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[[File:conan-tbs-logo_9166.jpg|frame|Even his logo has a fantastic head of hair.]]
He had a [[Late Night|show]]. Then he had [[The Tonight Show|a different show]]. [http://twitter.com/ConanoBrien Then he got a Twitter account].
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This show has been called very similar to his run on ''[[Late Night]]'', with a standard talk show format, consisting of a monologue, a couple of sketches, followed by two guests (sometimes separated by a short sketch) and ending with a musical guest or stand-up comedian. He is helped in his task by long-time announcer and [[Sidekick]] Andy Richter and his Tonight Show/Late Night band, with bandleader Jimmy Vivino replacing Max Weinberg (who left the show for health and family reasons).
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* [[Anachronism Stew]]: In a "Fan Corrections" about Thomas Jefferson helping James Madison write the Constitution from abroad in France, Jefferson and Madison are talking on cell phones.
** "The [[Sarah Palin]] History Network" told the story of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, which included the Founding Fathers as "plumbers, loggers, and truck drivers", [[The Jeffersons|George Jefferson]], Paul Revere, and FDR, all wielding modern handguns, [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] showing up to stop them, and the Fathers' secret weapon: [[Star Wars|R2-D2]] with a gun.
** Similarly, "The Michele Bachmann History Channel" talked about the Constitutional Convention, which had Andrew Jackson - "father of the Jackson Five", Sam [[Patch Adams
* [[The Announcer]]: Andy Richter
* [[Ascended Meme]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgk9jCEQBag Conyan] shown on one of the show's bumpers.
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* [[Clip Show]]: ''The Conan One Hour Earlier Best Of Spectacular'', in celebration of the show's first-year anniversary.
* [[China Takes Over the World]]: The sketch "Why China is Kicking Our Ass", showcasing something idiotic about American culture.
* [[Cloudcuckooland]]: To promote the show, an HD webcam was set up next to a stairwell at the new offices. For a while it was also a regular [https://web.archive.org/web/20131222115007/http://teamcoco.com/livecococam webisode] on Fridays. Apparently an "average day" includes dancing Tacos, lettuce baseball, bears doing aerobics, magic shows, [[Perverse Sexual Lust|a girl with green pants]], puppet shows, raptor attacks, spontaneous [[Shakespeare]] lectures as Conan himself eats an apple, [[Noodle Implements|jolly ranchers used in eating contests]], and a very irate Andy [[Hypocritical Humor|yelling at everyone to get back to work.]]
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Anytime Harland Williams is a guest.
* [[Companion Cube]]: His Eisenhower-shaped mug, which was on his desks at ''[[Late Night]]'' and ''[[The Tonight Show]]''.
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* [[Episode Title Card]]: Every episode has a silly title such as "Baa Baa Blackmail" or "Murder She Tweeted".
** With another episode title referencing ''[[Murder, She Wrote]]'' right after Super Bowl XLV, entitled "'Whisper', She Shouted", one has to wonder if that in particular will become a [[Running Gag]].
** Most of the episode title cards have absolutely ''nothing'' to do with the guests or content of the show, but an episode in March 2011 featuring [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] Champion [[The Miz]] was entitled, "And In This Corner... Gingivitis!"
** Followed in May 2011 by "Redbeard's Last Stand", as described in [[Important Haircut]].
** A June 2011 episode featured a series of title cards inspired by the opening credits from ''[[Superman]]'', with the title "What Happens on Krypton, Stays On Krypton".
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* [[One Head Taller]]: Conan (6'4"), and Andy (6'2") tower over most of their female guests (who are often wearing really high heels to compensate) and some of their male guests.
** On one episode, there was a guy in the audience who was one head taller than Conan. Conan noticed this and brought him over to meet him. It is incredibly strange to see Conan have to look up at anyone.
** Also notable here is that the warm-up comedian for the audience, Jimmy Pardo, is 5'4". [https://web.archive.org/web/20120501154338/http://teamcoco.com/photos/photos-thursday-111711#photo=20467 This photo] illustrates the difference rather dramatically.
* [[One Steve Limit]]: Averted. Two of Conan's writers and frequent sketch performers are Brian Stack and Brian McCann.
** Another writer's name is Matt O'Brien. He is ''not'' related to Conan.
* [[Painted-On Pants]]: The jeggings. Oh dear God, [https://web.archive.org/web/20120527133548/http://teamcoco.com/content/week-review-112910#photo=1725 the jeggings].
** And now there's Andy with the [https://web.archive.org/web/20110820211908/http://teamcoco.com/content/andy-rocks-skinny-jeans#photo=6073 skinny jeans]. What is it with these guys and tight pants?
* [[Pop Cultural Osmosis Failure]]: "Basic Cable Name That Tune" features audience members tasked with identifying [[Suspiciously Similar Song|knockoff versions]] of well-known songs. Since the sketch's humor is based around how poorly disguised the copying is, the bit falls flat whenever the audience member isn't familiar enough with the original song to identify it.
* [[Precious Puppies]]: Following the 2012 edition of the [[Animal Planet]] [[Super Bowl]] alternative [[Puppy Bowl]], Conan showed off ''Puppy Conan'', a puppy scaled version of the set with Puppy Conan and Puppy Andy sitting in the seats. Conan and Andy joined them, with Conan saying "You know, we should really do the show from this set one of these nights!"
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* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Conan's retorts to those who submit fan corrections. Of course, this is done in jest and exaggerated for comic effect.
* [[Redheaded Stepchild]]: Ginger-bashing is occasionally commented on for obvious reasons. Notably, when the news came out that a sperm bank was refusing red-headed donors. Conan was a bit insulted by this. [[Self-Deprecation|He also wondered what people were seeing every night that was turning them off of redheads.]]
** [[Tim Minchin]] played his anti-ginger-bashing song "[https://web.archive.org/web/20120509234709/http://teamcoco.com/content/tim-minchin-prejudice Prejudice]" for his second appearance on the show, which made the already funny song extra funny.
* [[Retcon]]: The Fan Corrections segments, in which Conan responds to allegations of [[Did Not Do the Research]] with [[Implausible Deniability|implausible]] [[Don't Explain the Joke|(and bogus)]] [[Shown Their Work|"proof"]].
* [[Rhyming with Itself]]: Parodied and lampshaded in "Thursday", Conan's parody of "Friday":
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