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Conan O’Brien’s longtime sidekick Andy Richter will join him on O’Brien’s upcoming late-night talk show on TBS, which premieres on November 8. Richter rose to fame on Late Night with Conan O’Brien on NBC where he spent 7 years before leaving in 2000 to pursue acting career. Richter reunited with O’Brien last year on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien and on this summer’s Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour. He was recently seen on TBS hosting Team Coco Presents: The Conan Writers Live. “I’m thrilled to be going back to work with Conan, and very excited to start a whole new venture on TBS,” Richter said. “However, I am mostly looking forward to getting out of the house again.” Conan O’Brien added, “This decision was made without my authority. I will get to the bottom of this.” Conan will originate from Stage 15 at Warner Bros. Studios and will be produced by Conaco LLC. Jeff Ross is the executive producer.
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Ugh. So not funny.
I would think, that the new show would encompass everything and everyone Conan always wanted to have involved with his project. With the relaxed boundaries of cable, this should be the show he has dreamed of doing and doing it his way without broadcast network suits messing up his vision for the show. I’m not a fan of his comedy but I am a fan of how he handled the insanity that swallowed him up this year regarding the suit wearing idiots of NBC.
Richter the show killer. Won’t they ever learn?
The greatest job in Hollywood – stand at a podium, feign laughter and get paid. Wow! This guy’s hit the lotto….twice!
Why all the hate for Richter? He is one of the funniest guys around, despite his various failed sitcoms, and no one can deny his chemistry with Conan when they work together.
This has nothing to do with Deadline’s posting of the news, just a comment on the news itself:
I don’t get why some sites are so “surprised” that Richter is joining O’Brien again. What exactly has Richter been doing that he could possibly even say no to the offer?
Anyways.
My thoughts exactly.
Andy said in an interview that he still had a contract with NBC even after the TS stopped so my guess is they finally wrapped up a new deal at TBS which probably would allow more than just being Conan’s 2nd banana.
I know– for me Andy has always been the only compelling reason to watch. His initial absence really displayed Conan’s weaknesses as a host– his twitching, herky-jerky interview style, the way he steps on all his own jokes with his odd cadence. Somehow it always felt like Andy helped mask some of those flaws with his presence. Still, I know I won’t watch…
Richter was really funny when he sat on the couch, not so much as an announcer.
Agreed. He needs to move back to the couch, or move on. Standing at that podium was uncomfortable and pointless.
andy richter is, without a doubt, the single funniest man on the planet. frankly, he should be hosting this show and not playing sidekick to the red headed freak (and i mean freak in a good way).
Andy is fucking hilarious.
Now that they don’t have to pretend Andy is Ed McMahon, can we get him back to the couch and away from that silly podium?
Nothing like adding another turd to the Conan crap-fest.
So what’s the deal…is Andy still gonna be Conan’s constipated-sounding annnouncer or what.
Andy goes couch or Jimmy goes bye-bye. He was fantastic in the halcyon couch days.
I’m surprised by all of the negativity towards Conan. I think he’s pretty brilliant and by far the best thing to watch on late night. But he didn’t handle the NBC/Leno debacle with much class and his image is bruised.
His image is bruised? I think Leno came out much worse than Conan. I don’t think he could’ve handled the whole thing much better than he did. And now NBC is seeing that even putting Leno back isn’t a ratings bonanza. They got scared and when he didn’t play along NBC tried to make him out to be the bad guy when their own bad judgement was the cause.
Conan is bruised? Jay, is that you? Who in their right mind thinks Conan came out of that deal bruised? He refused to move to midnight to preserve the integrity of the historic Tonight Show franchise and to protect Jimmy Fallon’s late show. Jay basically said, “I don’t give a shit about anything but myself. Move back The Tonight Show!”
They were cutting the baby in half. Jay said, “Fine. Cut the baby.” But Conan said, “Stop! I don’t want the baby harmed. Give it to him.”
Jay’s reputation, helped by a disatrous appearance on oprah, is ruined forever. Meanwhile, Conan has achieved near sainthood in the industry. That said, I think Conan is at best the 4th best late night host, behind Jon Stewart, Jimmy Fallon and Colbert. I’m not sure that getting Andy back is a good thing for Conan. I think Max Weinberg was the better comic foil, but Max had heart surgery.
Agree that Conan and Max made a great pair because Max never seemed like he was acting–very smooth.
>>They were cutting the baby in half. Jay said, “Fine. Cut the baby.” But Conan said, “Stop! I don’t want the baby harmed. Give it to him.”<<
Really? Seems to me that Conan, with his "People of Earth" letter and his nonstop PR offensive since then, has been doing everything possible to harm the "Tonight Show" baby. Conan's the one, frankly, who started this mess by insisting back in 2004 that the then-top-rated Leno be pushed aside.
“Miffy” — you even sound like an NBC publicist. Nobody else would spew bile that Conan hurt The Tonight Show when the guy clearly went to the wall to save the franchise that he loved. “The People of Earth” letter is widely considered the most intelligent, thought provoking, rational, well intentioned thing to come out of Hollywood in the past year.
When I said Conan’s image was bruised I wasn’t looking to make comparisons to Leno.
Leno’s image is destroyed. Or more accurately, it was destroyed 20 years ago when he sunk “The Tonight Show.” (I don’t care about the ratings; his show is a nightly train wreck)
Nonetheless, Conan whined on-air for a few weeks, whined on his comedy tour, and then whined some more on “60 Minutes.” He got a raw deal from NBC and he turned it into satire, but I still believe it was the wrong approach to play the victim role. I like Conan but he was always upbeat and absurd, whereas now I associate him with bitterness. He could’ve taken the high road and he didn’t, and now he’ll have to fight for an audience.
The classic definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome.
At least Max bailed, even if it wasn’t exactly by choice.
This has craptasm written all over it.
I guess his unemployment benefits ran out.
Conan rocks. I can’t wait to see the new show.
I think it’s important for Conan to have Andy on the coach, instead of at a podium, because Andy is always a little teeny bit at war with Conan, and the Conan-Andy war gave the original show a bit of a built-in reality TV show edge. Even if the guests were boring and the comedy was just OK, it was kind of interesting trying to figure out what was going on between Conan and Andy.
I find it nothing short of hilarious that this entire comment thread doesn’t mention the true and original demon in all of this, (firstly and foremost to every General Electric shareholder), Jeffrey F#cker…Yes, Jay was and is a real heck of a Patsy, and definitely will live in eternal infamy over all this, like Cain to Conan’s Able, but Zucker was the Evil, if not clumsy, Darth Sidious to Leno’s Vader and O’Brien’s Kenobi…Thankfully, Conan has not chosen to go hide in a cave on Tatooine for the rest of his life, but I do agree that Andy Richter is the Luke Skywalker in all of this!…Can’t wait to watch the new chapters of this soap opera drama unfold, starting in November, and see what the new Comcast NBC Management does when Jay get his A$$ kicked in the ratings by just about everyone else…I did think that it was extremely classy and endearing that David Letterman ran the Conan Blimp back and forth in his background set tonight…Boy! What I would give for one of those in my living room to run back and forth while I flip back and forth between Conan and Dave!
While I’m not a fan of his comedy, Andy Richter is able to play the uncomfortable straight man to Conans bafoonery very well. Maybe Max Senet would’ve paired these two eight decades ago.
I always loved the special chemistry that Conan and Andy had in the old days. The show wasn’t quite the same after Andy left and it wasn’t even quite the same when he came back to stand at the podium. Andy needs to get back on the couch and get back to that back and forth between him and Conan. They make a great pair!
Andy needs to be made more like a co-host, instead of it being mostly Conan with Andy just being like Ed McMahon was with Johnny C. The interplay between Conan and Andy is more entertaining than either of the two alone.