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William Shatner became one of the all-time nightmare guests on an American TV show after making a series of rude hand gestures at the host. Red-faced and visibly sweating the 78-year-old Star Trek actor appeared out of sorts on the long-running Tonight Show. He appeared on the programme, hosted by Conan O'Brien, to promote his biography and up-coming TV series. William Shatner Out of order: William Shatner flicked his middle finger at host Conan O'Brien during an interview on the Tonight Show in the U.S. But his behaviour got so bad at one point new host Conan O'Brien walked off...

Which is worse? Network execs too scared to change a successful formula. Or network execs too willing to turn everything on its head. It's clear that Conan's version of NBC's cash cow The Tonight Show is just more of the same old/same old. And that's how O'Brien's longtime exec producer Jeff Ross and boss Jeff Zucker want it. But while they were golfing together this weekend in a foursome at Riviera Country Club (Ross, who just moved out here, is the better player, while Zucker has a 14 handicap and can barely keep up), they both worried how to prevent...

On Tuesday night I watched the Tonight Show starring Conan Obrien. The preliminary amusement featured NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams in an exclusive interview with President Obama. I wondered whether they were going to show some Presidential gaffe or candid moment. Perish the thought. Five or six million fellow Americans and I got to see our President fumble his way through a few rather unfunny lines, and provide an official endorsement for NBC’s new Tonight Show host. It barely rose to the tepid mark on the humor meter, but what a coup, nonetheless. How wonderful that the leader of...

A rare moment in American television history – the passing of the baton in The Tonight Show - will come tonight as Jay Leno steps down as the king of late night talk. Leno took over as host of the NBC show 17 years ago from another veteran, Johnny Carson. The latter famously hosted the chat and variety show for 30 years. The five night a week show is one of the most enduring fixtures of American television, having started in 1954 with Steve Allen as host. Leno, a notorious workaholic, cancelled the show only twice - when he checked...

OK, so maybe that wasn’t the joke, but after two long years the late night comedians have finally discovered comedy gold in Barack Obama. At least one of them has. On Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, Jon Stewart devoted an entire monologue to jokes about Barack Obama. Joke after joke after joke. Believe it or not, ...

It's a strange dichotomy. While NBC News  continues to maintain a wall of silence regarding the alleged John Edwards scandal, the comedians on that network are having a field day joking about it. On Monday night Jay Leno told the following John Edwards joke: John Edwards asks Kobe Bryant, 'What's a good jewelry store?' Conan O'Brien went even further on Tuesday night with an extended  joke that incorporated video shots of his band leader, Max Weinberg, as well as trombonist Richie "LaBamba" Rosenberg: O'BRIEN: I'm sure many of you have heard the rumors about former Sen. John Edwards having a secret...

<p>BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Conan O'Brien will take over the "Tonight" Show next June — and what happens to deposed host Jay Leno after that is anybody's guess.</p> <p>Leno's last show will be Friday, May 29, and O'Brien will start the following Monday, June 1, NBC executives told a Television Critics Association meeting Monday.</p>

Funny guys Conan O'Brien and Stephen Colbert have been warring over the airwaves over who first discovered and "made" Mike Huckabee, the once obscure former Arkansas governor, into the popular Republican presidential candidate he is today. Colbert first claimed to have made Huckabee by giving him an appearance on his TV show. O'Brien argued that he made Huckabee by featuring unintentionally funny clips of Huckabee supporter Chuck Norris on his show. Then Jon Stewart got involved, arguing that he made Conan O'Brien — dusting off an old tape in which he interviewed O'Brien on his short-lived talk show from the...

NEW YORK -- A Boston priest has been arrested on charges of stalking late-night talk show host Conan O'Brien by writing him threatening notes on parish letterhead, contacting his parents and showing up at his studio, prosecutors said Wednesday. "I want a public confession before I ever consider giving you absolution -- or a spot on your couch," wrote David Ajemian, who signed the notes "Padre," said Barbara Thompson, a spokeswoman for the Manhattan district attorney's office. Ajemian was arrested last week while trying to enter a taping session of NBC's "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" at 30 Rockefeller Plaza,...

A priest from Boston has been charged with stalking and harassing the talk show host Conan O’Brien, law enforcement officials said last night. The suspect, David Ajemian, was arrested on Friday when he tried to attend a taping of NBC’s “Late Night With Conan O’Brien” program at Rockefeller Center, the police said. The priest is being held in jail for a court-ordered psychiatric examination, and is due back in court tomorrow.

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 11, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - An episode of NBC's "Late Night With Conan O'Brien," which was taped on January 10, 2007 and aired early this morning, featured a character called "the homophobic country western singer." "Our last new character's heart is in the right place, even if he's a complete idiot," said show host O'Brien in his introduction. "Please welcome the homophobic country western singer." A middle-aged man wearing country western clothing comes out from behind a curtain. He begins to play a guitar and sing: Oh I love you Jesus But only as a friend. You touched...

Democratic Sen. Barack Obama has repeatedly said he doesn't plan to run for president in two years.Yet the freshman senstor from Illinois saus that if he did, he's already picked a late-night talk show host to appear on the ticket with him.How does Obama-Barack '08 sound?

I'm sorry, this is just too funny to not share with you guys. New hit German TV show, Stackenblocken! http://youtube.com/watch?v=9qZ4Dmu5-J4&search=stackenblochen

--Conan O'Brien seeks sauna inspector position for his Halonen endorsement-- American comic and talk-show host Conan O'Brien made landfall in Finland on Saturday, starting a five-day visit that has been trumpeted for days on end on his Late Night With Conan O'Brien. The show is aired on NBC and relayed - at a few days' delay - to Finnish audiences via the teens & young adults cable/digital entertainment channel, subTV. The size of the crowd waiting to catch a glimpse of Conan O'Brien left the organisers open-mouthed. Police estimated that around 2,000 people packed in front of the VIP terminal...

Conan O'Brien Seeks Reward for Finn's Win 11 minutes ago HELSINKI, Finland - Conan O'Brien, who endorsed the re-election of Finnish President Tarja Halonen with mock ad campaigns, said Saturday he expects to be rewarded with a Cabinet position as inspector of saunas. ADVERTISEMENT Hundreds of fans welcomed the American talk show host on Saturday to a freezing Helsinki, the capital of the land of the saunas — only two weeks after Halonen, 62, secured a second six-year term as Finland's first female presudent. The quirky, self-deprecating O'Brien said he will ask "Tarja" for a Cabinet position when he meets...

If anyone else isn't happy about the Jackson verdict, you might find this video amusing. Triumph the insult comic dog at the Jackson trial.

LOL, Conan O'Brien just had one of his staff guys try to flush a book down a toilet. So as not to offend, they tried one of Paris Hilton's books. They even tried a plunger. Hilarious! I apologize, I've probably not being very culturally sensitive.

"France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country. France has usually been governed by prostitutes." ---Mark Twain "I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me." --- General George S. Patton "Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion." --Norman Schwartzkopf "We can stand here like the French, or we can do something about it." Marge Simpson "As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure" ---Jacques Chirac, President of France "As far as France is concerned, you're...

Struggling NBC-owned cable network CNBC is currently in talks to get second runs of Late Night with Conan O'Brien. CNBC wants to air Late Night a day after it airs on NBC, most likely at 10 pm, starting next month. Sources tell The Biz that the channel is just waiting for O'Brien to sign off on the deal. Moving Late Night into prime time would likely mean the mercy killing of McEnroe, the train wreck of a talk show with former tennis star John McEnroe. Ratings for McEnroe have occasionally been too low for Nielsen to measure. CNBC will also...

The other day I settled down with a copy of the Toronto Star, the Great White North's biggest-selling newspaper, and here's what I read: "As the United States descends into fascism, the importance of Canada, North America's only civil society, is greater than ever." Thus the opening sentence of an article by Christopher Hume. Mr. Hume doesn't write about politics or global affairs. He's the architecture correspondent. Any American abroad comes across similar sentiments every day of the week — in a theater review in Australia, the sports page in Ireland, the gardening-tips column in Belgium. But Mr. Hume's intro...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Late-night comedian Conan O'Brien sought to defuse a flap over a recent segment poking fun at the French-Canadian province of Quebec by issuing a self-deprecating "apology" on Tuesday in French. "People of Quebec, I'm sorry," the host of NBC's "Late Night" show said in English, as a translator recited in French, with English subtitles, "People of Quebec, I'm an albino jackass."

Edmonton – The Spectatorians have asked me to comment on the outcry against Conan O'Brien here in Canada, and while I wouldn't dream of defending the phony indignation of a handful of socialists, kleptocrats, and race-baiters, there is a genuine cultural issue here. The people who are stamping their feet over the antics of a hand puppet are, I think, genuinely confused as well as politically opportunistic. There is no cultural referent here, you see, for the thing Triumph the Insult Comic Dog is actually parodying, which is the tradition of the insult comic. Canada lived in a British universe,...

-snip- Putting The Spectator to one side (which is always a good idea in this Gilliganista phase), these are certainly strange times in Trudeaupia. The country has chosen to go to war with a puppet — Triumph The Insult Dog. As his name might have forewarned, Triumph has insulted Canada. Nothing unusual about that. He insults people for a living. What’s unique in this case is that both Federal and provincial levels of government paid for him and his master, Conan O’Brien, to come to Canada to insult us; they put him up in the best kennel at the Chateau...

Wake up, Toronto, and give your head a shake. He's gone. Time to deal with the hangover. And what an embarrassing hangover it is, too. Conan O'Brien has gone back to New York, or wherever it is he's from. And Torontonians must wake up from the "celebrity stupor" they've been in the last couple of weeks. It was humiliating. It was annoying. And it was so completely, utterly, typically Canadian. Let's admit it, Toronto is still a bush league town, never more so than when some New York TV guy deigns to pay it a little attention. You'd have thought,...

Soundbite from story (sorry, it's not Triumph, or Triomphe) TORONTO (CP) - A TV comedy sketch in which a snarky puppet took potshots at French Canadians was called racist and unfunny by some federal politicians Friday while the visiting American TV host who ignited the controversy acknowledged the trouble the comments have caused. The incident also raised the ire of Quebec nationalist group Societe Saint-Jean-Baptiste, which demanded an apology from the politicians who brought Late Night With Conan O'Brien to Toronto. In Ottawa, Mauril Belanger - the deputy government house leader - told the House of Commons that the...

Feb. 14, 2004. 01:00 AM Conan the obnoxious In an editorial yesterday, we praised U.S. talk-show host Conan O'Brien for bringing his program here and featuring lots of Canadian talent. Well, we spoke far too soon. The editorial went to press before Thursday's episode was broadcast. Had we known the mean-spirited content of that instalment of NBC's Late Night With Conan O'Brien, we never would have invited him to return anytime. The program featured a nasty segment taped in Quebec city in which the show's obnoxious canine hand puppet stopped unsuspecting residents in the street and crudely insulted them for...

Canada would seem to be a country with a very fragile ego. It is currently convulsed with outrage over disparaging comments about Quebec and Quebeckers (aka, les Quebecois), made by a television sock puppet character known as Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. The outrages occurred on the NBC series Late Night with Conan O’Brien, which has been broadcasting from Toronto the past week, with a million-dollar (C$) subsidy partially-funded by government monies. Perhaps the word “insult” in the character’s name might be the first clue that anyone or anything falling within his purview is subject to ridicule, with no necessary...

American talk-show host Conan O'Brien turned out to be Conan the Barbarian on his road show into Canada this week. His NBC program threw oil and matches down our national fault line Thursday night with crude jokes about French Canadians. The show featured a puppet called Triumph the Insult Dog, which wandered around Quebec City's winter carnival, sporting a French beret. It stopped Quebecers in the street and said stuff like: "So you're French and Canadian, yes? So you're obnoxious and dull?" Also: "You're in North America. ... Learn the language!" Thanks for the insults, Conan. Somehow you forgot to...

Conan sketch a Triumph Triumph the Insult Comedy Dog, we love you! You took Don Cherry off the language hotseat and planted the politically correct butts of all our politicians in Ottawa on it. You taught us the humbling lesson that while we love to mock Americans, Americans know how to mock back. And you sent the whole country into an uproar - at least those of us who aren't killing ourselves laughing - by drilling through, as the Sun's Bill Brioux rightly put it yesterday, our most painful scab. That is, the rest of Canada's love-hate relationship with Quebec....

Canada Condemns 'Racist' Conan O'Brien TV Show Fri Feb 13, 3:26 PM ET Add Entertainment - Reuters to My Yahoo! By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's government on Friday condemned a show by U.S. late-night television host Conan O'Brien that insulted people in French-speaking Quebec and seemed to suggest everyone in the province was homosexual. Canadian Press Photo Ottawa and the province of Ontario paid $760,000 to help O'Brien -- who appears on the NBC television network -- bring his show to Toronto for a week to boost the city's profile after a deadly SARS (news - web sites)...

MPs condemn O'Brien's Quebec material "You're in North America, learn the language," puppet shouted at Quebec City passerby FROM CANADIAN PRESS A TV comedy sketch in which a grouchy puppet took some potshots at French Canadians on Thursday night landed with a thump on the floor of the House of Commons today. Mauril Belanger, the deputy government house leader, told the Commons that the government finds nothing amusing about American TV host Conan O'Brien making fun of Quebeckers. And he said Ottawa completely disassociates itself from the material. NDP MP Alexa McDonough agreed that the sketch featuring Triumph the Insult...

CHUM apologizes for Conan's Quebec sketch Last Updated Fri, 13 Feb 2004 17:59:13 TORONTO - A Canadian television network issued an apology Friday for broadcasting a U.S. show's comedy routine that ridiculed French Canadians. CHUM Television said the segment will be removed when NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien is shown again Friday night on the specialty channel, Star. "We offer our apology and assurance that it is never our intention to air programming that offends any of our viewers," CHUM said in a statement Friday afternoon. "CHUM regrets any offence that was caused." 'Vile hate-mongering': McDonough Earlier in the...

Ottawa – Canada's government has condemned a show by U.S. late-night television host Conan O'Brien that insulted people in French-speaking Quebec and seemed to suggest everyone in the province was homosexual. Ottawa and the province of Ontario paid C$1 million (400,000 pounds) to help O'Brien — who appears on the NBC television network — bring his show to Toronto for a week to boost the city's profile after a deadly SARS outbreak last year. But the federal government said O'Brien had gone far too far with the show broadcast on Thursday in which he went to Quebec, a province which...

Conan sics dog on Quebec DAY 3: Triumph makes Don Cherry look like a moderate By BILL BRIOUX Don Cherry, you are so off the hook. Last night on American network television, Triumph The Insult Comedy Dog pooped all over the province of Quebec. Talk about puppets who kill. Triumph, as performed by writer Robert Smigel, is a cheesy, rubber Rottweiler hand puppet who smokes a cigar, sounds like Ricky Ricardo on crack and barks insults at everyone within range. He's a Dachshund Don Rickles. He's their Ed The Sock (so much so that Ed operator Steve Kerzner was told...

This has to be one of the funniest things I've ever come across. I'm not a big fan of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog -- he's crude -- but in this video he goes to last year's Star Wars II premiere and makes fun of all the attendees who take Star Wars just a bit too seriously. There is an offensive Catholic joke in the beginning, so if you don't want to hear it, please skip from the 20 sec mark to the 25 sec mark. I hope you have a good laugh! Click on the picture to view the...

The Middle East has seen plenty of tall, pale men since the American infidels set their sights on Saddam Hussein, but perhaps no one as tall or as pale as Conan O’Brien. Sources at Late Night with Conan O’Brien and the U.S.O. told The Transom that Mr. O’Brien, along with the executive producer of his NBC talk show, Jeff Ross, and the program’s head writer, Mike Sweeney, quietly ventured to Kuwait on May 14 for what U.S.O. spokeswoman Sharon Fletcher called a "handshake tour" of American bases that was jointly arranged by the U.S.O. and the Department of Defense’s Office...

Most everyone, by now, is aware of Peter Arnett's firing from NBC/National Geographic. If this weren't enough, I was surprised that another well-known employee of NBC has created (a much unnoticed) stir. I was flipping channels last night and stumbled upon "Late Night With Conan O'Brien", about 10 minutes into the show. Conan was staring into the camera and started musing about how the United States has only 48 allies in this war. The audience did not laugh and I, too, took Mr. O'Brien to be serious with his comments. It gets worse. Without much of a pause, after mentioning...

Just heard something on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" that made me laugh out loud! I just had to share it with my FReeper FRiends. If you're unfamiliar with the program, he does a bit called "In The Year 2000", during which he makes absurd/funny predictitions regarding events that will take place "in the year 2000." (They've been doing the bit for years now, which only makes it funnier.)This one is a gem... "In the year 2000..."Christina Aguilera, while being prepared for surgery, alomst dies on the opererating table, when doctors discover that no amount of swabbing can make her...