Before tonight I had never seen one minute of the “Tonight Show” with Conan O’Brien. I tuned in for the first time last night, to catch the last 15 minutes of his final show. And as I watched Conan choke up during his classy farewell speech, I felt like a diehard fan after his team has lost the World Series — albeit a diehard fan seeing a baseball game for the first time.
I was thinking: Those bastards are taking Conan away from us! What will we do now?
In the final moments of his tenure at the “Tonight Show,” Conan came across as a pretty cool guy. And it didn’t matter if I was a viewer before, because now I was rooting for him. I actually felt nostalgic for a show I had never seen.
NBC’s corporate douchebaggery has made Conan a folkhero. This whole mess has mobilized his fans, sort of like how all these celebs come out when a country is hit with an earthquake. Like Haiti, Conan, too, was hit by a natural disaster, NBC. So support Coco. Help him rebuild.
When Conan mounts a new show this fall I’ll make sure I watch. Fuck NBC! I’m with Coco. Or, thank you, NBC, you’ve given me something to look forward to watching on FOX in the fall.
But a definite fuck you to whomever cancelled “The Greatest American Hero.” That was an awesome show.
Conan, for me. was simply not funny (except for the pompadour hair) He SHOULD have been funny, sure looks funny! Letterman too is not funny anymore. I like the top ten, that’s it. Leno is still OK, but none come close to the master, Johnny Carson
Hell, that’s exactly what I thought when I saw Conan’s last moments on the Tonight Show. It’s like how I knew Twilight was going to be terrible when I was about six pages into the book.
Jay Leno stole my chin.