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Ryan Hamilton knows what he looks like, you guys. And as a stand-up comedian, Hamilton knows to come out swinging and takes the first shot at himself, and then some, referring to his permanent smile and how it makes him look more like a comedy club logo than an actual …
Emily Heller lets the audience know there are definite do’s and do not’s when you’re housesitting. On this set from Wednesday night’s Conan, Heller recognizes that she is an adult woman, and there are better ways to treat a cat. Perhaps she should listen to a different radio station? Roll …
We’re down to only one O’Brien on the writing staff of Conan now. O’Brien the Conan bid farewell Tuesday night to Matt O’Brien, who’d written for Conan on Late Night with Conan O’Brien, The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien and Conan. As you can see from this clip reel, the …
Cristela Alonzo returned to Conan on Monday, and joked about living on a Texas border town with Mexico, which meant she grew up as a Dallas Cowboys fan. Which used to mean something when everyone called the Cowboys “America’s Team.” But for the past two decades, what have they done …
Timing really is everything. One minute media is speculating that you’re taking a job with Netflix; the next, one of your fellow late-night TV hosts announces his retirement. In between, you’re on Conan, trying to clarify your own “retirement” plans. You, in this case, are Chelsea Handler. And on Monday’s …
My friend and yours Dan Soder performed on Tuesday night’s Conan, and don’t let the scruff fool you. He’s still a big kid at heart. And yet, he has enough perspective to know that his grandparents were The Greatest Generation, and that the kids his friends are having are very …
You may have seen Rob Gleeson on TV before, in Showtime’s House of Lies or other sitcoms and commercials. But as Gleeson explained in this stand-up performance on Monday’s Conan, he had been living in his own house of lies until this past year, when he came out of the …
Team Coco brought out the big guns for night one in Dallas, with favored stand-up comedian Tig Notaro gracing the big theater stage for Monday’s Conan. Notaro gives us much-needed perspective on fire trucks, diarrhea in the public pool, and how joking about your breasts might lead to breast cancer. …
Conan is a video game for the Xbox 360. CONAN360 is a video app that lets you twirl in and about the stage where Conan O’Brien, Andy Richter and Team Coco film Conan for TBS in Burbank, Calif., seeing it from all 360 degrees. Check it out! You also can …
Todd Barry returned to Conan on Monday night to perform stand-up and opened with some prepared material about a certain Walgreens in Chicago that deserves recognition. Even now. Even. Now. Then Barry took to the panel, where he talked with Conan O’Brien about his new crowd work special (produced and …
