Of trying to be funny, they were more interested in pushing a political agenda. I was never as comfortable with comedy where i needed to make a point about something, so i always thought that when trump came along, what a lot of people have to revert to is, doesnt he saw . I hate that guy. [bleep]. And those arent jokes. So i think it is just, you know, im really going Out On A Limb here saying that is his greatest crime. [laughs] i think he has hurt political comedy by being so outlandish himself. Jeanine and bill maher is no stranger to taking on the woke mob. The leftwing comic is also taking a swipe at his latenight competitors for pandering to liberal audiences. Its not a take. Those guys dont have takes. I have takes. What they do i have a take on things. What they do is say exactly what a liberal audience wants them to say about that. Thats not a take. I mean, im not saying its not sincere. I guess it is, on their part, but even if it wasnt, thats what they would do. There is ne
through wthis whole thing, hey, it s just a business. well, people of that caliber talent, they want to go where they can love their work and work with people that appreciate them. and that s the big advantage that cable tv has never network. network, at the end of the day, still with its lower audience numbers, has to please a much bigger crowd than cable ever has to. look at what conan is coming into. he s going to follow family guy and the office. you couldn t ask for a better audience than the lead-in he s going to get from those two shows. if he would have been hat fox, who knows what his lead-in would have been. a rather dramatic development at fox news where sean hannity was yanked back by fox executive. he was going to do his program in cincinnati before a live audience. we ve seen him out on the road appearing with sarah palin and michele bachmann before these live audiences. but this was a tea party event where the tea party organizers were charging as much as $100 fo
hollywood. three, it never would have happened without the blessing of george lopez. extra learned that lopez called conan personally and said do this deal. i m okay with it. because as you just said, he currently occupies that 11:00 time slot. but it s a win-win for everyone. tbs, conan and george who has a successful show but now will have the lead in of conan. larry: and tbs in 95% of the homes. what do you make of this? zbln paper, it doesn t look as sexy as saying you re working for a broadcast network like fox. and this deal wouldn t have been made possible had they been able to work a deal with fox. fox had the problem of trying to convince the stations to clear the 11:00 time slots. but it s cool. because if you look at somebody like john stewart, they don t have the big tent ratings that a jay leno or david letterman have. they sweep the emmys every year. critics like us love them. it is a great job.
and, frankly, there s no difference today between cable and network, is there? it s either channel 14 or channel 100. for the most part. tbs is in 80% of homes which is basically full coverage. frankly, more than conan would have had at fox to begin w that s appealing for him. you re right. it s true that cable is an equalizer. and now also people watch especially the young audience are watching online. conan will be accessible as he was on the network. larry: are you betting, bill that, he ll do very well at 11:00? you know, i m sure he s going to do well. it s going to be hard to judge in terms of if we want to look at what he used to do on t the tonight show . i think he ll be very free. i think his show will be better. that s what i think will be better. i think the show is going to be freer and much like it was the last week when he just let it go and really performed at a really high level. i think you ll see much more of that from conan on tbs. larry: so he ll be mor
the first night of conan s two-month nationwide comedy tour. lyn et rice is here, senior writer for entertainment weekly, and lauren sanchez returns, correspondent for extra. here is how conan o brien made the announcement today. he said, the good news, i ll be doing a show on tbs start unwilling november. the bad news: i ll be playing rudy on the all new cosby show. by the way, bill cosby will be here tomorrow night. okay, lauren, what happened here? well, you know what? it s gay day to be conan o brien, obviously. he inked a deal with tbs that will pay him $10 million a year and, by the way, he owns the show. which means he s going to make millions of dollars on the back end as well. now there s three really interesting things about this deal. one, it was fast and furious which you know, larry, never happens in hollywood. larry: we have the same agent. two, it was very private which also never happens in