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How Popular is Conan O'Brien?

By Jeralyn, Section Media
Posted on Wed Feb 24, 2010 at 06:23:17 PM EST
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How popular is Conan O'Brien? He posted his first tweet on Twitter a little over an hour ago and already has 43,000 followers. How enlightening was his tweet?

Today I interviewed a squirrel in my backyard and then threw to commercial. Somebody help me.

Over 100 people have re-tweeted it, which isn't that many. Unless they are all people like Ryan Secrest with 3 million followers, who retweeted it right before he tweeted about what he might wear on American Idol tonight.

Does Jay Leno tweet? Maybe he should. (Update: He does.)

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    How Popular is Conan O'Brien? | 17 comments (17 topical)

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    Who? (5.00 / 1) (#1)
    by Edger on Wed Feb 24, 2010 at 06:44:17 PM EST
    ;-)

    Oh no (5.00 / 1) (#2)
    by ruffian on Wed Feb 24, 2010 at 06:48:31 PM EST
    Don't encourage Leno to bore me in yet another medium!

    I never 'got' O'Brian. (5.00 / 2) (#3)
    by jeffinalabama on Wed Feb 24, 2010 at 06:48:34 PM EST
    I tried, but the more I saw his show, the less impressed I was. I can't tell if it's a generational lack of appreciation, ot whether I'm just not one of the 'cool' kids. It's very odd to me that 45,000 people would want to get a 120 character message from him-- or from anyone else, for that matter!

    Smart aleck fratboy (5.00 / 3) (#4)
    by jondee on Wed Feb 24, 2010 at 07:08:29 PM EST
    that's pretty much the schtick..with jokes about how slutty Paris Hilton is..Obviously directed at a certain target audience.

    This country is celebrity crazed. If Simon Cowell were twittering he'd probably get 80,000. Meanwhile, half of them couldnt tell you where the British Isles are.

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    Or any other Late Night host... (none / 0) (#11)
    by BigElephant on Wed Feb 24, 2010 at 10:41:10 PM EST
    Who picked these people?  Conan has rarely ever been funny.  At least not on his show.  Jimmy Kimmel is a dweeb.  Fallon seems like a nice guy... like his impressions, but not a downright funny guy.  Lettermen never impressed me... the top 10 at 10 never seemed clever enough to me.  Leno is probably the best of the bunch.

    Everyone talking about how irreplaceable Conan is... get David Chapelle and people will say Conan who?  His shows were some of the best comedy ever aired on TV.  Not sure how he is as an interviewer, but are any of them great interviewers?

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    I like Jay (5.00 / 1) (#14)
    by athyrio on Thu Feb 25, 2010 at 01:06:53 AM EST
    and his sense of humor makes me laugh except when he gets political...I have never gotten Conan at all...It seems to be that Jay gracefully stepped aside when Conan took over but Conon didn't return the favor when his ratings went to hell...Not nice...

    It was NBC and Leno who ruined Conan's ratings (none / 0) (#15)
    by cymro on Thu Feb 25, 2010 at 02:32:48 AM EST
    Leno is the problem, not Conan.

    NBC put Leno on at 10.00pm, which ruined the ratings for their affiliates' news programs at 11.00pm, and therefore for Conan at 11:30, because half the audience had already switched channels, or switched off altogether, before he came on.

    Not surprisingly, the affiliates complained about Leno's terrible ratings, and threatened to drop Leno's show altogether. Obviously, they thought they could find more attractive programming for the 10.00pm slot.

    Now NBC thinks they can fix the problem by moving Leno back to 11:30. It won't work, and in the meantime they've screwed over Conan and his younger audience. It's the Dave Letterman situation all over again, and NBC has once again made the wrong decision.

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    BTW, Conan has 959,528 friends ... (none / 0) (#16)
    by cymro on Thu Feb 25, 2010 at 02:55:16 AM EST
    on Facebook. See I'm With COCO. That's 21x Leno, who has only 44,866.

    Even NBC's Olympics page has only 122,931 fans!

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    Open thread (none / 0) (#5)
    by waldenpond on Wed Feb 24, 2010 at 07:18:41 PM EST
    I'm guessing this is an open thread.  Per Firedoglake..... Boehner invites ta-da!... Stupak.  Die Bill Die.

    It might be worth watching (none / 0) (#6)
    by MKS on Wed Feb 24, 2010 at 07:31:28 PM EST
    Could have all kinds of things discussed....

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    no, I just put the open thread up (none / 0) (#7)
    by Jeralyn on Wed Feb 24, 2010 at 08:06:30 PM EST
    please use that for non media/twitter topics. This one should relate to something in the post. Thanks.

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    Will they twitter from the table? ;) (none / 0) (#8)
    by nycstray on Wed Feb 24, 2010 at 08:14:55 PM EST


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    conan - smug preppy yuppie puke (none / 0) (#9)
    by seabos84 on Wed Feb 24, 2010 at 10:15:46 PM EST
    having grown up in MA. in the dying industrial pit of Holyoke, and lived in Allston Brighton for 10 years as a working stiff -- I know his kind.

    ooops! it i$n't politic to mention money or cla$$ in dem circles cuz we're all working ... ha ha ... stiffs.

    rmm.

    He's a ginga Minga. (none / 0) (#10)
    by Salo on Wed Feb 24, 2010 at 10:40:59 PM EST
    I'll slice pound of corned beef off his pale Irish arse.

    Jay Leno does Tweet (none / 0) (#12)
    by katharinec on Wed Feb 24, 2010 at 11:46:14 PM EST
    http://twitter.com/jayleno... he has 30,225 followers and has made over 500 tweets.

    Google is your friend.

    thanks, I added that to the post (none / 0) (#13)
    by Jeralyn on Wed Feb 24, 2010 at 11:57:32 PM EST
    As for searching, I did, on Twitter. I searched "Jay Leno." It came up empty for anything by him. Probably because his twitter name is "JayLeno."

    Thanks again for the correction.

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    Jay's show (none / 0) (#17)
    by DancingOpossum on Thu Feb 25, 2010 at 10:37:52 AM EST
    always got much higher ratings than Conan. Conan is popular with the frat-boy set and nobody much else, whereas Leno is pretty likeable and inoffensive. I just never got Conan's humor, but I'm the first to admit I'm far from hip or young...heh...always been partial to Letterman myself.

    Agree with the poster above who said Dave Chapelle is without question one of the funniest people to ever appear on the teebee. But he had some kind of personal and professional breakdown a few years ago and I don't predict he'll be returning to the small screen anytime soon, I think he burned too many bridges.

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