Conan O’brien
Hm. From a review, or actually all of the reviews, of Conan O’brien’s opening Stage Show in Eugene, Oregon.
“Believe it or not,†Mr. O’Brien said. “This is the first time anyone has ever paid to see me. Don’t get me wrong: They’ve paid to make me to go away.â€
Someone paid him about $10 for seats to see him back in 1988.
Three script writers from “Saturday Night Live” are sitting out the writers strike by providing an improvisational revue, “The Happy Happy Good Show,” at Victory Gardens Studio Theater.
The show features the three writers-Conan O’Brien, Bob Odenkirk and Robert Smigel-along with four other players: Rose Abdoo, Hugh Callaly, Debby Jennings and Dave Reynolds. Mark Nutter, of Friends of the Zoo, directs. One approaches the show with some measure of anticipation.
From another review of this long forgotten stage show, where Saturday Night Live writers killed time during during a Writer’s Strike by putting on a show…
“Happy Happy“ also gives Smigel and the six other comics (several, like him, veterans of the long-running “All You Can Eat and the Temple of Dooom“) the chance to try out stuff that may not fit the “SNL“ format or was rejected by NBC censors. ([…] Smigel: “Take our very theatrical finale, where we make wacky predictions about the year 2000; it uses dark silhouettes and a deliberate pretentiousness that just wouldn`t work on TV.“
As for the show in Eugene, guaging how Conan O’brien and his staff interprets the “Intellectual Property” rights — apparently there was an appearance from the (already predicted) Self Pleasuring Panda… Â and they’re saying phooey on Triumph, able to claim him as he originated elsewhere.
Yet they won’t dare run to “In the Year 2000”.
A question about TBS, though. Apparently promotions have started right from the gate. Isn’t it overkill to roll through to November?