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April 19, 2012
Bobcat Goldthwait Interview
On stand-up, leaving Hollywood, and his version of 21 Jump Street
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April 12, 2012
Barry Rothbart
On stand-up, leaving Hollywood, and his version of 21 Jump Street
Blogs
March 29, 2012
The Daily Show on the Park Slope Food Co-op Monday Night's Vote: The Hummus Shall Remain
It is classic Daily Show. An intrepid Christiane Amanpour type diving into a roiling human rights stew. A few foils setting themselves up for easy ridicule with every utterance. A righteous skewering of extremely small-scale activism-gone-absurd in the land of $1,000 strollers. Samantha Bee brin ... More >>
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January 23, 2012
Jay Leno's Sikh-Temple-as-Mitt-Romney's-Summer-House Joke Enrages Some in Indian Religious Community
Oh no he didn't. Jay Leno is in hot water this week after a quip about Mitt Romney's summer house was accompanied by a photo of the Sikhs' sacred Golden Temple in India, a grand palace indeed. Romney's real summer home, or at least one of them, is right here in Southern California, and isn't half ... More >>
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July 12, 2011
We'll Be Right Back After These Snacks: Food In 5 Talk Show Green Rooms
Flickr/lauren ashleyJimmy Kimmel's green room What is a talk show green room? It is the TV-bedecked comfy-couched middle earth between dressing room and stage. It is sometimes (but not always) actually green in color. It is the place where its inhabitants can actually tell if the person who j ... More >>
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July 1, 2011
Conan O'Brien ('s Writing Staff) Kicks Off Everything Is Festival at Cinefamily
The kids you made fun of in high school: All grown up, and richer than you. When you hear the name Conan O'Brien, you probably picture the man who single-handedly rallied America's youth against Jay Leno, revenge after Leno took back the Tonight Show gig that, only nine months earlier, he'd l ... More >>
Film+TV
June 23, 2011
Conan O'Brien Documentary Review
The kids you made fun of in high school: All grown up, and richer than you. When you hear the name Conan O'Brien, you probably picture the man who single-handedly rallied America's youth against Jay Leno, revenge after Leno took back the Tonight Show gig that, only nine months earlier, he'd l ... More >>
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May 18, 2011
Arnold Love Child Jokes: Jay Leno vs. Conan [Video]
NBCJay Leno gave it to his pal.Arnold Schwarzenegger's revelation that he fathered a child out of wedlock 10 or so years ago was a present to America's L.A.-based late-night talk shows. In fact the muscle-man actor has been giving steadily to the cause of monologia since 2003, when he elbowe ... More >>
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April 11, 2011
UPDATE: How to Get Tickets for Prince's Los Angeles Residency!
[UPDATE: 4/11/11 -- Here are more details on how to get tickets for Prince's LA residency:] Will the internet crash tomorrow morning? We just received a press release announcing the first three dates up for grabs of Prince's "21 Nite Stand" in L.A.: In an effort to make the show affordab ... More >>
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December 16, 2010
MS. GRIFFIN AND HER BIG CHRISTMAS BALLS
[UPDATE: 4/11/11 -- Here are more details on how to get tickets for Prince's LA residency:] Will the internet crash tomorrow morning? We just received a press release announcing the first three dates up for grabs of Prince's "21 Nite Stand" in L.A.: In an effort to make the show affordab ... More >>
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December 1, 2010
Are NFL's Chargers Coming To L.A? Rumors Abound That Staples Center Owner Phil Anschutz Has Taken A Stake In The San Diego Team
Los Angeles Chargers?Updated with Earvin "Magic" Johnson's comments on Jimmy Kimmel Live!. First posted at 11:32 p.m. Tuesday. Laker legend Earvin "Magic" Johnson announced on Jimmy Kimmel Live! early Wednesday that he's teamed up with the Anschutz Entertainment Group to bring an NFL team t ... More >>
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November 9, 2010
Conan O'Brien Whooped Both Jay Leno And Jon Stewart On Cable TV Last Night -- But Can He Make The Magic Last?
TBSSomewhere between poverty and basic cableHot damn, Conan. We knew the comeback would be big, but that was some next-level shit. America's favorite middle-aged carrot set the record for the most-watched show in cable-TV history last night: His brand-new 11 p.m. slot on TBS roped in a baffl ... More >>
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November 8, 2010
Will You Watch 'Conan' At 11 Tonight, Or Stick With Jon Stewart?
Pulse2Back up off my slot, StewartAll the bleeding gingerhearts on Team Coco finally lay down their arms tonight. After 10 months following "The Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour," Conan O'Brien fans will gather J.Bieb-style outside the Warner Bros. studios in Burbank, w ... More >>
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October 18, 2010
A Spooky Season For Jay Leno As Ghost From Conan O'Brien's Past Kicks His Ass In Ratings
NBCDead Conan is kicking live Jay Leno's butt.This is a true Halloween treat: The ghost of Conan O'Brien's late-night show is beating Jay Leno's Tonight Show numbers. Talk about being beaten by a dead horse. The Wrap reports that O'Brien's short time in NBC's 11:30 p.m. slot in summer, 2009 ... More >>
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June 29, 2010
Larry King Pulls The Plug On 'Larry King Live,' Says He'll Still Host Specials
Larry King, the 76-year-old talk show host who's been smeared by critics over ratings and poked fun of by comics for his age, stated Tuesday that he's calling it quits. The Los Angeles-based Larry King Live show has been on the air for 25 years. At the beginning of Tuesday's program, he mad ... More >>
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April 27, 2010
Conan O'Brien To Give First Post-NBC Interview To '60 Minutes'
Meghan SinclairSuper CoCo.In his first interview since leaving NBC, late-night talk-show host Conan O'Brien will appear on CBS News program 60 Minutes Sunday, Associated Press reports. O'Brien's exit deal with NBC -- he walked away from the network with more than $40 million for himself and ... More >>
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April 22, 2010
CONAN THE HILARIAN
Meghan SinclairSuper CoCo.In his first interview since leaving NBC, late-night talk-show host Conan O'Brien will appear on CBS News program 60 Minutes Sunday, Associated Press reports. O'Brien's exit deal with NBC -- he walked away from the network with more than $40 million for himself and ... More >>
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April 15, 2010
LEAVE IT TO CLEAVAGE
Meghan SinclairSuper CoCo.In his first interview since leaving NBC, late-night talk-show host Conan O'Brien will appear on CBS News program 60 Minutes Sunday, Associated Press reports. O'Brien's exit deal with NBC -- he walked away from the network with more than $40 million for himself and ... More >>
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February 5, 2010
An Evening with Tavis Smiley
Meghan SinclairSuper CoCo.In his first interview since leaving NBC, late-night talk-show host Conan O'Brien will appear on CBS News program 60 Minutes Sunday, Associated Press reports. O'Brien's exit deal with NBC -- he walked away from the network with more than $40 million for himself and ... More >>
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January 27, 2010
Today In WTF: NBC Buys A Show From Conan
NBCAs the world watched the biggest break-up since (possibly) Brad and Angelina unfold in slow-motion this month, it would be reasonable to think that the blood between late-night host Conan O'Brien and NBC would be as bad as it gets. The network paid him and his staff nearly $45 million to w ... More >>
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January 21, 2010
The Bob Bendick Podcast
NBCAs the world watched the biggest break-up since (possibly) Brad and Angelina unfold in slow-motion this month, it would be reasonable to think that the blood between late-night host Conan O'Brien and NBC would be as bad as it gets. The network paid him and his staff nearly $45 million to w ... More >>
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January 21, 2010
Conan Signs $45 Million Deal To Exit NBC
NBC made it official today: Conan O'Brien is leaving with a $45 million package that includes about $33 million for the soon-to-be ex-Tonight Show host and $12 million in severance for members of his staff, according to Business Week. The agreement allows O'Brien to get on the air via anothe ... More >>
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January 19, 2010
$40 Million For Conan To Leave NBC, States New Report
NBCForget $30 million: As Conan O'Brien is portrayed as the victim in his battle with NBC, his ratings are up, and fans are rallying around him, he could now get $40 million to walk away from his contract with the network, the Wall Street Journal reports. The deal would preclude him from ba ... More >>
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January 15, 2010
Conan Getting $30 Million To Walk Away, According To Report
Sharon Waxman's The Wrap is reporting that NBC will pay Conan O'Brien to walk away from The Tonight Show and his contract dispute with NBC. Waxman states that NBC executives, including CEO Jeff Zucker, held an all-night negotiating session Thursday to help come to the deal. O'Brien had rejec ... More >>
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January 13, 2010
Defamer Calls For NBC Chief Zucker's Head Over Conan Fiasco
NBCJeff Zucker.There was a time when publications, mostly of the dead-tree variety, would call for heads of leaders, mostly of the political kind. But in this info-stream era, everyone's an armchair studio chief, and every public figure -- not just the one you voted for -- is game. It was on ... More >>
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January 12, 2010
Conan O'Brien Says No To Later Time Slot At NBC, Wants Network To Reconsider Late-Night Moves
NBCConan O'Brien.Tonight Show host Conan O'Brien rejected NBC's proposal to have his Tonight Show start a half hour later as a result of the resurrection of a Jay Leno late-night program to start at 11:35 p.m., calling the the proposed move "destruction" of the franchise. In a widely distribu ... More >>
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January 12, 2010
Rumor Mill: NBC Looking For Guest Host For Tuesday's 'Tonight Show'
NBCConan O'Brien.Rumors are circulating in Hollywood that NBC is scrambling to find a guest host to fill in for Conan O'Brien on Tuesday's Tonight Show. Earlier today O'Brien issued a statement rejecting NBC's proposal to move his show to 12:05 a.m. to make room for a renewed late-night progr ... More >>
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January 11, 2010
Leno Prime-Time Show Done; NBC To Go Back To 'Scripted' TV
NBCJay Leno.NBC over the weekend copped to its retirement of the short-lived Jay Leno Show at 10 p.m. weeknights, officially announcing that its hoped-for lineup shuffle was a proposal that would have Leno and Tonight Show host Conan O'Brien squeeze into late-night together at 11:35 p.m. and ... More >>
Blogs
December 21, 2009
Top Entertainment Stories of 2009 Named; Jackson, L.A. Dominate List
The death of Michael Jackson topped a list of top-ten entertainment stories for 2009, and headlines emanating from Los Angeles dominated the list. The survey of news editors was conducted by Associated Press. Its top stories: 1) The death of Michael Jackson; 2) the rise of singer Susan Boyle ... More >>
Articles
November 12, 2009
Oprah's Move: Good luck or good riddance?
The death of Michael Jackson topped a list of top-ten entertainment stories for 2009, and headlines emanating from Los Angeles dominated the list. The survey of news editors was conducted by Associated Press. Its top stories: 1) The death of Michael Jackson; 2) the rise of singer Susan Boyle ... More >>
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November 4, 2009
Conan To Emcee Police Benefit; You're Really Not Invited
An elite event to celebrate the 140th anniversary of the Los Angeles Police Department, to mark the end of Chief William Bratton's tenure, and to provide yet another opening ceremony for the new Police Administration Building will feature Tonight Show host Conan O'Brien as an emcee, Wolfgang Puck as ... More >>
Blogs
October 15, 2009
Mud-Raking: News Stations Tout Mudslides That Never Come
Judging by local television news operations, yesterday's rains comprised a state of emergency. For three days all local news stations led with this story: The first rainstorm of the season could cause disastrous mudslides in the foothills below fire-ravaged sections of the Angeles National Forest. M ... More >>
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September 12, 2009
NBC Wanted Leno Out Earlier
One of the bigger ironies surrounding Jay Leno's primetime debut Monday is that NBC, he says, wanted him out as host of The Tonight Show even earlier than planned. In today's New York Times, the comic says the network approached him in 2004 with a plan to replace him as the late-night show's host i ... More >>
News
September 10, 2009
The Writers Guild Cleared Jay Leno, but Now Must Indict Itself
One of the bigger ironies surrounding Jay Leno's primetime debut Monday is that NBC, he says, wanted him out as host of The Tonight Show even earlier than planned. In today's New York Times, the comic says the network approached him in 2004 with a plan to replace him as the late-night show's host i ... More >>
News
July 16, 2009
LATE-NIGHT TALK SHOW WARS
Letterman, O'Brien and Leno do reality-TV battle.
Blogs
May 8, 2009
Oprah Free Chicken Coupon Chaos: The Backlash, The Rain Check, The Reckoning
Poultry pandemoniumAs our nation's saga of poultry pandemonium continues, this just in: KFC locations to hand out chicken rain checks to poor disgruntled saps who were denied free grilled fowl despite their original Oprah-website-issued free chicken coupons. Confusion reigns in the Oprah free chicke ... More >>
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March 12, 2009
Greg Proops: Where It's Chat
Poultry pandemoniumAs our nation's saga of poultry pandemonium continues, this just in: KFC locations to hand out chicken rain checks to poor disgruntled saps who were denied free grilled fowl despite their original Oprah-website-issued free chicken coupons. Confusion reigns in the Oprah free chicke ... More >>
Blogs
January 13, 2009
The Bird and the Bee Announce Leno, Kimmel Appearances, Offer First Glimpse of New Album
LA's The Bird and the Bee have been doing rehearsal gigs around town for the past couple months, so it's not like you haven't had ample opportunity to catch them live. But in anticipation of their upcoming second full-length, Ray Guns Are Not Just the Future, the duo of Inara George and Greg Kurs ... More >>
Blogs
May 2, 2008
Stone Temple Pilots, Jimmy Kimmel Show, 5/1
Stone Temple Pilots Jimmy Kimmel Live, May 1 By Ryan Colditz "One time a thing occurred to me What's real, and what's for sale? Blew a kiss and tried to take it home" The opening lines of "Vasoline" during Stone Temple Pilots' first public show since 2002 on Jimmy Kimmel Live! put the entire e ... More >>
Film+TV
March 6, 2008
Big Gives
Some philanthr-Oprah
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January 10, 2008
The Karlin Report
Some philanthr-Oprah
Blogs
November 8, 2007
ELLEN'S GAY
Two frosted haired ladies walk stiffly through the ebbs and flows of sidewalk traffic on West Alameda Avenue in Burbank. The street is lined with WGA strikers circling the Disney, NBC and Warner Bros. studios. The ladies, residents of the O.C. are here to enjoy their recent retirement. Tops on their ... More >>
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August 23, 2007
The Greg Proops Chat Show
Two frosted haired ladies walk stiffly through the ebbs and flows of sidewalk traffic on West Alameda Avenue in Burbank. The street is lined with WGA strikers circling the Disney, NBC and Warner Bros. studios. The ladies, residents of the O.C. are here to enjoy their recent retirement. Tops on their ... More >>
Film+TV
February 16, 2006
Truth to Oprah Power
Two frosted haired ladies walk stiffly through the ebbs and flows of sidewalk traffic on West Alameda Avenue in Burbank. The street is lined with WGA strikers circling the Disney, NBC and Warner Bros. studios. The ladies, residents of the O.C. are here to enjoy their recent retirement. Tops on their ... More >>
Columns
July 1, 2004
My Life on the Couch
Bill Clinton�s Oprah Moment
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April 24, 2003
A Head Above
Bill Maher in real time
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July 12, 2001
Confessions of a Celebrity Dope Fiend
Bill Maher in real time
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July 29, 1999
The Green Monster
Tom Green, from the great wild North; plus, Dick and Paula, and Joe Bonanno
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October 22, 1998
Crying Freedom
Jonathan Demme's beautiful Beloved
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June 4, 1998
The Oprah Effect
The TV star has transformed the publishing world
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