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Conan O'Brien to Host Late-Night Show on TBS

Sam Schechner and Lauren A. E. Schuker, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 12, 2010 at 10:37 am PT

Conan O’Brien will host a new late-night TV show on cable network TBS this fall, giving him a new platform on cable television less than a year after he left NBC in an acrimonious blowup. Mr. O’Brien’s yet-to-be titled show will debut in November, and run four nights a week at 11 p.m. Eastern time.

Conan Who? NBC Disappears “The Tonight Show” From the Web.

Peter Kafka in Media on February 6, 2010 at 10:01 am PT

Remember the whole Conan O’Brien/Jay Leno imbroglio from last month? Perhaps NBC wishes you didn’t. It has removed every episode of the show’s seven-month run from its NBC.com site, as well as Hulu. YouTube is pretty barren, too.

Viral Video: "Rocket Man" Shatner Channels "Maverick" Palin (Watch Out, Tina Fey!)

Kara Swisher in News on July 29, 2009 at 2:53 am PT

In a genius pairing of subject and artist, here is the best online viral video this week from Conan O’Brien’s “Tonight Show,” featuring actor William Shatner reciting outgoing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s recent farewell speech verbatim. You simply can’t make this stuff up.

Viral Video: Twitter TRACKER Massacres Blue Birdies on CoCo's Tonight Show

Kara Swisher in News on June 11, 2009 at 1:37 am PT

Even if it never makes any money, Twitter certainly does provide fabulous material for television spoofs. So far, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have done several funny bits on Comedy Central, deftly mocking the microblogging service. And now, Conan O’Brien is doubling down with two skits so far dubbed “Twitter TRACKER” on “The Tonight Show.” In them, a loudmouthed voice delivers pointless celebrity tweets as a flock of blue cartoon Twitter birdies is murdered in various ingenious ways.