• Network: TBS
  • Series Premiere Date: Nov 8, 2010
  • Season #: 1 , 2 , 3
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Metascore

Generally favorable reviews - based on 20 Critics What's this?

User Score

Universal acclaim- based on 48 Ratings

  • Summary: Conan O'Brien returns to late-night television; this time on cable network TBS. Sidekick Andy Richter also returns, as Jimmy Vivino takes over Max Weinberg's spot as band leader
  • Genre(s): Comedy, Talk & Interview
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 20
  2. Negative: 0 out of 20
  1. Reviewed by: Tom Gliatto
    Dec 14, 2010
    88
    The first few nights showed O'Brien settling in with his charmingly original humor, which is sophisticated yet twerpily silly. [29 Nov 2010, p.41]
  2. Reviewed by: David Zurawik
    Dec 8, 2010
    80
    Whatever the case, he and his show are easier to like. The hour flew by, and it seemed much looser, organic and easy-going than anything I saw last year by him on NBC.
  3. Reviewed by: Tim Goodman
    Dec 8, 2010
    70
    Despite some jitters, Conan looked comfortable in his new domain. He had nervous energy to spare, but then again he does most nights.
  4. Sure, there were some good bits in there. It wasn't that Conan put on a bad or unprofessional show, just a very conventional one.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5
  1. I have watched every episode of Conan thus far on his new home at TBS, I have been watching Conan for the past 7 years. The new show has admittedly had it's hiccups but overall the show has been pretty good, not Late Night good, but it will eventually get there I think.

    I do think that Conan would do well to occasionally have 1 guest rather than 2; Most often the guests are good, but sometimes not. I think the show would be better off in those instances of sticking to one good guest.
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  2. 8
    While I still miss some of his segments from Late Night with Conan O'Brien, he still manages to make this show very entertaining. Oh, and LOL at his cameo at Young Justice! Expand
  3. A good show and I haven't missed one yet. However, I wish Conan would go back to his roots. It seems like he tried to cater to NBC's wishes on "The Tonight Show", and hasn't dropped that act. Hopefully he does that soon. Expand
  4. 7
    CoCo is back and... samer than ever! I semi-expected something different on TBS, but Conan basically did his same old show, perhaps a bit more like "Late Night" than "Tonight", but basically the same. If you think that he does that format much better than Dave and Leno (which I do), this is a good thing. If you expected some changes to the format on the basic cable (where he also goes against Stuart and Colbert)... there were not to be seen on the first night. But the main thing is that Conan is back (with Andy) on the air! Let's hope the ratings stay high just to annoy NBC and Leno. Let's also hope they allow him to change the stale nightly talk-show format (monologue - some running bit - guest 1 - guest 2 - music/comedy performance). Expand

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