Here’s Conan O’Brien at the sound check for his show in Eugene playing Radiohead’s breakthrough single “Creep.” This is the kind of thing that sets my loins aflame (in a good way), but I realize that the Coco love is a little too strong around here sometimes. To offer a dissenting opinion, my good friend Carlos — a half-Mexican Texan but otherwise stellar human being — emailed me the other day.
Do New Yorkers really love Conan so much or is that they hate Leno with a vengeance? I scroll between WWTDD and your blog and it just appears that you guys would both take a bullet for him. Maybe we are just dumb rednecks down here who have sex with our cousins, but I have asked around and it seems like nobody gives a rat’s ass.
It’s a valid point: most people don’t care. But sporting a Cone-bone isn’t something unique to New York, like pride in the size of subway rats (Brendon from WWTDD is from Louisiana, after all). Conan doesn’t have appeal to Joe Schmoe, which is why he isn’t hosting “The Tonight Show.” He appeals to longtime “Simpsons” fans, freelance artists without health care, and people who’ve been to Radiohead shows and know that Thom Yorke’s accent is more pronounced in concert. He’s a comic for geeks, and his self-deprecation doesn’t translate to “redneck.” I should know, I tried being self-deprecating in the Marine Corps, and my first C.O. almost fired me. That’s not a joke, by the way. It really happened, and it’s a big reason why I’m wearing a bathrobe today instead of camouflage utilities.
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awful song, but um … thanks for your service?
I’m a proud member of Team CoCo, I’m from Texas, and although I’m not Mexican I think I’ve slept with enough to be considered one. Your friend’s argument is invalid.
after careful consideration, i have decided to remove Conan from my fanhouse. with the amount of time i devote to other things these days (new job, video games, this shit), you have to remain consistently funny to keep my attention.
I regret very few things in life (that’s a lie), but holy crap do I regret not buying tickets for either of his Radio City shows. Not good when the best option is Stubhub and their 100% service charge.
As a Texan who’s half Mexan I would say he might be right, but that doesn’t mean he speaks for everybody because I and other people I know down here are definitely on Team COCO. It makes sense though, my friends would have more in common with me so they are bound to be Conan fans while Carlos’s friends probably are like him and don’t give a rat’s ass.
I am neither Texan, or Mexican but I did read the first page of the review in today’s LA Times. I stopped reading because I didn’t want to turn the page and I didn’t like that it wasn’t a good review.
Uff, you should have let your CO pull the Walker Texas Ranger lever. He would have made you his executive vice president.
It’s just another phase of the Culture Wars that Americans are obsessed with.
If you don’t adamantly support TEAM COCO and denounce the lowest common denominator humour of Jay Leno, then you might as well be handing the country over to the the religious fanatics in the South who will take away your right to an abortion and will turn the country into a theocracy that worships ignorance. By not enthusiastically supporting COCO, you have failed as a young, progressive white person.
The joke is that he’s playing that song with a Les Paul and no distortion during the chorus. Am I right?
/waits for a fellow guitar nerd to respond
I made out with an undocument Mexican worker at a McDonald’s company picnic once*, and I’m on Team Coco.
* Also not a joke.
Maybe he knows only hipsters care about him and that’s why he’s going to TBS – to try and increase his audience to non-dipshits.
Leno sucks but but Craig Ferguson has been the best late night host on tv. Conan has not been funny to me since I got out of high school and Andy Richter left the show. I am a Simpsons fan and as an engineer probably a geek but I agree with your Texican friend
I wish Helen Mirren would bitch slap me.
I’m South Mississippi Redneck (the reddest of rednecks) and I love Conan.
bathrobe is a much more comfortable and practical choice.
*rolls sleeves, heavy sigh, unrolls sleeves, rolls them again, goes to company office, gets yelled at by 1st sgt, re-rerolls sleeves, leaves company office, goes boots and utes, hides under LAV*