conan o'brien and friends • 15 comments • After the show, we were getting ready to leave when we ran into Preparation H Raymond!! His real name is Brian McCann and he was an actor on Late Night and is a writer for Conan O'Brien. He was really friendly - such a nice guy!Reggie Watts was hanging around talking to fans in the lobby/foyer of Radio City Music Hall. We said hi, he gave us a signed poster and posed for this provocative photo with Alex:We stopped to buy a Conan lithograph on our way out. Usually, we make a point of not buying the tour merchandise at concerts because it's incredibly overpriced and it ends up on eBay, for a couple of dollars, a month later. We really liked the design of the poster though and it was small, so we decided to pick one up instead of trying to locate it later. Then Andy Richter showed up: We finally made our way outside where we saw Robert Smigel (voice of Triumph The Insult Comic Dog and creator of The Ambiguously Gay Duo) and La Bamba!!Some guy told us that we should go around the corner of the building because Conan was going to be coming out to meet fans. There were a lot of people there and we got separated. Conan was really peppy and did a little dance for the crowd, took pictures with people, and he signed our print! It was definitely one of the best nights we had in New York - we're so so glad we followed through with our ridiculous plan!
conan! • 12 comments • Back in March, after a long day of sightseeing in South Africa, we returned to our hotel room to relax. Before we went out for dinner, we decided that we should check our email/blog/facebook/twitter etc... At the moment we had checked our twitter, Conan O' Brien announced his tour. Both of us have been pretty big Conan fans since we were teens. When he took over The Tonight Show, we were kind of disappointed that we wouldn't get to see him live on Late Night in NYC. When he got kicked off The Tonight Show, we thought that our chances of seeing him live were gone. But, we were in South Africa, it just wasn't meant to be.... then we paused and asked each other "Why not?!" The entire purpose of this trip was to do what we wanted... so what if it seemed a little crazy? We had already been toying with the idea of going back to Canada for the summer, so this would be perfect - we would spend some time in NYC and then make our way back. We went ahead and bought the tickets and figured out how to get to NYC afterward. It was pretty exciting. The show was so much fun. Radio City Music Hall is beautiful. Reggie Watts is really talented. Conan ran through the audience and played 'The Weight' by The Band as his encore! John Krasinski was there.... Pee Wee Herman was there... The 'masturbating bear' was there... Good times were had by all. ...and then we met Conan! Stay tuned tomorrow for photos of our meeting with Conan & his pals. P.S. His new show debuts on TBS tonight. We're hoping it will be as good as the old Late Night.
