Talk:Conan O'Brien

Is it really pertinent to have what time he was born? Mike H 19:24, Sep 9, 2004 (UTC)

It's an interesting trivia bit. I don't have any objection to it being there. Beginning 13:16, Sep 10, 2004 (UTC)

Mondays

I removed the line at the end of the article "Late Night does not air new episodes on Monday nights." because I don't think it has anything to do with O'Brien or the article (There is no mention of mondays besides this).

Cum Shot

In the education paragraph it says he graduated "magna cum shot".

LOL. Sounds like a dirty, dirty pun of magna cum laude. —MESSEDROCKER (talk) 21:12, August 27, 2005 (UTC)

Audience Interaction

Anyone notice that Conan pays a lot more attention to the audience now? Most of his jokes are groan inducing and comments about the audience's (often) mixed reaction frequently each monologue. In fact... Recently he stopped a bit to berate an audience member taking pictures of him.

Conan's style is changing. That's for sure.

--> http://www.wildboston.com/video/576/

Yeah, actually, that is the NBC photographer, not an audience member. (They don't allow tourists to bring cameras or other recording devices into the studio with them.) Even though Conan calls him an audience member, the guy really does work for the network, and Conan has actually "berated" the same guy on the show before, always in a playful and self-referential manner, typical of Conan's style as a host.

Sorry to burst anyone's bubble. This very erroneous rumor seems to have gotten a lot of play on the internet, much like the "David-Letterman-was-promised-the-Tonight-Show" rumor that I'm having to constantly remove from other articles. Telestylo 07:09, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Conan/Alligator YTMND fad

Should we mention something about Conan O'Brien being the star of the "Conan is... AN ALLIGATOR!" fad? —MESSEDROCKER (talk) 21:10, August 27, 2005 (UTC)

Interesting animation, but I don't think a YTMND 'fad' should ever be dignified with a reference in a non-YTMND related article. Sajt

if you search 'conan is' on ytmnd.com you get over 9 pages of him. I think thats pretty significant--eli

Webpage removal

Why does the conan-obrien.net webpage link keep getting removed from this article? I'm a newcomer--is there some WP policy rule against sites like this? I seem to find several such links on other celebrities' articles. Telestylo 07:25, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Probably best to ask User:Hall Monitor since he/she was the user who removed it. Akamad 22:21, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Nov 9th baby

With his show cancelled tonite, it probably means that his wife gave birth to their son, "Conando". --Madchester 06:01, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

She did indeed, at 8:27 pm. [1] Conan is back tonight (Nov. 10) with a new show. :D

Award show

I recall in one opening monologue, Conan said he hosted an award show. He cheated by holding the envelope up to the light to see the name, and resisted the urge to walk on stage and screech the winner’s name in one syllable. I forget the award’s name, but shouldn’t that be mentioned in here somewhere? —Frungi 22:52, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

No, as his little cheat didn't effect a thing. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 00:42, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

White Stripes

I saw a music video today by the White Stripes and Conan was in it. If anyone knows anything about this, maybe it could get a brief mention in the article? Under trivia maybe.

It's in there, the second-to-last graf under Late Night. BabuBhatt 00:22, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

The quote

Under the "Quotes" section, I removed the following:

Somehow, Conan O’Brien has transformed himself into the brightest star in the Late Night firmament. His comedy is the gold standard and Conan himself is not only the quickest and most inventive wit of his generation, but quite possibly the greatest host ever." — Conan O’Brien, 2000 Harvard Commencement Speech

I wouldn't put it past Conan to speak of himself in the third person, but I checked the link and could find no quote resembling this. (Perhaps this was actually taken from the introduction to his speech, but I couldn't find that, either.) So I replaced it with a quote that actually did come from his speech. 23skidoo 06:04, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

It's real. I've seen a video of the speech somewhere (his show?) before. A google search of harvard.edu turns up an article which quotes half the quote.[2]. The full text can be found in an article on E2.[3] --waffle iron 06:28, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

OK, I found it on the E2 site, however the quote was presented out of context anyway. If you read the transription you'll see Conan adds that he just made that up, etc. I have no idea why it didn't show up when I accessed the site last night. But in any event, if you want to put the original quote back, go ahead, however you should include the rest of the comment in order to give the quote some context (and explain why Conan is referring to himself in third person which is what made me suspicious in the first place). 23skidoo 15:44, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Ireland

My understanding is that Conan makes alot of his Irish heritage and has possibly done a show from ireland as well as going all out st. patrick's day, should there be a reference to this in the main article?

O'Brien and YTMND

I agree with the discussion started by eli. Conan is HUGE on YTMND and YTMND is huge on the Internet. It should at least be mentioned somewhere. Especially when you mention the 'conan vs bear' stuff, which is my first time of hearing about it. =\