So Conan made his big debut last night in the Tonight Show. I have always been a Conan fan and thought he did pretty well. I guess it is easy when you have had 3 months to prepare and your guests are Will Ferrell/Pearl Jam. Still, it was nice to watch an entire episode of Conan and not feel painfully tired the next day (or watch it on pvr).
He had some good bits but his pre-monologue dancing was missing. It will be very interesting to see how the ratings go. His relationship with Letterman is vastly different than Leno’s was (as profiled here). I hope Conan thrives but am skeptical (based on the past decade of Leno’s dominance) that his brand of intelligent humour will succeed in the long haul. The general public is just too dumb.
2 years ago