Tag: Conan O’Brien
365 Adventures in 2011: Day 85 – Me and The Flaming C
I made my annual trip to MegaCon today and it was fun, as always. I left with around $70 worth of Nintendo plushes and animation cels, but more importantly, I did plenty of people watching. There were quite a few unique costumes this year, but my favorite was a guy dressed as The Flaming C. And I had to get a picture with him. If you don’t know who The Flaming C is, you’re not on Team Coco. Get with it.
Conan O’Brien launches nationwide stage show tour
Only a few weeks after leaving “The Tonight Show” (after the majorly unfunny Jay Leno to usurped his spot), comedian Conan O’Brien has launched a nationwide tour across the United States that’s being billed as “a night of music, comedy, hugging, and the occasional awkward silence.”
O’Brien is calling the tour “The Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour,” referencing his much-publicized non-competition agreement that he has with NBC-Universal as part of his departure from the network.
Many believe Coco, as fans have been calling him, will return to the airwaves when his noncompete expires, but until then 32 cities across the country will be treated to his antics on stage.
Tour dates begin in Eugene, OR on April 12 and conclude in Atlanta, GA on June 14.
Tickets, and a tour poster (seen here) based off of artwork from a fan who rallied behind O’Brien during the recent late night war, can be found at the new web site: TeamCoco.com.
I hope they add a Florida date or two to the tail end of the tour as I’d love to see this act in person.
TweetMONDAY MEDIA: Fallon’s Late Night Borrows Too Much from SNL
As a huge fan of Late Night with Conan O’Brien since its launch, I am excited to see what becomes of The Tonight Show when it enters the Cone Zone in June. Until then, I decided to give the new Late Night with Jimmy Fallon a shot. I tuned in to the premiere episode last night and found a show that I felt was too rehearsed and never really offered any big laughs.
The new intro is taken straight from the pages of Saturday Night Live history, filled with blurred nighttime shots of New York streets. The whole show was split up into Saturday Night Live-style skits that were just as unfunny as recent seasons of SNL have been. I think it would have been better for Fallon to separate himself from his SNL past.
It sounds like the show will be packed with A-list celebrities for its first week or two, which should help get it off the ground, as long as Fallon can figure out how to stop mumbling and interrupting his guests. The appearance of Robert DeNiro on last night’s show was painful, though it appeared to be rehearsed that way.
The show’s announcer, Steve Higgins, seems totally out of place. He looks like he belongs as a character on The Office rather than announcing a late night talk show. His voice certainly doesn’t help the show any.
The Roots are the new Late Night band and certainly a very different one than the Max Weinberg Seven. I think it may work as the only bit I found funny in the entire show was “Slow Jam the News,” which featured Fallon and The Roots making the Obama stimulus package sound more sensual than it really is.
Overall, once Fallon’s initial nerves leave him, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon could be an okay show, but I don’t see it ever reaching the comedic level of Conan’s Late Night. I would rather have seen an unknown come in and fill the spot, rather than someone I never found to be particularly funny on Saturday Night Live.
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