He somehow became cool, and not in the nerdy cool way he’s been forever. WATCH THE VIDEO! Game of ThronesĬonan took his visible rage on the road, and on the Legally Prohibited From Being Funny On Television Tour, Conan was reborn. Conan and Letterman impersonating Jay Leno. He pulled a power play and won, but messily making his bosses look bad. Jay Leno, a man whose reputation as a nice guy is key to his success, is exposed as a… well, a showbiz asshole. This is around 2010/2011, while NBC is in a public relations death spiral over the Conan/Leno Tonight Show debacle.Ĭonan O’Brien goes rogue, and goes on The Late Show with David Letterman. This is after an extremely messy departure for Conan O’Brien, after more than 20 years with the network. So begins the wonderful, groundbreaking, extremely intense,interview between two direct rivals. I think the longer we just sit here, the more uncomfortable it’ll make Jay. I think I started off listening to a very engaging lecture by Christopher Hitchens, then somehow it was then Norm MacDonald, which then led to Conan O’Brien on The Late Show, back in 2010, right after getting suuuuuuper fucked by NBC and Jay Leno, over the Tonight Show. I came across this gem during a late night YouTube spiral. The 2010 Tonight Show Fight The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Friend Take the time to appreciate a man who honestly had a hand in shaping our culture.
Yes, people are living well, and living well, into their 90s, but it still means that our time with them is short. In fact he’s in Portland right now, for ComicCon. Stan Lee is in his 90s and still working. Mel Brooks has been popping lately in my feeds, mainly due to the death of Gene Wilder, and is own 90th birthday. THEN he wrote for Jerry Lewis (which I didn’t know until I watched this), and created the great spy parody series, Get Smart. He wrote for the Titan of modern comedy, Sid Caesar, in which he worked with Carl Reiner, Woody Allen, and other luminaries. Thankfully we have a good host and a spectacular subject in Mel Brooks & Conan O’Brien. Serious Jibber Jabber is a web series done by Conan in which he does an old fashioned (think Dick Cavett, or David Frost) long format interview. I love his movies (most of them), I love his humor… I love him! He’s wonderfully dynamic and energetic, even at the age of 87. This 90 minute conversation between Mel Brooks & Conan O’Brien is pure gold.
Mel Brooks & Conan O’Brien Serious Jibber Jabber From 2013 Somehow, the man who gave the world the Horny Manatee, the Coked-Up Werewolf, and the immortal Masturbating Bear realized the most important thing about viewers like you and me: we’d much rather watch two people discuss enthusiastically and at length subjects that interest them rather than swiftly mangle subjects they guess might interest us.Ĭonan O’Brien Writes Chicago Blues Songs With School KidsĬonan O’Brien Kills It at Dartmouth GraduationĬolin Marshall hosts and produces Notebook on Cities and Culture. Though we get a warning that O’Brien will only tape more of these conversations “whenever time and fate allow,” I personally await the next one with bated breath. He even gets into the subject of presidential senses of humor - evidently presidents aren’t allowed to have them anymore - which he picks up again in the show’s second interview, with comedy writer and filmmaker Judd Apatow. This is welcome, and a reason why I’d like to see him direct all of Team Coco’s considerable resources to these interviews from now on. Though the show’s title contains the word Serious and O’Brien speaks with genuine curiosity throughout, it also contains the words Jibber-Jabber, and I doubt he has it in him not to crack jokes. (If you’re going to borrow, they say, borrow from the best.) O’Brien’s followers may not know he has a fervent interest in presidential history, but after watching his interview with the man who wrote three volumes on Theodore Roosevelt and one on Ronald Reagan, they’ll certainly have found out.
In any case, he does it practically on the set of Charlie Rose: a table, chairs, a background of purest black, and no further distractions. Officially described as a web series wherein “Conan O’Brien has lengthy, uninterrupted conversations with interesting people on topics which fascinate him,” the show casts the icon of Gen-X irreverence not as a purveyor of intelligent silliness, but as a conversationalist in the mold of Charlie Rose. On Conan, he talked to Morris for seven minutes on Serious Jibber-Jabber, they talk for 47 minutes. He says it on Serious Jibber-Jabber, an altogether different operation. He didn’t say it when he brought Morris onto Conan, his late-night talk show on TBS. “This is my dream job,” Conan O’Brien says while in conversation with presidential biographer Edmund Morris.