Conan Returns

[CubanSucks]

dont see the conan hype. still think stewart will keep the ratings. conan should have kept doing the simpsons episodes. dont know why there is so much sympathy for a guy who was paid 40 million to get a better job, and his popularity grew only because of his incident not his talent.

[easjer]

Sympathy grew because of the feeling that he got screwed over by someone with less talent and grace. Reading The War For Late Night now - interesting read thus far.

Conan's comedic style is something you get or don't get, like or don't like. There is a ton of silliness and ridiculousness to it - it's not often the dry, sharp wit of someone like Stewart.

I really enjoy it. I roll my eyes at sketches like the masturbating bear, but still laugh because of the wry way Conan shakes his head over the whole thing. It's almost as if there is a level of meta-comedy involved, where you sit back and just laugh at the absurdity of it.

Not a bad start. Not too much bitterness, some funny bits at the expense of the whole thing (The Second Annual First Show!) (Rickey Gervais' multiple good luck videos) (the entire opening montage - Last Season on Conan). I'm thrilled he's back. Nothing particularly wild or out there, just Conan doing what he does.

[ChuckD]

Conan is evil! TBS is evil! They pushed George Lopez to the back of the late night bus!


Sincerely
Team LoLo

[JoeChalupa]

I thought it was a pretty good opening show.

[lefty]

I dont have TBS

Edit: nevermind, it's also on Comedy Network

[baseline bum]

LMAO @ picking lotto numbers from the Masturbating Bear's marble-sack.

[mrsmaalox]

I liked it. It had a very fresh, new feel to it that I hope lasts for a while. I'd have preferred anyone over Seth Rogen as the first guest; but I enjoyed the number with Jack White.

[ashbeeigh]

I liked it. It had a very fresh, new feel to it that I hope lasts for a while. I'd have preferred anyone over Seth Rogen as the first guest; but I enjoyed the number with Jack White.

I want fat Seth Rogen back. The skinny Seth Rogen is not funny. And his laugh is just plain old annoying. The rest of the show was really good though.

[Slomo]

Anybody knows if its available online?

Comedy central is very good with its shows, others not so much.

[lefty]

Anybody knows if its available online?

Comedy central is very good with its shows, others not so much.

http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/con...re/#clip372169

[Slomo]

http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/con...re/#clip372169

[lefty]

Just realized I linked the Canadian Comedy Central page

Have you tried the U.S one?

[ChumpDumper]

Maybe the TBS will work for you?

http://www.tbs.com/video/conan/

[RandomGuy]

I hear Conan recently interviewed a Mongolian General. They got to talking about philosophy or something.

Mongol General: Conan! What is best in life?
Conan: To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.
Mongol General: That is good! That is good.

Conan FTW.

[IronMaxipad]

Teamcoco.com has full episodes up the next day....

http://www.tbs.com/video/conan/

click the full episodes tab

[Slomo]

Nope

Clips work, but full episodes are blocked.

Comedy Central is the only one at the moment not doing this

Too bad because I really like Conan, and since he's not with NBC anymore I can watch him on CNBC either.

[ChumpDumper]

Illegal downloads FTW, then.

[NASpurs]

Nope

Clips work, but full episodes are blocked.

Comedy Central is the only one at the moment not doing this

Too bad because I really like Conan, and since he's not with NBC anymore I can watch him on CNBC either.

If the legal ways don't work, there's always torrents.

http://eztv.it/

[Slomo]

Yeah, I know. But it just feels stupid. I mean it's like the NBA took 5 years to realize there was good money to be made by making games legally accessible outside the US. The NFL realized that a long time ago (and for a sport that is not nearly as popular). All the time they knew we were watching games illegally and only ed about it.

I know I can use illegal downloads, but frankly I don't feel like it - if they're too stupid to make a profit out of me then I guess I'll go somewhere else.

Oh and the "we only own copyrights for the US" excuse is getting very old. This was what all the publishers and online bookstores were saying about e-books until amazon started selling them in Europe this February - they are now making huge profits (electronic best sellers are outselling the printed versions) and everybody is trying to jump on the bandwagon. So what changed? Which monumental international copyright treaty was signed last year to make this possible?

There wasn't one.

[Spurminator]

Turner is among the worst of all networks when it comes to making their programming watchable on media besides TV. I'm actually surprised they're making episodes available even in the U.S.

[PM5K]

I want fat Seth Rogen back.

You would.

[easjer]

Conan slams compe ion in ratings on opening night:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/20...ref=television

NY Times review of the first episode:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/20...to-late-night/

[Jose Canseco]

Not a huge Conan fan but I did watch some of the episode.

Here's the song Conan and Jack White performed. Pretty cool. Conan didn't just sit back and play rhythm. He sang and even did a mini solo with Jack towards the end. More than slightly impressed Conan could hang as well as he did. His head jerks are annoyingly funny though.

[DJ Mbenga]

watched the show. hopefully it gets better and what i mean by that is dont make the whole hour about "well nbc screwed me so allow me to make the whole existence of this show about it, even though i have a lower budget to work on and get paid less. poor me! even though i got 40 million to get a better job."
actually when you think about it the tonight show was unwatchable, and boring until he started whining about nbc so i guess if something works stick to it.

[easjer]

watched the show. hopefully it gets better and what i mean by that is dont make the whole hour about "well nbc screwed me so allow me to make the whole existence of this show about it, even though i have a lower budget to work on and get paid less. poor me! even though i got 40 million to get a better job."
actually when you think about it the tonight show was unwatchable, and boring until he started whining about nbc so i guess if something works stick to it.

That NY Times review and comments said much of the same thing, but I think one show is too much to harp about. If he continues it on, then yes, I agree with that feeling.

But I certainly expected him to address it in the first night, and thought they did so in the traditional Conan way - funny, self-deprecating, silly. After everything that happened, how could he not address it? It's the reason he is as famous as he is and has a show on TBS at all.

, Lettermen still brings up his past w/ NBC, and that was last century.