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Conan was on Letterman last night for the first time in 13 years and they didn't waste anytime getting into Leno talk, as they assumed he was watching and would want them to cut to the chase. Conan has talked about the time he lost the Tonight Show before but Letterman is able to bring out a new angle on it, as he went through nearly the exact same situation. Since he's further removed from the situation, however, Letterman is able to take a sick pleasure in it all. Their relationship is fun, not exactly father and son – more like nephew and son-of-a-bitch uncle. Leno is the uncle [...]

Nepotism shmepotism. People have complained about how the stars of Girls have famous parents, which is a dumb thing to complain about, but regardless the upside is these actresses tell hilarious stories about their dads. Like how David Mamet's only acting advice was that "acting school was bullshit." Apparently, school in general was bullshit, as he pushed his daughters to drop out of high school. Zosia seems like she's doing OK and she also curses a ton (as can be seen in the clip below) – David must be super proud.

With the upfronts coming up next week, Joel McHale and Alison Brie reminded us of the benefit of casting such good-looking, charming actors. While McHale was talking about Conan getting super drunk at their kids' playdate (take a second to imagine how fun that playdate was…k, seconds over) and discussing the finer points of leather pants wearing with Andy, Brie was animaling balloons, kind of flirting with Garry Shandling (who can blame her), and talking about getting an unfortunate massage (unfortunate for her, not the guy who saw her butt). If only Nielsen ratings were decided by charm, Community would trounce those Big Bang Theory nerds. After the jump, [...]

Last night, Matt Walsh was on Conan to talk about Veep, which was fun and fine but then he dropped the red, white, and blue-striped bomb that he annually goes to Harlem Globetrotters' training camp to teach them improv and dunking (OK, not dunking). This does explain why each quarter at a Globetrotters game starts with a monologue.

In honor of a planned speaking engagement, UCSD changed its name for the day to "Conan O'Brien College." In his new position as king of the school, King Conan answered exactly the type of things you'd imagine college kids would ask, like: What's the craziest thing you did in college? Who was the most attractive person you've interviewed? How would you survive a zombie apocalypse? Conan is able to take even the more mundane questions and get solid laughs out of them. The one question that wasn't asked but probably should've been was, "Wait, so universities are free to just change their names whenever they want? If so, why [...]

Multiple times throughout the interview, Conan told Marc, "I'm worried about you." It seems reasonable, considering they've known each other for a while and Marc is Marc. And Marc, with his new haircut, does not disappoint, using his TV appearance to reason out Auto-Erotic Asphyxiation. Sadly, he doesn't follow through on it. That will have to wait until next sweeps. Below is the second part of the interview, in which he justifies having such a younger girlfriend, who seemingly has a list of all his friends that she is ready to sex if shit hits the fan. Classic Marc.

TBS announced that it's working with Conan O'Brien's production company on Deon Cole's Black Box. The show features Conan writer Deon Cole cracking wise at video clips, with a focus on race, gender, and politics. Cole is very funny writer and performer so this is great news, regardless if it's just another show where a comedian makes jokes about videos. TBS is also working with Ashton Kutcher on Who Gets the Last Laugh?, a show where comedians compete to prank regular people. It's perfect for people who liked Punk'd but wished it were more mean spirited. After the jump, check out more videos of Deon Cole because he [...]

If you haven't heard, Reggie Watts is awesome at being filmed being Reggie Watts. There is something magical about that second before he's about to sing and the not knowing of where it's going to go. One of Reggie's favorite places to be awesome is on Conan and last night he was, playing one song, "Diametrical Oppositionalism", that encompassed the last 40 years of western music and mentions cats a lot. He was on promoting his new special, Reggie Watts: A Live in Central Park, which premieres this Friday night at 1:00AM on Comedy Central (check out a preview after the jump). We should all watch because summer [...]

With the Between Two Ferns: A Fairytale of New York debuting Sunday at 8:30 before the Comedy Awards, I thought it was a perfect time to look back at the Between Two Ferns series. B2F has been incredibly popular, bringing in over 80 million views across the entire series, on Funny or Die alone. Beyond that, whenever a new one is released, it nearly instantly reaches Internet omnipresence.

It's hard to say why exactly the series has had such enduring popularity, as it has maintained relevance for over four years now (which is nearly four zillion years in Internet time or 28 years in dog time). Of course, it's wildly funny and unique [...]

Last year, TBS changed their renowned slogan "very funny" to the absolutely edgy "veryfunny". It seems that the space was getting in the way of funniness, as spaces are wont to do. As to continue this commitment to funny, they are developing more comedy programming to go along with the previously mentioned shows from Deon Cole and Ashton Kutcher and their Big Bang Theory reruns. Two of those shows, Most Likely and Zone Lord, will be produced by TBS's boyfriend, Conan O'Brien, and one show, Norm MacDonald is Trending, will star Norm MacDonald and likely be beloved by his fans and overlooked by his non-fans. The breakdowns [...]

Conan O'Brien is set to swing by New York's Ed Sullivan Theater next Thursday, May 17th to sit on Dr. David Letterman's couch to either discuss how they both were so royally screwed over by NBC and Jay Leno when they thought they were in line for the Tonight Show throne or very awkwardly avoid the subject. Obviously I'm hoping for the former, although Coco in particular hasn't really discussed the situation or any lingering animosity for quite a while. But if anyone can drag some bitterness out of him, it's Letterman.

Conan was last on The Late Show a whopping 13 years ago, when he was still [...]

Though I can’t say this for certain, I’m going to go out on a limb and say there’s never been an another television announcer in broadcast history who appeared in an on-camera sketch sitting shirtless in a kiddie pool with a cabana boy on each arm.

But that was Joel Godard, and he did it with style.

Godard was the announcer for all 17 seasons of Late Night with Conan O’Brien on NBC. He wasn’t the first late night talk show announcer to step out from his offstage booth and appear on-camera, but he was the funniest. His willingness to do anything for a laugh, including going along [...]

Do you smoke pot? Don't worry, I'm not a cop. You ever get so high that you find yourself hanging out with some dude named Ganja John and then Ganja John takes out one of his eyes and you are like, "Woooooah, put your eye back in, dude?" Well that happened to Brian Posehn and it changed him forever. Also, I am a cop, you're arrested. JK, I'm not. Double JK, put your hands behind your back and laugh, because triple JK, this was a bit.