Posted on 08 June 2010
The new host of NBC’s Last Comic Standing, Craig Robinson, will visit the Palm Beach Improv at CityPlace this weekend. Robinson may be best known for his role as Darryl, the sarcastic warehouse worker on The Office, but recently starred in a slew of other memorable roles in feature films including Hot Tub Time Machine and Pineapple Express.
His voice can be heard at area theaters in the final chapter of the Shrek films, Shrek Forever After, and you can join him on the search for the next big thing in comedy every Monday on Last Comic Standing.
What: Craig Robinson
When: 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. Thursday, 7 and 9:45 p.m. Saturday , and 7 p.m. Sunday
Where: The Palm Beach Improv, 550 S. Rosemary Ave., Suite 250, West Palm Beach
Tickets: $29.13
Phone: (561) 833-1812
Posted on 27 January 2010
NBC says it has a deal with Conan O’Brien to produce a possible series, only days after his rancorous exit as host of the network’s “Tonight Show.”
NBC is picking up a pilot from O’Brien’s production company, Conaco. The drama, as yet untitled, focuses on a Supreme Court justice who leaves the bench to start his own practice.
Casting has yet to be announced for the pilot, which is bucking for a series slot on NBC’s fall schedule.
Despite O’Brien’s recent split from NBC as an on-camera star, he retains a development deal with the network.
Past series produced by Conaco include the comedy “Andy Barker, P.I.,” which featured O’Brien’s longtime talk-show sidekick Andy Richter.
Posted on 21 January 2010
Now that Conan O’Brien is jobless — or, will be after Friday, anyway — what will the soon-to-be-ex-Tonight Show host do with his free time?
Fellow NBCer Joel McHale (Community) decided to offer O’Brien a job — at his other gig, The Soup on E!
Posted on 21 January 2010
By PATRICK GOLDSTEIN
This is Conan O’Brien’s last week on The Tonight Show.
I’ve been following the NBC late-night meltdown just like everyone else, watching all the jokes about it on TV — Jimmy Kimmel’s sharp-elbowed appearance on Jay Leno being the highlight — along with the kibitzing from network elders, ranging from Fred Silverman — who heaped blame on NBC Universal chief Jeff Zucker — to NBC sports guru Dick Ebersol, who trashed O’Brien, calling him “chicken-hearted and gutless” for taking a few jabs at Leno.
Conan is finally a free man, getting a big payoff (estimated between $30 million to $40 million) while Leno gets to return (after the Winter Olympics) to his old 11:35 p.m. time slot.
(And speaking of big payoffs, I can only wonder how many office pools have sprouted up in the past few weeks, with over and under bets on how long Zucker, who got everyone into this fine mess in the first place, keeps his job after the Comcast takeover is completed.)
But what about Conan? He clearly emerges with a big reservoir of sympathy as the poor guy (yes, the extremely highly paid poor guy) who got the shaft, losing his show after just months on the job.
Read the full story
Posted on 20 January 2010
Conan O'Brien is insisting on severance deals for his 'Tonight Show' staff.
The sticking point in Conan O’Brien’s complex exit negotiations with NBC involves his TV staff, not Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog, a person familiar with the talks said Tuesday.
Although discussions also focused on whether NBC would keep the rights to familiar O’Brien comedy bits including Triumph, O’Brien’s focus was ensuring severance deals for his “Tonight” staff and crew, the person said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the talks were intended to be private.
O’Brien is “dug in on that,” the person said.
NBC fired back in a statement, saying “it was Conan’s decision to leave NBC that resulted in nearly 200 of his staffers being out of work.”
“We have already agreed to pay millions of dollars to compensate every one of them. This latest posturing is nothing more than a PR ploy,” the network said.
A spokesman for O’Brien declined to comment.
Read the full story
Posted on 15 January 2010
MTV is joining the major broadcast networks and several cable channels for an all-star telethon for Haitian earthquake relief on Jan. 22.
A statement released by MTV Networks on Friday says “Hope for Haiti” will be shown at 8 p.m. Eastern time.
Networks showing the telethon are ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CNN, BET, the CW, HBO, MTV, VH1 and CMT. It will also be available internationally.
Haitian-born entertainer Wyclef Jean will helm the show from New York, and George Clooney will host the Los Angeles part. CNN’s Anderson Cooper will be in Haiti.
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Posted on 14 January 2010
Zap2It is reporting NBC has announced its Monday-Friday schedule for 10 p.m. once the Winter Olympics are over.
NBC is making the move to put several original dramas in place of The Jay Leno Show, which the network announced is leaving the prime-time schedule following the Olympics.
On Monday, Law & Order will move to 10 p.m., and Trauma will return and fill the 9 p.m. spot.
On Tuesday, new series Parenthood will follow The Biggest Loser at 10.
Wednesdays will see the new hour of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit at 10, while “encores” (aka re-runs) of SVU will be shown at 9.
Jerry Seinfeld’s new creation The Marriage Ref will head to Thursdays at 10, while a two-hour Dateline NBC at 9 will be preceded by new show Who Do You Think You Are?, a celebrity genealogy show.
Posted on 14 January 2010
People magazine is reporting on its Web site that Conan O’Brien is planning to make Jan. 22 his last Tonight Show.
A source close to O’Brien tells People that the host isn’t planning to do any more new shows beyond next Friday.
The move would mean the show’s new content ends two weeks before its scheduled preemption for NBC’s coverage of the Winter Olympics.
UPDATE: US Weekly, People‘s rival, is saying that the report on Conan quitting on Jan. 22 is not true. Conan’s rep has apparently told them that he has a scheduled week off the week of Jan. 25. Stay tuned!
UPDATE: Even if he is quitting, it doesn’t look like O’Brien is coasting to the finish. According to the New York Times blog Media Decoder, O’Brien’s staff has apparently secured Tom Hanks to appear on next Tuesday’s show. In addition, the popular indie band Spoon is set to appear on the same night.
Posted on 14 January 2010
Kimmel as Leno, and the genuine article.
The big late-night story hasn’t been NBC’s alone for a little while now — it’s definitely spread to all networks.
Therefore, it’s not altogether shocking that Jay Leno has invited ABC host Jimmy Kimmel for Leno’s 10@10 Q&A segment on Thursday’s show.
Especially since Kimmel did his entire show on Tuesday doing a broad impression of Leno — complete with fake chin and grey wig.
Think Jay’ll bring it up?
‘I’M WITH COCO’: As Margaret Lyons of EW’s Pop Watch notes, the poster featuring Conan O’Brien and the phrase “I’m with Coco” has grown in popularity by a huge margin. (Actually, Lyons said it better: “levels of ubiquity we haven’t seen since Shepard Fairey took on Obama.”)
Lyons spoke with the artist responsible, Mike Mitchell, who said he originally set out to make a campaign poster for O’Brien:
“A friend suggested just ‘I’m with Conan,’ and Mitchell landed on the far-catchier ‘I’m with Coco.’ It’s a slogan even Swiss Miss could be jealous of.”
Posted on 14 January 2010
You’d think on a week where there is such tragedy dominating the headlines that the late-night poobahs of NBC might stop their internal squabbling.
You’d think wrong.
In Wednesday night’s monologue, Conan O’Brien went after rival Jay Leno, who could be taking away his 11:30 p.m. “Tonight Show” time slot.
“Hosting The Tonight Show has been the fulfillment of a lifelong dream for me — and I just want to say to the kids out there watching: You can do anything you want in life. Unless Jay Leno wants to do it too.
“According to a new TV Guide poll, 83 percent of voters want me to stay at 11:35. When he heard this poll number, President Obama asked, “How can I get NBC to screw me over?’” said O’Brien. Read the full story
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