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The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien

February 24th, 2009

“Late Night with Conan O’Brien” was hilarious in its last two weeks as Conan showed classic clips and brought back gags that never should’ve gone away in the first place, such as the Walker Texas Ranger Lever. “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” was one of my favorite shows on TV, and now it’s gone… but I’m happy to hear that “The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien” is going to be basically the same show.
It’ll have Conan O’Brien, the entire Max Weinberg 7 (as announced by Conan in one of his last shows), and Andy Richter (as announcer, according to a little “blurb” I read on Yahoo!’s homepage). So… should I feel happy that Conan’s old show will be very similar to his new show, or should I feel angry because his new show should be new. Either way, I think I’m good because Conan is so darn funny that no matter what he does, you just know it’ll be good.
I’m not sure if I can say the same thing about Jimmy Fallon…

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A Visual Tribute to Conan O’Brien’s Celebrity Impressions

January 21st, 2009

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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