Conan's Writers - Berkley Johnson on Writing the Monologue (Paley Center, 2008)

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Uploaded by on Jan 11, 2010

Author/moderator Sarah Vowell asks Conan writer Berkley Johnson about the process of developing the monologue. Conan writers Mike Sweeney, Brian McCann, Dan Cronin and Berkley Johnson talk about combing the news for ideas.

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  • talk about picking strategic times to release these videos...well played

    and on that note f*ck NBC and f*ck Jay Leno

    Conan is the king of late night

  • Ya i was thinking the same thing. They figured they would wait a year for some big event to happen before they release these

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  • @axsmedia The moderator is the voice of Violet from The Incredibles....and that is 100 percent not a joke.

  • Really, there were no other options for moderators? Pick someone without either an annoying voice or a lisp, and you've just made an upgrade.

  • otter rape.

  • I have a bit of a problem with the Conan monologues transitioning to 11:30. I'm of the opinion that you need a strong, sharp, quick monologue at that hour to keep the local news audience. I'm not sure the Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien did that.

    I swear, I'm a huge Conan fan, check my favorite videos, whatever...but I think that could've been better. They could've tempered the act a bit more to reach a wider viewer base.

    Also, hindsight is 20/20.

  • "sarah vowell just fucking cut you"

    hahahaha

  • That Berkeley guy...for a writer, he has a low vocabulary count. He talks like a teenager.

  • I love Berkley's Hair!

  • @salazarmark I agree. Moderators on these panels really make or break them. She doesn't do a good job at directing the conversation.

  • The moderator sucks and ruins everything.

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