Orange Is The New Black episode
The cast of Orange Is The New Black visits Conan for a special episode dedicated to the Netflix TV series. The cold open features Laverne Cox’s character grooming O’Brien’s hair for the monologue. Kate Mulgrew talks about dancing the Irish jig on Late Night, Uzo Aduba tries to teach O’Brien how to do “crazy eyes”, and the rest of the cast discuss their rapport on the show. Mulgrew on their working relationship:
You know why we get along so well? It’s vanity free. We have to get in the uniform. Stripped of ego.
Taye Diggs interview
Diggs guests on Conan and talks about the possibility of starring in the Magic Mike sequel. He also discusses his desire to play a Marvel super hero on-screen as well as his soft spot for touching commercials.
It’s embarrassing. It shows all these guys in these wheelchairs and they’re talking about teamwork and whatnot, and how it’s not just for one person, and everybody has to be a team. And then at the end of the commercial, you realize everybody gets up from the wheelchairs except one dude, and you realize all these people were playing basketball with the dude on the wheelchair, and they were all playing in the wheelchair to make him feel included.
Gary Oldman interview
Oldman chats with O’Brien about working with Francis Ford Coppola and preparing for his role in Dracula. They also watch a montage of Oldman’s death scenes in the films he has made.
We rehearsed for four weeks in Napa Valley with Coppola. And they went off and did various things for research, but I said, “Well, what do I do? Because I’m 300 years old and I’m dead.” But when I got back to California, when I got back to Los Angeles, he sent me over a coffin… I think he wanted me to have sex in it.
Carl Reiner interview
Reiner returns to Conan and talks to O’Brien about his interesting experience with a co-star in summer theater. He also promotes his latest book and invents a new Twitter craze called the ‘selfishie’.
There’s a thing called a ‘selfie’, but I feel so proud – when you come up with something original. He [O’Brien] was backstage and I wanted to do a selfie with him. Then I came up, I said, I want to do something better than a selfie. So I did a ‘selfishie’.
Tinder skit
O’Brien tries out Tinder for the first time by creating fake profiles with Dave Franco and finding a match whom they meet in person.
This is what the Internet can do. It can bring a bunch of people who were strangers just an hour ago, together in the night, on to the street, outside a really creepy van, where they hold themselves a little too long, and then probably never see each other again.
Michael Sheen interview
Sheen guests on Conan to promote Masters of Sex. He also talks about how he handles the amount of nudity on the set and prepares for sexy scenes, as well as what his mother thinks of the show.
It’s a fine line because you don’t want people to think that you’re being creepy. You don’t want people to think that you’re ogling them. I did a bit of research because my character starts off as a gynecologist.
Joe Manganiello interview
Manganiello drops by Conan and talks to O’Brien about being People magazine’s Hollywood’s Hottest Bachelor. They also chat about his role as Big Dick Richie in Magic Mike, after which he teaches the TV host some stripper moves. On O’Brien’s possible stripper persona:
I think ‘Big Red’ could work. Like a viking with a helmet and like a pull-away armor – I’m here to pillage your village and your women.
Cast in Sharktopus vs. Pteracuda
O’Brien is set to make his on-screen debut in the Roger Corman-produced SyFy film Sharktopus vs. Pteracuda. The TV host makes the announcement on his late-night program, in which he also reveals a billboard of his film appearance in a rough area of Los Angeles. The movie premieres on the SyFy Channel on August 2nd.
You don’t have to travel all the way to Sundance or Cannes to see this film. I demand that it would be available to every man, woman and child with a tier II cable package. You don’t have to buy a ticket at a snooty theater.
Omar Gonzalez interview
Gonzalez visits Conan and talks to O’Brien about his racy magazine cover and gives him some tips on how to pose nude. He also talks about the support of their fans at the World Cup.
Being down in Brazil and seeing all the fans’ support, everyone going to the group showings, it was fantastic to see how many people were rallying behind us.
UK show announced
O’Brien will debut his late-night TV talk show in the UK from August 4. It will air Monday to Thursday on the free-to-air network, truTV. On the difference between American and British guests:
Sometimes I prefer [UK] guests because the American guests that I talk to… some of the actors get it from the (Marlon) Brando/James Dean school of ‘You’re only cool if you mumble and you look up’. Whereas you get these British actors on who are just great storytellers; they’re bright and they want to mix it up and not everything has to be airbrushed by a publicist beforehand.
China show debut
0 CommentsO’Brien debuts his late-night television talk show Conan in the Chinese online video website, Sohu Video. The show comes with Chinese subtitles and has garnered more than 3 million views since its premiere.
Meredith Vieira interview
Vieira sits down with O’Brien and talks about her upcoming daytime talk show and a unique segment idea that she has for it. They also discuss her affectionate nature and her dog’s propensity to attack people who go near her.
I like to kiss people, hug people, I like to touch. It’s very interesting because at the Today Show, they had Purell stations everywhere. So, you’d hug and kiss, and then you’d Purell.
Ice-T interview
Ice-T returns to Conan and chats with O’Brien about his wife’s famous derrière and the secret to enhancing that part of the body. He also shares his special victory dance when he wins a level on Call of Duty.
When people see something that they can’t believe, they go “it has to be fake”. I say, just take it as a compliment. If I get in the gym and get in shape, they’re like, “you’ve got to be on steroids”. Just take it as a compliment. She got a breast job, but the butt is real.
Pays back taxes to save home
O’Brien pays $8,000 in back taxes to take his Rhode Island residence off the state auction. The talk show host’s publicist releases a statement that he had not been aware of the delinquent tax bills because the bill did not reach his accountant in Los Angeles.
As soon as I was made aware that the tax bill on my parents’ house was being mailed to the wrong address, I paid the bill immediately. The problem has been corrected. I am grateful to the reporter at the Westerly Sun who spotted this error and notified me.
Visits E3 2014
O’Brien drops by this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo, which is held at the Los Angeles Convention Center. He interacts with participants and tries out such games as Sunset Overdrive, Hyrule Warriors, Project Morpheus, and Forza Motorsport 5.
Ice Cube interview
Ice Cube returns as a guest on Conan to promote Ride Along. He also talks about twerking, his swearing rules for his children, and the possibility of casting Conan in 23 Jump Street. He also discusses how much he is annoyed by Kevin Hart.
Kevin annoys me. All I have to think about how much he annoys me. I don’t break. I don’t crack. And you know, I’ve worked with a lot of different comedians, you know what I mean from Chris Tucker to Mike Epps and Tracy Morgan. And you know, I’m the ultimate straight man. I never crack because I think I owe it to the performer to let him do his thing.
Reviews ‘Super Smash Bros.’
O’Brien tackles the highly-anticipated video game by Nintendo, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U in his website’s online segment, Clueless Gamer. Along with associate Aaron Bleyaert, the TV talk show host plays the game while making humorous comments about its characters, design, and gameplay. He decides to try out the game’s multi-player mode and calls on staff members Matthew Kramer and Sonia Movsesian to join in. On his review of the game:
I think that this is a fantastically imaginative game. I myself wish it were simpler. I wish it involved a guy taking a walk and trying to find a cookie. I wish it had one button, there was “Go forward” and another button that was “Eat cookie”.
Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill interview
Tatum and Hill guest on Conan to promote 22 Jump Street. They also talk about Tatum’s incessant physical bullying of Hill and their strange bet involving the movie’s opening sales figures and kissing a private body part. Tatum:
All right, in a movie opening weekend, if your movie breaks $30 million, you had a very, very good weekend. Jonah thought that it would just break 30. I thought it was going to break 35. He said if it breaks 35, I will kiss the tip of your [beep].
Jane Fonda interview
Fonda guests on Conan to promote her book, Being a Teen. She gives O’Brien some tips on how to deal with sex and aging, and recalls her encounter with a bear during her days as a rancher’s wife to Ted Turner.
Suddenly my golden retriever came running out of the bedroom yelping like crazy. I went running in and there right in front of me walking from the screen door that he had come through, was a bear headed for the crib where my grandson. I was like, what do I do? I don’t know where my gun is. I opened my bathrobe and I went ‘raaaaa!’
Norm Macdonald interview
Macdonald returns as a guest on Conan to talk about his dislike of Oscar Pistorius and his plans of taking over the Late Late Show. He also tells a long and strange joke, and attempts to do a talk show in under 60 seconds.
The big news is Oscar Pistorius. And I don’t like him, don’t care for him, never did. I don’t have problems with the murder. But I never liked him racing with them things that look like something Wile E. Coyote would order.
