Did you watch the very first episode of The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien? If so, enjoy these comments AK and I made throughout the hour. If you did not, perhaps the following exchange will prove to be an a suitable substitution.

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10:29 PM Adam: good evening
10:30 PM Rick: Hello sir.
Welcome to the official MMF Conan Chat
10:31 PM Did your local news affiliate run the promo clip?
Adam: it did indeed
10:32 PM I gave it the requisite chuckle
Rick: As did it I,
Wait, is that how you say that?
As did I, with it?
Adam: ummm
10:33 PM Rick: As is I?
anyway.
Adam: I enjoy “brash” Conan
10:34 PM but not as much as “angry” Conan
and “smooth” Conan
Rick: Both are enjoyable.
NEWS IS OVER
Here we go!
10:35 PM Adam: haha
10:36 PM I was hoping for some jump off the bridge style shenanigans
Rick: The Conan RUnning motif!
Adam: how far will they take this?
Rick: it’s all coming together!
Adam: hahaah
10:37 PM Rick: Are we to draw something from the use of “Cheap Trick”?
Adam: just that they are AWESOME
10:38 PM Rick: Not that this whole late-night shiftery is some massive joke.
That Jay WON’T be on at 10 in the fall
That Jimmy Fallon will have to go back to obscurity.
10:39 PM Adam: great open
Andy Richter is speaking to me!
10:40 PM Rick: I like that he’s YELLING.
I also like that he got to keep his music.
Adam: same here
Rick: WOW. That is a large studio audience.
Andy has the hair-cut of a demented doll.
10:41 PM Adam: it’s fitting
so does Conan
Rick: Lots of “blue” on the set… which is said to have subliminal effects on viewers.
10:42 PM not really sure what though.
Adam: it’s very calming
uh oh
that was a terrible laugh from Andy
very canned
Rick: Andy looks freaky.
10:43 PM Like he should be a villain on Venture Bros..
10:44 PM Punchline: “Exactly like being at a Clippers game”
Conan, i don’t know what that means!!!
Adam: Leno would not make such a joke
10:45 PM hahaha
no Desperate Housewives fans in the crowd
Rick: Conan seems thinner.
Adam: he’s so nervous
10:46 PM Rick: Andy at the lectern with the crazy hair looks like the wacky English teacher at a junior college.
10:47 PM Adam: hmmm
not too sure about the judge bit
Choco taco’s are, in fact, delicious
10:48 PM Rick: this is the truth.
Adam: ask your mom to check your local grocery store kids!
Rick: Laker games? Conan, you’re from Boston.
TURNCOAT!
10:49 PM Adam: hmmm
interesting cameo from Greg Kinnear, the man who almost took Conan’s job
Rick: Good catch.
10:50 PM Here we go… first remote comedy piece!
10:51 PM Adam: hahaha
Tokyo
10:52 PM Rick: There is your ANGRY conan.
10:53 PM Adam: the Universal Tour looks pretty crappy
Rick: Not while Conan at the wheel!
10:55 PM Adam: I could use some 99 cent toilet paper
Rick: A success?
Adam: not bad
Rick: We’ll only know if the NBC studio store is selling shirts with CIRLCE, CIRCLE! printed on them.
Adam: enjoyed the first one more
10:56 PM so far both skits have been mentioned in his NYT interview

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/magazine/24Conan-t.html?pagewanted=all

Rick: And we end act 1
Adam: (shameless plug)
10:57 PM what’s Letterman doing tonight?
10:58 PM Rick: Hmm… not sure.
In commercial break.
I suspect his show will be pretty normal.
11:00 PM Aaaaaaaaaand we’re back.
Adam: yikes
Rick: Obligatory Leno claps.
Adam: that was scary
11:01 PM I thought he was going to come out for a sec
Rick: I, however, WILL NOT CLAP
11:04 PM Adam: hahaha
Conan so potent he can impregnate with but a glance
11:05 PM Rick: I know this is the first episode and all, but I worry they’re going to set the bar too high with the number of remotes.
11:06 PM Adam: he’s just buying some time
they
Rick: Then again, when Letterman first went over to CBS he did remotes all the time.
Adam: they’ll phase them out eventually once they come up with new bits
11:07 PM your recent statement raises a question though
Rick: And I think Letterman didn’t stop doing them until the late 90s.
Adam: who will Conan be compared to?
11:08 PM or rather
compared to more?
Letterman or Leno?
Rick: Well… I think critically he’ll be compared to Letterman, but I suspect everyone else will compare him to Leno — because when push comes to shove, the ratings are all that people care about
11:09 PM — especially people in charge of programming late night.
That being said, even if he does horribly, I can’t imagine a scenario where he loses this gig.
Adam: yeah
Rick: It would have to be an absolute disaster and Jay will have to fail at 10.
11:10 PM Adam: one thing that makes late-night unique is the leash that everyone gets
except for Chevy
haha
11:11 PM Rick: And Joan Rivers.
Magic Johnson
Adam: ok ok
Rick: Spike Fereston (kinda)
Adam: so there were a ton of people
but they were not Tonight Show hosts
Rick: True.
Exactly.
11:14 PM This is the part of the show where Conan will start to lose viewers to Dave…
on those random Wednesday’s in August when he’s talking to Britney Murphy, I can see people heading back to CBS
11:15 PM Adam: hey man
Britney Murphy is a FANTASTIC guest
also the one time I saw Letterman who do you think was the guest
11:16 PM that’s right
Norm McDonald
I mean
Brittney Murphy
11:17 PM are you seeing movie trailer after movie trailer?
Rick: Right now we’re in local spots.
Though there was a Year One ad.
Adam: we had that and GI Joe
Rick: God that movie looks awful.
11:21 PM Whitney Matheson from Pop Candy said Land of the Lost was rather funny.
I don’t know if I’m to agree.
Adam: well she is a dirty dirty whore
Rick: eeeeeeee
Adam: that’s exactly the kind of thing I would expect out of her whorish mouth
11:22 PM hmmm the girl from Pushing Daisies is in it
I am now interested
Rick: Ah yes, I was wondering where I’d seen her.
THAT IS THE ANSWER>
11:24 PM Hey, did we talk about the Goodbye Saigon sketch on the Will Ferrell SNL?
and how it was FUCKING HILARIOUS.
Adam: no I never saw it
Rick: Your loss my friend.
Adam: is it onlilne?
11:25 PM Rick: I don’t think it is… because of music clearances.
Download it (illicitly!)
Adam: hee hee
no Rick, I will not
wink wink
Rick: Yes. Please keep from doing that. [cough]
11:26 PM Adam: whoa??
a conan commercial during his show?
that was the super bowl ad no?
Rick: yeah, it was.
11:27 PM kind of odd to replay it.
Adam: that is a faux paus
Rick: Woah!
Wait. Nevermind.
11:28 PM Adam: touche!
Rick: Flipped to Letterman. Though I saw Richard from LOST, turned out to be Helio Castronevas
(sp?)
11:29 PM I wonder if they’ll play Evenflow?
Nope.
Adam: this is the part when I turn the tv off
11:30 PM who does letterman have on
?
Rick: Pearl Jam never subscribed to the Jeff Tweedy theory that 2 guitars is obsolete.
They were right all along.
11:31 PM Adam: final thoughts?
will he have 2 guests in the future?
Rick: I’m sure he will.
11:32 PM I’m in an awful position, because Letterman is my horse, and yet I want to watch Conan
I also watch TV over the air and don’t have a DVR.
Perhaps Conan will be saved for “mornings at work online”
Adam: I’m sure it will be online
Rick: not sure why i quoted that.
11:33 PM OK.
Well, this was fun.
Adam: it was
Rick: A new era has begun.
Adam: not a bad first show
I thought the opening skit set the bar pretty high that the show itself did not reach
Rick: And we now live in a wonderland without a Jay Leno… for three months
I would agree with your assessment on the opening.
11:34 PM On that note. Let’s call it a night.
GOODNIGHT AMERICA.
Adam: the end.