From: nebusj-@-rpi-.edu   
      
   	I don't quite feel like I have the energy to do full summary   
   reviews of all the various episodes, plus since my father has every   
   episode ever made of This Old Yet Uninteresting House on the Tivo on   
   ``store until the Sun goes nova, which it never will'' settings,   
   shows that actually get watched fade very rapidly and I don't have   
   last week's Conan to re-watch and reconsider.  So here goes, my own   
   impressions from the Monday Starting The New Week Without Taking Too   
   Many Notes:   
      
      
   	2 January 2007: Bob Saget, Comedian, Musical Guest   
   	Introduction: Conan details exactly how they're going to waste   
   as much time as possible and repurposes a webcam bit he'd used to show   
   what he was doing during the break.  He's got a lot of neat stuff in   
   his office, and he's good at wasting his staff's time.  Great bit.   
   Ring-spinning is odd and engaging.  36 and then 28 seconds.   
      
   	Bob Saget: generally pleasant, he has a game show that probably   
   isn't nearly as complicated to explain as their interview chat calls on   
   them to make it out.   
      
   	Comedian: I have a generally positive but not distinctive memory   
   of whoever the guy was.   
      
   	Musical Guest: You know my problems with musical guests.   
      
   	Overall: Top-notch show, the sort of thing that makes you   
   wonder if maybe all this writing stuff is overblown.   
      
      
      
   	3 January 2007: Pleasant-Looking Woman, Guy Trying To Dress   
   Conan Up, Kid Rock   
   	Introductory bit: more repurposed webcam footage, this of him   
   harassing the tour guides who've gotten bored with the random bits of   
   fact-flavored pablum the public relations department gives them and   
   have started making things up.  Great bit, with solid comic backing as   
   it has a good comic dynamic: the NBC Page attacks however inadvertently   
   Conan's identity as talk show host, and Conan must defend himself.   
      
   	Pleasant-Looking Woman: She went to a strip club and managed   
   to find a way for it to be the biggest possible waste of everyone's   
   time because it was all straight women and gay guys.  Entertaining and   
   odd story.   
      
   	Guy Trying To Dress Conan Up: He gets Conan going about body   
   language and eye contact, and there's something about Abe Lincoln.   
   Conan achieves the state of Donald Trump's Go-Nowhere Country Cousin.   
      
   	Kid Rock: Sings, and then talks about his morale tour in Iraq   
   alongside a quirky collection of celebrities.  That last bit was the   
   strongest interview segment, although there probably wasn't a way to   
   get it up front unless they rejiggered the whole show format, which   
   they aren't quite desperate enough to do just yet.   
      
   	Also, they had a new commercial intro picture, of Conan as a   
   Miner '49er.   
      
   	Overall: Second-best; Kid Rock shoulda had more time.   
      
      
      
   	4 January 2007 - Bill Maher, Crazy Scary CNBC Guy, Comic   
   	Introduction: Conan's impressed that Chuck Norris is back on   
   the pop culture map after four years (was it really?) of the Walker,   
   Texas Ranger Lever, and wonders if he's a kingmaker.  Jeff Ross is   
   finally in his beatnik outfit, and ring-spinning is good for only 31   
   seconds this time around.  Conan then goes into playing the guitar,   
   reasonably well and sincerely for a change.  It's not a funny segment,   
   but it is a decent performance.   
      
   	Bill Maher: demonstrates how outstanding a political satirist   
   he is by pointing out there's no black guys in Iowa, and Republicans   
   hate everyone and everything except their constituency of retarded   
   hillbillies.  Conan accepts evolution, but Robert Byrd is old.   
      
   	Jim Cramer: apparently, the secret to wealth is making the   
   waiters at The Olive Garden bring you celery and endless rolls, even   
   if you have to drive an hour out of your way to get there.  Conan has   
   a bullhorn, possibly to shout Cramer back into submission, but uses   
   it to advance the theory that Olive Garden's advertising campaign is   
   all wrong.   
      
   	Comic Guy: Homeless blah blah, Catholic priests, and surely   
   gayness is inherently funny, right?   
      
   	Overall: Weakest of the week.   
      
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   								Joseph Nebus   
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