What Else Conan O’Brien goes For as famous as he is, and as easily spotted, Conan O’Brien doesn’t get papped much. But he was photographed at LAX today, the photos are labelled in part, “Conan O’Brien channels Indiana Jones” because of the leather jacket/hat combo. I am confused about the weather By Sarah • Aug 08, 2025 04:04 pm
Conan O`Brien Conan Oscars 2.0 By every metric, Conan O’Brien hosting the Oscars was a hit. Everyone from critics to audiences approved of the job he did, and more importantly, the telecast scored its highest ratings in five years, with 19.69 million total viewers. It was also the highest rated Oscar telecast among By Sarah • Mar 18, 2025 11:47 am
Oscars 2025 Intro for March 5, 2025 Dear Gossips, Follow-ups are important, especially in gossip. Yesterday in this space I mentioned that early Oscar ratings showed a slight decrease in overall viewership but increases in key demographics, specifically with a younger audience. Updated ratings, though, have revealed that more people watched the Oscars this year than last By Lainey • Mar 05, 2025 09:50 am
Oscars 2025 Intro for March 3, 2025 Dear Gossips, The Oscars are usually good for a surprise, and the 97th Academy Awards gave us a big Anora surprise, but more on that later. First, let’s talk about the show itself, and the host, Conan O’Brien. This was Conan’s first time hosting the Oscars but By Sarah • Mar 03, 2025 06:09 am
What Else Conan O’Brien: Bring it on Here are some shots of Conan O’Brien arriving at Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night to talk about hosting the Oscars. And I was juuuust saying that Conan was a bit low key as we approach the big night. Conan was junketing today too so it looks like he’s By Lainey • Feb 26, 2025 04:14 pm
TV Updates The Oscars: Five Updates for the Five Day Countdown The Oscars are happening on Sunday, finally. With five days to go, updates are happening one on top of another. The biggest one being that Karla Sofía Gascón will be there, with the support of Netflix. If for whatever reason you need a refresher about the Karla chaos, please go By Lainey • Feb 25, 2025 12:13 pm
Top Reads The Conan Oscars In recent years, it has become accepted fact that hosting the Oscars is a bad gig, and the Academy increasingly struggles to get new, interesting people to host the show. Well this year, that is NOT the case, as they have already landed Conan O’Brien as the host of By Sarah • Nov 15, 2024 10:54 am
TV Updates Conan’s big week Yesterday, Conan O’Brien was feted at the Paley Museum in New York at a PaleyLive event celebrating his “life after late-night TV”. And earlier this week, he made his return to The Tonight Show after his short stint hosting in the early 2010s. He got a hero’s welcome By Sarah • Apr 12, 2024 01:43 pm
TV Updates Travel Conan is back Ever since Anthony Bourdain passed, pop culture has been missing an embodiment of the spirit of travel and adventure. People have tried to fill the void, such as Jack Whitehall and most notably Gordon Ramsey with Uncharted—not to say Ramsey wasn’t doing travel shows before, he was, but By Sarah • Mar 21, 2024 11:59 am
Timothy Olyphant Intro for January 27, 2023 Dear Gossips, It has been a WEEK, which I feel like I say every week, because all the weeks are a WEEK, and have been for like, the last six years, at least. But this week was a tough one, which is why I lit up like a firework when By Sarah • Jan 27, 2023 08:56 am
Goldie Hawn Celebrity Scenes from Aspen It’s slow out there in celebrity, just as it is for the rest of us. This is the supposed to be the week we recover from the pre-Christmas and holiday rush, and get ready for to pick up the grind next week, when a new year begins. And we By Lainey • Dec 29, 2021 10:49 am
Emmy Awards 2021 Intro for September 20, 2021 Dear Gossips, So… the Emmys. Duana, Sarah, and I have the Emmys covered. And I know I should be leading off in this space with something Emmys-related but I admit my attention is split, because today in Canada it’s our federal election which means I’m here to tell By Lainey • Sep 20, 2021 07:30 am
Conan O`Brien Farewell Conan, see you again soon Tonight marks the final episode of Conan on TBS. It’s not just the end of Conan O’Brien’s eleven year run as a late-night host on that network, it’s the end of his 28 year reign over late night comedy. As of the concluding of this show, By Sarah • Jun 24, 2021 03:40 pm
Top Reads BTS and Conan O’Brien Earlier this week Conan O’Brien announced that after eleven seasons, he’s going off the air on TBS. He’ll be doing another show for HBO Max but he’s moving on from the late night format he’s been a part of for almost 30 years. Conan announces By Lainey • May 06, 2021 03:10 pm
Barack Obama Ranking the virtual commencement speeches In lieu of traditional graduations, the class of 2020 has been treated to a series of virtual commencement speeches from various celebrities and political figures. (Shout out to the class of 2020 who are coming of age in a literal nightmare but are hanging in there with the TikTok dances By Sarah • Jun 04, 2020 03:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for September 27, 2017 Dear Gossips, Tom Cruise has a film coming out on Friday. It’s called American Made. And, at post time, it’s currently sitting at 90% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. Critics aren’t calling it the movie of the year or anything but most seem to agree that it’s By Lainey • Sep 27, 2017 08:59 am