First Lady Michelle Obama challenged Conan O’Brien to her Gimme Five challenge and he accepted her dare to do 5 whole chin-ups. He made a video of himself doing it because no one would ever believe he did it if they didn’t see it for themselves. Only problem is the cameraman panned down and we got to see how he was able to achieve the goal. He had Kevin Hart lifting him up on his shoulders. Which is really impressive because Hart is smaller than your average man and Conan is taller than one. I am pretty sure the TBS late night host is twice Kevin’s size. So if I were Conan, I would be embarrassed that a man that is half his size is twice as strong as me!
Sorry to ruin the punchline of the joke, but I was blown away by Kevin’s strength.
Long before Keith Urban was judging singers on American Idol, he was a contestant on a talent competition back when was 9. Yesterday on Conan, he told the TBS host about his experience.
His parents told him to go on a show called Pot of Gold and he sang a Country song on it. When he was done, it was time to be judged. Bernard King told the kid, “I desperately encourage you to escape the mediocrity, get out of Country Western and get into some real music.” Then the judge added, “Otherwise, you will end up sounding like Dolly Parton and absolutely useless.”
Imagine if he took that judge’s advice, we probably wouldn’t know he is, he wouldn’t be married to Nicole Kidman and most importantly he wouldn’t be judging American Idol. Would that have been bad thing?
Yesterday, the world was shocked and saddened when Zayn Malik announced that he was quitting One Direction. As soon as people were able to accept and comprehend his departure and the desperate need for a replacement, several men started throwing in their names into the hat. While singers like Weird Al Yankovic just Tweeted about, John Stamos and Conan‘s Andy Richter went even further. Both men made audition tapes.
Watch the videos above of them both singing What Makes You Beautiful and tell me who is a more beautiful choice for the job? Personally, I think Richter is so much sexier with the 1D!
When James Corden got the hosting job of The Late Late Show, many of us were like who he is? As the show’s premiere date got closer, CBS started putting huge billboards of his face all over Los Angeles. In fact, they even put one up on the wall outside the studio where he tapes his show. So you would think that security would know who he was his because his huge face is right in front of theirs. You would be wrong. Corden told Conan O’Brien yesterday that he recently went to lunch one day and forget his pass in the office. When he came back, he tried to get passed security and they wouldn’t let him him without it. He tried to show them the billboard, but that didn’t work. It wasn’t until someone from his staff came down with the pass that he was finally let in.
That says a lot because he tapes in the same building as Dancing with the Stars and American Idol and and security can recognize those hasbeens and not him.
Hopefully, now that the show is on the air they will start to recognize him just like they do Carrie Ann Inaba and Harry Connick Jr.
Kevin Hart was talking about a time he didn’t get the reaction he wanted after a live gig, and Conan O’Brien sympathetically said to him, “Sometimes getting no laugh is much funnier than get a laugh.” Hart responded with, “For you, cause you understand, but you know…” The TBS host was like, “What do you mean for me? What the hell is that?” It was then that Hart realized what he just said, and he started laughing uncontrollably because he explained that is not what he meant.
But was it? Here’s a clip from earlier on Conan, when a joke during his monologue found him swimming in unfunny waters. Although I will admit, I laughed hard at it because Conan makes me laugh the hardest out of all of the late night hosts.
So watch both clips and tell me if Hart was right or not?
