Late Night

Conan O’Brien to Leave NBC for FOX

January 11, 2010 By Holly Stafford 2 Comments

[Conan O’Brien Slams NBC – Video]

Conan O’Brien is reportedly upset with NBC’s plan to move his Tonight Show to a midnight time slot to make room for Jay Leno, considering NBC’s offer unacceptable. And can you blame him?

Per NYPost:

“This level of sh- – -iness was not expected,” one source said. “He’s done a great job for NBC. He moved his entire staff, he moved his family to LA. And five months later, they repay him like this?”

Network Chairman Jeff Gaspin confirmed that he was hoping to pull off a new late-night arrangement after the Winter Olympics: Leno at 11:35 p.m. hosting a half-hour show, and Conan at 12:05 a.m. hosting the one-hour “The Tonight Show.” Jimmy Fallon’s “Late Night” would then be pushed back to 1:05 a.m. O’Brien hasn’t yet accepted NBC’s take-it-or-leave-it offer to move to 12, and the Post’s source says that he might be “happier somewhere else.” If O’Brien and NBC can’t come to terms, Conan may not have to look far for a new job. Fox, who initially offered O’Brien a show before cooling on the idea, is reportedly interested in him again and looking to create its own late-night show.

Per The Wrap:

“We’ve always been interested in late night and we’re always looking to bring great new talent to Fox,” a network source told TheWrap.

Though Conan remains under contract with NBC, Fox feels he would be “a great fit.” Fox and the rest of the TV world continue to watch the NBC late-night drama unfold, waiting to find out which way each hosts fall. I think Conan would be much better off on Fox given the hot-cold relationship he’s had with NBC.

Filed Under: Celebrity Feuds, Celebrity Gossip, Television Tagged With: Conan O'Brien, Fox, Jay Leno, Jeff Gaspin, Jimmy Fallon, Late Night, NBC, The Tonight Show, Winter Olympics

Anne Heche Gives David Letterman The Crazy-Video

August 27, 2009 By Crista Webster Leave a Comment

Last night Anne Heche was on Late Night with David Letterman. Apparently, she is plugging some movie, or television show that no one will likely watch.

However, instead of doing the usual Hollywood pimping of one’s self that an appearance on Letterman is designed for, Heche decided to go three shades of crazy and blast her ex-husband, hairy baboon, sorry, Coley Laffoon.

Via D-Listed:

“Anne said he was a ‘lazy ass’ who does the d**k happy dance every time he gets a check in the mail from her. Anne also launched caca bombs on the idea of marriage and said Letterman did the wrong thing by getting hitched to his lover. Anne, who has a PHD in lunacy, said, ‘Don’t get married. Forever engaged is a wonderful romantic thing to do.’”

At this point in the program, Ellen Degeneres ordered her DJ to play a happy song and commenced dancing around her mansion with her dogs and Portia de Rossi.

Filed Under: Celebrity Couples, Celebrity Divorce, Celebrity Feuds, Celebrity Gossip, Celebrity Quotes, David Letterman, Ellen DeGeneres, Videos Tagged With: Anne Heche, Anne Heche Blasts Ex Husband, Anne Heche Coley Laffoon, Anne Heche David Letterman Interview, Anne Heche Divorce, Anne Heche Interview, Anne Heche Letterman, Anne Heche Marriage, Late Night, Late Night with David Letterman

David Letterman Slams Sarah Palin- Videos

June 11, 2009 By Crista Webster 1 Comment

Sarah Palin will not go away. And this time, one of my favroite people is responsible for keeping her around.

At the beginning of the week Late Night Show host David Letterman poked fun about Palin’s visit to New York in his opening monologue. Why? Because that it what he is paid to do.

Via Stupid Celebrities:

“Letterman joked on Monday about Palin’s visit to New York saying that, ‘During the seventh inning, her daughter was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez.’”

The joke was obviously poking fun at Palin’s eldest daughter, Bristol, whose underaged knocked-up’ness we were all subjected to during her campaign for the Vice Presidency. (Note to Palin: America still hasn’t forgiven you for subjecting us to Levi Johnson).

However, Palin can’t stand being out of the press for more than three days. She and her snow-mobiling husband Todd, have launched an attack against dear old Dave.

“Laughter incited by sexually-perverted comments made by a 62-year-old male celebrity aimed at a 14-year-old girl is…disgusting,”

the Alaska governor said in a statement.

Palin’s 14-year-old daughter, Willow, was the only Palin daughter on the New York trip. Todd Palin fumed to the press his disgust.

“Any ‘jokes’ about raping my 14-year-old are despicable.”

Palins please. All that time spend in the darkness in Alaska are getting to you. Last night, Letterman used his show to defend himself:

“We were, as we often do, making jokes about people in the news. These are not jokes made about her 14-year-old daughter. I would never, never make jokes about raping or having sex of any description with a 14-year-old girl. Am I guilty of poor taste? Yes. Did I suggest that it was okay for her 14-year-old daughter to be having promiscuous sex? No.”

Letterman then invited Palin and her husband as guests on his show. Though Palin’s camp is currently standing firm stating that it doesn’t matter which Palin daughter he was referring to, I give it a little over a week before we see Palin’s winking and playing the flute next to Paul Schaffer.

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Mark-Paul Gosselaar as Zach Morris on Jimmy Fallon – Video

June 10, 2009 By Cara Harrington 4 Comments

This teaches me a huge lesson to stop playing drunken Cake Mania 3 and start watching Jimmy Fallon. Mark-Paul Gosselaar dressed up as my very first crush, Zach Mothalovin’ Morris. The skit was Gosselaar’s idea and I thought it was a stroke of corny, but funny brilliance. This was part of his deal to come on the show and do a reunion.

Via Starpulse:

“I’ve never been opposed to the reunion but it’s got to be, sort of, under our terms. If someone puts a gun to your head and says, “You know, you should do this reunion,” like Fallon kind of has done — and I love Jimmy by the way, I think he’s awesome — he kind of put us under the gun in a way. I wanted it to be a win-win situation for everybody. I said, as we were driving, to my wife, “Hey Lisa, what do you think if I went on as Zack Morris and that was reality? That Zack is alive, Zack is me and I just play the character Mark-Paul Gosselaar.”

“There were three things that I asked for. Number one: That I look into the camera and I do the time out. The phone was a big thing that I wanted to use as well. And [playing] “Friends Forever” with The Roots. And that was it, that’s all we came up with, then I called Jimmy Fallon. I said, “Hey, Fallon, this is what I want to do.” and he goes, “Well, wait, at the end you’re going to say you’re Mark-Paul?” I said, “No, I’m going to go on, never break character and that’s going to be the reality.” He says, “I don’t know if the producers are going to be into that, but I’ll get you in touch with my writer.”

Jimmy has been trying to get a “Saved by the Bell” reunion going since the start of his turn at “Late Night.” So far Lisa Turtle (Lark Voorhies), Mr.Belding (Dennis Haskins), Albert Clifford ‘A.C.’ Slater (Mario Lopez), Jessie Spano (Elizabeth Berkley) and Zach Morris (Mark Paul Gosselaar) are all up for the reunion. Kelly Kaposi (Tiffany Amber Thiessen) and Screech (Dustin Diamond) are holding out. Which is odd, because last I heard Screech was making sex tapes and selling t-shirts to pay his bills.

Is it only slightly odd to me that Mark has aged a day and looked exactly the same? Saved by the Bell is back, New Kids on the Block are touring again and I my friend used the term “sike” the other day. It’s like I am 12 again and no longer bitter about my thighs.

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Jimmy Fallon’s Late Night Debut a Dud – Video

March 3, 2009 By Cara Harrington Leave a Comment

Oh how I miss Conan O’Brien already.

Jimmy Fallon suffered a shaky start to his debut. The critics aren’t exactly holding faith that he has the chops to fill the spot of Conan. A set, not unlike SNL, was erected ad Jimmy was clearly nervous, which is understandable, but distracting. Despite his star studded show that included Robert De Niro, Tina Fey, Justin Timberlake and Drew Barrymore, he fell flat.

Here are some of the reviews….

Entertainment Weekly: “He still looked nervous, his eyes locked onto the cue cards more frequently than at us. He did an ultra-ordinary monologue — one liners about President Obama and the deficit that sounded like material Jay Leno’s writers had faxed over from L.A.

The Hollywood Reporter: “He tried too hard, stumbled over his punchlines and struggled to make Robert De Niro seem interesting.”

Washington Post – “He meant he’d been momentarily unplugged, but the whole show had an unfortunate aura of disconnect. It didn’t seem to have attitude, direction or an identifiable style — a newborn already suffering an identity crisis.”

Egads….lets hope he puts the big boy pants on soon!