Conan O'Brien called out one of his writers for ranting against other late-night show

[TMC]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/stephaniemcn...-going-on-an-a

Writer Andres du Bouchet's since-deleted tweets (documented here) seemed to be targeting Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel's shows with complaints about pranks, celebrity stunts, hashtag wars and lip sync battles. "Comedy in 2015 needs a severe motherf*cking shakeup," he tweeted. "No celebrities, no parodies, no pranks, no mash-ups or hashtag wars. I'm fat." Conan responded to his writer's rant on Twitter: "I wish one of my writers would focus on making my show funnier instead of tweeting stupid things about the state of late night comedy."

[mets82]

Think Conan's right. I will say his show has missed something over the past few years.

[TMC]

http://tosh.cc.com/video-clips/nddv24/celebrity-games

"If playing games with celebrities is all you have to do to host a talk show, I'm happy to phone it in," says the Comedy Central star.

[TMC]

Originally Posted by TMC

http://tosh.cc.com/video-clips/nddv24/celebrity-games

"If playing games with celebrities is all you have to do to host a talk show, I'm happy to phone it in," says the Comedy Central star.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entert...e81_story.html

Dave's retirement means we're stuck with a bunch of late-night hosts who worship celebrities, says Hank Stuever. "Letterman's sense of irony was more than just a path to humor; it was one of the first and most dependable shields against a coming onslaught of celebrity rule," he says, adding: "Have you seen how dumb things have gotten over on Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show? Are you like me, have you seen that attention-desperate nitwit James Corden's Late Late Show, which began airing after Letterman's show in March and is even more obsequious than Fallon's? Do you find yourself recoiling at the late-night genre's tendency to elevate the fawning, the self-absorbed? What's going on with all the pretend cliquishness and all that fake sunshine being blown up mutual rear-ends?"

[mets82]

I disagree about Corden. I think he's ok. He's still trying to find himself.

[70s show watcher]

I did not care too much for the article I am really going to miss dave too but I do like a lot of the late night hosts except jimmy kimmel who I just do not care for but the whole article just struck me as mean sprited

[mets82]

I agree. I mean are the late night hosts, Dave? Of course not. But Dave wasnt Johnny Carson. Johnny wasnt Steve Allen.

I think the late night hosts are a good group right now.

[Edward216]

I think it's really hypocritical of Conan O'Brien to say that since he slams NBC every chance he gets, but whatever. And for the record I'm liking James Corden (for the most part, I mean you're not going to like everything they do but I think he's a lot more likable than all other late night show hosts left).

Ed.

[mets82]

In a way, he has a right to slam NBC after what they did to him. I mean you want to at least give his version of The Tonight Show a year to see how it works out?

[Edward216]

Maybe. But I still think it makes him a hypocrite.

Ed.