Conan O’Brien strutted out on Manhattan’s Hammerstein Ballroom stage to remind advertisers he had taken a downgrade.
“You’ve got to hand it to Turner when it comes to the upfronts,” he
told a packed theater early Wednesday. “They were really on it, and they
locked up the coveted 9:30 a.m. slot right next to Penn Station. I feel
bad for CBS; they’re stuck with cocktail hour at Carnegie Hall.”
In between the usual jabs, many of them at his own expense, O’Brien
managed to pimp the area in which his recently renewed late-night show
is growing: his digital footprint. “We’ve got 5.5 million on Twitter,
1.84 million ‘likes’ on Facebook and a pedophile on MySpace,” he joked
of his show, which debuted on TBS a year and a half ago after the host
had spent 16 years at NBC.
