At 11:35 p.m. Friday, Conan O'Brien will begin his final Tonight Show. All week, Conan's been making fun of his abbreviated time with the late-night franchise – joking about the show's .6th anniversary, listing pop culture fads that lasted less than seven months. But even if Coco's absurdist version of The Tonight Show never got the chance to grow into itself, we'll always have some fantastic memories. The following list of great bits from the Conan Era (June 2009-January 2010) is purely personal. Looking back over these seven months (quite a bit of the show's run is available on hulu), I'm...
- 1/22/2010
- by Darren Franich
- EW.com - PopWatch
On the off chance that someone out there in HuffPost-land hasn't already read Steve Martin's Born Standing Up, I thought I would point out that having just finished it, this may be for my money the single greatest book ever written about the business of show. More specifically, Born Standing Up may be the least show bizzy book about show business. In a business full of name-dropping, credit-grabbing, spotlight-seeking attention whores -- see me and pretty much everyone else I've run into -- Steve Martin has always stood apart. Having interviewed Martin for Rolling Stone and worked around him on a few TV events over the years, I can confirm that Steve Martin seems neither wild nor crazy, with a personal temperament far closer to a wry but thoughtful academic than your standard issue lounge lizard. Accordingly, Born Standing...
- 6/2/2009
- by David Wild
- Huffington Post
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