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Late-night mainstay Conan O’Brien is headed to TBS to resume his comedic duties with a talk show expected to debut in November, the network said Monday.

The program will air Mondays through Thursdays at 11 p.m. Eastern, shifting TBS’ “Lopez Tonight,” starring George Lopez, to midnight.

O’Brien quickly fired out a celebratory tweet.

“The good news: I will be doing a show on TBS starting in November! The bad news: I’ll be playing Rudy on the all new Cosby Show,” he posted Monday on Twitter.

The surprise announcement hit the same day O’Brien starts a two-month, nationwide comedy tour in Eugene, Ore., amid persistent reports that he was likely to claim Fox as his new late-night home.

Barring Fox, syndication was widely considered O’Brien’s most likely option. Few if anyone mentioned TBS as a plausible destination.

O’Brien began serious talks with TBS just last week, the network said.

“In three months, I’ve gone from network television to Twitter to performing live in theaters, and now I’m headed to basic cable,” O’Brien said in a tongue-in-cheek-toned statement. “My plan is working perfectly.”

O’Brien left NBC in January after hosting “The Tonight Show” for just eight months, as his ratings plunged from those of his longtime “Tonight” predecessor, Jay Leno, who reclaimed the hour. Until last June, O’Brien had followed Leno as host of “Late Night” since 1993.
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After giving O’Brien “Tonight,” NBC sought to keep Leno on board with a prime-time show that quickly flopped. An attempt to move O’Brien to a post-midnight slot drew O’Brien’s ire, and he walked away with a $32 million settlement package.

Although that put him in play for other networks, the deal barred him from appearing on TV until September

Jennifer Lopez Sarah Palin

Jennifer Lopez made a Sarah Palin joke and is getting a lot of grief for it. Jennifer Lopez made a joke at the expense of Sarah Plain while doing the monolog for Lopez Tonight. The first joke was on the fans, who were
Jennifer Lopez Jokes About Sarah Palin, Finds Backlash from Palin Supporters
expecting George Lopez to come out on stage, but suddenly the music started and Jennifer Lopez came out cracking late-night jokes. The first joke was of course a dig at the situation going on over at NBC, and it got quite a few laughs, as she insinuated that she was replacing George Lopez because she was a bigger star. The crowd loved it as she worked into a joke about Sarah Palin.

The heart of the joke by Jennifer Lopez about Sarah Palin was that she wasn’t even the craziest person working over at Fox News. Sarah Palin had taken on her first broadcast working for Fox, and Jennifer Lopez said that Palin had a great experience because she was only the 5th or 6th craziest person around. It was a funny joke to the crowd, and wasn’t even that bad of a joke. It was a word that Jennifer Lopez used to describe Sarah Palin that is getting more attention, as she used a negative Spanish connotation to denote how she felt about Sarah Palin and quite possibly her politics.

The fallout from this story, is that several people who don’t watch Lopez Tonight, and most likely hadn’t even heard about it, went up in arms about the jokes that Jennifer Lopez decided to tell. Now it seems that Lopez is in hot water from a lot of Republicans who aren’t happy with what she had to say. Well it’s one thing to make comments like that in an open forum or in a political juncture, but we are talking about a late night sketch where Jennifer Lopez merely gave her opinion about the ex-Governor from Alaska. It wasn’t a joke that had much tact behind it, and it seems that Ms. Lopez is now suffering a blitz of bad publicity as a result.

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Jennifer Lopez Sarah Palin was first posted on January 21, 2010 at 10:06 am.

Lopez Tonight,George Lopez Show

Lopez Tonight,George Lopez Show: The latest entrant in the late-night chat wars features George Lopez sitcom alum and comedian George Lopez as host. During the first-ever episode, he welcomes fellow talk-show host and comic Ellen DeGeneres, Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria-Parker , and NBA star Kobe Bryant as guests. Check back tomorrow for an interview with Lopez all about his hot new gig.

Lopez Tonight,George Lopez Show:The latest entrant in the late-night chat wars features George Lopez sitcom alum and comedian George Lopez as host.

During the first-ever episode, he welcomes fellow talk-show host and comic Ellen DeGeneres, Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria-Parker, and NBA star Kobe Bryant as guests. Check back tomorrow for an interview with Lopez all about his hot new gig.