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Review: Conan O'Brien Can't Stop

There's something destabilizing about seeing Conan O'Brien — whose image has been familiarized in the collective consciousness wearing a neatly tailored suit in front of a Manhattan backdrop — suddenly laid bare by a jittery handheld camera in the comfo

By CARSON LUND | June 24, 2011

Bang Camaro fight the business of rock

It was January 6, 2009, on the set of The Late Show down in New York City, and Conan O'Brien just couldn't shut up about Bang Camaro. Even the normally stoic Max Weinberg admitted to being a fan.
Skidding out of control
By MICHAEL MAROTTA | November 12, 2010

Tonight: Conan O'Brien returns to television

You rushed to his support when NBC yanked the Tonight Show gig out from under him. You followed his Twitter feed. You packed sold-out venues...
By Ryan Stewart | November 08, 2010

Round-up: You Win Some (Emmys), You Lose Some (Freedom), and Then You Dance (with the Stars)

Life is a bowl of Life (Cereal) and Conan's new show will be called Conan (td). Paris Hilton is in trouble. Felony trouble. A guido,...
By webteam | September 01, 2010

AUDIO: It's alive! Conan wastes even more minutes of our time with improv'd version of "Frankenstein"

Hometown hero and spokesman for all that is awkward, pale, and pompadoured, Conan O'Brien has just pushed himself a notch higher on the badass meter....
By Steve Miller | August 21, 2010

62nd Primetime Emmy Awards nominations (a/k/a Suck it Leno)

The late-night wars may be on summer break until September's debut of The Conan O'Brien Show, but this morning's Emmy nominations announcement gave Conan a...
By Michael C. Walsh | July 08, 2010

Tilda Swinton's mixed metamorphoses

Most people know Tilda Swinton either from her role as the White Witch in the Narnia movies or as the striking-looking woman who in her speech accepting the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance in Michael Clayton said she was going to gi
Indie-cinema luminary gets retrospective in P-Town
By PETER KEOUGH | June 12, 2010

Plan B(1)

With the end of the long primary campaign, Mainers are facing an ugly reality.
Post-primary predictions
By AL DIAMON | June 11, 2010

In a surprise move, Conan goes to TBS

Conan O'Brien, who has been keeping busy via Twitter and a live show since getting relieved of duty at his former job, will be returning...
By Ryan Stewart | April 12, 2010

UPDATED: Conan O'Brien doing two shows at the Wang Theatre on June 4 and 5

UPDATE (1:45 pm): They've added a second Boston show on June 5. Tickets here. As previously hinted at, Conan O'Brien, the internet's favorite unemployed person, will...
By Ryan Stewart | March 11, 2010

Team Conan update: joining Twitter, doing it live

Have you seen this? Have you heard about this? Apparently Jay Leno has been restored to the Tonight Show host's chair, leaving poor Conan O'Brien...
By Ryan Stewart | February 25, 2010

Breakfast of Scumbags

Free unfunny toy inside!
Big Fat Whale
By BRIAN MCFADDEN | January 22, 2010

Hail Mary pass?

Phillipe and Jorge noticed an interesting tidbit in the sports section of the New York Times recently.
Nothing says Super Bowl Sunday like an anti-abortion ad; Ripping Rush; and more
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | January 22, 2010

Conan will not do his show at 12:05 following Leno

Conan O'Brien today released a statement saying he will not do The Tonight Show at 12:05. You'll recall that in the wake of low ratings...
By Ryan Stewart | January 12, 2010

Interview: Andy Richter

We have a chub for Andy Barker, P.I. (just released out on DVD), because we have a major chub for the show’s star, Andy Richter. Richter plays an accountant who is mistaken for a detective-for-hire and decides to just roll with it.
He's no fuddy-duddy
By SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | November 27, 2009

Fallon Upward

Boston is thoroughly dominating NBC's fall line-up.
Local Laughs
By MIKE MILIARD | September 18, 2009

Big Fat Whale gets even fatter

Brian McFadden's comic strip Big Fat Whale — which can be seen semi-regularly in these very pages — had an inauspicious beginning.
Laugh Factory
By MIKE MILIARD | August 28, 2009

He's not a doctor . . .

Around this time four years ago, contemporary hip-hop tastemaker Dawaun Parker faced the same dilemma that most soon-to-be music-school grads negotiate: should he become a performer, a songwriter, or a barista?
. . . but he plays with one in LA. As hip-hop's newest secret weapon — and Dr. Dre's right-hand man — Berklee grad Dawaun Parker is helping resuscitate rap's biggest stars.
By CHRIS FARAONE | May 15, 2009

Interview: Louis CK

"Boston is a great town to grow up in, but I really wanted to get out of there," says comedian Louis CK.
Boston's contribution to Conan, Letterman, and Chris Rock returns with a comedy special and a role in This Side of the Truth
By MIKE MILIARD | March 12, 2009

Is he being served?

In the first animated adaptation of Tony Millionaire's sumptuously debauched comic strip Maakies , the soused Drinky Crow was voiced by erstwhile Conan O'Brien sidekick Andy Richter.
Tony Millionaire's still best on the page
By MIKE MILIARD | November 18, 2008

Catch a rising star

Boston is lousy with talented stand-ups — the following performers just happen to be a few jokes closer than the rest to the top of Comedy Mountain.
Local standup talents to watch
By SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | September 17, 2008

Not by George

A long time ago, on a bricks-and-mortar soundstage far, far away, the last great Star Wars movie was made.
Robot Chicken: Star Wars
By MIKE MILIARD | August 11, 2008

Parody flunks out

Artist Barry Blitt’s brilliant illustration — which sought to satirize the naysayers who portray Obama as a flag-burning, unpatriotic Muslim and his wife as a black-power radical — cut to the core of today’s political paradox.
Political humor is no longer welcome in Academia as administrators choke the life out of parody
By HARVEY SILVERGLATE | July 30, 2008

Holy multiplicity, Batman!

A Caped-Crusader scorecard
By MIKE MILIARD | July 16, 2008

Funny business

“Ashlee Simpson’s new album sold so poorly,” snorted the headline on Yahoo! this past week, that “it was beaten by a comedy album.”
As the AltCom Festival arrives at the Somerville Theatre, we look at the roots of the indie comedy boom.
By MIKE MILIARD | May 07, 2008

A User’s Guide to AltCom 2008

By MIKE MILIARD | May 07, 2008

A cop with an assitude

Mr. McGee comes by his name honestly. He is, quite simply, an ass.
Watertown’s Clambake Animation pushes TV’s boundaries with a homicidal heinie
By MIKE MILIARD | April 09, 2008

The amazing race

For the past year, presidential politics has been building to the crescendo that is the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary.
We break down the Presidential campaign to its six essential parts, and predict your next Commander-in-Chief.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | December 26, 2007

Fake-news vacuum

It’s easy to be flip about the deep implications of the Writers Guild of America strike, which is now stretching into its fourth week.

Why the Writers Guild strike could affect the presidential race

By ADAM REILLY | November 28, 2007

Paler than thou

Comic-book-style superheroes have been a staple of TV since George Reeves put on Superman’s red cape and blue tights in 1951.
Jim Gaffigan’s off-white superheroes
By TED DROZDOWSKI | September 19, 2007

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