LOS ANGELES – For you fans who can't get enough of Conan O'Brien on his late-night TBS show, and who are game to revisit the tumultuous time when NBC's squeeze play put him out of a job while reinstating Jay Leno at "The Tonight Show," a new documentary film should be right up your alley.
LOS ANGELES – For you fans who can't get enough of Conan O'Brien on his late-night TBS show, and who are game to revisit the tumultuous time when NBC's squeeze play put him out of a job while reinstating Jay Leno at "The Tonight Show," a new documentary film should be right up your alley.
HANOVER, N.H. – Conan O'Brien, a Harvard alumnus, had some teasing criticism for another Ivy League school Sunday.
NEW YORK – Will Ferrell finally triumphed over his arch enemy: Conan O'Brien's beard.
LOS ANGELES – Conan O'Brien compared his career to Charlie Sheen's and Sarah Silverman, not surprisingly, sang a song with a foul refrain. But it was all for a good cause.
AUSTIN, Texas – Conan O'Brien attended the premiere Sunday of the documentary that captured the turmoil he faced in the days following his departure from the "Tonight Show." But he did it grudgingly.
NEW YORK — After months of build-up, Conan O'Brien finally returns to late night television Monday when his new TBS talk show premieres.
"It's now or never," O'Brien told Jim Kerr on New York's WAXQ this morning. "It's nice to be able to run your own show and make it as irritating as we want."
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Two months before he has to return to work, Conan O'Brien has revealed the name of his new TBS late-night talk show.
In a YouTube video released Wednesday, the 47-year-old comedian said his program will simply be called Conan.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Conan O'Brien says it would have been a different ending earlier this year had he been sitting in Jay Leno's shoes.
EUGENE, Ore. — Conan O'Brien kicked off his 30-date comedy tour on Monday, hours after it was revealed that he'll return to late-night television on TBS.
The 46-year-old comedian's tour, dubbed the Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour, debuted at the Hult Center for the Performing Arts in Eugene, Ore., where fans were treated to a variety show that by all accounts was well received. The tour's title is in reference to O'Brien's famous NBC exit that prohibits him from appearing on television until Sept. 1.
LOS ANGELES — Conan O'Brien has found a new home.
The 46-year-old comedian will return to late-night television with a new show on TBS, the cable network revealed Monday.
"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," the former Tonight Show host joked in a statement.
O'Brien's hour-long, yet-to-be-titled show is expected to debut in November. It will air Mondays through Thursdays at 11 p.m., shifting Lopez Tonight to a midnight time slot. The comic began talks in earnest with TBS just last week, after George Lopez personally called him to ask that he consider joining the network's late-night line-up.
"I can't think of anything better than doing my show with Conan as my lead-in," Lopez said. "It's the beginning of a new era in late-night comedy."
By adding O'Brien to the mix, TBS has fully entered a competition traditionally dominated by the major broadcast networks.
"Conan has been the comedic voice for a generation. TBS already has a huge audience of young comedy lovers, and Conan's show will give these fans even more reasons to watch our network," said Steve Koonin, president of Turner Entertainment Networks.
O'Brien famously left his Tonight Show gig in January after NBC sought to move his program back a half-hour to accommodate Jay Leno.
The funnyman is currently touring the United States and Canada with his live show dubbed the Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour.
