Due to the coronavirus pandemic, talk show hosts are taping their shows at their homes. By the request of his family, Conan O’Brien is taking his TBS program outside of the house.
Since it is summer here in Los Angeles, he cannot do it outside. If he did, he burst into flames because he is so pale. Therefore, he is doing at the Largo At The Coronet Theater. He chose this theater because theaters all over the world are suffering. They cannot open safely due to COVID-19, so they remain shut down with no reopening date in sight. They need money, or they will never open their doors again.
Conan wanted to support a place that has been supporting him since 1986, so he brought his job to them. Since he is following the SAG/AFTRA guidelines, he is working with a skeleton crew, and he does not have an audience.
For a comedian, that is torture, so he made sure to have someone sitting in the audience. Not his family because they already changed the locks. Instead, his assistant Sona Movsesian. He is feeding off of her energy, and it shows in his monologue. Although, you would think after doing his show from his house for over two months, he would be used to the type of reception. Which it seems that he is.
Seriously, I love that he is paying back someone that paid it forward to him when he was just starting out. I hope that the NY shows are considering doing the same for Broadway because the theaters there desperately need help.
Before Conan O’Brien had someone doing warmup for his talk show, he was doing warmup for The Wilton North Report. He looks the same now as he did in 1987 when he was 24.
When Hollywood got hit by COVID-19, production shut down. That meant that all of the talk shows went dark. It didn’t stay that way for too long because Conan O’Brien was the first one to announce he would be doing new episodes from his home.
That was three months ago, and I think that his family has had enough of him being with them 24/7. That is because today, he revealed that starting on Monday, he will be doing his TBS show from Largo at the Coronet in Hollywood instead of from whatever room his family banished him to.
The new location is perfectly safe. The guests, as well, as the audience, will still be at their homes. In fact, just a few of his staff members will be joining him in the makeshift studio, while the rest will be working from their home offices.
The theater is a place he has known for almost 35 years. As O’Brien explained, “I got started doing improv at the Coronet in 1986 and I’m glad we’ve figured out a way to safely keep that theater going during this lockdown.” And for his family, it is a much-needed break from him.
Talking about breaks, Jimmy Kimmel is taking the summer. Now, we know who will be the first people who will be filling in for him while he has gone fishing. On Monday and Tuesday, Anthony Anderson will be hosting the show. Then on Wednesday and Thursday, Billy Eichner will be sitting in the big chair. Which is his own since Kimmel has been doing his ABC show from his house, and his wife has been doing Matt Damon from there too. Can you blame her?
UPDATE: Conan O’Brien confirmed what I suspected. He posted the below photo and wrote, “I am thrilled I’m moving my show to @largolosangeles next week. My family is more thrilled.” -Conan
There is so much entertainment news going on that Conan O’Brien hired Mario Lopez to tell it to him every night on his TBS show. Yesterday was Lopez’s first night, and I cannot get over all of the tea he was spilling.
After all of those years on Extra and Access Hollywood, he really knows how to get all of the dirt.
One of the things that late night talk show hosts hate doing the most is segments with an animal expert. Now that they are all doing their shows from their homes during COVID-19, they get out of doing them. Or so Conan O’Brien thought.
Tonight on TBS talk show, Conan found a way to do a segment with animals from the Conservation Ambassadors in his living room. How did it go? Better than we thought for the humans. Sadly, all the exotic animals came down with Conanvirus. They were not able to be saved. On a positive note, the taxidermist had no problem stuffing them.
