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EXCLUSIVE: Conan O’Brien’s Drummer Max Weinberg Looks For A New “Boss”

Posted on 09 March 2010 by terradise

max-weinberg-7-on-the-conan-o-brien-showMax Weinberg, widely known as the drummer for Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band and The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien, was so worried about his job status with late night that he actually approached Jay Leno for a job.

The last few weeks of Conan’s Tonight Show run, word spread quickly throughout the halls of NBC and with Conan O’Brien staffers that the drummer wanted to continue in late night. According to Hollywire sources, news traveled fast when Jay Leno’s name was connected and it upset many staffers that were clearly Team CoCo.

But at the same time those same staffers were not necessarily surprised. Many have said that Max Weinberg is usually out for himself and its just, “Max being Max”.

Which leads us
to the recent announcement of the current Tonight Show’s band leader Kevin Eubanks who has quit to seek other opportunities in touring and albums.

By the way, this is by far one of my favorite picture of Kevin… turn up the HEAT!

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Will this open the door to open more wounds in the late night feud by having Max Weinberg jump ship?  With Conan O’Brien’s future still in limbo, the next few months in late night should be rather interesting…

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Conan O’Brien the Musical

Posted on 19 January 2010 by Loretta

Prohibited from saying anything about NBC, Conan O’Brien broke out in song to express his feelings towards them.  Check it out below.

What do you think about the ongoing feud between Conan and NBC?

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Conan O’Brien May Get Millions to Give Up Timeslot

Posted on 16 January 2010 by Loretta

Conan O’Brien may bring home $30 million as part of a settlement deal with NBC over The Tonight Show’s timeslot.

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According to TheWrap.com,

The network has agreed to pay O’Brien $30 million to vacate the 11:35 p.m. “Tonight Show,” individuals involved in the negotiations have told TheWrap.

The deal, which may still be in the process of finalization, could be announced as early as Friday.

Jay Leno is reportedly schedule to be back on at 11:35 p.m. on March 1st.

Who do you prefer to watch… Conan or Jay?

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Conan O’Brien Post Craigslist Ad for The Tonight Show

Posted on 15 January 2010 by Loretta

In response to the battle over The Tonight Show time slot, Conan O’Brien puts the show up for sell on craigslist.  No joke, check out the video below.

What do you think?

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Gretchen Bleiler: Kick-Ass Olympic Snowboard Medalist On ‘The Tonight Show’

Posted on 26 November 2009 by Becky Wilhite

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Gretchen Bleiler, originally a midwestern girl, discovered her snowboarding skills after moving to Aspen at the age of 10.   Her mountain-climbing, avalanche-dodging days turned her into the Olympic Snowboard Silver Medalist, and three-time X Games Half-Pipe Gold Medalist we see today.

Bleiler stopped by ‘The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien’ where she talked about ‘Stale Fish’, her infamous fall at this year’s X Games and the 2010 Winter Olympics.  Stand-up comic Norm MacDonald was also on the show which made the interview all the more interesting! You can check out the skills on Bleiler at this years U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix on NBC December 13th.

Check out Gretchen’s hilarious interview below!

For more fun facts about this kick-ass snowboardin’ chick visit: http://www.gretchenbleiler.com/

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Levi Johnston Upset at NBC (Video)

Posted on 05 November 2009 by ksouthall

I don’t know why Levi Johnston is all upset about this Late Night with Conan O’Brien skit.

Levi must not have a sense of humor, because he is getting his lawyer involved, yikes!
The lawyer of the soon to be Playgirl centerfold said

“We are in the process of dealing with Twitter first. I think they have an obligation once something like this happens to make some kind of corrective measure.”

Johnston is asking for a retraction from NBC claiming the “tweets” were false.

Well DUH! Conan’s whole shtick is he says ‘this is true, we could not make this up’ and then proceeds to make outrageous and obviously untrue, but hilarious statements. William Shatner reading these obviously fake tweets beat poet style only adds the fact that its a skit and not to be taken seriously.  I hope that nothing happens with this and Levi Jonston learns to not take himself so seriously and laugh at himself once and a while.

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Levi Johnston is of course the father of Sara Palin’s grandchild, other then that I don’t know what is claim to fame is. Maybe being Kathy Grffin’s arm candy.

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Conan O’Brien On Newark, NJ’s “No Fly List”

Posted on 01 October 2009 by Tammy Cakes

Conan O’Brien made a statement last week in his monologue about Newark, NJ saying,“The Mayor of Newark, NJ wants to set up a city wide program to improve residents’ health. The health care program would consist of a bus ticket out of Newark.”

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Although Conan pats himself  on the back claiming that “as far as my jokes go, that’s a good one,” Cory Booker, Mayor of Newark, was not to thrilled about it and put a video response on YouTube.

With revenge in Mayor Booker’s eyes, he states in the video that Newark has one of the largest airports in the US , and by the powers invested in him he has officially put Conan on the Newark, NJ “no fly list”, that he now has to use JFK.

Conan’s response:

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Conan apologizes to Newark, NJ saying that he loves the city, that its one of the best US cities, that it has it all, “a beautiful waterfront, a thriving art scene, exciting regional cuisine, four-star lodging, and world class live theater.”

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Conan continues saying to the Mayor that there is no way he can keep him out of Newark, that he will just ride the sewer system which all lead to Newark.

Or the easier and less gross way, by plane. After doing some research, it was found that parts of Terminal A at Newark Airport are not located in Newark but Elizabeth City. Ha, ha, ha.

Conan than officially invites the Mayor on the show so they can squabble like grown men do, on national television. But playfully adds that the studio is close to the NY airport which he has now banned the Mayor from.

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