Mkava's Ramblings

As many of you may know, I’m a fan of Conan O’Brien. That extremely pale Irish-American oddity with the even odder hair is one of my most favorite personalities in entertainment and has been for quite a few many years.

I remember watching Conan when I was in elementary school and enjoying watching him make fun of himself and crack jokes that I didn’t really understand. And even years after beginning my fascination with Conan’s style of humor and wise-cracking, I can still say he is still a joy to watch. Who else can sport an Amish beard (his ‘strike’ beard), sing like Edith Bunker, rocking to Rock Band, and still be one of the most serious entertainers? He has always been a joy to watch, even when watching some of his first shows on the Late Night Show when he looked nothing more than a Popsicle stick with a flowing mane of orange hair who was just getting his feet wet in the ‘night show’ business.

All jokes about his looks aside (I do think he is a rather handsome man, but he himself has poked fun at not only his hair, his looks, his height, and his tiny desk on the Late Night Show more than once for a laugh), thinking of the possibility that Conan might quit the ‘night show’ business due to executive ho-ha is an incredibly depressing and frightening prospect. When Craig Kilborn quit The Late Late Show in 2004, it was a confusing time for me as I had watched him for most of his five-year span as host of the show. And seeing Craig Ferguson, the person who I had coined to be only good as Mr. Wick from The Drew Carey Show, replace Mr. Kilborn as the host of The Late Late Show, I was very surprised to see how awesome the show became even after an entertaining run for many years with Mr. Kilborn. I felt the same way when Conan replaced Jay Leno as the host of The Tonight Show. I enjoyed watching Jay, but Conan was a much much much more entertaining personality to me, even when I found Jay’s cars and his knowledge of them very entertaining as well. And after seeing Conan only have 7 months at the helm of The Tonight Show, I’m deeply bothered to see such an entertainer be possibly screwed over when he has just truly hit the big time after working so many years to make The Late Show an outstanding success. Jimmy Fallon couldn’t of  inherited a greater show.

So I’m simply hoping that Conan maintains his role as the host of The Tonight Show and can continue to do what he does best: entertaining America.

Conan’s statement about this whole situation after the break. Took some digging but it seems to be the correct one.

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