Frustrated with Conan!
I’m kinda frustrated with Conan O'brien, and the Conan show. All the rules and regulation of doing a talkshow, and the talkshow-form itself, seem to hold back Conan’s gift as a comedian, which is being completely free and riffing on stuff around him.
When Conan is at his funniest and most original is when he does his remotes. And they are in fact the reason he is still on the air, because they get so much views on the internet. He has even stated, himself, in various interviews, that he is very proud of all the remotes he has produced thru the years. And I have to agree, they are very very funny, sometimes genius. But to me, the talk show seems to be holding him back, for some reason. I think Conan, a long time ago, was spellbound by Johnny Carson and Letterman and got this idea that “the talkshow form” is the golden ticket to comedy, and that it was going to suit him well, when in fact, it completely holds him back.
Why he is not trying to create his own ”form” and make a completely new show, is beyond me. What if he just did the remotes, as a show, a 30 minute remote every week. That would be so awesome, and something completely different then all the other talk shows that’s around nowadays. It's so tiresome!
Having Andy as a “Sidekick”, only proves he’s brainwashed by the Carson Tonight Show era.