Last night I was watching a rerun of the Conan show. It was the first show with the writers back after the strike. They played a montage of all of these things they did to fill the first 20 minutes of the show, where the monologue would usually be. Wow…talk about bittersweet. I hadn’t laughed at Conan’s show more than when his writers were away. The things he did were outrageous, original and downright funny. From turning the studio into a “German nightclub” with lasers to putting a replica of his desk on a forklift and driving it around the studio to saving Abe Lincoln from the night at the theater by ziplining down the studio audience in smoking boots and an Oscar Mayer helmet…it was all just funny because you didn’t know what he was going to do next!
Since the writers have been back, I’d say 9 out of 10 jokes barely get more than a sympathy clap or two. They just need to add cricket noises to complete the feeling you get watching it. Maybe they need to get back whomever was thinking up the stuff he was doing when the writers were gone and add them to the team. I shudder to think that he may get even more tame when he takes over for that tool Leno in the 11:30 slot.
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