A Visual Tribute to Conan O’Brien’s Celebrity Impressions
Conan O’Brien is leaving Late Night to take over the Tonight Show. His last show is February 20th, and his first show on the Tonight Show is June 1st.
Over the years, he has done many (bad) celebrity impressions, some of them timeless, some timely, some of them obscure, some not so obscure, all of them funny to look at.
Governor Rod Blagojevich This is one of those timely Conan O’Brien celebrity impressions that is already dated. He only did it once, but several times throughout Blagojevich’s fame he mentioned how much Blagojevich looked like a Lego man.
John McCain (or any elderly person) Conan is known for his… not quite ‘hatred’… of the elderly (or at least he’s known for this to anyone who listened to the Simpsons DVD audio commentary for “Marge vs. Monorail”). Anyway, his impression of John McCain and other elderly people is often accompanied by him stroking an imaginary beard and saying, “I’m old,” in a rhaspy voice.
Dr. Phil McGraw Conan has done this one a couple of times. Usually Conan says something mildly offensive and mentions how Dr. Phil will be angry about his comment (sometimes even when Dr. Phil is a guest on the show that night), and Conan makes the face seen on the left while he rapidly nods his head and says, “I don’t like that, Co-NAN.”
Jeff Ross Jeff Ross is Conan’s producer on Late Night. Conan’s impression of him usually involves crossing his arm and quickly muttering things like, “You shouldn’t have done that… I like it all up until you did that… shouldn’t have done that.” This usually happens after Conan “goes too far” during one of his mimings such as miming that he’s licking Larry King… speaking of which…
Larry King Conan’s impression (or international symbol of) Larry King is probably his most used and most popular. It involves Conan using his fingers to make glasses (in a fashion similar to his Sarah Palin impression) and then miming snapping his suspenders.
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