Tonight was Conan O'Brien's first night of hosting The Tonight Show. His guests were Will Ferrell and Pearl Jam. A few comments:
1. Great open - loved the Cheap Trick song ("Surrender") and the run through the country.
2. He appears to be retaining the scattalogical/high level humor that has made his show a favorite.
3. Great to see Andy Richter back as his co-host/announcer. Richter is very funny, but he hasn't been able find a landing spot.
4. Great musical guest (bias alert), but I think someone like Bill Murray, Tina Fey or Steve Martin instead of Ferrell would've been much better.
5. Pearl Jam's played a song from their forthcoming album, Backspacer. Not sure about the song - need a couple more listens. As I have mentioned before, PJ is currently working with Cameron Crowe on a documentary - they played a secret show last week in Seattle in connection with the same and a partnership with Target(?): read about it here. UPDATE - Here is the video of their performance.
Monday, June 1, 2009
Conan's First Night
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Agree on all counts. I was very lucky to flip over right when he was hailing that cab in Manhattan. Perfect Forrest Gump like opening.
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