Last Late Night

Tomorrow will be the last time Conan O'Brien does the string dance at 12:30am. After 16 season's years of making the college kid's laugh, he'll now be in charge of bringing comedy to the 11:30 time slot. The funny has been missing from it for 16 years (since Johnny passed it on to Leno).

After a decade and a half of Pimp Bot's and Masturbating Bears, of Insult Comic Dog's and Money Shot Lincoln's, it's time for the Irishman to grow up and leave all his friend's behind. Going to the new time slot is going to change the schematic of the show. The same general outline will still be there; the monologue, 2 talkies and a musical act or comedian. What I'm worried about is the NBC brass making sure that everytime they sign his check, he promises he won't offend anybody in order to keep the long time advertisers happy. If that's the case, Conan may as well stay in New York. It'd be better for his complexion anyway. Us Ginger's can't handle those U.V.'s.

Conan was ahead of his time, just like Letterman was 20 years ago. When he first started, his "strange" sense of humour didn't resonate with many viewers and he was almost cancelled after his 6th show. What I truly respect is he didn't try to change anything, to please the higher ups. Three minutes into his first showed he was stringing a noose around his neck. I don't think I've ever seen Leno try that, though there's certainly times I wouldn't mind...

The man always did whatever he wanted and knew there had to be people out there that shared his sense of humour. I mean, this guy didn't just come out of nowhere. He was the head writer of Saturday Night Live during one of its more successful eras (1989-1992) and also wrote the infamous "Monorail" episode of the Simpsons. It took time, but he became what Letterman was before him, a comedic icon.

Conan O'Brien will say goodnight for the last time at 1:35am on February 21st, 2009. He returns in May one hour earlier and hopefully will make all of our dreams, a little more hilarious.

Stay cool my babies, stay cool.