except that Comedy Central gives Stewart/Colbert WAY more freedom than i could ever see Conan getting on TBS.
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As part of his deal with Time Warner’s Turner Broadcasting to host a late-night show on TBS, O’Brien will have ownership of the show.
Would O'Brien having ownership not give him a great amount of freedom? I don't understand that part of the TV business but I would think that him having ownership not give him freedom. I don't know if most of these TV host deals give the host ownership. I'm not pretending to know. It just sounds like to me if he has ownership he would also have quite a bit of creative freedom. Seems like a fair assumption to me.
My point with the hosts have done sketches together when Conan was on NBC. (The fight between the three of them on NBC and also Colbert and Conan arguing about who "made Huckabee") I would also assume that they would increase when they are all in more similar television situations.
Yes! Beardo's back! I hope he keeps it, he seems like he's crazier with it. Dang, I didn't buy tix because it seemed ridiculously expensive, but now reading about it and looking at pics makes me regret not ponying up for it.
O'Brien mused about seeing the also-unemployed Vancouver Olympic mascots "strung out" at Pigeon Park in the city's Downtown Eastside. When he left the stage for costume breaks, Richter performed old-style live advertisements for local pop culture landmarks. One for the Japadog hot dog cart and the other the Penthouse strip bar.
O'Brien further endeared himself with the locals when he said he was approached by a "Vancouverite? Vancouverian!" who complemented him on his "hockey beard."
"Here, everything's a hockey-something. Hockey baby. Hockey cold sore," he laughed.
Peachtree TV says it has no plans to broadcast the new Conan O'Brien program scheduled to debut on TBS in November 2010, meaning the series will not air in Canada, where O'Brien has a following, unless another channel picks it up.
Ugh, that killed me to read, sounds like the best show ever. I just didn't wanna pony up that much $ for it. At least it sounds like the audience is getting its money's worth.
O'Brien might also be a criminal himself, in the eyes of NBC's lawyers, since the network owns the intellectual rights to the lever, Triumph and Masturbating Bear and doesn't want Coco to use them. ( "It takes high intellect to own a masturbating bear," he snarled.) It would be a shame if he couldn't take them to his new show, especially Triumph, who made a gut-busting cameo by "satellite." It was actually a pre-taped bit, necessitating the need for a robotic voice to fill in some of the blanks -- Enoch, Zach Stortini, meth-lab supplies -- in the dog's monologue.
Triumph is property of Robert Smigel. If he was owned by NBC, he wouldn't have made a gut busting cameo.
Triumph is property of Robert Smigel. If he was owned by NBC, he wouldn't have made a gut busting cameo.
Haha ya my thoughts exactly. And isn't is not the Masterbating Bear(which NBC managed to hold onto out of spite), but in fact a new, Self-Pleasuring Panda? They look totally different, one's brown, and one's black and white. The reporter needs to do his homework a little better.
If I can't watch the new Conan show in HD, I'm going to be pissed.
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So I'll be going to the Jay Leno Show this Friday in Burbank.....any chance anyone has ever gone to his show before? If so, was parking hard to find? Did you have to get their early to get good seats?
