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Conan O’Brien: Charlie Sheen Praised by TV Talk Show Host Conan O’Brien

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Monday April 18, 2011

Conan O'Brien CONAN O’Brien is on team Charlie Sheen.

The talk show host bigged up the troubled actor at the Hollywood Bites Back benefit for Malaria No More, at Club Nokia in Los Angeles, by comparing himself to Sheen.

“This is the thing that pisses me off,” Conan said, bringing up the fight he had with NBC last year, and the 42-city tour he conducted afterwards.

“One year later, Charlie Sheen picks a fight with HIS network, alright, (also) said f*** you, I am out of here, walks out, goes on a 42-city tour, loses his mind, but brings two porn stars with him. That man is a genius. I blew it: I didn’t bring porn stars.”

O’Brien recently discussed his bust up with NBC in an interview with Fortune magazine.

“You know that scene in the first Indiana Jones movie where he gets thrown through the truck windshield by a Nazi? I was thrown through the windshield of broadcasting,” said O’Brien, who was replaced by Jay Leno after hosting the Tonight Show for just seven months.

“I made a decision and that decision very quickly led to me walking away from the crown jewel of old broadcasting and, in addition to that, being legally prohibited from going on television….

“Ten years ago, if my situation with NBC had unfolded, none of this would have happened. Yeah, maybe I was 10 years too late to do The Tonight Show that I wanted to do. But I was just in the nick of time. Do you know what I mean?

“The Beatles were trying to be the Everly Brothers, and they couldn’t quite pull it off. Elvis really wanted to sound like Dean Martin. But, you know, by failing. You have an image in your head of this iconic person.

“For me, it might have been Johnny Carson, where you grow up with him, and you think, ‘Well, that’s who I need to be’ — to realize that feeling I had when I was 8, sitting in my parents’ house and watching him.

“And then things happen, and you think, ‘Oh, my God, I didn’t — that fell apart.’ But it’s the failure to be that person or to completely follow through on what he did that leads you to something that’s much better.”

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http://www.jasonmoffatt.com Jason Moffatt
Somehow I just don’t see Conan going the Sheen route with hookers & blow.
Happy birthday to you Conan. And happy birthday to me too. Yay! Hey, we’re both Rabbits too.
marisa
He can’t be bitching and whining about the Tonight Show can he? Really? Get over it. He’s the one that f’ed up and left his probably successful late-night talk show. Nobody forced him. He could’ve said no. Big whoop. How is this compared to Sheen? Sheen is crazy. He acted crazy, had his production halted and then whined that he wanted more money to come back. That’s not exactly Conan’s situation. Conan was at the end of his contract, left, wanted a new job but it fell apart when his ratings sucked. Totally different. Conan’s fault.

TK
Where dis you get this bizzare distortion of what really happened? Jany Leno decided over 5 years ago that he was retiring from the Tonight Show. Contracts were drawn up for Conan to replace Jay when he was done. As time got closer to his retirement, Jay started talking about going to another network which made NBC want to keep him and offer him a primetime show. The primetime show Jay had was one of the biggest disasters in television history. NBC did it because it saved them money on all the writers and actors they didn’t have to pay for 5 nights a week for that last primetime hour. When it was decided to dump Jay’s primetime show and give him a half hour show at 11:00 p.m just before Conan, Conan had had enough of Jay’s bullshit (like many writer’s did during a writer’s strike a few years back when “Jay the Scab” wrote new material for his show during the strike). The Tonight Show had a history that Conan appreciated and didn’t like the fact that an 11:30 start would take the show into the next morning, thus contradicting the premise of a show called “The Tonight Show”. Not really sure where your verson came from, Marisa….

Charlie Ocean
I made a promise when this happened that my television would never be sullied by NBC again.
SO far so good.
John Carson and Jack Paar are probably spinning like lathes through all this.
Conan did the right thing and it’s what John probably told Dave when the EXACT f’ing thing happened to him.
Tell ‘em to SUCK IT.
Jim
thumbs up, Marisa.

TK
Jim’s thumb is obviously up Marisa’s ass, thus not allowing either of them to have an opinion anything near reality….

janet
someone this idiot always tries to work in the loss of the tonight show in his rhetoric, but i am not surprised that he praises charlie sheen, because they are birds of a feather. no matter how hard they try, they are just NOT funny. DUH, LOSING

a
Many more ppl like conan than like you.

chris
ok listen to all these conan haters. gees get a life all you can do is sit there and bash somebody that is more sucessful than you.
idiots!!!!!!!!
sam
Marisa : wrong !
Sheen came back on the studio to work and the crew, producers ect did not let him to. It is AFTER that he came to the radio show to rant and somewhat explain his last personal issues, then they did respond by making a permanent hiatus and not paying for the last 8 episodes of this season 8 of Two and a Half Men and AFTER that he did an interview at his home with NBC to say that since they wanted to play against him now he would ask 3 millions/episode..and or course it was just a way to provoke them..ONLY dumb people did not get it.
So when you don’t know something the best is just to shut your mouth and don’t write some lies, innacurate stories.
Sym
My Lord, people, it’s a joke. I doubt he’s actually praising Charlie Sheen, lol
ramon jones
Let’s see now, a guy nobody cares about makes comments about another jerk no one cares about. That sound about right for show biz, the crookedest occupation on the planet. Why don’t they all just leave the stage and shut up. Without a script their all morons.
Frank Androski
Another example here to further demonstrate that Conan O’Brien just isn’t funny.
HJ
Umm, if no one cared about Conan – why did his tour sell out in minutes last summer?? Also, Sym is right – it’s a JOKE… that’s what he does for a living… he’s a comedian people!!!!
Marisa – get your facts straight please… Conan was promised the Tonight Show for 5 years before it happened, Leno is the real villain here… HIS talk show failed so he wanted his old show back and he got it. Conan did the classy thing by not kicking Fallon out of his show just because Leno kicked him out of his.
Happy Birthday Conan!!

Carl
“putting a class act about what Leno did to him!”
Class act?
Hah-hah-hah-hooo-heeee-haaa!
The man just cannot stop talking about it. He’s like that 54 year old guy in the diner who tells you, for the sixtieth time, all about the touchdown he made back in his high school glory days.

Carl
Meant to reply to Burair below me. My bad.

Burair
I feel like Conan is desperetly trying to distance him self from David Letterman by pretending that Carson was who he wanted to follow… Because Conan has always been doing what Dave used to do up until 10 years ago… So if he says that he used to watch Letterman, then people would pick up on the similarities… But mentioning Carson highlights the differences.
Honestly, Conan needs to grow some balls and admit it… And he needs to bash Leno for what he did rather than putting a class act about what Leno did to him!
smarterthanyou
He’s just kissing his butt because he wants him on his show. He knows its a ratings puller right now. As for Conan’s show, I love it because it comes on right when I need to go to sleep and it always does the trick.
Walker
He’s not dead? Ohhh, that’s right……he’s on TBS (same thing)…….