Conan O’Brien did a week of shows in Harlem this week and he brought his staff along with him. There is one member he wishes he didn’t bring with them and of course that is Jordan Schlansky.
Well I guess the TBS late night lost a bet because he was stuck sharing a cab with his PA to the Apollo Theater. On the way there, Schlansky shared his vast knowledge of NYC’s past. Being a NYer by birth, I knew some of those facts, Although, I actually learned a thing or two. But why did he have to bring up Duran Duran? What did they do to him? And Footloose is a great album, what he is talking about? Let’s not hear it for the boy.
We have been talking about Kelly Clarkson for 15 years, but whatever happened to that guy she did a movie with all those years ago? Somehow Conan O’Brien found Justin Guarini and got him to sing a song on his late night show yesterday that is filming at the Apollo Theater all this week.
While that might sound glorious for American Idol’s first runner up, it actually isn’t. Why? Because he was singing it about the Conan Strike Rat balloon that the host is trying to get in Macy*s Thanksgiving Day Parade this year. Since it looks more like the President than him, there is not way that it will happen. Because someone on 5th Avenue will shoot it down and not lose a single supporter! Where have I heard that scenario before?
Conan O’Brien is doing a week of shows at The Apollo Theater, and he got a much needed makeover for his temporary home. Who better to style him than Dapper Dan of Harlem? Only problem is Dapper Dan let the TBS host pick out his clothes. He literally was Pimpin’ it as in he looked a like a Pimp. A Pimp with the ugliest ladies of the night walking 42nd Street.
Not only that, at one point Conan bares his chest and he actually has the same torso has of a Ken doll. Same coloring too, it is quite mesmerizing.
On that note, Dapper Dan finally got to work his magic on the red-headed Ken doll (who also has the same hair as Malibu Ken) and he did a good Pimpin’ the host. He actually, almost, looks, dapper.
Last Friday, Conan O’Brien was on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and he told a long story about a how David Letterman gave him a horse as a thank you gift a few years ago. Then on Tuesday, David Letterman was on Jimmy Kimmel Live and the first Late Night host told him that he gave the horse to the second Late Night host as a gag and was expecting him to return it to sender. Something Conan did not know until that interview.
Therefore, now after 3 and a half years, he is finally returning the horse to its rightful owner. No word how much it cost to ship the gift that keeps on giving across the country, but probably almost as much as the gorgeous animal is worth. Which is sad because Letterman is taping his Netflix show in Los Angeles and Conan could have saved a pretty penny and gave Dave Dave the Horse here.
I am sure this will not be the last time we hear about Dave the Horse and I cannot wait to see it all unfold in a late night battle. This is Letterman and Conan’s second late night war, they each had one before and it was against another horse or at least Jay Leno kind of looks like one…
Last Friday, Conan O’Brien was on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and he told a story about how David Letterman got him a horse, yes a real horse, as a thank you gift for writing a nice letter to the semi-retired talk show host about all he did for late night television.
The story goes, when the TBS late night host heard that Letterman sent him a gift, he got overly excited. He got even more excited when he heard that the truck the present was in was too big to fit through the gates of the Warner Bros lot in Burbank. Therefore, he skipped, I am assuming, to get his gift that also skips. That is because it was a horse. What does a Harvard Man from Boston in LA via NYC know about horses? Nothing that is what.
Therefore, he found a place to take care of the unridable horse, and it was not cheap. On topic but off track, there are several equestrian centers in Burbank that are within a mile of where Conan tapes his nightly show. He could literally walk there, that is how close they are close to him. Anyways, after two years, he found a new home for Dave, so they donated Dave the Horse that was given to him by Dave the Letterman. A place so nice that is why we say that hoses go to greener pastures.
You would think that is where the story ends. It does not. David Letterman was on Jimmy Kimmel Live yesterday, since the ABC host is taping the show in Brooklyn this week, and Dave told his side of the story. Letterman likes to give gag gifts and thought he would send Conan the horse with two cowboys while O’Brien’s show was taping and the stallion would take a big dump on the stage like when Ben Stiller brought a camel onto JKL many years ago. Then after the horse took a big sh!t on Conan’s stage, the giftee would sent the gift back to the gifter. That did not happen and Letterman had to pay for the thoroughbred that was returned to sender.
What did we get out of it? Two late night talk shows telling their stories on two other late night shows that are not their own. I cannot wait for Letterman to be Conan or Conan to be on Letterman’s Netflix show, so we can get the next chapter on their story.
And how did you like that in both cases the guests, who are also late night show hosts, totally dominated their interview segments on the other person’s late night show. The men behind their desks knew that they had met people who are better at their jobs than they are.
On that note, I think that Conan should spend a block of his show telling an unscripted tale because he is a great storyteller. I could watch him talk for 4 hours every week just talking about whatever. Don’t you just love the way he tells stories?
