Conan O'Brien to make TBS his new late-night home

[onehandle]

Source: AP

NEW YORK – Late-night mainstay Conan O'Brien is headed to TBS to resume his comedic duties with a talk show expected to debut in November, the network says.

The program will air Mondays through Thursdays at 11 p.m. Eastern, shifting TBS' "Lopez Tonight," starring George Lopez, to midnight.

Monday's surprise announcement hit the same day O'Brien starts a two-month, nationwide comedy tour in Eugene, Ore., amid persistent reports that he was likely to claim Fox as his new late-night home.

Barring Fox, syndication was widely considered O'Brien's most likely option. Few if anyone mentioned TBS as a plausible destination.

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[Hawkeye-X]

1. Oh good, so my boycott of Faux

can continue. I'll be tuning to TBS.

[no limit]

2. That kind of sucks. He won't get nearly the audience on cable

suprised they didnt put him on Fox.

[Warpy]

4. His audience is a loyal one

and I think he'll get most of his old audience back since they tended to be the more affluent and educated night owls.

Leno's got the dumb jerks.

[Renew Deal]

6. Will he be up against the Daily Show and Colbert?

That makes it even tougher for him, but the good news for Conan is the bar is very low on cable.

[pokerfan]

14. That sucks

but fortunately Stewart and Colbert are repeated four times the following day. I will probably start catching them at 7.

[realisticphish]

3. hey, tbs will be airing something funny

that'll change it up

[4lbs]

5. You must not watch "Lopez Tonight" then. George Lopez is really good as host of that show.

.

[realisticphish]

8. personally

I cannot stand George Lopez as a standup or MC. He was fine on his sitcom, though

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

10. +1

[bamacrat]

7. Good Lopez Tonight or whatever it is called sucks bad. George Lopez is not funny.

All he does is make fun of being a Mexican.

[4lbs]

9. No. Sorry. He's great. This Mexican (me) loves his all his comedy.

I like Carlos Mencia too.

[JonLP24]

13. I love both his shows

I haven't seen much of his stand-up but I'm sure it's good.

Never seen Mencia because the bad reviews drove me away.

[Codeine]

15. Mencia is a joke thief of the worst kind.

And he still doesn't manage to be funny at all. Dude makes Larry the Cable Guy's humor look intellectual.

[DefenseLawyer]

11. You might be confusing him with Carlos Mencia (who isn't Mexican)

but whose whole shtick is essentially making fun of all things Mexican. I haven't seen George's talk show, so I can't argue directly with you, but I do know he's a great stand-up.

[bamacrat]

12. No I know the difference and Carlos Mencia is played out bad.

His act was old the first time I saw it. I just don't really find Lopez funny, he seems too rehearsed.