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CONAN CONAN CONAN!!!

Written by Matt Ufford / 01.15.10

Man, who else is looking forward to TWO WHOLE DAYS of no Conan news this weekend? I love the guy, but I’m really looking forward to this whole thing being over… and according to The Daily Beast, it will be soon. O’Brien will receive an undisclosed buyout, and — contrary to Jeff Zucker’s threats — will be able to work for another network as soon as he likes.

In other “Tonight Show” news that people are talking about, Conan put the show up for sale on Craigslist (video here), and he also addressed the offer he received to appear in a porn. There are some pretty good porn titles in his list, but I’m disappointed that they went with “Crammin’ O’Brien” when “Bonin’ or Cryin’” would have been so much better.

And just for fun — and because I’m running out of cats and dogs to Photoshop into my stock Conan O’Brien picture — above is an old clip from “Late Night” where Conan & friends play Led Zeppelin’s “Dazed and Confused” that includes an awesome dream sequence in which Conan kills George Plimpton. And thank goodness for this YouTube commenter:

There’s no way andy is actually playing this, his hand positions are totally wrong, his right hand rhythms are way off time and he’s not even fretting the easy single string notes during the verse. If you’ve ever played guitar, its easy to see that this is all synch performing. awesome on Conan and talent shows, but not real.

Oh, so Andy Richter isn’t one of the best guitar players on Earth? Thanks for clearing that up for me.

Also, for good measure, Led Zep’s version:

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Matt Ufford posted

"CONAN CONAN CONAN!!!"

  1. 01.15.10 at 4:08 pm
    Enrico Pallazzo

    Andy’s open letter to “television” last night was hilarious.

    /and a hot plate!!!

  2. 01.15.10 at 4:14 pm
    Zack

    “Long story short, I spent some money.”

    Doesn’t look all that funny now that I wrote it down, but when I heard Andy say those words I laughed so hard I almost fell out of bed.

    /Sleeps in a bed shaped like a race car.

  3. 01.15.10 at 4:20 pm
    WhyDoYouAsk

    @Zack: LUCKY!!!

    Also, the Zep video serves as a reminder that I should smoke marijuana.

  4. 01.15.10 at 4:29 pm
    Kid Presentable

    Leno actually sleeps in a hollowed out 1927 Model X Duesenberg.

  5. 01.15.10 at 4:32 pm
    Latetotheparty

    [www.nytimes.com]

    There is no shortage of funny. We should send some to Haiti–they’re baking frownies!

  6. 01.15.10 at 4:45 pm
    Stinky Pete

    Another “awesome” vote for Andy Richter’s statement last night, I was disappointed Hulu didn’t have that clip separate from the entire show.

  7. 01.15.10 at 5:24 pm
    Oski

    I hadn’t seen the Song Remains the Same for a while, when I looked up “Dazed and Confused + The Song Remains the Same” I found that it was a 30 minute version and I remembered why I never really sat through the whole thing.

    [video.google.com]

    Skip to around the 12 minute mark to see Jimmy Page climbing the rocks which is what Andy was doing in the parody.

  8. 01.15.10 at 5:29 pm
    Stinky Pete

    VH1 Classic (shut up…) shows that movie once in a while, so I’ve seen it recently. The dream sequence parodies are spot on.

  9. 01.15.10 at 6:08 pm
    DAGOTRON

    @Latetotheparty

    I saw that last night, and while I see the potential for humor, it really only serves to piss me off even more. Jay Leno had the same thing — THE SAME FUCKING THING — happen to him 16 years ago, and Letterman had enough class to say, “Thanks, but no thanks.”

    Read that article again. Leno said the exact same things then about the Tonight Show that Conan is saying now. You would think he’d take some sort of lesson from that, but now, when given the chance for some sort of karmic retribution, he shows he never deserved it in the first place.

    /the very mention of Leno counts as a dick joke

  10. 01.15.10 at 8:28 pm
    Påüłÿ Ðąηgęrσűşľγ

    My heroin in wearing off…..

  11. 01.16.10 at 3:23 am
    Mac

    As far as Hulu is concerned, they’re displaying a “Collection: Late Night Drama” with a picture of Conan, and when you click the link, it takes you to a Leno monologue…which…my god…I always assumed…but I didn’t know. I didn’t know it would be so bad.

  12. 01.16.10 at 9:51 am
    Farthammer

    Here’s all you need to know about Leno: he banged Sandra Bernhard.

  13. 01.16.10 at 11:09 am
    Rowdy Roddy Peeper

    Jay Leno is a fucking fat hump.

  14. 01.17.10 at 9:33 pm
    Medisoft

    Conan is a LOT funnier than Leno on his worst night.

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