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Conan Video -- "Bush" Stops By to Say Goodbye and Diss Will Ferrell

And slap Conan's ass. And pick up the latest Larry the Cable Guy movie.

See ya later, Conie.

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Mickey Rourke and Courtney Love? My Last Request to Conan, Just One More If They Mated Before You Go

HuffPo:

Are Mickey Rourke and Courtney Love an item?

An item in today's UK Mirror alleges that's the case. Both were in London Monday night for the Elle Style awards, the day after Rourke won the BAFTA for Best Actor for "The Wrestler.

That item? It alleges that they've been secretly dating for the last three weeks, since after the Golden Globes.

So, I must ask ... Conan O'Brien, please do just one more If They Mated to clue us in on what a child of these two would look like.

I'm begging you. In fact, so much so that I'm even gonna promo the Jimmy Fallon appearance on your show tonight at 12:37 ET/PT on the NBC Television Network by posting today's Fall vlog in a clip after the jump.

You would think this level of self-debasement would garner at least a composite image of the two, there doesn't even need to be a joke, really.

Wanna help me make this happen? Click here, choose Conan's show from the drop-down menu and ask. Can't hurt to ask, can it?

It would be the ultimate pairing. And I'm pretty sure it's only six more shows.

Conan Video -- Joel McHale Guests, Talks Hefner, Football, Dermatology

You know what, I have a sense that we don't get Joel every Friday night at 10 for long. I just have a sense that stuff is starting to pop for him, and so overdue. Maybe I only feel that way because I've never once missed an episode of The Soup (to the point of actually having to buy some on iTunes, which for material that becomes dated is a tough call for a cheap sonovabitch like me).

The Informant doesn't open until September, but I can't believe that E! can hold him that much longer. Huge fanbase, big crowds at live shows, very enthusiastic female fans (which I know from reading the notes I get from them when I post).

And of course, charming as all get out and obviously has a great work ethic.

Why do I say that? Joel's there just about every Friday night with your hottest Soup (except for when there's the year-end or mid-year clip show) while the cast of thousands now just Paul F. Tompkins and my Facebook friends (Paul Scheer, Rob Huebel, and a couple others) from Best Week Ever just can't keep up.

And if you haven't clicked over to look at the cast of The Informant, besides Matt Damon and Melanie Lynskey, there's the aforementioned Tompkins, my Facebook friend Patton Oswalt, Tony Hale, Scott Adsit, Scott Bakula, Mike O'Malley (who is out of a job again) and ... Academy Award nominee Candy Clark.

Okay, I've rambled enough. It's after the jump.

Who Are the Two Most Pissed Off Guys in Television Today?

Well, it must be these two above, dontcha think?

By the time NBC's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon finishes airing it's first episode whenever that might be, viewers of that network will have watched three hours and 37 minutes of people talking. Just people talking, whether it be Jay Leno's new 10 pm show or their local news or Conan or Fallon laughing at his own jokes.

(Well, at least now when he looks at the camera, unlike at SNL, he won't be mugging it up, he'll be talking to you. And as usual, I have an illustrative Family Guy clip.)

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But this is what the Conan people said yesterday to the Hollywood Reporter:

"It's great for us," a source close to O'Brien said. "We're really excited because the alternative is him leaving angry and going to another network, competing against Conan. What it means to the drama business is another story."

Yeah, more about the drama business later. So, they're happy not to be competing against Jay. But in essence I think the two shows are more in competition with each other than ever.

I say that specifically because of the scheduling. Imagine you're going to see a double-feature at the movies and the first feature starts at 10 weeknights and the second at 11:35, and at 11 there's a really boring featurette about people in your neighborhood who break into each others' homes and run their cars into buses and play sports and talk about whether it's gonna rain tomorrow.

That's exactly what this is.

I don't think I'd ever stay for the second feature.

Now, about the five hours of programming that NBC gets to throw away? I think that just about constitutes all of the shows that Silverman brought in this past year, doesn't it? So, in effect, Jay Leno is providing a bailout for the failed practices of Ben Silverman.

Even Silverman, that partyhog, gets a bailout. Scumbo.

I'll tell you this, if I'm CBS and ABC I'm gonna very aggressively counterprogram against this will the best product I can put out there. Because I just don't see people turning away from quality shows to watch Jay talk to Larry the Cable Guy at 10 pm every night.

I was all for Jay in primetime, but once a week, and I thought it would happen on a low-viewership night, like Friday.

To me, this looks like NBC has given up trying to make quality shows. It makes me sad that Jeff and Ben have destroyed the network the same way W destroyed our nation. They've squandered the legacy of Brandon Tartikoff, a guy who really loved and was dedicated to giving viewers a quality experience.

It will take a lot of talent and a lot of luck to rebuild NBC once the GE stockholders chuck the lot of them out of those buildings in NY and LA. The country found Obama, can NBC-Universal find a suitable savior?

Tina Fey Talks to Conan About the Bristol Palin Babysitting Offer, 30 Rock, Aniston, Oprah, More

But most of all, you gotta watch this because Tina's daughter still can't tell the difference between Mommy and Hockey Mommy. Watch Tina talk about the VP nominee offering up her daughter Bristol to babysit Alice.

30 Rock premieres tomorrow night at 9:30. You can watch it right now on this blog at this link, you can click over to NBC.com or Hulu to watch it as well. You can catch up with last season's finale as well.

Anything that you would like to do short of being on the show is available for you online or in front of your TV. No, I can't send Tina Fey to your house. I've actually already asked people to send her to me and they say her schedule precludes such things.

Damn.

Tina's busy after all. Although it seems her VP candidate imitating days are just about over, she is also the Six Million Dollar Man Author, having signed with Little, Brown to publish a book of comic essays.

Tina's appearance in two clips after the jump.

From My DVR to You, Tina Fey and Julia Louis-Dreyfus Play on Conan

And Tina wanted me to make sure there was a hat tip here to Ricky Gervais.

You'll know why in a moment.

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McCain Is the Change Candidate After All, But the Changes Are Geographic

Americablog posting McCain's latest, his contention that there are problems on the Iraqi-Pakistani border.

ABC News' The Note has McCain's most recent flub:

"I think it's serious. . . . It's a serious situation, but there's a lot of things we need to do. We have a lot of work to do and I'm afraid it's a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on the Iraq/Pakistan border," said McCain, R-Ariz., said on "Good Morning America."

Iraq and Pakistan do not share a border. Afghanistan and Pakistan do. 

And just Friday night, McCain was complaining to Conan O'Brien that the old jokes were getting kind of tired. I think the only thing that's tired is John McCain.

And old.

Really old. Maybe at one time before the continents shifted, when McCain was a teenager, Iraq and Pakistan actually DID share a border.

The McCain-Conan clip after the jump has even more significance now, doesn't it? This guy is wrong about everything including how his being old is not really a tired meme, just an accurate one.

It's Official!

It'll be nice getting more sleep and not filling up my DVR so much.

I give it two years. One if they let him use his guitar. Six months if they don't come up with a decent hairstyle for him. Three months if he chooses his own writing staff.

That's all I have to say.

How Many of You Will Stay Up Late for Jimmy Fallon?

Really? This guy? Are you sure?

Conan O'Brien's New Home in Brentwood is a Signal

That signal, I believe, is the first salvo against those who would be interested in Leno sticking around past his 2009 departure date, one of those people being Leno himself.

Reuters:

O'Brien, 44, who is married with two preschoolers, is scheduled to replace Jay Leno at the helm of "The Tonight Show" next year, although Leno has reportedly had recent misgivings about stepping aside from the top-rated U.S. late-night show.

I'm actually looking forward to this, not really looking forward to finding out how it all shakes out, but I am looking forward to the shaking, so to speak. Should be interesting to see and hear what happens as Jay gets closer to that date his exit ticket is stamped.

BTW, that's not the house Conan is buying, but it is a home in Brentwood. Nice neighborhood, unless you married a murderous pro football player.