CONAN the Barbarian of TV

After almost 10 months of being away from national television, Conan O'Brien will be back on air tonight at 11 Eastern/10 Central on TBS! Conan was forced to leave NBC's "The Tonight Show" in January, after the network decided to help Jay Leno's poor ratings by giving him a better time slot. This meant pushing Conan O'Brien's "The Tonight Show" to midnight. Conan disagreed with NBC's decision and made the following statement at the time:

"I sincerely believe that delaying The Tonight Show into the next day to accommodate another comedy program will seriously damage what I consider to be the greatest franchise in the history of broadcasting. The Tonight Show at 12:05 simply isn’t The Tonight Show."

This bold move by Conan has proven to be very successful thus far. After leaving national television temporarily, and being asked to not be on any television show for a few months. O'Brien decided to use social networking to his advantage and started a Twitter account, in which he gained 300,000 followers in just 24 hours. He also started a site called Team Coco, which became an instant internet hit. And "The Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour" starring O'Brien was virtually sold out all across the nation.

Starting tonight he will either become the King of late night TV, or a villain who quit the most important Television in broadcasting history because he refused to sell out and kiss ass to the status quo. But what does this have to do with Heavy Music? Well, Conan is the man that made Heavy Music cool on national TV, by bringing in acts like Lamb Of God, Slipknot and the Deftones, when nobody else dared!

Related links:
TBS
Team Coco
Conan on Twitter

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