Just Listen: WTF with Marc Maron Featuring Conan O'Brien

In this episode of WTF with Marc Maron, he and Conan discuss:

• Conan's childhood
• The burden of being well endowed
• Dating a "Friend"
• How he landed his first late night gig at NBC
• Conan's Harvard experience vs. the Harvard seen in The Social Network
• Literary progeria and the works of Flannery O'Connor & William Faulkner

Random Geekery: Conan O'Brien Goes In On DC Comics

The DC Comics Encyclopedia, Updated and Expanded Edition

Conan O'Brien Takes A Trip To Google's Offices

Why Does Conan O'Brien Hate Pittsburgh?

Conan O'Brien recently kicked off his live stage show, The Legally Prohibited From Being Funny On Television Tour, last week in Eugen, Oregon.  This tour was his way of thanking the fans for all of the support they showed him while getting screwed by NBC.  Apparently, he's crisscrossing the U.S. and parts of Canada while he kills time before he starts his TBS show in November.  The one question that I have is, "Where's the Pittsburgh date?"  He's going to see everyone and their mother, but Pittsburgh gets the shaft.  What's up with that?

Anyway, you can check to see if he's coming to your town (which he probably is), by clicking the link below.


Click Here For More Tour Date Info

Conan O'Brien Changes Lives One Tweet At A Time

Conan O'Brien made his twitter debut on February 24th with this gem of a tweet:

Now, like most celebs as soon as he tweeted he received thousands of followers within seconds while following no one himself . . . until today. Today, O'Brien unleashed his star power on one, Sarah Killen aka LovelyButton by announcing to all of twitter his decision to follow her. With a single tweet she has gained over 5,000 followers within two hours of his tweet.  Killen, who describes herself as, "fairly new to twitter and not at all tech-savvy" is even on 77 lists and she only follows 87 people as of this posting.

What was Ms. Killen's response to her sudden internet fame?  Well, take a look for yourselves: Click Here

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P.S.  If any celebs happen to stumble upon this blog, please feel free to make me e-famous as well. -> 8thlight

Late Nite Online With Jimmy Fallon?

I am late on this one, but it definitely seems like a great idea. I was against him being chosen, but at least he'll have plenty of practice before hand.

Fallon Will Start ‘Late Night’ on the Web

July 21, 2008

By BILL CARTER

LOS ANGELES — With a new round of shake-ups in late-night television set to begin next year, Lorne Michaels has decided to try to get a jump on things by starting NBC’s next edition of “Late Night,” with its new host Jimmy Fallon, as a nightly entry on the Internet.

Mr. Fallon has been named as the replacement for Conan O’Brien when Mr. O’Brien takes over the “Tonight” show from Jay Leno next year, and Mr. Michaels, the long-time boss of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live,” who also serves as executive producer of “Late Night,” told television reporters here Sunday that he wants Mr. Fallon to work out as many of the rough spots in his presentation as possible in performances on a website.

Mr. Michaels said he did not know yet which site he will use to post the shows with Mr. Fallon, but he was sure of several of the plans:

The web performances will likely begin in the fall, long before the transition from Mr. Leno for Mr. O’Brien is set to take place. The entries will not constitute anything like an entire hour-long show. “I expect that we’ll do something like five or 10 minutes,” Mr. Michaels said.

But he said they most likely will be on every night, to try to establish the rhythm of a nightly show. And he said, “I’m going to post them at 12:30 every night, so people will begin to look for Jimmy at that time.”

NBC is expected to announce the schedule for the transition from Mr. Leno to Mr. O’Brien and from Mr. O’Brien to Mr. Fallon here tomorrow. NBC executives have previously said that Mr. O’Brien will probably stop production on his “Late Night” show in February, while he moves west and prepares to lead “Tonight” from a new stage now being built on the lot of the NBC Universal studio.

Mr. Leno is expected to continue until perhaps June. Mr. Michaels said Sunday that Mr. Fallon will definitely get some time on the air following Mr. Leno before Mr. O’Brien takes over “Tonight.” He pegged the likely start date for Mr. Fallon on the television version of the show as “sometime in the spring.”

One reason for trying out the show online, Mr. Michaels said, is that the Internet will allow Mr. Fallon more freedom in terms of what he can say and do, “more opportunity for experimentation,” Mr. Michaels said. But he added that he didn’t expect the show to push the line too far in terms of content. “I think we’re our own censors,” he said.

But the main reason for the idea, he said, was the experience of Mr. O’Brien, who endured a long period of uncertainty about whether he would survive after he assumed the desk on “Late Night” succeeding David Letterman. “Conan needed time to find his show,” Mr. Michaels said. “I think this will help Jimmy to do that.”