Posts Tagged ‘Conan’

What does comedian Louis C.K. think about social media? “Well I kinda hate it,” he told Conan O’Brien on his late night show last week. “I think it’s awful.”

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Siri is not only one of the most talked about features on the new iPhone 4S, but it’s also one of the most talked to features. Everyone is talking to Siri, asking her useful questions about the weather, directions and more. But a funny spoof of Apple’s Siri commercial, brought to you by Conan, reveals what people are really asking Siri about. And it’s not pretty.

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In a new video F*Card, Conan O’Brien lets Facebookers know the truth about liking your own Facebook posts—it makes you look really, really stupid. He says, “When you like your own posts, it’s kind of like giving yourself a high five,” which, as Conan illustrates, doesn’t look good at all.

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MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann disappeared from the airwaves after its Jan. 21 installment, so naturally, it disappeared from the rankings of top cable-news-show Web sites for the week ending Jan. 29 from Experian Hitwise. After topping the list the previous week, Countdown‘s cancellation left the door open for Fox News Channel’s The O’Reilly Factor to seize first place in the category, followed by two offerings from MSNBC: The Rachel Maddow Show, and The Last Word, with the latter representing Countdown‘s replacement.

The top two late-night talk-show Web sites were unchanged from the previous week — Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report — but ironically, NBC’s The Tonight Show with Jay Leno bumped TBS’ Conan out of the No. 3 spot.

Morning-talk-show sites were unchanged yet again: NBC’s Today, ABC’s Good Morning America, and CBS’ The Early Show.

The top three broadcast-network sites also remained constant: CBS, ABC, and NBC. The same story applied to the top three broadcast-show sites: Fox’s American Idol, CBS’ NCIS, and ABC’s The Bachelor. Fast risers on the broadcast list were ABC’s Castle (to No. 14 from No. 27), NBC’s Who Do You Think You Are (21 from 80), and The CW’s Supernatural (24 from 53).

MTV’s Jersey Shore continued its rein as a blast in a glass atop the list of cable-show sites, and Comedy’s South Park held onto second place, but BET’s The Game was not game enough to remain in the top three, replaced by ABC Family’s Pretty Little Liars. Fast risers were FX’s Archer (13 from 114) and The Last Word (23 from 108).

When combining broadcast and cable networks, the top three shows were unchanged from the week ending Jan. 22: Nickelodeon’s SpongeBob SquarePants, Jersey Shore, and South Park. Fast risers were CBS’ Hawaii Five-O and MTV’s Skins (25 from 35).

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Conan O’Brien will turn to YouTube to help promote Conan, his TBS show, which is set to debut Nov. 8, with a 24-hour live stream, The Live Coco Cam.

Conan blogger Aaron Bleyaert previewed The Live Coco Cam on the YouTube Blog:

People constantly ask me questions like, “Hey, Aaron, what’s it like to work at such an awesome show?” Or, “Hey, Aaron, what do you guys do all day in your offices?” Or even, “Aaron, you are incredibly handsome — how can one man have such stunning good looks?” The answer to that last one is simple: I moisturize.

For the answer to the first two, I invite you to tune in to the massive online comedy event we’re calling “The Live Coco Cam.” As the word “live” implies, it will be live. And as the word “Coco” implies, it will be TOTALLY AWESOME. Starting today at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT, we invite you to take a look inside the wonderfully weird offices of the brand new Conan show as we prepare for our Nov. 8 debut on TBS. We’re shoving a camera in the second-floor stairwell of our offices and will be broadcasting all of the behind-the-scenes comedy madness live for 24 hours. Here’s a taste of the crazy:

Who’s gonna show up? What’s gonna happen? As our Live Coco Cam event unfolds, all the weird, funny, and tender (yes, tender) moments will be captured and uploaded to Team Coco’s official YouTube channel so you don’t miss a second of the action. In addition, we’ll be Tweeting about the events through the day and night from our Team Coco Twitter account, and we will be recapping all the events after they happen (as well as after the event ends) over on our show blog at TeamCoco.com … That is, if I survive the next 24 hours.

A week ago, Conan O’Brien announced that he would be fielding Facebook fans questions on YouTube. Last night Conan answered his first question, in the second installment of the ‘Conan Takes Your Questions’ series. Did he answer your question? Well, if you are a Facebooker named Lance that asked Conan about his favorite type of sandwich then he certainly did!
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Conan O’Brien is taking a hint from Jimmy Fallon’s social media proficiency, taking to the virtual streets of the social web to promote his new TBS show online. Though he’s still only following one person on Twitter, and only sends out one tweet per day, he’s beefing up his social media repertoire on Facebook and YouTube. Last month, Conan used YouTube to announce the name of his new show, and now he has announced that he will be fielding Facebookers’ questions on the video site.
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As part of YouTube’s 5-year celebration, the video site asked Conan O’Brien, among other celebs, to share five of his favorite videos with YouTube users. He introduces the clips in an anniversary message to YouTube and, in true Conan form, which has been rather cynical as of late, he doesn’t congratulate the video giant, but rather jokingly blames them for the fact that “our country’s economy is in the toilet.”
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