Conan O'Brien is Really Stripping Down

2006_10_conanskel.jpgSet your DVRs for Late Night with Conan O'Brien on Halloween night! His show will be a rebroadcast of a May 2006 show, but it will be completely redone with skeletons. Yes - Conan will appear as a skeleton, as will the band and guests Larry King, Omar Epps, and Sheila Kelley. This almost sounds like an excuse just to show Larry King as a skeleton, but Sheila Kelley is doing one of her pole-dancing workout demonstrations, which would be hilarious. We applaud the Late Night team for tactfully selecting an episode without skinny movie stars, although that would send the message loud and clear.

Back in 2003, Conan did an episode in Claymation. And we love this set tour he did.

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This is all well and good, but it will not make him actually funny. Craig Ferguson is much better over on CBS and he is actually funny instead of awkward.

Conan had an episode once where the entire audience was made up of small children.
With guests like financial advisors and other snore-fests, the kids began to go crazy.
later there were scenes of the kids chasing Andy Richter through the studio.

years later this is one of my favorite tv memories.

I hope when Conan takes over for Leno they don't dumb the show down for middle america.
Certainly also don't want to see the show move to LA .. that would be horrible.

I have seen Letterman a billion times..yet I still can't get tickets to see Conan. I will never forget the "krunk"..

I can't wait for this episode.. :)

"dumb down conan for middle America"? It isn't exactly like Conan is doing Shakespeare or anything remotely edgy. It's pretty sophmoric humor at best. I happen to like it but I grew up on Letterman when Letterman was funnny aka on at 12:30.

The Harvard Lampoon staff may have been fertile ground for humor writers say, 30 years ago but why the halls of Rock Center are still clogged with their castoffs is beyond me. Conan and SNL are seriously unfunny and yet the Northeast Corridor of Comedy continues to operate, much like an Underground Railroad for the unemployable legacies of the Ivy League.

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" ... an Underground Railroad for the unemployable legacies of the Ivy League" brings to mind our supreme ruler, and mostist famous, legacy studunce -- a glibster who will make us all die laughing. Maybe that's the point. A culture in collapse is like a figurative black hole, and just too literal to be funny.

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