Conan Got Boned

It’s hard to believe I’ve been silent on this issue for this long. I’ve been a fan of Conan for years and his move to the Tonight Show was a dream come true. Well, I got to enjoy it for all of seven months.

Taste in comedy is just about as subjective as you can get, so I’ll refrain from badmouthing Leno. I just can’t believe they chose The Chin over Coco though. Conan needed more time to build his Tonight Show audience (because you’ll always have people disappointed over any host change), while Leno’s show five days a week at 10p was just a clunker of an idea. Conan and the entire staff moved coast-to-coast expecting job security at the longest running late show in America. And Andy was back co-hosting!

The silver lining I suppose is that the last shows were truly gems. Big guest stars showing support. The return of the masturbating bear. And I loved watching Kathie Lee Gifford on the 10th hour of the Today Show getting her feathers all ruffled over Conan’s “spend as much NBC money as we can” skits (even after the one where the dino fossil sprays caviar all over an “original Picasso” and Conan has to confess that the $$$ millions spent… Really weren’t).

Oh, watchable Tonight Show, I hardly knew ye.