Bill Carter Revisits the War for Late Night

Inside Conan: An Important Hollywood Podcast

Team Coco & Earwolf

Comedy

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2022

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Writer Bill Carter (author of The War for Late Night) joins Mike Sweeney and Jessie Gaskell to discuss the significance of The Tonight Show for a generation of comedians, the behind-the-scenes drama surrounding Conan’s short-lived run at the show, the future of late night television, and why Bill decided to not publish an emotional 2010 interview with Conan.

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0:00.0	And now, it's time for Inside Conan, an important Hollywood podcast.
0:17.6	Welcome to Inside Conan, an important Hollywood podcast.
0:21.8	I'm Mike Sweeney and I'm here with Jesse Gaskell.
0:25.1	That's right, and we will be talking you to sleep tonight.
0:28.9	Yes.
0:30.2	All of your other sleep bids have failed.
0:32.3	We're here for you.
0:33.5	Right.
0:34.3	We're the podcast that brings you all the all the inside dirt.
0:40.9	Yes, what is this podcast about?
0:42.8	What is it? I mean, in a larger sense, it's about
0:46.5	yes, our humanity.
0:48.6	Sure.
0:49.2	And what binds us
0:51.0	absolutely as living creatures on this earth.
0:54.2	But on a micro sense, it's about the inner workings of the Conan show
0:59.8	and now just I guess the Conan orbit.
1:03.8	That's all under the umbrella of humanity.
1:06.4	Okay.
1:08.5	Yes, you know, actually there was a little Conan update this week.
1:12.6	He just did a cameo and Saturday night live.
1:15.3	He did.
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