For all the good memories in that craphole house on Bourland Avenue...For all the theft-worthy jokes...
For Triumph the Insult Comic Dog...
For Pimpbot...
For In the Year Two Thousaaannnd (seems so quaint now, doesn't it?)...
For the "Walker Texas Ranger" machine...
For If They Mated...
For gingers...
For my own bitterness at being screwed by employers...
That I've only cited hopelessly outdated Conan jokes tells me I'm part of the problem. But we had to give up watching late-night talk shows. For a good while there we got in the habit of watching Stewart and Colbert (also part of the problem) right before bed. When I realized we'd turned into my grandparents, I had to make it STOP.
From the New York Times: In NBC Leno vs. O'Brien Drama, Fans Show Allegiance Online
Simon Dumenco, the media columnist for Advertising Age, suggested in a column on Wednesday that people have rallied around Mr. O’Brien not because they adore his “Tonight Show” but “because he’s suddenly become an unlikely (Harvard-educated, multimillionaire) Everyman: the freckled face of American job insecurity, a well-meaning hard worker who spent years paying his dues but has now been declared redundant by the halfwit overlords driving his company into the ground.”Consider this post my penance. I shoulda given Conan's Tonight Show a shot.
Misty, don't you fret- I'm with COCO too! In fact, I also have spent the past few
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us pee our pants. It's like he was sitting on the couch making fun of Jeremy alongside us. He is comedy genius and I think NBC are jackasses
for making such an infantile decision. It's a shame to their broadcasting history. Leno can deliver a joke but he will never, ever be a Conan. Gina
I don't completely understand everything that's going on with this late night battle...I am usually wrapped up in some DVR'd television show to watch any of it, but I do like Conan. I especially like him because he's an original...and a writer. :) And oh, that hair.
ReplyDeleteI hope they do the right thing...Leno had his shot, the way I see it...they should really give Conan a fair shot!!