Thursday, January 14, 2010

I'm with Coco #teamconan


What’s bigger? Leno’s chin or the combined ego of him and Jeff Zucker? I dunno…

My thoughts on NBC’s late night schedule skirmish are predictable if you know me well enough. As my wife so eloquently put it a while back, I’d love to “roll up on NBC and smack the shit out Jeff Zucker.” For the record, I’m a Cone Bone fanatic. Late Night with Conan O’Brien influenced me greatly back in high school and onwards, contributing to my insomnia (really!) and my habit of ditching first period classes in the mornings (good times, good times). I was just finishing high school back when it was announced that Conan would take over the Tonight Show. Flash forward to 2009 when Conan’s last show in New York – coinciding with me finishing up college – was finally upon us! I was pissed to see him part with some of the staff, namely the always-hysterical Joel Godard. Families were upheaved to make this move; children were pulled out of schools. And therein lies yet another crux of NBC’s monumental FAILage and insensitivity. I can’t say I expected more from a big corporation, though…

When it was reported that Jimmy Fallon would get his own show with The Roots as his backing band, I saw this as a change in the right direction. “Finally”, I thought, “NBC is getting with the times and chasing a new demographic.” Or not. Upon moving to Los Angeles and trying to accommodate Leno’s “mature audience”, Conan’s show has admittedly been watered down. No more Masturbating Bear! S&M Lincoln? G’bye! This should have been a tell-tale sign from the beginning that at the end of day, NBC's brainless brass reigns supreme. As I write this short little post, rumors are buzzing that Jay Leno will be taking back the Tonight Show and squeezing Conan out of the late night rotation altogether. Ain’t that a b? Long live Consey Wonsey! Join the cause...

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