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The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
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The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien is an American late-night talk show hosted by Conan O'Brien that aired from June 1, 2009, to January 22, 2010, as part of NBC's long-running Tonight Show franchise. O'Brien previously hosted NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien, which followed The Tonight Show with Jay Leno for 16 years, until his brief succession over Leno. Many members of the Late Night cast and crew made the transition to The Tonight Show, including Max Weinberg's house band and Andy Richter, who returned to the show as announcer, and eventually also began resuming his role as sidekick, after having left Late Night in 2000.In January 2010, after the show had been on the air for seven months, it was announced that NBC was intending to move Leno from primetime back to his original timeslot at 11:35 pm, with O'Brien's show starting shortly after midnight. In response to the announcement, O'Brien released a press statement saying that he would not continue as host of The Tonight Show if it was moved to any time after midnight to accommodate The Jay Leno Show. He feared it would ruin the long and rich tradition of The Tonight Show, which had been on after the late local newscasts from the beginning. After two weeks of negotiations, NBC announced that they had paid $45 million to buy out O'Brien's contract, ending both his tenure as host as well as his relationship with NBC after 22 years.Conan O'Brien's final Tonight Show was broadcast on January 22, 2010, with Jay Leno officially resuming his role as host on March 1, 2010, immediately following the conclusion of the 2010 Winter Olympics. It later received four Primetime Emmy nominations, including Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series, the first time The Tonight Show received a nomination for this particular award after 2003.At only 146 episodes (145 aired) over the course of seven months and three weeks, it is the shortest-running iteration in the sixty-year history of The Tonight Show. | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: The Super Mario Bros. 3 curtain, which Conan even mentioned after someone posted the original picture. Conan hires a Na'vi assistant along with his vampire assistant. The vampire is unhappy, and Conan suggests he can start work later and share the role. The vampire ends up running out into the sunlight rather than share the job. A joke in a couple monologues had Bill Clinton's Nobel prize chances, represented by a moving arrow that just happens to be at Clinton's crotch. | |
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Feghoot: When Norm MacDonald was a guest, he told a joke about a moth who visits a podiatrist: Read A moth goes into a podiatrist's office, and the podiatrist's office says, "What's the problem?" And the moth says "What's the problem? Where do I begin, man?" He goes, "I go to work for Gregory Illinivich, and uh, all day long I work. Honestly doc, I don't even know what I'm doing anymore. I don't even know if Gregory Illinivich knows. He only knows that he has power over me, and that seems to bring him happiness. But I don't know, I wake up in a malaise, and I walk here and there." And the podiatrist says, "Oh yeah?" And the moth goes, "Yes." And he goes, "Uh, at night I...I sometimes wake up and I turn to some old lady in my bed that's on my arm. A lady that I once loved, doc. I don't know where to turn to. My youngest, Alexendria, she fell in the...in the cold of last year. The cold took her down, as it did many of us. And my other boy, and this is the hardest pill to swallow, doc. My other boy, Gregarro Ivinalititavitch... I no longer love him. As much as it pains me to say, when I look in his eyes, all I see is the same cowardice that I... that I catch when I take a glimpse of my own face in the mirror. If only the cowardice was stronger then perhaps...perhaps I could bring myself to reach over to that cocked and loaded gun that lays on the bedside behind me and end this hellish facade once and for all." He says, "Doc, sometimes I feel like a spider, even though I'm a moth, just barely hanging on to my web with an everlasting fire underneath me. I'm not feeling good." And so the doctor says, "Moth, man, you're troubled. But you should be seeing a psychiatrist. Why on earth did you come here?" And then the moth said, "'Cause the light was on." | |
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I'm a Humanitarian: | |
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Anachronism Stew | |
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Anachronism Stew: In a flashback to Conan's college days, Conan is seen playing with Lord of the Rings action figures. Andy calls attention to this after the clip: | |
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Persona Non Grata | |
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Persona Non Grata: During the long-running "feud" between Conan and Newark mayor Cory Booker, Cory banned Conan from Newark airport, to which Conan banned Cory from L.A.'s airports. Then, Cory upped the ante by banning Conan from the entire state of New Jersey. | |
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Funny Background Event: In the first episode of 2010, Conan asked La Bamba what his New Year's resolution would be. Check out Scott Healy behind La Bamba; he's desperately trying not to crack up. | |
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Non-Indicative Name: Done for laughs with "In the Year 3000", which describes events that would "occur" in the near future, not ~1,000 years in the future. | |
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Short-Runners | |
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Short-Runners: While the show had over 100 episodes, that's a tiny amount for a talk show, especially one that was expected to last years and years. Of course, the short run is due to the NBC debacle that's been covered heavily on this page. | |
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Rattling Off Legal | |
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Rattling Off Legal: An early episode had Conan plugging a Kodak digital camera. When Andy asked Conan if he was paid by Kodak to plug their camera on the air, he denied it. The action freeze framed and a disclaimer scrolled up the screen, with an announcer reading it: | |
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Auto-Tune | |
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Auto-Tune: A cutaway joke in the 9/14/09 episode involved Kanye West's interruption of Taylor Swift's acceptance speech at the VMAs, where his words were auto-tuned. | |
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Flipping the Bird | |
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Flipping the Bird: William Shatner gave Conan the finger during one of his interviews. | |
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Mister Seahorse | |
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Mister Seahorse: One "Tonight Show Tour-iffic Tram-tacular" sketch featured Andy giving birth in front of a crowd on the tour trams. | |
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Zeerust: Deliberately invoked by "In The Year 3000", a continuation of his "In The Year 2000" bits on Late Night. | |
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Shirtless Scene | |
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Shirtless Scene: In the Cody Devereaux sketches, Wolf Boy never wears a shirt. | |
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Carson Daly, whose show is on at a dead hour and always on the brink of cancellation, appeared in the crowd of Kimmel's show asking if he could have his job. | |
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It's Always Spring | |
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It's Always Spring: Used as an excuse by Conan to justify that his head injury wasn't that bad. When the doctors were determining how bad his concussion was by asking him questions, one of the questions was what month it was. Conan defended himself by saying that it's L.A.; you never know what month it is! | |
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Evil Stole My Faith | |
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Evil Stole My Faith: One "Celebrity Survey" asking the question "The success of The Real Housewives of New Jersey means..." | |
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Harsher in Hindsight | |
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Harsher in Hindsight: Invoked in one of the last episodes. Norm MacDonald came out as a surprise guest with a congratulatory gift basket that he meant to give him back in June, and read the ironic card: | |
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The Swear Jar | |
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The Swear Jar: When Newark mayor Cory Booker was a guest, Conan said there might be a time in the future when he makes another Newark joke in the monologue, so he unveils a giant jar that he will put money in every time he makes one. He puts it to use right away. | |
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Body Horror | |
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Body Horror: In one sketch, Conan shot Wax Tom Cruise and Wax Fonz out of a cannon... with the catch that they didn't have enough money to rent a cushion for them to land on. This resulted in the Tom Cruise model breaking in half upon hitting the ground, and Fonz's face getting mutilated. When Conan brought the two back into the studio, he warned young children to leave the room before showing the Fonz's busted-up face. | |
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Tabloid Melodrama | |
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Tabloid Melodrama: When Jennifer Aniston was a guest, Conan remarked how, being in the public eye due to her fame on Friends, there were often rumors made up about her by the tabloids. He then said he was surprised they never said he and she were in a relationship. Aniston replied, "Not yet." | |
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Mathematician's Answer | |
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Mathematician's Answer: When Jennifer Aniston was a guest, they showed a clip of the short-lived Ferris Bueller series (based on Ferris Bueller's Day Off), but could only find a clip in German. After the clip, Jennifer asked if anyone in the audience knew what the characters were saying. A woman responded and Conan asked, "What happened there? Do you know what was said?" The woman merely replied, "Yes", and Conan burst out laughing. | |
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Country Matters | |
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Country Matters: When Adam Sandler was a guest on the last week of shows, he told the story of how he and Chris Farley were fired from Saturday Night Live. This led to him reciting his manager's motto: "NBC: Nothing But Cunts." | |
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Man on Fire | |
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Man on Fire: When William Shatner told how he deep-fried a turkey for Thanksgiving, he said he forgot one important step: Keep the neck down. When the turkey neck is up, it forms a spout, which caused oil to shoot up and cover him. "And then I caught fire." | |
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Brain Food | |
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Brain Food: In one of the Cody Devereaux sketches, Cody was joined by a zombie, whose theme song was merely Cody's but with different lyrics: "Brains, brains, brains, brains..." | |
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Instant Costume Change | |
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Instant Costume Change: The repeated gag in the "Audiencey Awards" sketch. Conan will say that for an award show as important as this, he needs to dress the part. He then holds out his arms as the costume designer sticks a back-less tux over his front side. This gag was carried over to Conan. | |
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Serious Business | |
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Serious Business: Before each "In the Year 3000", Conan would say something to the effect of, "All right, enough screwing around. We've been having fun, but I think it's time we stop that. It's time to get serious for a moment, and look... into the future." | |
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Driven to Suicide: Cody Devereaux, Conan's brooding vampire assistant, who kills himself each time he appears by running into the sun and melting. | |
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George Jetson Job Security: During one of the "In the Year 3000" skits, La Bamba was unprepared for the robe that lowered from the ceiling and ducked out of the way just before it hit his head. After he got the robe on and everyone laughed, Conan (kidding, of course) announced: "You're fired. What the hell!" In another episode, Conan noticed that the band members were watching a baseball game during the show. Conan casually remarked to the bandleader, "Well, you're fired." The lyrics to "Just Shut Up and Drink It" (sung to the "Andy'll Try It!" theme): "If La Bamba doesn't wanna lose his job... ("I have no choice!") just shut up and drink it!" | |
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Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs | |
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Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: One of the most famous gags from the first "In the Year 3000" sketch: Conan said that YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook will merge to form "YouTwitFace". | |
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"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer | |
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"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: Occasionally, Conan will say this when describing a "news of the weird" story. | |
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Full-Body Disguise: One of the first sketches on the show involved Conan disguising himself as a focus group leader who showed clips of Late Night to older viewers to see what they said about him. Among the comments about Conan: He's not funny, he makes a fool of himself, is probably mentally unstable, and would only appeal to porn addicts. | |
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Side Effects Include... | |
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Side Effects Include...: Parodied in the "Andy'll Try It" where La Bamba was forced to drink Tofurkey & Gravy Soda: | |
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Curse Cut Short | |
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Curse Cut Short: In the first Twitter Tracker, the announcer said "Don't flush Twitter down the-" before being cut off by Conan. | |
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Amusing Injuries | |
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Amusing Injuries: Animal expert Nigel Marven came out with a fresh cut on his neck, from the water monitor's tail that whacked him just before going on stage. Nigel went on like nothing was wrong, but after Andy pointed out his injury, Conan became concerned. Nigel insisted it was no big deal ("It's a badge of courage for wildlife guides") and continued showing the animals he brought. His injury became a Running Gag throughout his segment. | |
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The Oldest Profession | |
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The Oldest Profession: During one of the "Conan is the new Oprah" segments, Conan introduced a new bit where Max Weinberg became a relationship advice co-host. | |
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Potty Failure | |
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Potty Failure: In the final "In the Year 3000": | |
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Bait-and-Switch | |
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Bait-and-Switch: In one "In the Year 3000": | |
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Eye Beams | |
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Eye Beams: In one "In the Year 3000", the William Shatner intro started as normal, but in this one instance, George Takei's head showed up and blew up Shatner using laser eye beams. | |
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Menstrual Menace | |
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Menstrual Menace: Referenced by Kevin Nealon during one of his interviews: | |
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Fandom Rivalry | |
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Fandom Rivalry: Invoked. When Conan (jokingly) fired one of the band members for watching the baseball game during the show, he said he could do that... because he's a Red Sox fan. Cue a few audience members good-naturedly booing, which Conan quickly called attention to. | |
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Heel Realization | |
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Heel Realization: In one of the "Andy'll Try It" skits, Andy was supposed to drink Tofurkey and Gravy Soda, but refused and made La Bamba try it instead. La Bamba only poured a tiny bit into his cup but Conan insisted on a full glass. After La Bamba tried to drink it but spit it out after only a couple seconds, Conan immediately and repeatedly apologized for essentially forcing La Bamba to drink a lot of it. | |
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This Is a Work of Fiction | |
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In the last week of shows, Conan did a series of sketches where he did something really expensive on NBC's dime before leaving, and on the final instance, he told the viewer, "There's been some outrage on the internet that we're wasting all this money... it's NOT REAL! Okay, just wanted to make that clear." | |
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Continuity Nod | |
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Continuity Nod: The theme for this version of the Tonight Show was carried over from Late Night. | |
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UnPerson | |
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Un-person: Shortly after the end of Conan's run, NBC erased just about every single trace of him from their website even going back to before his Late Night run, including his picture from the mural at 30 Rockefeller Center (replacing it with Leno). Pretty much the only things involving Conan still on the NBC and Hulu websites are the episode of Saturday Night Live he guest hosted in 2001, and the 30 Rock episode "Tracy Does Conan" in which he guests and plays an important role in the plot. Even the "Tonight Show Experience" website, a grand multimedia salute to the Long Runner show's history, was yanked out of existence. Referenced in a mock audition/comedy skit on Conan. Andy is "auditioning" for the announcer position on the show when Conan asks about his previous work experience. After Andy stated he was the announcer on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien, Conan asks if there is any video to prove this. Andy sadly replies no. | |
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Leitmotif | |
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Leitmotif: Cody Devereaux, Conan's brooding vampire assistant, is always accompanied by a Boy Band-esque song with the lyrics, "I'm gonna love you forever / and never say goodbye..." | |
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Final Speech | |
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Final Speech: | |
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It's Personal | |
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It's Personal: In the second Cory Booker video: | |
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Benevolent Boss | |
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Benevolent Boss: Reportedly, the exit negotiations were held up by Conan's insistence that NBC shell out severance money for his staff. Conan reportedly paid out of pocket to provide for staff/crew members who weren't covered by the NBC contract. | |
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Celebrity Endorsement | |
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Celebrity Endorsement: A recurring segment towards the end of the series involved Conan declaring himself "the new Oprah" and endorsing a wide variety of Stylistic Suck products, such as Steven Seagal's "Songs From the Crystal Cave" CD, Killdozer!, Troll2, Leprechaun IV: In Space, the 2010 calendar of extraordinary chickens, and Kathie Lee's Rock n' Tots Cafe: A Christmas Giff. | |
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Parallel Porn Titles | |
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Parallel Porn Titles: In a Triumph sketch where he visited a dog hotel in L.A., he took over a room and ordered one of the hosts to play a bunch of dog porn videos for him: "Turner and Cootch", "Marley in Me", "Beverly Hills Chi-Hoo-Hah", "Rear Bud: Golden Receiver", "An American's Tail: Fievel Goes Deep", "Homeward Bound and Gagged", and "Lassie Come Twice". On the last week of shows, Conan mentioned that during the NBC fiasco, he was given an offer by an adult film company to star in one of their porn films. He was "seriously considering" it, and listed off a variety of porn titles that he might star in, including "Conan the Impaler", "Conan Gets the Late Shaft", "In the Rear 3000", Conan the Bangbarian, and The Fisterhood of the Traveling Time Slots. | |
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Worst. Whatever. Ever! | |
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Worst. Whatever. Ever!: An early episode featured a parody of attack ads: Barack Obama making minor mistakes (forgetting a staffer's name; re-reading text on a malfunctioning teleprompter, etc.) and the ominous narrator already declaring that Obama, after only six months on the job, is the "WORST. PRESIDENT. EVER." | |
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Judgment of Solomon | |
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Judgment of Solomon: Conan's open letter saying The Tonight Show was an American institution and he'd rather see Leno take it back than let it be "killed" in a later timeslot. | |
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Accidental Misnaming | |
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Accidental Misnaming: In one of his monologues, Conan told a story about how a supposed fan recognized him on the street and said, "It's Cohen O'Riley from the radio!" | |
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Catchphrase | |
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Catchphrase: "In the Year 3000" always began with William Shatner saying: "And so we take a cosmic ride into that new millennium; that far off reality that is the year 3000. It's the future, man." | |
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Raging Stiffie | |
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A joke in a couple monologues had Bill Clinton's Nobel prize chances, represented by a moving arrow that just happens to be at Clinton's crotch. | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: Conan decided to exploit his loopholes by buying outrageously-expensive items, such as a Bugatti Veyron dressed up as a mouse with the master recording of the Rolling Stones' "Satisfaction" as its theme song; it cost NBC $1.5M. He followed up the next night by buying out the winning horse and jockey from the 2009 Kentucky Derby. The horse was wearing a mink Snuggie, and both were watching NFL Super Bowl footage restricted from the public. The cost? $4.8M on NBC's tab. Conan pointed out on his Grand Finale that those things were fake (except the Veyron, which was loaned from a museum) and didn't really cost millions of dollars...except for the Rolling Stones song, which really cost a lot of money. (Even on the Stones song, there is a loophole in US copyright law that states that song recordings can be played for free over broadcast television as long as their writers are compensated, so it didn't cost as much it could have.) Later in that same episode, Tom Hanks came out to the tune of "Lovely Rita" by The Beatles, ostensibly a tribute to his wife Rita Wilson. According to Questlove, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon's band leader and drummer for The Roots, the song did actually cost NBC up to $500,000 in royalty fees. | |
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Bothering by the Book | |
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Bothering by the Book: Toward the end of his run, Conan decided to exploit every perk and concession that was in his contract, knowing that it would piss off the higher ups at NBC, but they couldn't do anything about it because he was already on the way out. This included forcing the network to pay extortionate royalty fees for songs by the Rolling Stones and Beatles for throw-away gags. | |
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Failing a Taxi | |
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Failing a Taxi: Part of the gag that "introduced" Conan at the start of his first show. Unable to catch a cab in Manhattan, he ran...all the way to Hollywood. Then he realized he forgot his keys back in New York, so he burst into the studio with a bulldozer. | |
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PreciousPuppies | |
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Precious Puppies: Conan's Tonight Show Mini-Dose of Joy — puppies dressed as cats! Complete with theme music. They were so gosh-darn cute, Conan couldn't help but laugh. "I can't compete with this!" | |
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Really Gets Around | |
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Really Gets Around: Paris Hilton jokes, carried over from Late Night and continued on Conan. | |
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Large-Ham Announcer | |
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Large-Ham Announcer: "TWITTER TRACKER TWITTER TRACKER TWITTER TRACKER!!!!!" | |
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Fun with Acronyms | |
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George Lopez (who did take his fair share of potshots at Conan' bumpy start, mind you) on his TBS show asked "What does NBC stand for, Nobody Backs Conan?" | |
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Big "NO!" | |
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Big "NO!": Said by Cody Devereaux when Conan accidentally did something to hurt his feelings. Always followed by Cody stating he doesn't want to live anymore, running into the sun, and melting. | |
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Inner Monologue | |
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Inner Monologue: Whenever Conan delivers a diatribe on race relations, Mike Merritt has a derisive inner monologue about how white Conan is. This gag was carried over from Late Night with Conan O'Brien and also has appeared on Conan. | |
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Mêlée à Trois | |
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Mêlée à Trois: What erupted among pretty much every late-night television host as a result of the invoked Screwed by the Network situation. Conan O'Brien ripped on NBC and Jay Leno in his monologue, increasingly so as it became apparent he was being forced off the show and/or network in Leno's favor. After David Letterman showed his support for Conan (no doubt while being reminded of his own controversy with Leno in 1992), Leno took shots at Letterman's sex scandal. Letterman retaliated by spending the next week tearing into "Big Jaw" Leno and the "pinheads" at NBC. Jimmy Kimmel did a devastating parody of Leno on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, then visited Leno during a Ten At Ten segment to call him out. Craig Ferguson on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson first said he never wanted to work for NBC, then called the network executives "lying rat bastards" among other things, some of which were bleeped out. Jon Stewart on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart called Jeff Zucker "the Dick Cheney of television, just shooting television shows in the face". Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report mocked NBC's dishonesty, later accusing Zucker of wanting to burn the network down for the insurance money. George Lopez (who did take his fair share of potshots at Conan' bumpy start, mind you) on his TBS show asked "What does NBC stand for, Nobody Backs Conan?" To complete the circle, Leno ended the week by swiping at Conan's ratings and hitting Letterman's sex scandal again. At one point, he said that "FOX is looking pretty good this time of year". NBC sent executive Dick Ebersol out to The New York Times to call Conan "gutless" and "chicken-hearted". Howard Stern weighed in with the suggestion that Leno intended to screw Conan out of Tonight all along. Jimmy Fallon was stuck between siding with one of his comedy heroes (Leno) or his close friend and the guy who gave him Late Night (Conan), and tried as hard as he could to stay out of it, winning major points from Conan fans originally skeptical of him when he took over Late Night. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly celebrating his first year of hosting Late Night, Fallon stated that he called Conan to offer his support and tell him he would be willing to host Late Night at 1:00 AM with no resentment. Carson Daly, whose show is on at a dead hour and always on the brink of cancellation, appeared in the crowd of Kimmel's show asking if he could have his job. Robin Williams sang an Irish Drinking Song, the last half of which consisted of him alternating between chants of "FUCK THE BASTARDS THAT CANCELED THE SHOW" and "FUCK THE BASTARDS, THEY CAN'T TAKE A JOKE". | |
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Affectionate Nickname | |
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Affectionate Nickname: On the second episode, Tom Hanks shortened Conan's name to "Coco", and the rest is history. | |
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A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read | |
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A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read: In one of the "Mike Merritt's Inner Thoughts" segments, Mike ends by calling Conan a "decaying porcelain doll" in his mind. The gimmick of the sketch is that Conan is unaware of what Mike thinks about him, but in this instance he called him out on it: | |
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Uncomfortable Elevator Moment | |
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Uncomfortable Elevator Moment: A sketch on the 1/6/10 episode concerned two guys taking the elevator in the world's tallest building in Dubai and engaging in awkward small talk on the really long ride. | |
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Broken Record | |
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Broken Record: One "Conan on the Aisle" sketch had Conan criticizing Public Enemies for being too repetitive, which padded the running time. A clip from the film was shown where an announcement was made to look to your left and then to your right to see if you spot John Dillinger. In the actual film, the audience only did this once, but as presented in this segment, they were instructed to look to their left and right several times. | |
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Manipulative Editing | |
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Manipulative Editing: One "Conan on the Aisle" sketch had Conan criticizing Public Enemies for being too repetitive, which padded the running time. A clip from the film was shown where an announcement was made to look to your left and then to your right to see if you spot John Dillinger. In the actual film, the audience only did this once, but as presented in this segment, they were instructed to look to their left and right several times. | |
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Beat | |
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Beat: In one of the William Shatner interviews, Conan asked Shatner how his Thanksgiving was. Shatner responded that it was awful, because it was so messy. Then he paused, and when he began talking again, Conan interrupted him: | |
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Insistent Terminology | |
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Insistent Terminology: The first time William Shatner was a guest, Conan plugged Shatner's talk show, saying you can find it on The Biography Channel. Shatner corrected Conan and said it airs on "The Bio". Conan got confused, and Shatner explained that he was instructed to call it "The Bio", not "The Biography Channel". | |
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Feet-First Introduction | |
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Feet-First Introduction: How Conan is introduced when he shows off his barbershop quartet outfit and handlebar mustache. | |
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Anti-Role Model | |
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Anti-Role Model: A PSA of Elmo talking about swine flu was gag dubbed to make him give bad advice: | |
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Biting-the-Hand Humor | |
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Biting-the-Hand Humor: The last two weeks of Conan's Tonight were downright vicious. | |
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Identical Stranger | |
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Identical Stranger: Continuing the Running Gag from Late Night with Conan O'Brien that Conan looked like Finnish politician Tarja Halonen, on The Tonight Show it was a Running Gag that Conan looked like Tilda Swinton. | |
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Product Placement | |
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Product Placement: Conan had to plug a digital camera in an early episode, though to his credit it segued into a "Photo Gallery" sketch, with the gimmick being that Conan used said camera for his recent trip to the beach with Andy. | |
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Fanservice Extra | |
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Fanservice Extra: The woman that Conan always rescues in "Noches de Pasión con Señor O'Brien". | |
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Last Stand | |
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Last Stand: The comedy talk show version. Conan, knowing he had about two weeks before NBC forced him off the show, started reaming out his own network (and Leno) on a nightly basis. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: Several. Larry King's oldness (carried over from Leno's era). The Green Car Challenge (done on both shows). "Andy'll Try It!" Making fun of a certain South American leader's fatness (not Hugo Chavez), even though said leader isn't fat. The Moody Vampire. It even got to the point where Taylor Lautner got into a fight with him (staged, of course). For a time, Conan's concussion. Puppies Dressed As _____. Sketches involving two creepy and poorly-done wax statues of The Fonz and Tom Cruise that Conan picked up at a wax-figure warehouse. Newark jokes, which culminated in Newark mayor Cory Booker actually being a guest on the show. | |
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Don't Explain the Joke | |
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Don't Explain the Joke: When Newark mayor Cory Booker was on, he was surprised that so many people took his "banning Conan from New Jersey" comment seriously. He had to explain that he doesn't have the power to do that. In the last week of shows, Conan did a series of sketches where he did something really expensive on NBC's dime before leaving, and on the final instance, he told the viewer, "There's been some outrage on the internet that we're wasting all this money... it's NOT REAL! Okay, just wanted to make that clear." | |
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Evil, Inc. | |
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Evil, Inc.: Even before the Leno-Conan debacle, this Running Gag was carried over from Late Night. For example, in one sketch with a dog that paints portraits, the dog wasn't cooperating and barking incessantly, causing Conan to deadpan that Comcast (who was in the process of buying NBC at the time) must love this. | |
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