Rooster_Ties Posted May 10, 2003 Report Share Posted May 10, 2003 Conan's 'Late Night' Breaks the Mold published 02:01 PM - MAY 09, 2003 Eastern Time Here's the dirt on Conan O'Brien: His show has been remodeled in clay. In the grand tradition of "Celebrity Deathmatch" and "Wallace and Gromit," NBC's "Late Night With Conan O'Brien" has been transformed into clay animation for an episode that will air Thursday night (May 15th, 2003). "This may be the best show we've ever done," O'Brien declared Friday _ "in clay." The episode, in production for months, is a clay recreation of a "Late Night" hour that aired in its original, live-action version last October _ including the show's opening, monologue and even lead-ins to commercials. Guests on the episode (which airs Friday at 12:35 a.m. EDT) are "Jackass" star Johnny Knoxville, comedian Richard Lewis and musical guest David Bowie. In addition, Mr. T appears in a sketch. ___ On the Net: NBC Web site: http://www.nbc.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFrank Posted May 10, 2003 Report Share Posted May 10, 2003 Hey, that sounds pretty inspired. I'll have to check it out. I just wish it was a different show than Conan, but worth taping anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rooster_Ties Posted May 14, 2003 Author Report Share Posted May 14, 2003 Up... Set your VCR's, or catch it the next day on Comedy Central (presumably). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFrank Posted May 26, 2003 Report Share Posted May 26, 2003 I forgot to tape it OR watch it. How was it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rooster_Ties Posted May 26, 2003 Author Report Share Posted May 26, 2003 I totally forgot about it too. In fact, I realized that I had forgotten about it on Friday morning, and had the chance to tape it when it was rebroadcast on Comedy Central later that same day, and I forgot that too!!!! So I never saw it either... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soul Stream Posted May 26, 2003 Report Share Posted May 26, 2003 I saw it and realized it wasn't very funny. The "real life" Conan is much more "animated" so to speak. The claymation wasn't very good, rather sophomoric. A real dissappointment. I was looking forward to it. Another complaint is that instead claymating a "new" show, they did an old one I had already seen. So, all in all, you didn't miss anything. It was an idea that looked great on paper, but the execution lacked quite a bit. However, kudos to Conan and co. for trying. Conan is the only late night talk show worth watching IMHO, great stuff.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pryan Posted May 26, 2003 Report Share Posted May 26, 2003 I was looking forward to the show too, and was kinda disappointed with the result. The preview clips they showed seemed much better, although it's one thing watching a short clip and entirely different thing watching an entire show done in clay-mation that's normally not done that way. That said, I'll still watch the show on a semi-regular basis (I concur with Soul Stream, it's the best late-night show out there), and kudos for at least trying something new even if the results weren't that great, IMHO. BTW, they showed some of the outtakes/bloopers at the end (although I had already given up by that time), and later re-broadcast them, due to popular demand. I found the bloopers to be a hell of a lot funnier than the actual show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Wheel Posted May 26, 2003 Report Share Posted May 26, 2003 Yeah, I tend to agree. The clay didn't really add anything...for me, it was a regular Conan show, only in clay. But IMO, this particular show was HILARIOUS--the bit with Richard Lewis was particularly good. They couldn't have picked a better one to experiment with as far as I'm concerned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFrank Posted May 26, 2003 Report Share Posted May 26, 2003 Oh, well. I imagine it had to be an old show, just because of the production involved. I'm sure that 60 minutes (- commercials) would take at LEAST several months to film. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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