Late Night - Where's My Kayak?

 Or: "There's no reason to live!"

Conan - Minty's Covered in Poo

Brian Stack Leaves Conan

Thursday was long-time writer Brian Stack's last show. Stack joined in 1997 during the "Late Night" days and was a mainstay actor in sketches and bits. Some of my personal favorites were: Clive Clemmons, Hannigan (the traveling salesman), Artie Kendall (the Bing Crosby-esque singer), Brian LaFontaine (the creepy lounge singer), the singer of the Minty theme, WikiBear and Frankenstein.

The best-of tribute to him is not available on youtube but can be watched on the Conan website here.

This feels like a huge loss. He, along with Robert Smigel, Jon Glaser, Andy Blitz and Brian McCann seemed to be the heart of the show that I first fell in love with in the late 90s. And of those, Stack was the last one left.





"Hitlery-hoo???"

Conan - Brian McCann Leaves

Thursday was the last show of writer Brian McCann who's been a mainstay of the show for 17 years.

Here, Conan says goodbye:


As he says, for legal reasons they can't play most of his highlights but they can link to them at teamcoco.com/mccann.

On a personal note, two of the characters Conan mentions on the show happen to be from youtube clips that I've uploaded. Yet, those are also not videos linked to on the official website. Dang.

Personal Favorites: Raisin, Preperation H Raymond and The Guy with Bulletproof Legs. But there have been so many over the years, that I feel if I thought about it for a while, I'd come up with a million of them. I think of him as the Chris Elliot of Conan's "Late Night". It's a big loss for the show.