Comments on: Conan and the Warm Embrace of Narrowcasting http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2010/11/09/conan-and-the-warm-embrace-of-narrowcasting/ Responses to Media and Culture Fri, 12 Feb 2016 19:35:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.5 By: Geo. M. Wilcox http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2010/11/09/conan-and-the-warm-embrace-of-narrowcasting/comment-page-1/#comment-42296 Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:19:38 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=7263#comment-42296 Is there any way of finding out if my old UW Comm Arts TA, Brian Stack, is still writing for Conan? He was great in the old days of the Ark Improv Theater in Madison.

]]> By: Evan Elkins http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2010/11/09/conan-and-the-warm-embrace-of-narrowcasting/comment-page-1/#comment-41261 Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:36:19 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=7263#comment-41261 Thanks for this. I like your point about show’s “refreshing ordinariness.” I agree in principle, but its business-as-usual vibe actually led to a pretty boring hour of TV for me. Not that I’m nostalgic for Conan’s run on the Tonight Show, which I found barely watchable aside from its last few weeks.

But for me, Conan’s now larger-than-life persona works against the pleasures of his old Late Night show, which was always a semi-shambling, medium-budget affair with absurdist charm. There were shades of this on the first episode of Conan, particularly when the nutcracker lady aimlessly walked out into the studio parking lot, but otherwise it felt like what it was–a talk show. Nothing wrong with that, I suppose, but I hope the writers get some room to stretch out a bit more as the show progresses.

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