I love how Allan literally cannot stop calling the shots throughout this entire bit. Any time its on him for a second too long his reflexes kick in, what a professional.
As usual Conan O'Brien shows that he is more about people than the business of show in that. He kept everybody working during the writer strike so that no one he had to take unemployment
He did this as well with COVID when he kept everybody on staff and did things very peeled and broken down doing things at home. And then of course in the largo theater
I’ve been looking FOREVER for this. I remember seeing the part with the creepy music with the camera angles during a preview as a child XDDDD That killed me and it still makes me laugh today 😂
I'm sorry for the writers but literally best era ever on the late night show, like genuinely creative entertaining experimental and just plain FUN sh*t never done before on a talk show
@@KronosOnPCi don’t think that’s quite right, it’s just that late night is a pretty stifling format. the freedom provided by the 2008 strike was less because of the writers being gone and more because their disappearance threw the industry into chaos. the clips literally start with conan saying he wanted to do something that he never had the chance to do before. hell, conan comes from a writing background, and when he left late night a few years back, he had nothing but praise for his staff. forgive me for harping on this. i still bristle at these insinuations that writers aren’t needed or stuff like that because of how tragically common of a sentiment it was last summer. working as a professional writer can be pretty grueling (not that i would know lol), and their work is often thankless by the public since you often only see their name as text in credits, let alone mentioned out loud or shown in front of the camera.
Conan was paying his writers during the strike, and he chose to keep doing the show so that all the non-salary workers on his show, like the camera guys, were still getting paid too. That was an incredibly sweet thing for this man to do and it's a reason why I still admire him today. My heart also breaks when I see Conan choosing not to be cynical; He was genuinely trying his best to improvise and keep everybody entertained, even though he was completely aware of how silly it all was. He's always been an inspiration to me, but the Writer's Strike and Tonight Show stuff really made me admire him.
kind of a shame they didn’t show the actual person doing the vision switching and made it look like the director actually changes the camera just by snapping his fingers.
I think Conan was 100% funnier without the writers involved. I don't know how much of that humor he could have kept up with without them for a long period of time, but he's a funny goofy fucker and it works out well lol.
Don't see why not. It's the right hardware for it, it's a Sony MKS-8080 which is basically a remote control panel for the system they would have been using, and it looked like it was wired up in the back
Was he technically still in the writers guild while hosting the show? Like he was also a credited writer for the show? If so he would have had to explicitly not do any comedy writing while hosting and performing, must have been difficult.
Just goes to show you how many other talk show hosts rely on their writers for a lot of their humor, which nowadays is mostly complete woke schlop. Conan is the best to ever do it, regardless of who he is or what he believes and stands for.
Conan had to host and he was a writer before he hosted late night, so he basically had to write an hour every night solo or improv. Im surprised the gut didn’t get super heavy burnout
Besides the fact that it was absolutely written and rehearsed, it shows the amount of effort put into making this show funny and well produced. The writers earn their pay by being creative even when showing the mundane things like how a talk show works behind the scenes or giving Conan scenarios to show off his wits
Mind you, all his stuff during the writers strike is just him improvising without a script. I don't think Jay Leno did a single show during the strike and just aired reruns. You don't have to like it but you gotta admit, he came up with a lot of stuff to keep the audience entertained and the momentum of his show going on.
1:08 No the "geniuses" at NBC didn't design that at all. That's designed and made by Sony. In fact you can see the Sony logo on it, so why would he say the people at NBC designed that? Does he think people don't know what Sony is? I don't get why he couldn't have said "This is a Sony video switcher" or something like that.........
I love how Allan literally cannot stop calling the shots throughout this entire bit. Any time its on him for a second too long his reflexes kick in, what a professional.
"I put the hole there myself...........WITH A KNIFE!"
🤣
A strangely circumferential knife
Conan was the perfect host to keep the ship afloat during a writer’s strike, because he’s a writer himself and is a total savant at improv.
Savant is a little extreme don’t you think
@@flightrisk1047lol no it’s pretty accurate.
Absolutely not…
"savant at improve" and hes just goofing around
this is the only talk show host to ever do this
Also making entire episodes in other countries. Plus actually being funny. Conan has been my favorite comedian for like 20 years.
That’s true, even during the 07/08 writers strike he kept the audience entertained
@@nour2146 Exactly, hundreds were entertained.
not hard to be the goat when the competition is so garbage
For good reason
So....without writers Conan is just an average streamer with a streamdeck.
Shiiiiit on to something
It’s like watching someone play with Snapchat filters for three minutes
Just shows how far raw improv talent and charisma can take you. He's just an incredible person.
Writers strike Conan was just Jerma
And done 16 years ago.
I think it also probably helped that Conan himself was from a writing background.
I think him being a straight up jackass helped alot😂
Monorail!!
6:00 this was all of us when we got photobooth on a mac for the first time
😂
This is what it feels like to watcha Jerma stream
this is like a jerma bit
jermas very conan like
both are from Boston… I’m sure it’s got something to do with that haha
big jerma vibes here
How do I know exactly what you mean
Something in the water in Boston
As usual Conan O'Brien shows that he is more about people than the business of show in that. He kept everybody working during the writer strike so that no one he had to take unemployment
He did this as well with COVID when he kept everybody on staff and did things very peeled and broken down doing things at home. And then of course in the largo theater
2008: writers strike, economy crashes
2023: writers strike, economy crashes
The economy crashed? Like... it's crashed right now?
The economy didn't crash in 2023.
So that what a Stream Deck looked like back then
Or a Steam Deck
This is pretty much what professional video switcher look like to this day
Can't wait for Conan to start streaming on Twitch
Fun fact, Conan was a writer for SNL a long time ago. Pretty cool how he worked his way up
also a writer on the simpsons’ early seasons. That alone makes him legendary
I’ve been looking FOREVER for this. I remember seeing the part with the creepy music with the camera angles during a preview as a child XDDDD That killed me and it still makes me laugh today 😂
I'm sorry for the writers but literally best era ever on the late night show, like genuinely creative entertaining experimental and just plain FUN sh*t never done before on a talk show
Lol so the writer's on strike was a good thing and proved they weren't needed
It probably was a safety net. If shit went tits up, they could always fall back on "well, we had no-one to write the show, we had to get creative."
I always liked Conan's more-experimental and play-around ideas. Jay Leno's stuff didn't quite make me laugh.
@@KronosOnPCi don’t think that’s quite right, it’s just that late night is a pretty stifling format. the freedom provided by the 2008 strike was less because of the writers being gone and more because their disappearance threw the industry into chaos. the clips literally start with conan saying he wanted to do something that he never had the chance to do before. hell, conan comes from a writing background, and when he left late night a few years back, he had nothing but praise for his staff.
forgive me for harping on this. i still bristle at these insinuations that writers aren’t needed or stuff like that because of how tragically common of a sentiment it was last summer. working as a professional writer can be pretty grueling (not that i would know lol), and their work is often thankless by the public since you often only see their name as text in credits, let alone mentioned out loud or shown in front of the camera.
Conan was paying his writers during the strike, and he chose to keep doing the show so that all the non-salary workers on his show, like the camera guys, were still getting paid too. That was an incredibly sweet thing for this man to do and it's a reason why I still admire him today.
My heart also breaks when I see Conan choosing not to be cynical; He was genuinely trying his best to improvise and keep everybody entertained, even though he was completely aware of how silly it all was. He's always been an inspiration to me, but the Writer's Strike and Tonight Show stuff really made me admire him.
i remember this era ov television where conan would just be allowed to get away with the shenanigans he pulled during this instance of writer strike
Writers strike Conan is the best Conan
This was peak Conan 🤣
The effect at 4:46 just turns Conan into Andy
I freaking love that trippy sec
Lmfao feels like where Eric Andre came up with the idea for his show
late night with the devil
This should have more likes 😂
ConoC the Mighty was quite the aberration. No idea what I was expecting but man
so many fond memories of writer's strike conan - so glad to see this clip
Conan invented the YTP
This like a modern zoom call before it was common
I have made a mistake watching this high
5:48 the toymaker forces Conan to bigenerate
Doctor Who mentioned let sfo
5:30 Imagine tuning in at this moment
I was thinking about this segment just yesterday, th writers strike episodes where some of my favourite shows of all time, thank you for uploading it!
Everybody on this show is funny, even the bts staff and studio audience.
1:15 and streamers today with their own stream decks, directing their own live streams live in 2024. man was ahead of his time.
Writer strike conan is The Goated era
6:44 Conan was Tommy Wisseau all along!
Oh hi, Andy...
I DID NOT HIT HEAR
Seeing Conan playing around with his switcher is hilarious
He's like a kid with a toy lol
Great to see Tilda Swinton making an appearance.
Conan is the best.
5:25 that was me when I discovered this kind of filter on my phone
I like how it turned into the Mighty Boosh near the end
was my dream job to work in tv, nowadays i can do that sorta stuff i my living room lol
He's brilliant omg
kind of a shame they didn’t show the actual person doing the vision switching and made it look like the director actually changes the camera just by snapping his fingers.
Conan is the best to ever do it
@Bobblehead Conan can you show the end scene where they say goodbye and they do the Bouncing Ball Close?
this is a jerma bit but idk if y’all see the vision
4:00. Wait... Is that Jay Leno in the crowd? :D
lol I said the same thing 😆
“My stalker just left” was worth that entire bit
Basically conan ytp's himself
There’s some Ernie Kovacs in Conan’s comedy style.
Twitch streamers with stream decks be like
I think Conan was 100% funnier without the writers involved. I don't know how much of that humor he could have kept up with without them for a long period of time, but he's a funny goofy fucker and it works out well lol.
Conans the GOAT
6:45 " your tearing me apart Lisa!!"
self awareness is the core of true comedy
"Oh wow! Max, give me ah little a trippy music there would'ya"
Starts playing doors
me discovering photo booth when i was like 12
this is the funniest shit ever conan is the absolute GOAT
"See? Birdhouse!"
I really wonder if he was actually switching the cameras. Sees plausible.
Don't see why not. It's the right hardware for it, it's a Sony MKS-8080 which is basically a remote control panel for the system they would have been using, and it looked like it was wired up in the back
Conan's show was BY FAR the best when the writer's strike happened. Which should tell you all you need to know.
5:56 holy shit its elon musk
Conan looks like Tommy Wiseau with that wig.
R.H.C.P. album be like
Every kid in an apple store in the 2000s!!
2:33 (or thereabouts): I noticed the muted audio. XD
The things that happen without writers
The absolute barbarian.
Me when I figure out the Nintendo DSi camera.
So did they end the show with the ball effect or end it the usual way?
Also 5:39 I love John Carpenters The Thing.
I’m hungry for a Bobblrito…
6:53 Serious question- was he joking about the stalker? He glanced nearly 3 times in one direction before commenting on them.
I put the hole there myself
6:44 -- Conan Wiseau
When your trying to maintain audience viewing during not for broadcast
A true pioneer of video-form shitposting
Is that jay Leno sitting in the lower right in the audience????
JUMP
in the Cadillac
Max Weinberg is a G
Is that Taylor Hicks in the audience at 3:43?
Waaaaaaaait is this what calling the shots means
This might need a seizure warning for all the stuff at around 3:00
5:50 this is before the deep web ever existed kids!
ytp before ytp
Did they actually end this one with the bouncing ball effect?
Was he technically still in the writers guild while hosting the show? Like he was also a credited writer for the show? If so he would have had to explicitly not do any comedy writing while hosting and performing, must have been difficult.
crazy how this aired just before 9 11
Just goes to show you how many other talk show hosts rely on their writers for a lot of their humor, which nowadays is mostly complete woke schlop.
Conan is the best to ever do it, regardless of who he is or what he believes and stands for.
At about 5:57 and for a bit afterwards, he looks alarmingly like Elon Musk.
Jerma bit
proto-Jerma
Wasn't this whole segment technically "written", though? I don't get how this makes us want the writers back lol.
They just put this up without writers, but obviously it was planned and tested on rehearsals
Conan had to host and he was a writer before he hosted late night, so he basically had to write an hour every night solo or improv. Im surprised the gut didn’t get super heavy burnout
Besides the fact that it was absolutely written and rehearsed, it shows the amount of effort put into making this show funny and well produced. The writers earn their pay by being creative even when showing the mundane things like how a talk show works behind the scenes or giving Conan scenarios to show off his wits
@@igormarcautan8888 But things were more fun and creative without the writers.
Ohk
5:55 Elon????
Remember during the last writers strike the remaining late night hosts tried to make a podcast (called “Strike Force Five”) and it was boring as f*ck?
no wonder they fired him lmao
Mind you, all his stuff during the writers strike is just him improvising without a script. I don't think Jay Leno did a single show during the strike and just aired reruns. You don't have to like it but you gotta admit, he came up with a lot of stuff to keep the audience entertained and the momentum of his show going on.
@@Gyrbae I know, I love him he's a goof lol
@@Gyrbae think he might be better without the writer's imo!! why I love his remotes sm
They didn’t fire him. He left this show to do the Tonight Show, and then THEY fired him so Jay Leno could come back.
Imagine if Conan were a Gen Z streamer.
1:08 No the "geniuses" at NBC didn't design that at all. That's designed and made by Sony. In fact you can see the Sony logo on it, so why would he say the people at NBC designed that? Does he think people don't know what Sony is? I don't get why he couldn't have said "This is a Sony video switcher" or something like that.........
Bro works for Sony
🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓
This is actually so unique