I’m scratching my head a bit over this one, but to hell with it. I will watch Conan O’Brien no matter where he ends up doing his show.
Conan will be starting his new show on TBS in November, airing on Mondays through Thursdays at 11pm Eastern… pushing back George Lopez‘s show to midnight. The conquered has become the conqueror.
“The good news: I will be doing a show on TBS starting in November! The bad news: I’ll be playing Rudy on the all new Cosby Show.”
In a statement released earlier, Conan stated:
“In three months, I’ve gone from network television to Twitter to performing live in theaters, and now I’m headed to basic cable. My plan is working perfectly.”
Source: Conan O’Brien to make TBS his new late-night home [Yahoo News]
Conan O’Brien and Fox are getting closer to completing a deal to bring the floppy-haired host back to TV, but concerns from affiliates may derail the entire deal.
Fox has already gotten concessions from Conan’s camp, including an agreement to cut his salary and lower production costs. But Conan is insisting that Fox guarantee that all stations across the country will air his show. This requires consent from the affiliates, who are hesitant because they will lose money if they have to replace episodes of Seinfeld and The Simpsons with a talk show.
There are a few other sticking points in the negotiations, including Conan’s desires to own the show rather than work as an employee for Fox and have it start at 11 p.m., 35 minutes before Letterman and Leno. But those issues will likely be settled easily and the only thing standing in the way of the world once again enjoying Conan’s stupid little dances will be those evil affiliates.
Give him his damn show!
source: Affiliates Might Keep Conan From Going to Fox [ny mag]
It’s Friday again and you know what that means! It’s time for us to talk about Lady Gaga giving herself a mental orgasm and Kirstie Alley’s Conan revenge!
Without further ado, I give you the top ten celebrity quotes of the week!
“Bieber fever – I’m not necessarily a fan. I don’t listen to that kind of music. I like, like, Kurt Cobain is like my dream boyfriend.”
– Miley Cyrus, clarifying her musical crushes, to MTV
“I don’t starve myself in an extremist way. You’re not taking away my coffee or my dairy or my glass of wine because I’d be devastated. My advice: just stop eating s– every day.”
– Jennifer Aniston, on her sensible diet, to Harper’s Bazaar U.K. magazine
“Here’s proof that love is alive and well in Hollywood – at least for my darling husband and my husband’s darling husband.”
– Jennifer Garner, joking about the “prototype for the great Hollywood bromance” – the relationship between her husband Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, at the presentation of the 24th American Cinematheque Award
“I’m so excited The Hills is finally over and I can now become a full-time motion picture actress.”
– Heidi Montag, revealing her post-reality show plans to become a Hollywood mogul, to People
“Some people overdo it a little bit. I don’t want to say names – Conan O’Brien. And I don’t want to say the word karma, but he doesn’t have a show and I do.”
– Kirstie Alley, having her revenge for being late-night show fodder, on Rachael Ray
“[Russell] likes to buy those bride magazines. He’s a bridezilla! He wants everything to be monogrammed.”
“Like they said, he is half-baked. They pulled him out of the oven too soon. He wasn’t properly formed.”
– Sharon Osbourne, describing her Celebrity Apprentice co-competitor Rod Blagojevich, on The Ellen DeGeneres Show
“I don’t know if this is too much for your magazine, but I can actually mentally give myself an orgasm.”
– Lady Gaga, to New York magazine
“I am so glad I’m DEAF! Every time they mention Justin Bieber or Taylor Lautner, 10,000 girls SCREAM here at Nickelodeon’s KCA!…Now Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus here at KCA. They are screaming so loud even I CAN HEAR IT!”
– Hearing impaired actress Marlee Matlin, Tweeting from the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards
“I guess she doesn’t read magazines, which makes sense because she basically has one on her face.”
– Chelsea Handler, questioning how Jesse James’ alleged mistress Michelle McGee could have not known that he was married, on her E! online blog
Conan O’Brienannounced today that he will be kicking off his 30 city “Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television” tour on April 12th in Eugene, OR.
The show’s name comes from the clause in Conan’s exit contract that prohibits him from appearing on TV until September.
O’Brien will be joined on the road by his band and sidekick Andy Richter, plus about 40 people who worked for him on The Tonight Show.
Ticket prices start at $39.50 and can be purchased at TeamCoco.com.
This week, we had some really good and downright funny quotes from celebrities. We’ve got Adam Sandler talking to Conan O’Brien this week, along with John Mayer’s sex talk and who could forget Shania Twain’s “American Idol” compliment?
“I have some presence of psychological damage from the past 36 months. I have not had a woman appear in my dreams sexually without a paparazzi in the dream too.”
– John Mayer, on the negative effects fame has had on his romantic life, to “Rolling Stone”
“Any man I find, they’re going to be darn lucky!”
– Jessica Simpson, tooting her own horn at the Television Critics Association press tour
“I was very surprised and, yes, you have a beautiful bottom end.”
– “American Idol” guest judge Shania Twain, awkwardly praising Idol hopeful John Park
“I was shocked and appalled – because she only paid $30,000.”
– Fellow plastic surgery buff Joan Rivers, pointing out the real crime in Heidi Montag’s multiple surgical procedures, on “The Wendy Williams Show”
“If it gets people in the seats, yes, Zac Efron and the Twilight guy. All the Twilight guys – every one of them with their shirts off, and Will Smith.”
– Justin Bartha, joking about the rumored cast of the sequel to “Hangover”, to “Access Hollywood”
“I love people too much to cook for them!”
– Drew Barrymore, to “People”
“God bless her that she likes older guys. And some wonderful enhancements have happened in the last few years – Viagra, Cialis – that can make us all feel younger.”
– Michael Douglas, 65, on bridging the 25-year age gap between him and wife Catherine Zeta-Jones, to “AARP” magazine
“Go through my high school yearbooks – I always looked like a f– weirdo.”
– Pop upstart Ke$ha, on how her rebellious image isn’t just an act, to “EW”
“I don’t know what to say, but Meryl’s a good kisser.”
– Sandra Bullock, after lip-locking with Streep, with whom she shared best actress honors at the Annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards
“Somethin’ that’s been bother me, and I think botherin’ all of America is we haven’t seen you cry yet. I’m nervous about the shooting rampage if you don’t.â€
-Adam Sandler to Conan O’Brien on “The Tonight Show”
Jeff Zucker talked to the NY Times about the NBC/Conan O’Brien/Jay Leno kerfuffle and came out with this response: “We Didn’t Have Time to Make Everyone Happy”. Nice one.
Couldn’t he have tried to make at least some of us happy? Instead, NBC has opted to kiss the chin butt of former “Tonight Show” host Jay Leno.
In the interview, Zucker said that he has been receiving death threats over ditching O’Brien and called it merely a “business decision”.
Sure, it’s nothing personal after you and your staff have uprooted all of your families to move out here to tape a show. Nothing personal at all.
Zucker admitted that NBC had tried to find a compromise solution. But O’Brien didn’t seem interested, he said.
“Ultimately he couldn’t get his head around it,” Zucker said, according to a Twitter report from Broadcasting & Cable. “We didn’t have all the time and all the room to make everyone happy.”
Twitter reaction to Zucker’s interview indicated that Rose may have been unusually tough on Zucker, asking at one point whether his company was “in shambles.”
Zucker said, “We made a business decision here, and so we believe we’ve made the right business decision. We think that Jay, who was the ratings champ in late night for almost 15 years, will go back to 11:35 and be successful.”
Coco had it right with this little bit:
What do you think?
source: Zucker on Conan: ‘We Didn’t Have Time to Make Everyone Happy’ (video) – [the wrap]
TGIF! And to celebrate we have some of the funniest celebrity quotes this week. For starters, we’ve got Conan O’Brien, Sandra Bullock’s revenge and Channing Tatum’s penis!
“Meryl [Streep]‘s gonna win, and I’m gonna take her down. When she walks up there, you’re gonna see my heel come off, and I’m gonna be like, ‘Whoo [mimics throwing]!’ This heel is gonna take Meryl Streep. She’s gonna feel no pain after I fling that at her.”
– Sandra Bullock, planning her defense tactics if she loses the Golden Globe for best actress in a comedy or musical film this Sunday, on Tavis Smiley
“I could…leave television altogether, and work in a classier business with better people, like hardcore porn.”
– Conan O’Brien, making light of his commitment to leave The Tonight Show if NBC moves it to a 12:05 a.m. timeslot to accommodate Jay Leno, during his nightly monologue
“I gained seven pounds of love weight.”
– Newlywed Khloe Kardashian, clarifying that she’s not pregnant, to “People”
“Now my penis is fantastic! One hundred percent recovered. Put me back in the game, Coach.”
– Channing Tatum, rejoicing after his privates made a full recovery following a scalding incident on the set of his upcoming film The Eagle of the Ninth, to “Details”
“After a breakup, a friend of mine Swarovski-crystalled my precious lady. It shined like a disco ball so I have a whole chapter in there on how women should vagazzle their vajayjays.”
– Jennifer Love Hewitt, giving a sneak preview of the advice offered in her new dating guide “The Day I Shot Cupid”, on “Lopez Tonight”
“I was telling him that last night, ‘If we ever broke up … the next guy is going to have a really hard time, because your body is so amazing!’”
– Kim Kardashian, speculating on who could follow in the very buff footsteps of current boyfriend, NFL star Reggie Bush, on the Dallas-based radio show Kidd Kraddick in the Morning
“What 15-year-old boy wouldn’t want girls chasing after them all day long?”
– Tween sensation Justin Bieber, enjoying his new heartthrob status, to “People”
“I’ll take the stretch marks. I’ll take the sagging boobs. I’ll take the cellulite I can never get rid of.”
– Jessica Alba, taking the bad with the good for the miracle of pregnancy, to “Self”
“I know music. I know entertainment. I know eyeliner.”
– Idol runner-up Adam Lambert, on “Fuse TV”
“I am like Mariah Carey f—-d up right now.”
– George Clooney, referencing the singer’s tipsy award show speech as he took to the podium at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards
