Another fine cold open leads to a solid opener. During the monologue, it felt like he had never left. Guests I could have done without :) but it was fun to watch him performing with Jack White.
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So good to have Conan back. The cold open was awesome, the monologue was great (complete with a Masturbating Bear cameo), and Conan performing with Jack White gave me the same kind of chills I got when Conan performed Freebird with Will Ferrell.
Also gotta love Jon Stewart acknowledging Conan on The Daily Show tonight. God bless DVR's, just because I don't know I'd be able to watch both shows without it.
Originally posted by Mr Heel IIGlad to see Andy on the couch again.
I forgot to mention that. Yeah, I commented as much to my family while watching it. Doing the "announcer" thing was rather uninspired. Now he's back on the couch where he belongs.
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A really good show. Good to see the Basic Cable band, even if it's still sans Max Weinberg. At least we still got La Bamba. The moving moon background cracked me up. And I liked the nutcracker lady being the 'first guest' though part of me wanted the Nobel prize winner so Conan could rip on him a little more. As a real first guest, Seth Rogen was good. So was Jack White. Lea Michelle? Not so much.
The most important thing to me was that you could absolutely tell both Conan & Andy were so happy to be back on the air. It's only one episode, but they definitely look good on TBS.
Now can we all stop ragging on George Lopez? He is the one that got Conan back on, after all. And as a Latino, I would like to hear about the only Latino late night host without the words 'stinks', 'sucks', or 'Sabado Giante', which doesn't even count, IMO.
Seth Rogen stopped the show dead with his uncollected notions on marriage. He needed time to find his footing, and then he was gone. If they held off the Glee girl until tonight, a warmed-up Seth and Jack White would be a fine line-up for the first show back. Three was too much for this show and its obligatory big-return bits.
Masturbating Bear within the first 15 minutes is a good sign.
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Didn't watch the show, I'll probably scope it onlune on HUlu or something. I'll be watching tonight though because it's going to be kick'n. The ratings were going to be great for the first one regardless who was on the show, so they loaded up the second show with TOM HANKS. And as has been established before; Conan + Tom Hanks = Must Watch.
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Well I hate to be the one to rain on the parade but I thought the opening and Conan's monologue were good, not great, while Seth Rogen was boring as hell. I'm guessing most people liked him just because they like his work (probably better than Lea Michele's anyway) but he didn't say a single thing remotely interesting or funny. In fact, other than Hanks/McBrayer night the guests for the first two weeks is pretty uninspiring.
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I just cannot understand why, other than Sherlock Holmes, Guy Richie flicks aren't box office hits. This movie was really fun and the set up of the two main characters hating each other was great.
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