Here’s a clip from Gad Elmaleh’s appearance on last night’s Conan, where he tells O’Brien what it was like to host the French version of Saturday Night Live, which aired its very first episode earlier this month — on a Thursday, of course, to give the show its own “French touch.” The episode included at […]
Continue Reading16 years ago, Fred Armisen made his TV debut on Late Night with Conan O’Brien. Time to turn on the… MORE
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Before IFC’s Portlandia, and before NBC’s Saturday Night Live, Fred Armisen showed up on your TV screens in unusual ways and sometimes even without credit. Armisen performed a number of short videos for HBO in the late 1990s, for instance, that ran as interstitials between movies. He’d take one of his characters there, “Sgt. Fred,” […]
Continue ReadingBecoming an aunt has provided Emily Heller with the proper perspective on both her parents’ capacity for love, as well as her abilities in comparison with her nephew. In Heller’s most recent stand-up performance on Monday’s Conan, she observed why certain children have to be kept on leashes, and how Donald Trump was the Air Bud of […]
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