HOLY SHIT WHAT WAS JUST ON CONAN

http://newyorker.com/critics/music/?040524crmu_music

i am very much surprised she doesn't seem to care for baseball.

"...and MICCIO you give meaning to every day"
-- nickalicious (nickaliciou...), December 22nd, 2004.

she totally must lurk! Hi Nellie!

the album's a little disappointing in that the first two songs are probably the best.*

*i have only listened to it once yet so this may be totally untrue

Nellie, if you need me just e-mail ok? Don't be shy.

IT'S A TRAP

Priest Jailed in Stalking of Conan O’Brien


By BRUCE LAMBERT
Published: November 8, 2007
A priest from Boston has been charged with stalking and harassing the talk show host Conan O’Brien, law enforcement officials said last night.

The suspect, David Ajemian, was arrested on Friday when he tried to attend a taping of NBC’s “Late Night With Conan O’Brien” program at Rockefeller Center, the police said. The priest is being held in jail for a court-ordered psychiatric examination, and is due back in court tomorrow.

Court papers quote from menacing postcards and letters — at least some written on a parish letterhead — that Father Ajemian is alleged to have sent to Mr. O’Brien’s home and television studio for more than a year. The letters continued even after the priest was asked to stop, law enforcement officials said.

A Feb. 20 letter said: “I’m told by some of those officious little usher people that you’re overbooked. Is this the way you treat your most dangerous fans? You owe me big-time, pal. I want a public confession before I even consider giving you absolution.”

An April 26 letter, signed Padre, said, “I am not Seung Cho,” apparently alluding to the gunman at Virginia Tech. The letter continued: “Even if I did once look out on that dark and dreaded doorway on West 72 Street, remember Frank Costello once dodged a bullet in your building, and so can you.” The gangster Frank Costello was shot and wounded in the lobby of the Majestic on West 72nd Street in 1957.

The priest said in his correspondence that he had followed Mr. O’Brien’s career since they both attended Harvard.

When Father Ajemian was ordained in 2001, The Boston Herald said he was a “former Episcopalian who was turned on to religion partly by Federicio Fellini’s 1960 film ‘La Dolce Vita’ ”.

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston said that Father Ajemian has been placed on leave, The Associated Press said.

Calls for comment last night at NBC were not immediately returned.

Who becomes a priest because of Fellini?

Somebody who should be a guest(2nd, or maybe 3rd right after a good band), that's who.

Conan's on hiatus due to the strike, right?

Yeah how is La Dolce Vita an advertisement for the priesthood??

i like the strike beards

hahaha everyone wants to marry Nellie McKay

(okay so maybe that group included me, for a couple weeks)

oh hell no

I like that Conan realizes that doing a pre-written monologue is against strike rules and so has to make shit up like climbing onto the catwalk, whereas Leno does the same lame patter he's done for the past 20 years.

Leno does not even have a strike beard. He is not down with the cause.

he is like a chubby soft kid who has not hit puberty and produces an absurd amount of estrogen instead.

lol @ conan playing rock band. i'm way more interested in watching writerless conan. :/

click for bigness:

http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/1856/conan1le0.th.jpg

http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/7655/conan2ba9.th.jpg

What was he singing?

Blue Moon of Kentucky

WAU - http://cache-01.de.fotohub.ch/mc/U2FsdGVkX180NzdmZTlmM34Lqvg00VRFpgFfuEgRdsiLeh44hv9LqmJtZONtwYT4_rtGOGP3YBMa9FWWHbH53qr4i0WFvoE57g1wH1bSd2c=/fn/BlueMoonOfKentucky.mp3

i knew i should have stayed up last nite

I've only watched the first two post-strike shows (streaming on web), but holy shit there were some brilliant moments. The Catwalk bit was some fantastic television - WAY better than his average monologue.

o_O

I think "Blue Moon" was the first time I saw Conan sing semi-seriously, he's not that bad of a vocalist.

Wau, it was actually weirdly shocking to hear Bill Maher denounce religion so thoroughly on network television.

would kill for a CD of Conan performing covers

yeah, that was srsly a great cover.

The Jim Cramer bit was fun too - Conan just can't deal with someone being louder and crazier than him.

srsly though I'm going through the pre-strike monologues on the NBC website and they were mostly GODAWFUL

holy shit: http://kotaku.com/340226/conan-griefs-rock-band-playing-staffers-does-wicked-edith-bunker

finally found this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGJVkByYyRA

conan continues to be more entertaining than he has been, even if uneven

Yeah, there was a brief time when Andy was still on the show after they'd gotten comfortable and had built up a following that it was as crazy as it is now. But then things toned down and Andy left. I'm loving this, though. I can't wait for the upcoming Lincoln assassination plot-foiling zipline ride.

conan without his writers has been worth watching. i'd pretty much given up on him, just three or four bits recycled over and over and over. now he's sort of reminding me of letterman back when HE was funny.

There's no way you'd get anotehr Potato Judge out of this version of Coban - the show has been toned down way too much. Without writers it's actually fun to watch again ... I remember in the 90s making sure to catch the "funny bits" every night because it was usually something weird and bizarre, back before "weirDzAnad ZanyY'" became the dominant style oN TV

so we're back to re-runs and bad illegal immigrant jokes?

Yeah, so disappointing.

Haha, they redid "Potato Judge" during part of the Cable Channel skit retro last night. Also, "Men Without Hats Conversations Channel" not as funny as I remembered.

I saw a bit of that, I'll always love the Inappropriate Channel!

haha, Potato Judge. Since the 90s I've been wanting to see that again ... I even posted on that latenightunderground.com forum "POTATO JUDGE!" a million times. Conan seemed to totally hate it, though.

Nellie fans should try Molly Pope; up and coming cabaret singer/actress.
Starting to see her around East Village clubs. She's cute and sounds a lot like Ethel Merman; very talented.
She has recently taken to wearing black velvet dresses, wearing her hair swept up and has a terrible website. http://www.mollypope.com/
/.xls

Saw her do a bitchin' cabaret cover of 'Let It Rock' last night and it was a knockout.

It's weird watching Conan's really old bits ... in the 90s there wasn't really any absurdist comedy on TV aside from a few cult sketch comedy shows (most of which got canceled in a year), so it was awesome to see it every night. Now that ZaNy WeIRD stuff is getting played out, it unfortunately hasn't aged well. :[

[the bits]

Just read the Videogum bit on Norm MacDonald and Conan

i remember one time he structured the entire show for kids, with the audience made of only kids, jokes geared towards kids, and one of the guests was an animal handler. it was actually really funny and a pretty silly thing to do.

also the anniversary special where they stop-motion animated the entire program

I should really just start a separate thread: http://ourhitparade.blogspot.com/2009/02/let-it-rock-kevin-rudolf-and-lil-wayne.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pWxUMWCYIY

In retrospect, Late Night With Conan O'Brien in the winter of 1993-94 is the only thing in the history of late night television that I really whole-heartedly admire.

ILMers are going to think me soooooo incredibly unhep now but WHAT WAS THAT?? god she was fucking awesome, single best thing i've seen all year

i am talking about the musical performance.

― John (jdahlem), Wednesday, December 22, 2004 1:36 AM (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Nellie McKay, I think. What did she sing?
― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Wednesday, December 22, 2004 1:39 AM (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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https://www.cracked.com/amp/article_36187_i-was-the-masturbating-bear-on-late-night-with-conan-obrien.html

https://www.cracked.com/article_36778_a-perfectly-calm-oral-history-of-pierre-bernards-recliner-of-rage-from-late-night-with-conan-obrien.html

Lately I've been bingeing Conan clips on YouTube, which all started with me wanting to revisit these segments.

"United We Stand, Muchachos!"

I guess Cracked is doing a monthly Conan character backstory thing?

Anyways, Preparation H Raymond:

https://www.cracked.com/article_37125_my-life-as-preparation-h-raymond-on-late-night-with-conan-obrien.html

During the show, the audience loved it. If you’re handing out free anything to the audience, it’s comedy gold. It doesn’t matter what it is. I mean, this was tubes of hemorrhoid ointment, and it was like I was Oprah handing out cars.