CONAN O’BRIEN BANS ACTORS AND ACTRESSES FROM HIS SHOW!
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CONAN O’Brien has revealed what audiences can expect from his new late-night talk show debuting tonight on TBS.
“No actors, no actresses,” O’Brien told Playboy magazine.
“I want to talk to people who are good at a craft, people who work with their hands. We’re going to talk to a lot of upholsterers. And we may have financial penalties.
“If Jim Carrey or Tom Hanks accidentally mentions his project, I think the viewer should be compensated in some way. That would be a way to turn this economy around.”
O’Brien’s wife Liza Powel recently revealed the funnyman sunk into a deep depression after being fired from The Tonight Show after just seven months. She said the star was at his lowest in mid-summer, after he’d wrapped a comedy tour.
“Those weeks after the tour, where not much was going on, Conan was miserable,” she said. “That was when he was the most depressed.
“I hated to see him in such a state of tension and unhappiness.
“It was very painful for him to let go of this hallowed ground that he’d finally got a chance to stand on.
“He was in the house all the time.
“I said, ‘This can’t last — it’ll drive us crazy!’ Literally every 10 minutes, he’d poke his head in the room and say, ‘I don’t wanna bother you, but do you know where the Band-Aids are?’ ‘I don’t wanna bother you, but do you know how to use the phone?’ He was so sweet about it, and I felt like such a jerk. But seriously, I almost rented an office for him.”
Conan has also spoken about his firing.
“I felt like I’d just been in a car accident,” he told Rolling Stone magazine.
“Like a crazy mix of elation, anger, sorrow. Confusion was a big one.
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