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Conan’s Monologue & Cold Open On TBS

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday November 8, 2010 @ 7:12pm PSTTags: Conan, Conan Launch, Conan O'Brien TBS, Conan Premiere, Conan Video, Jon Hamm, Larry King, Late Night TV, TV, Video
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What Ratings Will Make ‘Conan’ A Success?

Here is a transcript of Conan O’Brien’s opening monologue as well as the opening video at tonight’s premiere of his late-night show on TBS.  The clip features dramatizations of Conan’s telling NBC brass to “go to hell” for trying to move him to 12:05 AM and of him taking TBS’ offer for “much less” as well as a Godfather spoof and scenes with Jon Hamm as  Don Draper from Mad Men and Larry King as Conan’s guardian angel.

Thank you.  Thank you and welcome to my 2nd Annual first show.

Yes, I know what you guys are thinking, “Hey, it’s the guy from Twitter.”

Welcome to my new show, “Conan.”  People ask me why I named the show “Conan.”  I did it so I’d be harder to replace.

This is an exciting night.  I’m glad to be on cable.  The truth is, I’ve dreamed of being a talk show host on basic cable ever since I was 46.

And things are going well already.  I’m happy to report that we’re already #1 in TBS’s key demographic — people who can’t afford HBO.

I’m going to be honest:  It’s not easy doing a late-night show on a channel without a lot of money and that viewers have trouble finding.  So that’s why I left NBC.

But the weird thing is this:  I put myself and my staff through a lot because I refused to go on at midnight.  So I get this job at eleven.  Then, yesterday, Daylight Savings Time ended — so right now it’s basically midnight.  In fact, it’s 12:05.

A lot’s happened in the news since I went off the air — and I was hoping I could cover it all in one joke.  But then I realized that’s like trying to keep an Icelandic volcano from wearing Lady Gaga’s meat dress while a trapped Chilean miner cleans up the BP oil spill…Brett Favre’s penis.

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Fans Start Camping Out For Conan Launch

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Sunday November 7, 2010 @ 6:40pm PSTTags: Cable TV, Conan, Conan Launch, Conan O'Brien TBS, Conan Premiere, Late Night TV, TBS Conan, TV

Team Coco says 5 of “our most die-hardest-ever fans” are already camped out for standby tickets on Forest Lawn Drive outside the Warner Brothers lot in advance of Conan O’Bren coming back to late night television Monday at 11 PM ET/PT. “We popped over and took them some soda, granola … Read More »

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Conan Draws Viewers With ‘Live Cam’ Stunt

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday October 21, 2010 @ 10:27pm PDTTags: Conan, Conan O'Brien, Conan O'Brien TBS, Conan Premiere, Conan Promo, Late Night TV, Live CoCo Cam, TV
Nellie Andreeva

Conan O’Brien got a solid pre-launch sampling with the 24-hour broadcast of the Live CoCo Cam from the offices of the comedian’s upcoming late-night show on TBS. According to preliminary estimates, some 660,000 viewers tuned in to check out the … Read More »

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Seth Rogen, Tom Hanks And Jon Hamm Among First Conan Guests

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday October 21, 2010 @ 8:34am PDTTags: Conan, Conan O'Brien TBS, Conan Premiere, Jon Hamm, Late Night TV, Michael Cera, Tom Hanks, TV
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UPDATED: Conan‘s bookers may still be shooting for the Pope and Russian president Vladimir Putin for the first guest spot that is being determined by a fan poll but they went with Hollywood types for the … Read More »

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Conan’s TBS Show Will Be Called ‘Conan’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday September 1, 2010 @ 7:57am PDTTags: Conan, Conan O'Brien, Conan O'Brien TBS, Conan Premiere, Conan Video, Late Night TV, Lopez Tonight, TBS Late Night, Youtube Video
Nellie Andreeva

Conan O’Brien announced the name of his upcoming late-night talk show on TBS in a Youtube video this morning. Conan will premiere on the cable network on Nov. 8, paired with Lopez Tonight.

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