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Conan Gives Amanda Seyfried His Taxidermied Jet Pack Raccoon
Originally posted 02/22/2012 03:00PM
Calling Chuck Testa!
While promoting her new movie Gone Tuesday on Conan, Amanda Seyfried revealed she has the start of what she hopes will be an extensive taxidermy collection.
In addition to a miniature horse, she said, "I have a chick who I just got – her name's Linda. Well, she's not alive, but her name would've been Linda. I have an owl named Beatrix. I have a few butterflies. That's about it for now."
Jon Hamm Surprises Conan O'Brien's Secret Santa with a Hug (and Vitamins): VIDEO
Originally posted 12/23/2011 08:00AM
Conan O'Brien might win the Boss of the Year award after surprising one of his staff members with the best Secret Santa gift she could ask for – a visit from Jon Hamm.
A hilarious video, posted on O'Brien's website, shows the talk show host selecting talent coordinator Ashley Olivia as his Secret Santa after deciding to participate in his show's annual holiday gift exchange for the first time.
O'Brien discovered Olivia's crush on Hamm as he rooted around her desk looking for possible last-minute gift ideas. It was there that he saw a picture of the Mad Men star taped to her cubicle.
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Conan O'Brien Celebrates N.Y.C. Return over Leisurely Dinner
Originally posted 11/02/2011 05:55AM
Conan O'Brien celebrated his return to New York over dinner with his crew at Isabella's on New York's Upper West Side. The comedian, who's filming a week's worth of his late-night show, Conan, at the Beacon Theater, joined the festivities on the later side, though he did enjoy a relaxed dinner complete with cocktails and wine. When it was over, O'Brien picked up the tab – then snapped pictured with his servers, who were dressed in Halloween costumes. – Lesley Messer
Anne Hathaway Embodies Lil Wayne in Anti-Paparazzi Rap
Originally posted 08/17/2011 10:20AM
Who knew Lil Wayne was Anne Hathaway's muse?
The One Day leading lady, 28, perturbed by all the paparazzi attention she's receiving, especially about her upcoming role as Catwoman in the all-star The Dark Knight Rises, wrote a special rap song to get back at the shutterbugs – a little number she performed at Conan O'Brien's request Tuesday night on Conan.
"With all the stuff that's been going on with Batman, The paparazzi attention's been a little intense, so I actually wrote a rap song about it," Hathaway told the TBS host.
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Did You Spot Conan O'Brien's Sister in The Fighter?
Originally posted 12/20/2010 11:45AM
In The Fighter, Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale claim the most screen time, but there's no denying their slew of sisters' scene-stealing abilities.
What you might not have realized is that one of the Eklund women has a famous brother in real life, too. Kate O'Brien, sister to late night TV host Conan O'Brien, plays Phyllis "Beaver" Eklund in her acting debut.
"I work at a school and someone said, 'They're casting [The Fighter], you should go down, you look Irish Catholic,' " Kate O'Brien told PEOPLE. "I'm one of six, so it wasn't that hard for me to look like I might have more siblings [in the movie]."
• Reporting by ANNE DRISCOLL
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Seth Rogen: I Proposed to My Girlfriend When She Was Topless
Originally posted 11/09/2010 10:30AM
Little did Seth Rogen know that the engagement ring he bought for Lauren Miller would end up working best as a nipple ring.
Rogen, 28, had grand plans for the proposal but claims he had to improvise when he raced into the room to pop the question only to realize his actress girlfriend was topless.
"She was in our closet, changing, and she was literally only in her underpants," Rogen told Conan O'Brien on his brand new TBS talk show Monday. "I had already kind of started [to propose]. … I didn't picture it like this, and I know she didn't picture it like this."
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PEOPLE's TV Critic Picks Conan's Top 3 Moments
Originally posted 11/09/2010 09:45AM
After all the buildup, Conan O'Brien's return to television on TBS Monday night was a modest, lowkey and slightly awkward affair – Seth Rogen, the first celebrity guest on what is now called Conan, was promoting The Green Hornet, a movie that doesn't even open until January. Both he and O'Brien seemed aware that they had committed an unstated, inexplicable breach of talk-show protocol. It was as if Rogen had been expected to bring coffee cake and instead showed up with a plate of uncooked ribs.
But O'Brien is still dealing with the fallout of the past year's talk-show battle with NBC and his former home, The Tonight Show. Moving to TBS at 11 p.m. ET, he's a bit like one of those Shakespearean princes who get bounced from their kingdom and have to reestablish their court on an island or in a forest or on a cul de sac. His charm, intelligence and humor will probably win out. Here are three encouraging signs that Conanian silliness will live on:
POLL: Conan O'Brien or Paris Hilton – Who Rocks the Soap Bubbles Best?
Originally posted 10/05/2010 03:10PM
Watch out, Paris Hilton. You've got competition for best foamy bathing video.
Conan O'Brien seductively sprays and scrubs his (fully clothed) body with a soapy sponge in a funny promo for his new upcoming TBS talk show Conan. It's a silly homage to the heiress's sexy car wash commercial for Carl's Jr. fast-food outlets, but does raise a question:
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Conan O'Brien Finds an Historic New Home
Originally posted 05/17/2010 10:45AM
His competition is Jay Leno and David Letterman. His roommates will be George Lopez and Ellen DeGeneres.
Conan O'Brien will film his upcoming late-night TBS talk show at the historic Stage 15 on the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank, according to the Hollywood Reporter. That's the same lot that's already home to Lopez and DeGeneres's daily shows.
"I can't wait to interview the cast of Jersey Shore on the same lot where they filmed Casablanca," O'Brien says.
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Conan O'Brien: I Would Never Do What Jay Leno Did to Me
Originally posted 04/29/2010 06:25PM
If the tables had been turned during their late-night dispute, Conan O'Brien says he knows what he would – and wouldn't – have done to Jay Leno.
"He went and took that show back and I think in a similar situation, if roles had been reversed, I know – I know me, I wouldn't have done that," O'Brien, 47, says in his first post-Tonight Show interview, scheduled to air on 60 Minutes Sunday.
In the interview, the new TBS late-night host tells Steve Kroft that he would not have "surrendered The Tonight Show and handed it over to somebody publicly and wished them well – and then ... six months later… But that's me, you know."
Adding that "Everyone's got their own, you know, way of doing things," O'Brien, who's been on the road for his 30-date North American tour, says if he had been in Leno's shoes, he would've "done something else, go someplace else."
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