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DJ Pauls Gimp Arm posted:Incidently, I gained alot of respect for Jimmy Kimmel at that time for the opposite reason. I would probably watch Kimmel every night if it weren't for the fact that it clashes with Conan's time slot. I feel the exact opposite about Kimmel. During the whole Conan mess everyone was paying attention to all the late night hosts except him, and to me he came off as this whiny attention whore who was desperately trying to insert himself into someone else's drama. Letterman and Leno obviously have an infamous history, and now Conan is involved, but Kimmel's just like "Look at me! Look at me guys! I'm involved in this thing too!" Craig managed to talk about it without getting involved and acting like a massive tool. I don't really remember what Fallon did cause Fallon wasn't funny yet.
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Yoshifan823 posted:And just in case we've forgotten who the real king of late night is, Craig Ferguson just got Gary Oldman to dance with a fake horse. Watching Craig interact with women is just...idunno, mesmerizing. It's not (only) the accent there is just something about him.
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Feb 18, 2014 16:03
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Aphrodite posted:He also typically does a remote every night, which is always fun. I was thinking Monday was the one to miss. I would take Moist from Dr Horrible over just about anything Sandler has assaulted an audience with.
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Mar 31, 2014 20:18
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Lumberjack Bonanza posted:Craig did such a great job on TPiR, he got so loving excited whenever the contestants won. I grinned like an idiot the whole time. Craig is just pure entertainment. Me too, that was great. I haven't see Carey on TLLS but I can't imagine he could be as entertaining as Craig was.
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OldSenileGuy posted:Oh my god you people are the WORST Considering what is happening in some other threads in this subforum, I'd say we have a long, long, long way to go before we're the worst. Yoshifan823 posted:Yes, but now he has his own show, and network TV has 5 really strong hosts on their late night shows. Leno was gonna throw a poo poo fit no matter what.
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Apr 10, 2014 22:46
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Craig should move to cable. I hear Comedy Central has an opening.
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Apr 11, 2014 05:30
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Seriously y'all, watch this poo poo, especially if you feel like you've lost faith in Conan's show. And here's the first WikiBear segment he did too: I watched the second one first because it was linked first and it was okay, but holy poo poo the original is loving gold.
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May 14, 2014 21:37
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quote:CBS had said that the show would return for a second season, but the latenight strip was facing significant downgrades from stations and the Eye determined that the show would not be financially viable. The show was in reruns this week and will not resume production. God drat, that is harsh. See what happens when Leno makes the announcement that you're getting a second season? They give you a week off and then suddenly all your poo poo has been moved out of your office and onto the curb.
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May 31, 2014 00:58
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Kammat posted:Arsenio has apparently been yanked. That would have been a fun interview. Boooo. I was looking forward to that.
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Jun 5, 2014 05:05
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Is it wrong that I'm actually planning on watching Sharkupus vs Pteracuda? I don't think I've watched a cable movie (sober) ever.
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Jul 18, 2014 18:45
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Y-Hat posted:Just think, if Johnny Carson hadn't gotten all pissy about Joan Rivers having a very short-lived talk show of her own, she very well might have replaced him two decades ago instead of Jay Leno, and we wouldn't even be having this "late night talk show needs a woman host" discussion. She also would have been a much better host than Jay. To be fair, many of Joan River's wigs would have been a better host than Jay. Is Worldwide Pants going to be involved in the CBS late night lineup after Dave and Craig leave? If not then there's really no question that Craig would have no say in the matter. JohnSherman posted:If his appearances on Conan are any indication, it's really not. MacDonald wasn't just offensively unfunny, he's the kind of guy that makes you kinda nervous and uncomfortable and twitchy just to watch him.
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Aug 6, 2014 04:35
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Irish Joe posted:That's his schtick. To his credit, MacDonald talked about wanted to change the format of the show to something more like Tom Snyder's Late Night. It might've been a terrible idea in execution, but at least its something a little more interesting than having a sixth late night host doing the same tired poo poo night after night. I can respect wanting to try something new, the thing is it still needs to be good. I've never understood the "No no, it's not supposed to be funny, that's the joke!" train of thought. Even when you're unfunny and annoying on purpose you're still unfunny and annoying.
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Aug 6, 2014 22:33
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I think we can all agree that Stephen Fry should move to LA and host a late night talk show in America.
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Aug 7, 2014 12:35
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Skunny Wundy posted:Craig Ferguson could have gone balls deep in about two thirds of all the guests he's ever had, including both Kate Mara and Neil Patrick Harris. James Corden is too fat and English to bring that raw sexual grime to late night, and I don't see either of the Jimmys stepping up. I don't want to see that, either. To be fair I don't think there's anyone anywhere that could flirt with guests the way Craig does.
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Aug 8, 2014 13:18
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I too have wished that naptime lasted forever on occasion.
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Aug 9, 2014 02:11
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Stare-Out posted:Has Craig done the show this week? He was supposed to have Jim Gaffigan on Monday night and another show last night but I can't find anything on either show anywhere. The newest ep on the CBS TLLS page is the 8/8 one. Not that I've seen. I noticed the top youtube comment (the absolute worst of sources) was complaining there would be no new episodes until September. I wouldn't be surprised if he at least came in and recorded a cold opening or something for Robin.
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Aug 14, 2014 04:39
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Gonz posted:Martin Lawrence just announced Bad Boys 3 on Conan. On an unrelated note, no garbage will be picked up in southern California today, as every available truck is currently filled with money and en route to Will Smith's house.
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Aug 14, 2014 10:54
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I know I'm a few days behind, but Will Arnett needs to be sitting on the second couch goofing off with Andy during all Conan interviews.
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Aug 15, 2014 07:29
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Rollofthedice posted:I don't know who James Corden is. Is he an rear end in a top hat or something? Or just not funny? The only thing I know about him is the youtube clip that was linked in this thread where he was a jerk to Sir Patrick. I'm pretty sure this is enough research on my part to declare he's an rear end in a top hat and continue to not like him. I get the feeling CBS is trying to go for a network friendly version of John Oliver's talk show, but like every network attempt to copy something good that's on cable, it will fail miserably. I wonder what the lasting effect of this year will be to late night TV in general? All four hosts changed.
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Irish Joe posted:I hate to break it to you, but nothing is unscripted. Craig rips up his cards and just flirts relentlessly! 
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Terminally Bored posted:Yeah, I really like Serious Jibber Jabber. Conan's a really good interviewer but it's obvious he doesn't care about most of his celebrity guests. The episode with Mel Brooks was great, especially the WWII anecdote. The scrapisode has some funny bits, but the real thing I took away from that is that Conan really gives zero fucks about anything. Also he has to carry a security guitar around with him at all times, which is really loving weird.
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I'll watch it for the spectacle, but I'm not exactly happy about it. Five songs means they might be able to fit in one, maybe two good songs from the 80s, between schilling whatever recent war crime they have committed to disc now. One solid email jingle cover will make up for everything else though.
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Oct 30, 2014 00:25
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That was amazing. Bro shooters became a parody of themselves awhile ago, but I didn't realize they've come full circle and gotten awesome now. Press X to pay respects.
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Nov 5, 2014 08:16
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This is the first time I've ever been legitimately sad to see a show end. I'm glad we got to see Josh a bit, and that opening tonight was amazing, what song was that? The ending with Drew was great. I was pretty ambivalent about Corden until his appearance a few nights ago, God it was absolutely awful. The worst part is you could tell he was trying to perform, he wasn't actually a genuinely shy dude being genuinely shy, like you'd get from a random audience member. He better get his poo poo together. Dr Tran posted:The Thursday show got to watch the big last cold open. Please, please tell us what Bill Cosby said on the phone that got bleeped.
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https://twitter.com/HannahS597/status/546336919076864000quote:Bang Your Drum: Ha.
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Ghostpilot posted:Yeah, I think the way things worked out for him in getting that 6 (or 10?) million provision for being passed over was the best possibly situation for Craig. CBS would have never allowed him to get away with half of what we came to love him for on the LLS, and he would've ended up hating it. Yeah, it would have been depressing to see really. In addition to having to be blander due to the earlier time slot, he'd have to work directly for CBS instead of for Dave and WWP, who let him do whatever the gently caress he wanted.
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My favorite Craig thing was one of Secretariats first appearances, when he ran headlong into the wall on his way out. I can't seem to find it on youtube 
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I recall hearing him say he really wasn't happy with the all puppet show, and that was part of why puppets got phased out. Too bad, I remember liking that show, but I think it would get real stale if he tried it even a second time. Does anyone have a clip of Secretariat running into the wall? It was a long time ago, like one of his first appearances. He came out, ran around while Craig did the Secretariat dance, and on his way out he ran head first into the wall right next to the door.
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Robnoxious posted:Craig reinvented and re imagined his show over the years several times. He went from horrible skit "cheeky monkey" sound fx guy (which was a carry over from Kilborn's show) to lewd Scot "in my pants" jokester. Yeah, it's easy to forget how bad early Geoff was. Another really fond Craig memory I have is after he had Geoff for three or four days, back when Geoff was sitting in the second chair. Craig had made this huge deal about his future robot sidekick, doing remotes with Grant, and a count down until Geoff's debut, then it was pretty underwhelming. One time Geoff did something stupid and not particularly funny, Craig looks at the camera and goes, "hey, I'm stuck with this now, all right?" He did a great job of figuring out how to make it work eventually.
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slartibartfast posted:Beth was first used as the voice of the animatronic rhino head above the fireplace. This was, I think, the first attempt to freshen up the show after the audience got used to Geoff being live performance. I don't even think the rhino - as a character - lasted a week. I remember her voice coming out of the rhino once. I remember it being after her stint as the cbs censor though. I remember being really impressed because by that point they had been in the studio for several months, and the rhino has been there all this time and had never talked, even though it apparently could all along!
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Dec 23, 2014 23:07
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Drew was pretty terrible as a guest host on April Fools, especially compared to how good Craig did as a game show host.
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I watched the cold open and monologue. It was...meh. I don't think I'll be able to watch much of the guest hosts. Every time they cut to Drew's announcer guy, I got irrationally angry. Not because he's especially bad (he's certainly not good though), but just because how dare that little poo poo stand in Geoff's spot. That's Geoff's spot! Are you Geoff Peterson? No? Then, you get the gently caress out!
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Frostwerks posted:You want to see something really dire, watch Conan's first monologue back from the break.He whiffed on like four or five jokes on a row. It was painful. I did actually! I don't usually watch Conan, but I couldn't find Drew's entire episode on youtube, so I decided an episode of Conan would do. I know the thread loved the hell out of Conan's scraps episode, and I found it interesting, but ever since watching it, I can't help but notice how much Conan absolutely does not give a poo poo about anything at all. Watching the tribute to Craig that talked about why late night TV sucks immediately followed by watching Conan's first show of the year just cemented that fact further. During his first guest interview, there was this huge talking point about how she had a terrible memory and couldn't remember anything lol, and then Conan just moved on to the next bullet point on his card, and asked her if she remembered seeing him years ago at a White House event thing. It was pretty obvious Andy was the only person paying the slightest bit of attention to the conversation.
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With the first guest, by the end I wasn't sure if it was a guest or a skit. Then the other guests came on. Nope, that's just how this dude interviews. I know everyone who hosts a talk show at 12:30 jokes about how low the production values are, but these guest hosts have this super low rent feel to them, I haven't decided if it's offputting, hilarious, or sad. It might be a little of all of them. The one episode of Gaffigan I watched seriously felt like some dude in his living room, hanging out with his family and friends, the next dude was great because he's a producer who apparently knows everyone in Hollywood rather than a talk show personality. Regis is Regis. And now there's a blizzard so they have to make due with whatever, and whoever, they can find in the building, and they ended up with some intern and his buddy.
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Dr Tran posted:Why is this happening after Craig has left? This makes me think CBS is mad at Craig, and wants to show him what he gave up.
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SHUPS 4 DETH posted:Clearly you didn't see the Conan remote where they went to The Weiner's Circle. Triumph was okay, but did that guy at the beginning really say step up you loving gay baby? If more places here would call me a gay baby when I ordered, I'd never eat at home again. 
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Feb 13, 2015 23:21
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As I recall, when Conan was at the top of his game, several years before getting the Tonight Show, he wanted the Tonight Show or he was gonna look at other networks. He was amazing at the time, so NBC did the whole 'Leno retires in 5 years' thing. By the time Conan finally got the tonight show, he wasn't nearly as funny IMO. He's had his moments since, but I don't think he's even been as consistently amazing as he was back when the deal was struck. That doesn't justify the whole Tonight Show drama nonsense though, he deserved more time to settle into the role than 7 months, but at least we got some of the best late night TV ever out of it.
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