TelevisionSo long, Los AngelesWith The Tonight Show moving to NYC, the city emerges as victor in an age-old comedy war
MoviesBeing Canadian: Doc asks A-list comics, regular citizens about national identity ’Late at night, if I get on a subway car and there are some Canadians on...I get off’
MoviesOpening weekend: Horrible Bosses, Page One, Conan, CaveAniston’s turn as marriage-wrecking slut: just another image makeover?
MoviesConan and the Grey Lady fight for their livesA pair of backstage documentaries penetrate O’Brien’s green room and the New York Times newsroom
CultureChristmas, through a comedian’s dark lensPlus: Walter Mosley’s latest, a biography of the Atlantic Ocean, the father of modern taxidermy, what Boomers can expect from the rest of life, and the late night TV wars
UncategorizedLeno and His Joke ObsessionI’ll have more to say later about Bill Carter’s The War For Late Night (aka Late Shift 2: The Shiftening ), but one thing I wanted...
UncategorizedDeliberately Inaccurate ParodiesI’m not going to comment on Conan at any length for a while (I’ll probably come back to it in a few weeks, pick a random...
UncategorizedConan O’Brien Goes Coco-NutsHere I am watching the first episode of Conan , ready to write some thoughts on it. We’re getting it an hour later than in the...