NBC Picks Up Two Conan O’Brien Pilots

Less than a week after Conan O’Brien was dropped as host of The Tonight Show, NBC has shockingly purchased two pilots from Conan O’Brien’s production company, Conaco!

The first pilot, roughly titled Justice, will “follow a Supreme Court justice who quits to start his own legal practice.”

The second is a multicamera comedy called The Pink House.

According to reports, the purchases had no part in O’Brien’s $45 million exit strategy, and Conan & co. were shocked to hear the offers!

As are we!

Tweet of the Night

“Thank you again for all the messages and support. Crazy day! At the stove yesterday, today the tonight show kicking it with Conan,me really?”

–Top Chef winner Michael Voltaggio Tweets

Footage of Conan O’Brien’s Head Injury Hits the Web

Footage of Conan O’Brien‘s head injury during a skit on The Tonight Show last week has hit the web. And it’s pretty difficult to watch!

The funnyman returned to TV Monday night after being in the hospital, and joked that, “I hit my head so hard that for five seconds, I understood the plot of Lost.”

Ha!

Click above to see him fall during a race with Teri Hatcher.

Brutal!

Elevating with Jack White

“I’ve never taken a picture in an elevator,” says Jack White, when I run into him at the Gramercy Park Hotel Monday night.

But the White Stripes/Raconteurs/Dead Weather singer is game!

White doesn’t reveal much about his upcoming documentary (The White Stripes: Under Great White Northern Lights) in our chance encounter, or how he and Dead Weather frontlady Alison Mossheart are about to make their TV debut on Conan O’Brien‘s Tonight Show that same Thursday. He just hangs at Rose Bar early on in the night and lets one of his biggest fans ramble about her blog.

Thanks for being u, JW!

Four Years Later: Blink-182’s First TV Appearance

Blink-182 visited The Tonight Show with Jay Leno Monday for their first TV show appearance since their hiatus four years ago!!!

Here’s a vid of the performance, “The Rock Show,” off 2001’s Take Off Your Pants and Jacket.

We gotta say, this was one of our favorite Blink singles!!!!!

Prince Debuts New Jam on Tonight Show

Prince visited The Tonight Show Wednesday for night one of a three-night stand.

Each night, the legend plans to debut one tune from each of his upcoming three discs, and last night brought us “Old School Company” off of Mplsound.

What did u think of the tune???

Simon Cowell Denies Obama for Dinner

On Tuesday’s Tonight Show, American Idol‘s Simon Cowell revealed that he recently denied a dinner invitation from President Barack Obama.

Said Cowell:

“He wanted to do eight, I was free at nine and we just didn’t quite connect.”

 

Good to know you treat everyone like shit, not just AI contestants!

Update: Simon Cowell stated on March 26’s episode of American Idol that the statements he made about snubbing Obama for dinner on The Tonight Show were “a joke,” although, upon playback, he seemed awfully serious!!

Obama Apologizes for Special Olympics Joke

On last night’s Tonight Show, President Barack Obama compared his poor bowling skills to that of an athlete with disabilities.

“It was like the Special Olympics or something,” Obama said, citing a recent score of 129.

Realizing what he had said, Obama immediately phoned chairman of the Special Olympics Tim Shriver after the show and apologized for his words.

“He apologized in a way I think was very moving… very sincere,” said Shriver on Good Morning America Friday.

“Words hurt, words do matter,” Shriver added. “[But] he thinks that the Special Olympics are a wonderful program that gives an opportunity to shine to people with disabilities from around the world.”