From: nebusj-@-rpi-.edu   
      
   Drew  writes:   
      
   >Well, here we go: from NBC Universal Media Village, the first two weeks of   
   >guests for "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien" (it may take a while to   
   >get used to the sound of that).   
      
   	It's still rather an adjustment, isn't it?  I'm starting to   
   understand the alt.fan.letterman folks who still write Late Night with   
   David Letterman.  (Well, I understood them before, really, but it's   
   more easy to empathize now.)   
      
      
   >Guest list, June 1-12 (format is Date - Episode No. - Guests):   
      
   >Mon 6/08 -  6 - David Duchovny, Anna Friel   
      
   	And if I'm not overlooking the painfully obvious this one gave us   
   our first stand-up comic, answering the question of just how those would   
   get staged.  It wasn't a hard question to answer, but there's always the   
   chance for something strange to happen in a new set.   
      
      
   >Note that some dates have just two guests listed, so additions may be   
   >forthcoming. Although no guests are listed yet for the third and fourth   
   >weeks of the month (June 15-26), the episode numbers on the site continue   
   >to increment, implying that those weeks will be filled by new episodes, not   
   >reruns.   
      
   	I'm sure of that.  I'd be shocked if they took a week off in the   
   first two months, and even within three months would be a surprise.  The   
   week around Labor Day would be my guess for the first rerun week.   
      
      
   >So to sum up, it looks like the show is starting out with the tried and   
   >familiar as far as guests go. Not that that's a bad thing. Will Ferrell and   
   >Norm MacDonald, for instance, can be funny in highly unpredictable ways.   
   >(Indeed, that unpredictability is a large part of what makes them funny.)   
   >The lesser-known names may yet surprise -- Steven Ho, I learn from the Web,   
   >is a martial-arts expert and stuntman. And of course, the entire show will   
   >be steeped in newness regardless of who the guests are.   
      
   	The guest list does feel a bit but not too much higher-class than   
   the standard for Late Night --- kind of what they'd hit for special event   
   weeks such as trips to, er, Los Angeles.  The stuntman bit actually feels   
   more dramatic and exciting than the usual skills-and-activities kind of   
   segment, which would usually be something like cooking, perhaps because   
   that was easier to fit in the old studio.   
      
   	It's been a very comfortable transition the first week and change,   
   with a nice upgrade on one of the signature sketches, the bringing back of   
   two reliable if not-that-exciting-to-me sketches, and a couple fresh bits   
   that look promising.  Also lots of remote pieces, which are always golden.   
      
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   								Joseph Nebus   
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