TBS has signed Conan O’Brien for four more years. His current contract was due to end in November. We’ve got Conan until at least 2018!
Have you heard our interview with him?
Here’s Conan on using improv in talk shows:
“You’re just playing a game, in a way, turning the audience into a foil, and we’re just going back and forth. I think the best thing I ever did was, years before I got the Late Night show, when I first got out to Los Angeles to be a television writer, the first thing I did was I signed up to take improvisational classes. … And I studied that for years and I really loved it. And it’s the best training I think a talk-show host can have because I love to listen to what is going on on the show and then respond in the moment. And audiences know when something is spontaneous, they just do.”
