I just finished watching the monologue from the 3rd Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien. It sucked, just like the previous two nights. The jokes aren’t even close to funny, they’re tragic, and not in a good way. Tonight he seemed to resort to desperate insult comedy and it made him look really bad.
The format of all the jokes is this, “In the news we hear that Joan Rivers is trying to sell her Manhattan condo for 25 million dollars. It’s OK though, because we hear it’s had a lot of work done!”
That’s great Conan. I think Johnny Carson told that same joke when he was hosting The Tonight Show.
Here’s the deal, his jokes need to be innovative and interesting now more than ever. If this goes on for another week, I could see them canceling the show. The writers need to be fired or something, because these jokes are just really bad. Half of the time, the audience doesn’t even laugh and I don’t blame them. A couple of times they’ve kind of groaned or been literally silent. It’s very uncomfortable to watch.
He also has Andy Richter back on the show and that’s not working either.
I love Conan but something has got to change.
To make matters worse, considering the whole studio is new, the set is not very interesting. It’s like someone said, “Let’s make a set that looks just like a generic talk show set from 1980, with nothing special. That way we can use it as the set for any talk show we need!”
Maybe they will.