A DATE HAS BEEN SET "Conan O'Brien will take over the Tonight show next June — and what happens to deposed host Jay Leno after that is anybody's guess. Leno's last show will be Friday, May 29, and O'Brien will start the following Monday, June 1, NBC executives told a Television Critics Association meeting Monday."
In what is sure to be one of the most groundbreaking interviews of our time, Joel McHale stopped by Late Night with Conan O'Brien to discuss the really important matters, like the Kardashians and the art of Bedazzling. But what really makes Joel awesome is the fact that he isn't afraid to make comments like this about his own network: "E! will walk into a needle exchange and ask someone if they want their own show." (Which, to be fair, is accurate.)
THE LOVE PAIN IN THE ASS "Mike Myers … made an appearance on NBC's 'Late Night With Conan O'Brien' Wednesday to promote 'The Love Guru,' … but he drove backstage staffers bonkers while he waited to go on. 'He sent a team of interns on a wild goose chase for Silk nondairy creamer, Twizzlers and raspberry seltzer … Then he sent one of the interns back out to get him a new drink when he realized his seltzer was not the brand he requested.'"
• Who knew Barbara Walters said vagina so often? And in so many different ways! [Queerty]
• It's official: Jimmy Fallon will replace Conan O'Brien next year. [DListed]
• "Rumor has it that Tori Spelling has just been cast in the 90210 spinoff show that the CW is doing." [INO]
• Famous john Charlie Sheen and his fiancée, Brooke Mueller, are asking for donations to charity in lieu of wedding gifts. [ICYDK]
• Lindsay Lohan has been dropped from the cast of another film. It's sad now. [Yeeeah]
• Do these people look like Muppets or do these Muppets look like people? [CityRag]
• Dina Lohan's TV show is finally here! Kill your flat-screen before her voice enters your home and controls your children and pets. [PS]
• Ashlee Simpson's laugh as she refuses to answer the pregnancy question grates on our last nerve. [YouTube]
• Jimmy Fallon plans to ruin Conan O'Brien's late night show by taking over in 2009. [FOX]
• Carmen Electra is engaged. Didn't she just get a divorce? [People]
• Oprah temporarily lost her mind and invited Tom Cruise back on her show. How much does a new couch cost? [DListed]
• Paris Hilton finds it hard to make friends; she blames it on her fame, we blame it on her hideous personality. [ICYDK]
• Carrie Underwood says she's been cheated on. Does it really count if the cheater was gay? [INO]
Awards are fun to get, but the subjectivity of the world ultimately renders them meaningless. And people doing what they love shouldn't give arbitrary awards much thought. That's why the self-importance of the Oscars is so unbearable, and it's also why it's great to see Conan O'Brien goofing off while accepting his Irish Spirit Award. Well done, laddie.
After the jump, Conan during his acceptance speech, doing what looks to be an imitation of a drunk chugging a beer.
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Flavor Flav stopped by Conan O'Brien's show last night to explain how he romances the ladies (it includes the word "earhole"). And it must be working, because he's in his third season of Flavor of Love. Oh wait…
Our favorite part is watching Gob Will Arnett try to make sense of it all.
It's official: Tim Gunn should create his own language. With such gems as "grandma jezebels" and "mannish in her dress," he has become the most charming man alive. Feel free to find other Gunnisms of your own and use them in everyday conversation.
LOST MONEY CHANGES EVERYTHING The four major late night hosts are shitting their pants! "There's some talk that the Big Four hosts — David Letterman, Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien and Craig Ferguson — may all return around the same time. While informal discussions between the NBC and CBS camps have continued via backchannels throughout the strike (Daily Variety, Nov. 16), absolutely nothing like that has been agreed upon." Insiders are tattling that everyone might be back by Jan 7.
• This girl's going to be famous, for the gays say it's so. Know her. [Queerty]
• Hallmark sends a "Screw You, You're an Idiot" card. Those are hard to find. [DListed]
• Joaquin Phoenix earning his keep as much as an actor can earn their keep. [PS]
• Jewel Breast Watch '07. [HT]
• Christina Ricci's hair looks like a cute li'l helmet. [INO]
• Lindsay Lohan will do a turn on Ugly Betty as a restaurant employee. Prescient? [ICYDK]
• Conan O'Brien's stalker is so much better than Jay Leno's stalker. [Yeeeah]
• Some bracelet of a famous person. Yay. [CityRag]
Because we at Mollygood are well aware that so many opinions are so wrong so often, it comes as no surprise that there is a fervent backlash against Conan O'Brien taking Jay Leno's Tonight Show hosting gig. What is surprising is that many of O'Brien's detractors don't even know what channel their favorite comedian – Jay Leno, the "kind" one – is on. (So [sic])
When Monday's column led with news that Jay Leno was thinking twice about the deal he signed to hand over his Tonight Show hosting duties to Conan O'Brien in 2009…the overwhelming majority thought losing Leno would be a big mistake. Interestingly, many of the same people who voiced this opinion mistakenly thought that the "Tonight Show" runs on CBS.
• Sit in silence and let this picture speak its full thousand words to you. [ASL]
• Jimmy Fallon might replace Conan on my screen, but never in my heart, you bastards. [DListed]
• Single and ready to buy patio furniture. [ICYDK]
• Britney Spears pre-bald but still post-crazy. [HT]
• Faith Hill lets the country come out. [Yeeeah]
• Growing old sans just looks better. Fact. [CityRag]
• "…(He Prefers) Hate Him" [NYT]
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