I think you covered all the bases. Conan is just so.... awesome. I loved every second of it (with the exception of Reggie Watts, Kid Rock, and part of Deon Cole's act). I'm suprised I laughed more at the Walker Tex-- err... Chuck Norris Rural Policeman Handle than anything else.
It seems you don't have a very open sense of humor or a capability to understand abstract absurdist humor. Deon Cole, while not THE funniest man in the universe certainly had me laughing with his brand of racial based meta-comedy and creative word play. As for Reggie Watts, he was one of the most entertaining and original aspects of the show! I've seen his videos for quite sometime and was pleased to finally experience him live. His use of Fuck and Shit are obviously used sarcastically to bate the audience into thinking that those are legitimate punchlines. I think you heard the swearing and gave up on him immediately. He is an absurdist improvisor who's content and expression seem unlimited. Conan explains why he chose him in his google interview a few weeks back and you can tell how excited his is to have him on tour. I think Conan has great taste and wouldn't book Deon or Reggie unless he thought they were very funny/entertaining people. Maybe you just like simple by the book comedy? If so you are missing a whole beautiful world of
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I said I found Deon amusing. He was weak on Conan's Tonight Show (mostly because his segments were essentially carbon copies of each other), but was pretty good here, at least in the second half of the act when he started to break out material I hadn't seen before. You really can't ever go wrong with audience participation, really.
And if by "immediately", you mean "halfway through his final song", yes. If I don't find one man to be funny, then automatically I'm a moron unable to understand an entire large class of comedy? How hilariously pretentious.
Not pretentious, a challenge to you. If conan finds Reggie funny and is very happy with his choice as an opener, wouldn't it be worth a bit of research as to why? I'm a big Conan fan that's all. I don't think you're a moron I'm just amazed by how you don't see this connection.
Being a Conan fan doesn't necessarily mean having to like everything that Conan likes. And if I'm expected to follow up the show with a shitton of research into why a brief opening act is funny, that just means he failed at what an opening act is supposed to do (i.e. find some way to hook an audience that, by definition, would be at least partly unfamiliar with his work, as they're paying for the main performer, not him), to me anyhow.
You better make sure you have cable, though. Conan will be on TBS.
Yeah, I know, Conan fucking deserves better than cable. He should have let FOX get him.
That got me thinking... what's going to happen to George Lopez's talk show? I mean, not that his show's decent or bad or anything since I haven't bothered to see, but doesn't TBS basically exist, you know, to give marginally talented people like him a break?
..."let FOX get him"? FOX ended up deciding they didn't even want him! Mostly because local affiliates are terrible, awful, selfish people who think we'd rather watch reruns of Frasier, but still...
George Lopez's talk show will simply be moved back by an hour. He will be the pathetic aging Latino Jimmy Fallon of basic cable. The Carson Daly of basic cable will be, I'm guessing, reruns of According to Jim or something.
(And Mr. Lopez already had his break, with his self-titled ABC sitcom. Judging by the episodes my mom used to make me sit through, it was primarily about how the teenage girls should be locked in a trunk and not let out until they're 30, and married, lest they go have the terrible sex, with guys.)
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And if by "immediately", you mean "halfway through his final song", yes. If I don't find one man to be funny, then automatically I'm a moron unable to understand an entire large class of comedy? How hilariously pretentious.
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If conan finds Reggie funny and is very happy with his choice as an opener, wouldn't it be worth a bit of research as to why?
I'm a big Conan fan that's all. I don't think you're a moron I'm just amazed by how you don't see this connection.
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You better make sure you have cable, though. Conan will be on TBS.
Yeah, I know, Conan fucking deserves better than cable. He should have let FOX get him.
That got me thinking... what's going to happen to George Lopez's talk show? I mean, not that his show's decent or bad or anything since I haven't bothered to see, but doesn't TBS basically exist, you know, to give marginally talented people like him a break?
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George Lopez's talk show will simply be moved back by an hour. He will be the pathetic aging Latino Jimmy Fallon of basic cable. The Carson Daly of basic cable will be, I'm guessing, reruns of According to Jim or something.
(And Mr. Lopez already had his break, with his self-titled ABC sitcom. Judging by the episodes my mom used to make me sit through, it was primarily about how the teenage girls should be locked in a trunk and not let out until they're 30, and married, lest they go have the terrible sex, with guys.)
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