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...as my friend/object-of-attention calls him. She wanted to protest the day he got married. So what exactly is the appeal of Conan O'Brien, physical or otherwise? And how much work is involved in the hair? Also, how much flow do you think he really has?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 26 April 2003 03:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Coneys are cute, furry little animals that are related to rabbits. They are also called pikas. They are adorable... if your tastes run in that direction. Apparently Coney Island used to be rotten with them. But that was in days long gone, before the Cyclone or Nathan's.

I'm sorry. What was the question?

― Aimless, Saturday, 26 April 2003 03:51 (twenty-two years ago)

http://raysweb.net/wildlife/images/pika-400h.jpg

http://www.huffmankrause.com/ef.jpg

Hmm.

― Frühlingsmute (Wintermute), Saturday, 26 April 2003 04:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I think we need a picture thread devoted to lagomorphs.

PS. Conan is funny. He is.

― Frühlingsmute (Wintermute), Saturday, 26 April 2003 04:02 (twenty-two years ago)

The interviews used to be funnier because he had a shred of humility left. Nowadays he gets too excited too quickly, at everything, and just jumps down his guests' throats. His guest will supply the topics to talk about and he'll pounce on each sentence with the ferocity of a... coney. And his monologues are just terrible. He should have made sure he could make his monologue formula funny before he clad it in iron and set it in stone. "Hey this was weird. [Insert news story.] Kinda strange. Pretty weird.... but the FUNNY thing was, [totally made-up twist]." The formula's not entirely his fault—Letterman (and Leno to a lesser degree) have been hoeing that row for years—but his insistence on it is, especially when the Onion and the Daily Show have extended it into terrific curlicues and entire careers. I saw him on the street one time. Shades and a black baseball cap pulled down over his eyes, as if anyone could mistake a 6'4" redhead motoring down the 6th Ave sidewalk.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 26 April 2003 05:24 (twenty-two years ago)

The skits with Joel and Max have gotten tired. The whole skit thing in general, for these shows ... if you need the filler, just have a shorter show. Or longer interviews (not that I need an extra ten minutes of Letterman searching his soul for what on earth he could possibly ask Mandy Moore, but you know.)

Both Letterman and Conan are worth watching when the guests are right, though, when they're interviewing people they -enjoy- interviewing. I never get the sense from Leno that he's taking the mask off at all, but Letterman and Conan loosen the elastic once in awhile.

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 26 April 2003 05:29 (twenty-two years ago)

It's just always so adversarial and I rarely get the feeling there's a reason for it. Because he's a "dork" he feels safe in going out of his way to rank on his guests, not because he wants to actually insult them but because he feels like busting people's balls is part of his job. But he's not that kind of guy, so it just hangs wrong. He can definitely bust into a good little run every now and again, he can string several of his little brainstorms together. But it's always at the expense of his guest's thing, whatever that is. Everybody's "material".

Oh my god I just had a vision of Coney on a dating show.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 26 April 2003 05:42 (twenty-two years ago)

He turns it on himself just as often, though, with the long-running self-deprecating thing (granted, that can be funny, like the ongoing bit he had about whatever market it was that showed him at 3 in the morning or some such). So I guess, if it's self-deprecating and guest-deprecating at the same time, it's just ... deprecating. That isn't better, necessarily.

I find that when I watch it, I'm usually watching the reruns on Comedy Central, cause there's just not much else to watch mid-day. At night -- well, shit, it's baseball season, so I'm usually on ESPN.

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 26 April 2003 05:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Let's go Nets!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 26 April 2003 05:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Baseball, baseball! Besides, for basketball I suppose I'm supposed to go for the Hornets. So. Hornets! .. hornets! .. eh. Celtics, dammit.

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 26 April 2003 05:56 (twenty-two years ago)

You know you can't stay away from them.

Neither can I.

― luna (luna.c), Saturday, 26 April 2003 05:59 (twenty-two years ago)

My only knowledge of him is his Simpsons cameo. I don't know if he's appeared on UK TV otherwise.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 26 April 2003 10:32 (twenty-two years ago)

http://missionofburma.com/bgu/original/photo/westcoast/header.jpg

damn! I thought this was the Clint CONLEY thread!

― BurmaKitty (BurmaKitty), Saturday, 26 April 2003 14:31 (twenty-two years ago)

wasnt Conan a writer for the Simpsons at one point? we're talking the 'monorail' era if so...and i believe thats his favourite episode

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 26 April 2003 14:33 (twenty-two years ago)

he wrote the monorail episode, among others

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 26 April 2003 14:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah Conan is well hott. But let's talk about gabnab's friend/object-of-affection: seems to be a story line there.

― Mary (Mary), Saturday, 26 April 2003 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

oh no! talking about me! oh no! n.b. "attention". very weird that my name (or whatever it is) is mutating in the same ways it did in the original environment in which it was foisted upon me.

the mtv2 commercial that featured conan singing "big pimpin" with an acoustic guitar (he has like a huge guitar collection, apparently) on a subway platform is one of the greatest things i've seen on tv.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 26 April 2003 16:35 (twenty-two years ago)

was this the young lady that you brought to the fap?

― Mary (Mary), Saturday, 26 April 2003 16:37 (twenty-two years ago)

(i'm actually taking to the attention-object right now, for the first time in weeks)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 26 April 2003 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

my fap friend is not an object of attention.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 26 April 2003 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)

aww it's me!
;)

― Mary (Mary), Saturday, 26 April 2003 17:05 (twenty-two years ago)

you call him coney too?!

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 26 April 2003 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

aww it's me!

if this were a joke about me, it would be really funny

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 26 April 2003 18:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't get over the fact that there is a talk show host called Conan coz I just picture Conan the Barbarian sitting there!

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 26 April 2003 20:23 (twenty-two years ago)

four months pass...

Conan makes me sad now because his show was part of my college education, sitting in the common room, eating shitty pizza, hanging out with smelly people I didn't like much, and laughing at Conan. But the show has become such shit since Andy left that it makes me question my sense of humor as a freshman (I know, it's hard to believe). He grabs an adlib that wasn't that funny to start with and just sucks the lifeblood out of it by repeating it and doing bad fake voices for like 4 minutes. The monologue blows. The skits are uneven, sometimes funny, usually not. The interviews are boring. Blergh.

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 25 September 2003 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Are you sure you're not watching Letterman, NA?

― nickn (nickn), Thursday, 25 September 2003 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

six months pass...

The interviews used to be funnier because he had a shred of humility left

Recently, I came to fundamentally agree with this - the whole thing is so stale. Why is he even doing it anymore? I began to prefer - horrors - Carson Daly's TRL-goes-to-Charlie Rose act. Then, a week or two ago, I saw a Conan show from his recent Toronto week, and it was wonderful. It was entertaining in the way that I imagine Jackie Gleason or Ed Sullivan were in their eras. So I had second thoughts. Today's NYT brings an article suggesting that he may be tired of his slot, and ready to move on, or at least branch out, to bigger and better things, though not yet to Jay's slot. It also raises the question of a cable competitor. And it mentions the hair.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 4 April 2004 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

Advertising his as-good-as-or-better-than-Chicago Finland special...

You can catch a preview at double-u double-u double-u dot, nbc, dot com, slash conan. Is that how you say it? I know nothing about computers. I have an abacus at home. I watch porn on it.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 24 August 2006 03:55 (nineteen years ago)

also, i heard he has some gig on Sunday night

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 24 August 2006 03:57 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

ok, waht

― gabbneb, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 05:55 (seventeen years ago)

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 14:17 (seventeen years ago)

is he doing live shows again again?

― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 14:18 (seventeen years ago)

somewhat tiresome manna for comedy central fanboys devolved into three stooges/clockwork orange hijinks among the next generation. the meta was mildly amusing at times.

― gabbneb, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 14:32 (seventeen years ago)

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