late local newscasts are for old people ie not Conan's core demo

I guess that's true. I just wonder how many within our demo will remember to flip to TBS at 11. I probably will, but I stay up late and catch catch the 1:30 repeats of Daily Show and Colbert.

can catch

let me rephrase - house of payne does huge ratings. additionally, family guy does well esp. with young males.

Channels don't mean anything anymore. If people found Mad Men on AMC and The Shield on FX I'm sure this will do fine (if it's good).

i think poly is pretty otm -- this could do really well on tbs very funny considering that pretty much all of tbs's promo/marketing work has already been done for them & will continue to be done for them by journalists & the internet -- if the show is funny it could def capitalize on a big first week buzz

i don't know a hell of a lot about how late night shows are booked but could conan run into trouble booking big name guests over fallon & craig ferguson (to say nothing of letterman & leno)? or does the name recognition of guests not even matter?

Apparently, Conan's going to finally own the show like Letterman does with his own. If the ratings are there (and they will be), he'll be beholden to no one but his own whims.

10pm is Comedy Central's "prime time" for all their original shows like South Park, i don't think they'd move that around to have another nightly talk show.

south park + a million failed shows

Yeah, I never know exactly what's coming on after South Park from week to week.

all I know is that it's probably gonna suck. 'ugly americans' has got to be the worst thing on television right now.

I watched five minutes of it. That was enough.

I wonder how much of their original programming is designed to make "Drawn Together" look like the pinnacle of modern comedy in retrospect.

I wouldn't go that far!

I was considering mentioning 'drawn together' but I don't even want to think about it

the fact that that show survived for 3 SEASONS is mindblowing

It was like television for juggalos.

Coming straight to DVD in one week: Drawn Together: The Movie

what the

like, I'm the only person on ILX who ever said anything kind about "Drawn Together" and I think that is a terrible, terrible idea

so bizarrely conan's first road show was tonight in eugene, OR, which is where i live. we rarely get awesome things right here in town so my sisters and i went. it was basically a two-hour homage to the best bits of the show and it was pretty satisfying. andy richter was there! tbh i was more excited about seeing him than anyone else.

conan performed like six songs with the band in between comedy bits, and Spoon was in town for a concert so they showed up and played "i summon you." he also brought back the walker texas ranger lever (for legal reasons now called the "chuck norris rural policeman handle") and randomly brought out jack mcbrayer from 30 rock to pull it. i don't think he said a word, he just grinned in that elfish way he has.

he only mentioned the TBS thing in passing, but he seemed to be in genuinely good spirits and he and the band and everyone really went all-out. no max weinberg, but plenty of la bamba.

How George Lopez started his show last night:

http://www.tbs.com/video/index.jsp?oid=214335

(Spoiler: He's not funny.)

all I know is that it's probably gonna suck. 'ugly americans' has got to be the worst thing on television right now.

― iatee, Monday, April 12, 2010 2:52 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

this show is mindblowingly bad

Lopez thing was pretty unfunny, until they busted on Jay Leno. I can get behind that from anyone.

a train on jay leno, is what you're saying

Last night George Lopez had Chris Rock on the show. He made three audience members play "Chris Rock Band". They recited Chris Rock routines to the audience while Chris Rock stood there and listened.

To say that Chris Rock looked mortified is an understatement.

lol probably about the same way i look whenever a person i know recites a Chris Rock routine irl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-ed3wjGWns

Conan will film on the Warner lot

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/17/conan-obrien-to-film-tbs-_n_578365.html

We should probably make the Conan on TBS anticipation thread sometime.

This was only fun when there was frantic hair-pulling and eye-gouging between Conan, Leno and the NBC execs.

I'm still looking forward to the show. Stewart and Colbert both repeat about 4 times per day, so I can catch them after the fact.

Roffle:

Big news on the late night TV battlefront today: The Tonight Show with Jay Leno posted its lowest-rated Q2 -- the first full quarter since Leno came back as host after Conan O'Brien was dumped -- since the Late Show with David Letterman launched on CBS in 1993.

ned, you have made me happy by posting that.

JAY "BIG JAW" LENO HAS DESTROYED THE TONIGHT-SHOW FRANCHISE

Read a review of Conan's live show somewhere and they said he mostly just made jokes about the controversy for most of the time. Is this true? Sounds like it would get old fast.

it's funny. i saw a "tweet" from o'brien the other day, riffing on the controversy, and it fell flat for me.

but he's a funny -- and, here's the key -- inventive guy. he'll find new material. also: bitterness can be a great springboard for comedy.

ConanOBrien

I don't care where LeBron James ends up... As long as it's not at 11pm on TBS.
about 3 hours ago via web

yeah. i love conan o'brien. but move on.

Perrin on the new Bill Carter book on the Conan-Leno war:

http://dennisperrin.blogspot.com/2010/12/giggle-in-beast.html

thanks for sharing that. it prompted me to reserve the book for when it's back at the library.