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Adam Scott, the actor that portrays Ben Wyatt in Parks and Recreation, happened to also play a part in Step Brothers, the 2008 Will Ferrell movie. For Step Brothers, Scott was required to memorize the lines to Vanilla Ice's perennial hit "Ice Ice Baby." While discussing this fact on Conan, he broke out the lyrics and started examining what it truly means to "flow like a harpoon" and "wax a chump like a candle." Check the video out after the jump.

On Conan last night, Will Ferrell appeared as Anchorman's Ron Burgundy, flute and all, and announced that Anchorman will be getting a sequel. Though fans of film, comedy, and not milking a cow that gave you the perfect amount of milk might feel that the movie didn't need a sequel, most of the original team is already slated to return, so the movie probably has a good chance at providing some good ol' newsroom entertainment value.

AirBNB, the couch surfing service that allows one to rent an entire country if they so wish, has a listing for the Conan studio. No, not that Conan, and there's only one of those Conans as far as we're concerned. The funnier one. Team Coco has put Conan O'Brien's studio up for rent on AirBNB, available for a few days from October 10 to October 13. Amenities include a "celebrity-grazed" sleeper sofa and an air mattress that has fallen in disrepair.  Of course, one must wonder if Team Coco is going to have one of the sketchy AirBNB experiences.

Hacker News points out that the couch surfers booking the studio will be filmed for the show, so they must be okay with that, making the AirBNB rental some sort of comedy bit more than a publicity stunt. Those comedians and their comedy. Head on past the break to check out the studio's amenities, and check out the listing over on AirBNB.

Last night Conan O'Brien treated us to a sneak preview of the songs and technology that have gone into the multimillion dollar Spider-Man musical, and boy does it shine. Man!Wonder Woman was a daring, avant garde choice, but mostly it was very effective comic book nerd trolling.

We demand that two brave souls show up to Monday's taping of Conan dressed as cows. Um. Look, just watch the video. (via Look at this Frakking Geekster.)

Like a big reveal on LOST, Conan O'Brien announced his new show, starting November 8th on TBS, will be called Conaw Conan. Check out the humorous announcement video below.

No, not the other guy. Rather, this is the Conan the Barbarian reboot/re-imagining that's been slated for a release next year. The film, which started shooting in March, stars Hawaiian actor Jason Momoa of Baywatch and Stargate: Atlantis fame in the titular role (presumably because Gov. Schwarzenegger was too busy cameo-ing in the Expendables). While Momoa doesn't really have the presence his predecessor had (few people do), it remains to be seen what he's actually capable of with a sword. Check out the photos after the jump, courtesy of /Film.

Conan O'Brien is doing pretty damn well for himself. With news already out that he'll be heading back to television on TBS this fall, Coco kicked off his 32-city live Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television tour last night in Eugene, Oregon. Showing off a Writer's Strike-era beard and the same wacked sense of humor that brought him to TV, reviewers were happy to see him in good form, even if this first show was uneven at times.

Funny geek Conan O'Brien bucked convention when he picked cable network TBS over Fox as the launchpad for his new talk show, which will debut in November. But apparently, Conan may have seriously considering bucking TV altogether: Deadline Hollywood Daily reports that he was in talks with Microsoft to make a show for XBox.

Deadline:

A lot of showbiz reporters got it wrong (not us!) speculating about where Conan would land. They were fixated on Fox and assumed he would only go to a network. But the fact is that, we knew from the very beginning, Team Conan (including his exec producer Jeff Ross, and WME's Rick Rosen, and manager Gavin Palone, and Ziffren Brittenham attorney Sam Fischer), were thinking way outside the network box. For instance, there were discussions with Microsoft about an XBox deal for Conan's show that would have broken new ground. And yes, discussions took place with Fox.     [emphasis added]

There's a lot to be said for the TBS deal: Whereas Fox's affiliated local stations were reluctant to give up prebought reruns for Conan -- and Fox has a nasty history of canceling good programming -- TBS "agreed quickly to almost every request" from Conan's camp, and the network has a fairly young audience to boot. And it can't hurt that Conan will get a reported eight figures for his troubles.

At that: Think of all of the positive effects a Conan talk show exclusively for the XBox would have had on the industry as a whole.

Geek idol Conan O'Brien will be coming to TBS to host a late-night show this fall, once his nationwide comedy tour wraps up, reports CNN's Marquee blog. Looks like the Twitter billboard campaign may have worked after all. George Lopez, who currently hosts a show on TBS at 11pmEDT, will be bumped back to 12am to make room for Conan's new venture.

Since NBC axed him, Conan O'Brien has been devoting a good amount of his energy to Twitter, on which he has more than 800,000 followers and, apparently, the power to change people's lives. Now, in a publicity stunt that puts its digital displays where its mouth is, billboard company Lamar is turning "thousands" of its 22-foot-wide screens to the task of displaying Conan's Tweets across the land in real time.

The rumors were true - Conan O'Brien is going on tour, beginning April 12 in Eugene, Oregon. The news was announced via his Twitter feed this morning, a website has been set up (TeamCoco.com, of course) and more details about what to expect have been revealed. The web site is referring to the tour as "The Legally Prohibited From Being Funny On TV Tour" and promises "a night of music, comedy, hugging and the occasional awkward silence." The tour will stop in 30 cities including Universal City, CA (close to his old studio) on April 24 and Radio City Music Hall June 1 (across the street from his older studio). He'll also make a stop at the Bonnaroo Music Festival. The tour is sponsored by American Express, and tickets are available at TicketMaster.com.

Since Conan O'Brien started his Twitter account over a week ago, he's quickly become one of the most popular users on the site, as fans took to the only outlet they can still get their daily CoCo fix from. But though Conan's followers may have been numerous, the talk show host was following no one himself. That is, until yesterday's #followfriday, when a teen named Sarah Killen (Twitter handle: LovelyButton) won the real-life equivalent of Willy Wonka's Golden ticket by being randomly selected as Conan's first Followee. Now she's gone from 3 followers to over 11,000 in less than 24 hours.

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