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Conan O'Brien talked a lot about his old job on "60 Minutes" Sunday (May 2), but not much about his new one.O'Brien's new gig as a late-night host on TBS got little mention in the main piece, but CBS has posted some outtakes in which O'Brien talks about going to cable and what it offers him. Simply put, he'll be able to do whatever kind of show he wants.
"What [TBS] said to me is, 'We're going to let you do what you want to do.' Period. 'Do what you want to do,'" O'Brien says in the first clip below. "And I've got friends like -- Stephen Colbert's not b**ching about being on cable."
Something else you didn't see on "60 Minutes": O'Brien and Steve Kroft tooling around Los Angeles in Conan's infamous, dust-caked 1992 Ford Taurus. He says it was the car he owned during his first couple years as host of "Late Night," and it always got a big laugh whenever he told guests what he drove, so he kept it around for comedy purposes. Including, perhaps, inducing concern from any journalist who might happen to be in the passenger seat.
Here's Conan talking about TBS:
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I think Jay is better for the Tonight Show than Conan. Conan
gets too dirty with this jokes.
I don't think he is funny-and Jay looks better for the program also.
No offense Mary Jane, but what are you, like 75 years old? Because that seems to be Jay's average audience age, and Jay is no spring chicken anymore. Conan's hilarious, he's got a young audience, and he'll be excellent on cable, competing with people he should be competing with (Colbert, Stewart...). The question is, what is NBC going to do when Jay inevitably retires in 5 years? Hire Jimmy Fallon? Good luck with that...I've never been a Jay fan, even Johnny Carson, the KING of Late Night, didn't want Leno taking over for him. That should tell you something.
I think Mary Jane Roseberry is wrong. She like many of america is not quite all there. I don't think Jay Leno's funny and looks like he should retire.
Jay should be farmed out to Jello pudding commercials by now--permanently. Conan is funnier and has more integrity. NBC execs like mini-mite Zucker are clowns.
Mary Jane is from midwest US, a member of the tea party, a church goer that gives at least 20% of her money to the church while collecting assorted chicken and apple knick knacks. Her son's truck has a license plate that reads : God, guns, and guts made this country, lets keep all 3...
I think Mary Jane Roseberry is a dirty, dirty girl and needs to have her naughty mouth covered because the screams that will erupt when I meet her after I ask her to call me will be so loud and abrasive that the neighbors will need a neighborhood censor. Mary Jane, you don't know what dirty is until you've moved below the big chin and into unexplored territory. Call me. If you are fat, never mind.
I think Mary Jane Roseberry is a dirty, dirty girl and needs to have her naughty mouth covered because the screams that will erupt when I meet her after I ask her to call me will be so loud and abrasive that the neighbors will need a neighborhood censor. Mary Jane, you don't know what dirty is until you've moved below the big chin and into unexplored territory. Call me. If you are fat, never mind.
---We gave up with lat night
cross-the-boards years ago.
Watching this snooze profile
reminds me why...
Vince Queano is a fan of Conan O'brien
Geez, you people are mean to Ms. Roseberry. She was just expressing her opinion (no matter how much I disagree). Personally, I'm curious and excited to see what Conan can do when he has total freedom. As for the future of the Tonight Show, they will probably offer it to Jon Stewart. By then, Stephen Colbert will be empowered to take full reign of CC. BTW, Jimmy Fallon is not as bad as people make him out to be. He is still a little rough around the edges, but he IS the future of NBC late night comedy. He is bright, energetic, creative, outgoing and totally commercial. Jimmy is on the youthful, cool side of the mainstream.