Cool, I liked it. Nothing revolutionary or crazy, just Conan & Co. doing their thing but really that's all I need because I like their thing. They seemed really comfortable.
Some critics bashed the show for this very thing, that they didn't do anything new or take a whole brand new direction. Also after the election where all is about jobs and employment some criticized him making the NBC jokes saying he was lucky to have a job.
I don't know about the whole job/economy angle, but I did think the jokes about the nbc situation were excessive. we all know what happened. it just came off as bitter and it would have been nice to start the new show on a more positive note. but also it was the first episode and I guess he just wanted to get a little more off his chest. I just hope it's the last we hear of it.
Jokes about NBC and the tonight show are like red meat to Conan's audience. Everyone, except Leno and NBC, knows Conan got screwed, and everybody, especially Conan's audience, likes to stick it to the man.
The NBC jokes are usually funny but they will get stale if he keeps it up, only for the chance that it could ever possibly even smell like self-pity, which he's done a good job at avoiding throughout the entire drama. He's rich as fuck and does not have to worry about anything, even if he retired now.
I don't find it distasteful at all to be taking digs at NBC now, given that Conan was making the NBC jokes even when he was ON NBC. He was always making jokes about NBC being last in the ratings, or treating him poorly, or having silly executives, and mostly in good humour. It didn't seem any more vindictive or whatnot to me, and Conan's been incredibly positive about the whole ordeal.
Just caught the first ep online; it's Conan. Exactly what I expected, no more, no less. And it is good.
TBS are much smarter people. The episodes go up almost immediately, are intelligently catalogued for the segments, and it appears old episodes won't be rotated out.
Where as you had to wait 1 or 2 weeks before a Conan show would be up on NBC.com, and you had to seek around to find the segment you were looking for.
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Just caught the first ep online; it's Conan. Exactly what I expected, no more, no less. And it is good.
TBS are much smarter people. The episodes go up almost immediately, are intelligently catalogued for the segments, and it appears old episodes won't be rotated out.
Where as you had to wait 1 or 2 weeks before a Conan show would be up on NBC.com, and you had to seek around to find the segment you were looking for.
Wasn't last year the height of Hulu fighting with everyone, though?
Also: Damn at his ratings last night. I hope he can hold onto it for a bit, just to rub it in... but I'm sure people will go back to what they were watching before.
Just caught the first ep online; it's Conan. Exactly what I expected, no more, no less. And it is good.
TBS are much smarter people. The episodes go up almost immediately, are intelligently catalogued for the segments, and it appears old episodes won't be rotated out.
Where as you had to wait 1 or 2 weeks before a Conan show would be up on NBC.com, and you had to seek around to find the segment you were looking for.
Nah. I remember watching a few episodes and they had them broken up by segment the very next day.
The NBC jokes are usually funny but they will get stale if he keeps it up, only for the chance that it could ever possibly even smell like self-pity, which he's done a good job at avoiding throughout the entire drama. He's rich as fuck and does not have to worry about anything, even if he retired now.
Conan is not rich as fuck, as you say. He could probably retire, but he'd live most likely a middle class existance. He's not hobknobbing with Puffy and Donald Trump.
The NBC jokes are usually funny but they will get stale if he keeps it up, only for the chance that it could ever possibly even smell like self-pity, which he's done a good job at avoiding throughout the entire drama. He's rich as fuck and does not have to worry about anything, even if he retired now.
Conan is not rich as fuck, as you say. He could probably retire, but he'd live most likely a middle class existance. He's not hobknobbing with Puffy and Donald Trump.
...what? He got $45,000,000 to walk from NBC. With that and whatever he's earned from hosting forever he's got to be close to $100m.
even small time hosts make a good 2-3 million dollars a year. Roger Ebert and Co made that sort of bank back in the days of "At the Movies" and that's the kind of show you'd think they'd only make maybe 500k or so.
The NBC jokes are usually funny but they will get stale if he keeps it up, only for the chance that it could ever possibly even smell like self-pity, which he's done a good job at avoiding throughout the entire drama. He's rich as fuck and does not have to worry about anything, even if he retired now.
Conan is not rich as fuck, as you say. He could probably retire, but he'd live most likely a middle class existance. He's not hobknobbing with Puffy and Donald Trump.
...what? He got $45,000,000 to walk from NBC. With that and whatever he's earned from hosting forever he's got to be close to $100m.
He had to move from NYC area to LA during the middle of a housing crisis. Also, that $45 mill included a lot of money he passed directly on to his staff to keep them from being fucked over in the interim.
He may have some money saved, but the circumstances of the move and having to help out his staff may have left him more tapped than you'd naturally assume.
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There doesn't seem to be as much discussion about Conan this morning, of course, but I do see the guys on Morning Joe here basically calling last night's show cute and kinda downplaying it, especially because it is on cable. I'm sure they don't take cues on what to say from the network execs, but it still seems like they are trying to marginalize him. They apparently didn't like what Conan did to Tom Hanks.
There doesn't seem to be as much discussion about Conan this morning, of course, but I do see the guys on Morning Joe here basically calling last night's show cute and kinda downplaying it, especially because it is on cable. I'm sure they don't take cues on what to say from the network execs, but it still seems like they are trying to marginalize him. They apparently didn't like what Conan did to Tom Hanks.
That was a bit. As in it was staged and rehearsed. How could anyone not know that?
Also iirc Conan got his employees a severance package in adtion to his own.
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There doesn't seem to be as much discussion about Conan this morning, of course, but I do see the guys on Morning Joe here basically calling last night's show cute and kinda downplaying it, especially because it is on cable.
Well there's your first problem: Morning Joe isn't actually a news program.
The NBC jokes are usually funny but they will get stale if he keeps it up, only for the chance that it could ever possibly even smell like self-pity, which he's done a good job at avoiding throughout the entire drama. He's rich as fuck and does not have to worry about anything, even if he retired now.
Conan is not rich as fuck, as you say. He could probably retire, but he'd live most likely a middle class existance. He's not hobknobbing with Puffy and Donald Trump.
Man I hated Andy Richter on the Tonight show... he and Conan didn't mesh at all. It felt like he was screwing up the pace of the show and almost never got a laugh out of me.
But MAN, Andy's got his shit together now! I haven't seen last nights episode yet, but in Monday's show he was awesome. I think I laughed more at Andy's jokes then Conan's.
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There doesn't seem to be as much discussion about Conan this morning, of course, but I do see the guys on Morning Joe here basically calling last night's show cute and kinda downplaying it, especially because it is on cable.
Well there's your first problem: Morning Joe isn't actually a news program.
They apparently didn't like what Conan did to Tom Hanks.
Uh, wut?
There's a 0% chance that Tom Hanks wasn't in on that gag. Conan didn't "do" anything to him because Tom was in on it the whole time.
Oh god. It's like those idiots that were screaming that Conan was an asshole for wasting NBC's money with those "How much money can we spend" skits in his last week.
The NBC jokes are usually funny but they will get stale if he keeps it up, only for the chance that it could ever possibly even smell like self-pity, which he's done a good job at avoiding throughout the entire drama. He's rich as fuck and does not have to worry about anything, even if he retired now.
Conan is not rich as fuck, as you say. He could probably retire, but he'd live most likely a middle class existance. He's not hobknobbing with Puffy and Donald Trump.
...what? He got $45,000,000 to walk from NBC. With that and whatever he's earned from hosting forever he's got to be close to $100m.
He had to move from NYC area to LA during the middle of a housing crisis. Also, that $45 mill included a lot of money he passed directly on to his staff to keep them from being fucked over in the interim.
He may have some money saved, but the circumstances of the move and having to help out his staff may have left him more tapped than you'd naturally assume.
Not to mention NBC was where he buttered his bread for years, but since he took his stand he'll probably never work for them again. I mean he's probably missing out on some good money by taking the stand he did, which is doubly impressive when you stop to remember he's a family man with wife and kids.
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I don't know about the whole job/economy angle, but I did think the jokes about the nbc situation were excessive. we all know what happened. it just came off as bitter and it would have been nice to start the new show on a more positive note. but also it was the first episode and I guess he just wanted to get a little more off his chest. I just hope it's the last we hear of it.
also, love the return of andy.
Because they're always funny.
I think he used enough and didn't make the whole episode center around NBC.
TBS are much smarter people. The episodes go up almost immediately, are intelligently catalogued for the segments, and it appears old episodes won't be rotated out.
Where as you had to wait 1 or 2 weeks before a Conan show would be up on NBC.com, and you had to seek around to find the segment you were looking for.
Wasn't last year the height of Hulu fighting with everyone, though?
Also: Damn at his ratings last night. I hope he can hold onto it for a bit, just to rub it in... but I'm sure people will go back to what they were watching before.
Nah. I remember watching a few episodes and they had them broken up by segment the very next day.
I'm just watching clip by clip, and that was the first thing that jumped out.
That seemed really odd to me too. Nothing else really jumped out like that though.
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Conan is not rich as fuck, as you say. He could probably retire, but he'd live most likely a middle class existance. He's not hobknobbing with Puffy and Donald Trump.
...what? He got $45,000,000 to walk from NBC. With that and whatever he's earned from hosting forever he's got to be close to $100m.
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He had to move from NYC area to LA during the middle of a housing crisis. Also, that $45 mill included a lot of money he passed directly on to his staff to keep them from being fucked over in the interim.
He may have some money saved, but the circumstances of the move and having to help out his staff may have left him more tapped than you'd naturally assume.
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That was a bit. As in it was staged and rehearsed. How could anyone not know that?
Also iirc Conan got his employees a severance package in adtion to his own.
Well there's your first problem: Morning Joe isn't actually a news program.
Uh, wut?
There's a 0% chance that Tom Hanks wasn't in on that gag. Conan didn't "do" anything to him because Tom was in on it the whole time.
that is pretty naive
But MAN, Andy's got his shit together now! I haven't seen last nights episode yet, but in Monday's show he was awesome. I think I laughed more at Andy's jokes then Conan's.
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Oh god. It's like those idiots that were screaming that Conan was an asshole for wasting NBC's money with those "How much money can we spend" skits in his last week.
Oblivious that they were fucking skits
That slayed me.
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Not to mention NBC was where he buttered his bread for years, but since he took his stand he'll probably never work for them again. I mean he's probably missing out on some good money by taking the stand he did, which is doubly impressive when you stop to remember he's a family man with wife and kids.