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Straight from Conan O'Brien and the "Late Night" staff, acollection of startling and thought-provoking predictions for... oh, acouple of months from now.

What will happen in the year 2000?Well, according to Conan O'Brien and the other comic geniuses fromNBC's "Late Night," robots will do 80% of our houseworkand we will do90% of theirs. All medical procedures will take 30 minutes or less, asdoctors switch to the Domino's Pizza Health Plan. And scientists willdiscover the secret ingredient in Starbucks coffee: a chemical thatmakes people forget they are paying $4 for a cup ofcoffee.

Straight from "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" comes asaucy serving of outrageous--yet spookily plausible--predictions, andthe last word on how the world may look on the other side of themillennial divide.

Conan O'Brien became the host of "LateNight" in 1993.In the year 2000 he will have to come up with a newsketch.

In The Year 2000...

* Man will sometimes write"1999" on his checks
* Scientists will revive Einstein's brain andkeep it alive in a jar; it will become a dee jay
* America's beliefin angels will be rewarded when thousands are discovered in a secludedvalley; they will taste like veal
* Men will finally discover thatthe reason women go to the bathroom in pairs...is to make out
* Theradio signals scientists have been sending into outer space willfinally get a reply. Their simple message: "Less talk, more rock"
*Mark McGuire will become the richest man on earth when he finallylearns to tie a string to every ball he hits
* Elizabeth Dole willbe elected President, making Bob Dole America's first man--somethingalready verified by fossil records
* Packaged Toll House cookieswill become so moist and chewy that people will no longer feardeath
* A daring and controversial plan to capture Bigfoot willfail when he sends a friend to accept his Oscar for him
* JesusChrist returns to earth but quickly leaves when he discovers the 55cent Egg McMuffin deal has expired. ... Read more

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Back to the future, Conan style
With a publication date of 1999, "In the Year 2000" is a collection of absurd predictions about what was then the near future.Written by Conan O'Brien and the writers of his "Late Night" TV show, the book is often laugh-out-loud funny.

Conan and crew cover a lot of topics with these humorous "prophecies": technological advances, world politics, encounters with extraterrestrial life, changes in the vernacular language, etc.Many different celebrities are satirically skewered: Jodie Foster, the Pope, Bill Clinton, the Dalai Lama, Gerald Ford, Kathie Lee Gifford, etc, etc.--Conan and crew prove themselves truly bipartisan, equal opportunity mockers.

If you enjoy Conan's TV routine of the same name, I predict that you will enjoy this book.It's scathing, raunchy, witty, surreal, and a lot of fun.

A must for any fans of Conan!
This book is very funny, and Conan O Brien fans will appreciate it, but personally, I don't think it's worth the cover price. If you can get it used, go ahead! The Amazon used prices are rockbottom. If I paid the full price..., I'd probably have given it 2-3 stars.

The humor here is great. Not all of the In the Year 2000 lines are funny but a lot are. I dont know if people who arent too familiar with Conan would like it, but fans surely will.

Again, get it used...but get it!

Only good for a little while...
...you tire of this book quickly. Buy a used copy.

A Funny Book!
In The Year 2000 is one of my favorite skits on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, so I just had to buy this book. I am glad I did, it is one of the funniest books I've ever read. Even if you never saw the show before, or this skit, I highly recommend getting this book, I guaranty you'll laugh! I also recommend that you watch the skit on Late Night, although Andy Richter is no longer there, In The Year 2000 is still extremely funny.

The Future, Conan?
Buy this book.It is the best book ever. . . for me to poop on. ... Read more

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Black-and-white computer-morphed photographs reveal the hilarious offspring results of matings between various celebrity couples--both real or imagined. Original. 100,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo. ... Read more

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Enter The Cone Zone
This book is GREAT! It was all I expected and better. I laughed out loud alot, and the pictures, although in black and white, are hysterical! A great touch is the pictures of Conan and Andy's reactions. This book is a great buy!

What are you waiting for? Go buy it!

Conan Kicks!
Conan O'Brien is one of the funniest men alieve and this bookproves that!This book evolved from a sketch on the show(one of the best, other than Pimpbot 5000). He and the Late Night Writers are amazing,they come up with so many diffrent sketches that its not even funny. If you have ever wondered what celebrities babies looked like this book is a must have.
HAIL CONAN!

heart,
ivy the barbarian

The Funniest Book Ever!
If They Mated is one of my favorite skits on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, so I just had to buy this book. I am glad I did, it is one of the funniest books I've ever read. Even if you never saw the show before, or this skit, I highly recommend getting this book, I guaranty you'll laugh! I would have rated it a 5 but the pictures in the book are grayscale, color would have been much better, but it is still a great book.

Conan O' Brien-nuff said
Ive always loved Conans humor. He is the king of couch humor. A classic comedian. In this book he showcases my favorite, and I think everyone elses too, jokes that he does. IF THEY MATED. Very funny book. Purchase this now.

He's very funny
The book is funny with hilarious pictures and commentaary. In my opinion Conan O'Brien is the best show between the hours of 12:30 AM and 1:30 AM on nbc. ... Read more

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In the executive offices of the four major networks, sweeping changes are taking place and billions of dollars are at stake. Now Bill Carter, bestselling author of The Late Shift, goes behind the scenes to reveal the inner workings of the television industry, capturing the true portraits of the larger-than-life moguls and stars who make it such a cutthroat business.

In a time of sweeping media change, the four major networks struggle for the attention of American viewers increasingly distracted by cable, video games, and the Internet. Behind boardroom doors, tempers flare in the search for hit shows, which often get on the air purely by accident. The fierce competition creates a pressure-cooker environment where anything can happen . . .

• NBC’s fall from grace—Once the undisputed king of prime time, NBC plunged from first place to last place in the ratings in the course of a single season. What will be the price of that collapse—and who will pay it?

• CBS’s slow and steady race to the top—Unlike NBC, CBS, under the leadership of CEO, Leslie Moonves, engineered one of the most spectacular turnarounds in television history. But in this ruthless world, you’re only as good as last week’s ratings . . . .

• ABC’s surprising resurrection—Lost and Desperate Housewives—have brought ABC the kind of success it could only dream of in the past. So why don’t the executives responsible for those hits work there any more?

• The end of the news as we know it—In a stunningly short period of time, all three of the major network news anchors—Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw, and Peter Jennings—signed off, leaving executives scrambling for a way to keep network news relevant in an era of 24/7 information.

• Crazy Like Fox—They’re outrageous, unconventional, and occasionally off-putting, but more and more people are watching Fox shows. Most of all they keep watching American Idol. How did Simon Cowell snooker himself into a huge payday? Stay tuned . . .

In Desperate Networks Bill Carter digs deep inside the industry, delivering utterly irresistible “dish” that you won’t find anywhere else. It’s the perfect book to read when there’s nothing on TV. ... Read more

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Great READ
A MUST READ for anyone who's in the television industry. It's a great read and great way to familiarize yourself with the big TV players in the industry.

surprised me
Since I don't watch a lot of TV and have only watched one of the shows the book focuses on (heard of most of the rest of them though), I didn't expect to enjoy it nearly as much as I did. However, it was a fascinating read of the inner workings of the television business.

It's written very well though one must question how the author obtained the information to say "so-and-so thought X" since he describes rather minute details of people's reactions and inner thoughts. I'm not sure he he did numerous interviews and then wrote them all up in a narrative or what but regardless, I took some of it with a grain of salt but enjoyed it all nonetheless.

It gives a good portrait of the minds of TV executives: they seem to be a hard hearted, shamelessly greedy, and self-absorbed bunch. When I watch TV now, I feel like a pawn in their game as what you're seeing on TV is not so much the idea of a writer as it is a pandering to advertisers.

Great look into the television industry
This book is a great insight into not only the network television industry as a whole, but also provides a very interesting look at the history of your favorite television networks and shows from the past few decades.

This book focuses on the lives of the heads of the four respective networks.Even though they were names that most have never heard of, they are the ones responsible for deciding what we are going to watch on television.

A great read for people like myself who have no knowledge of the behind the scenes workings of network television.

An in-depth look @ network TV in the 21st century!
Having devoured Carter's 1994 book The Late Shift (a fascinating story of the Leno-Letterman late night TV battle) when it was released, I can safely say he's done it again w/this fascinating glimpse inside the 4 networks and the decisions that helped shape primetime TV in recent years...especially fascinating are some surprising facts revealed along the way, such as how:

- CSI was nearly passed up by CBS in favor of a detecive dramedy called "Homewood PI", which was to star Tony Danza
- The "results show" on American Idol was created out of necessity so all viewers could vote (its UK equivalent, Pop Idol, is able to tabulate all votes immediately after the show airs b/c the country's entirely contained within one time zone, unlike the States)
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus was considered for the role of Susan on Desperate Housewives
- Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire, had it not turned out to be one of Fox's biggest fiascos, would've become a franchise that included a sequel, a "reverse" version that had a wealthy bride picking from a series of prospective grooms, etc.

All told, a great read for anyone who wants to know more about the ever-changing face of primetime TV and the backstories of current hit shows!

A Desperate Writer's Attempt to Kiss Up to Networks
Bill Carter has spent years covering TV for the New York Times and in order to keep his inside sources, he needs to kiss up to them.This book is filled with inside stories gleaned from the first five years of the new millennium and some of the stories are interesting.But the writer has the bad habit of using over-the-top adjectives about the network bigwigs he is covering.The bigger the person in power, the bigger the superlatives used to the point of it being laughable.

In the end CBS chief Les Moonves, who is called "genius," comes across as inept and power-hungry.Once the writer's bias is stripped away the real story here is that those in charge of network TV have no clue how to program hit television shows. In virtually every case of a major success, the network leaders initially scoff at the program but then take credit when it becomes a hit. And none of these rich, elitist programmers seem to know what mainline American viewers want to watch.

Bottom line--the book has interesting stories for those who are addicted to how networks program prime time.But the author's writing style is stilted and lacks credibility.There are a number of factual errors and the reader should beware that what is presented as fact is actually the author's filtered view of an industry that he needs to kiss up to in order to keep his job. ... Read more

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Chapters: Cnbc Europe Programmes, Late Night With Conan O'brien, the Tonight Show With Jay Leno, Squawk Box, the Mclaughlin Group, Morning Call, Power Lunch, Worldwide Exchange, Squawk on the Street, Closing Bell, Squawk Box Europe, Asia Squawk Box, Squawk Australia, Capital Connection, Power Lunch Europe, Europe Tonight, Patricia Szarvas, Street Signs, Questions for the Future, Asia Market Watch, European Closing Bell, Cash Flow, Today's Business, Morning Exchange, Business Centre Europe, Asia Market Week, Europe This Week, European Market Wrap, World Business, Strictly Money, European Market Watch, Europe Today. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 128. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Late Night with Conan O'Brien is an American late-night talk show hosted by Conan O'Brien that aired 2,725 episodes on NBC from 1993 to 2009. The show featured varied comedic material, celebrity interviews, and musical and stand-up comedy performances. Late Night aired weeknights at 12:37 a.m. Eastern/11:37 p.m. Central and 12:37 a.m. Pacific in the United States. From 1993 until 2000, Andy Richter served as O'Brien's sidekick; following his departure, O'Brien was the show's sole featured performer. The show's house musical act was The Max Weinberg 7, led by E Street Band drummer Max Weinberg. The second incarnation of NBC's Late Night franchise, O'Brien's debuted in 1993 after David Letterman, who hosted the first incarnation of Late Night, moved to CBS to host the Late Show opposite The Tonight Show. In 2004, as part of a deal to secure a new contract, NBC announced that O'Brien would leave Late Night in 2009 to succeed Jay Leno as the host of the Tonight Show. Jimmy Fallon began hosting his version of Late Night on March 2, 2009. Upon Johnny Carson's retirement from The Tonight Show in 1992, executi...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=174688 ... Read more

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PLAYMATE: Julia SchultzCOVER: Daphne DeckersPICTORIALS: Couch Tomatoes - Juli Ashton and Doria of Playboy TV's Night Calls; Bonding With Daphne - 8 pages of Dutch actress and model Daphne Decker with shots from the 007 film, Tomorrow Never DiesINTERVIEW: Conan O'Brien 20 Q: Paul Thomas AndersonPLAYBOY GALLERY: Pete Turner's Personal Visions of the EroticPLAYMATE REVISITED: Victoria Valentino (September 1963)FEATURES: Wy Women Say Yes by Alison Lundgren and Tracey Pepper; Playboy's History of the Sexual Revolution: Part VI: Something Cool (1950-1959); The CEO of Margaritaville - Profile of Jimmy Buffett by David Standish; Bond's Little Black Book by Lee Pfeiffer, disects the world of James Bond - the gadgets, the girls, the guns, the cars; fiction, Down in the Bahamas by Paul Brodeur; Gloria Reuben, Marlene Redmayne, Katy Le, Monika Hajkova, Shirley Bassey and Natalie Merchant in On the Scene segment.PAGES: 172 ... Read more

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Chapters: Who's on First?, 2000 Year Old Man, List of Late Night With Conan O'brien Sketches, X-Play's Sketches and Segments, List of in Living Color Sketches, List of Sketches From Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, Characters and Sketches on Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?, List of Chappelle's Show Skits, Pale Force, the Jackson Jive, Seven Dirty Words, Acorn Antiques, Dinner for One, List of Mega64 Skits, the Family, Bob and Doug Mckenzie, Four Candles, Smashie and Nicey, One Leg Too Few, Gents Without Cents, the Treasurer's Report, Sister Mary Elephant, as the Stomach Turns, the Four Sydney Lotterbies, the Nairobi Trio, Carnac the Magnificent, Film Stars, Four Yorkshiremen Sketch, Niggas Vs. Black People, Slowly I Turned, the Minister Who Falls to Pieces, the Shmenge Brothers, Nothing's Too Much Trouble, Balham, Gateway to the South, Slow Talkers of America, Why a Duck?. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 257. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The following is a list of sketches which debuted on Late Night with Conan O'Brien on NBC. In response to a recent news story, usually about misconduct, Conan speaks at length about his moral outrage, and his feeling of responsibility to remove this type of behavior from society; meanwhile, the camera occasionally makes brief cuts from Conan to Max. Conan may also speak of a dim-witted accomplice who aids the deviant in his exploits, after which the camera briefly cuts from Conan to LaBamba. Finally, Conan urges the public to expose such people using the show's address which, together with the heading "Shameless Adulterous Weasel" or the like, is superimposed over Max. The sketch is typically performed with Richter participating, but after Richter left Late Night, the celebrity guest would participate (when Richter was scheduled as a gues...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5176810 ... Read more

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Chapters: Jay Leno, Conan O'brien. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 39. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Conan Christopher O'Brien (born April 18, 1963) is an American television host and comedian. He served as host of Late Night with Conan O'Brien from 1993 to 2009, followed by the short-lived The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien from 2009 to 2010. Prior to his hosting career, O'Brien was a writer for Saturday Night Live and the animated series The Simpsons. On April 12, 2010, it was announced that O'Brien will host a new late-night talk show on cable TV network TBS, beginning as early as November 2010. O'Brien was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, the son of Thomas O'Brien, a physician, epidemiologist and professor of medicine at Harvard, and Ruth O'Brien (née Reardon), an attorney and partner at the Boston firm of Ropes ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pompadour is a style of haircut which takes its name from Madame de Pompadour. The pompadour was a fashion trend in the 1950s among male rockabilly artists and actors. There are Latin variants of the hair style more associated with European and Argentine tango fashion trends and occasionally with late twentieth century musical genres such rockabilly and country. In recent years the pompadour hair style has been adopted by those enamoured with vintage culture of the late 50s and early 1960s that includes antique cars, hot rods, American folk music, rockabilly bands, and Elvis Presley. This style has become popular among Italian-Americans and the "goombah" or "Guido" subculture. Many Mexican-American in the "Cholo" subculture also sport pompadours. ... Read more

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Chapters: Eunice Kennedy Shriver, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Conan O'brien, Barbara Walters, Kennedy Family, Francis Ouimet, Mike Wallace, Theo Epstein, Bill Stephens, Ralph Neas, Barry Gordon, Tom Mcnamara, Michael Shannon, Levi Yitzchak Horowitz, Jeff Adrien, John Lawson Stoddard, Doris Abrahams, George Kerr, Bob Margolin, Hamilton Coolidge, Marshall Schact, Theodore Chickering Williams. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 184. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: John F. Kennedy -Kennedy was born at 83 Beals Street in Brookline, Massachusetts on Tuesday, May 29, 1917, at 3:00 p.m., the second son of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., and Rose Fitzgerald; Rose, in turn, was the eldest child of John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, a prominent Boston political figure who was the city's mayor and a three-term member of Congress. Kennedy lived in Brookline for his first ten years of life. He attended Brookline's public Edward Devotion School from kindergarten through the beginning of 3rd grade, then Noble and Greenough Lower School and its successor, the Dexter School, a private school for boys, through 4th grade. In September 1927, Kennedy moved with his family to a rented 20-room mansion in Riverdale, Bronx, New York City, then two years later moved five miles (8 km) northeast to a 21-room mansion on a six-acre estate in Bronxville, New York, purchased in May 1929. He was a member of Scout Troop 2 at Bronxville from 1929 to 1931 and was to be the first Boy Scout to become President. Kennedy spent summers with his family at their home in Hyannisport, Massachusetts, also purchased in 1929, and Christmas and Easter holidays with his family at their winter home in Palm Beach, Florida, purchased in 1933. In his primary school years, he attended Riverdale Country School, a private school for boys in ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5119376 ... Read more

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Kapitel: Thomas Gottschalk, Harald Schmidt, Conan O'brien, David Letterman, Eva Herman, Dietmar Schönherr, Alfred Biolek, Günther Jauch, Anke Engelke, Sandra Maischberger, Wolf Schneider, Rafael Seligmann, Johannes B. Kerner, Oprah Winfrey, Alexander-Klaus Stecher, Jon Stewart, Erich Böhme, Fiorello, Chris Matthews, Reinhold Beckmann, Hans Meiser, Paolo Bonolis, Dudu Topaz, Fabio Fazio, Jonathan Ross, Joey Bishop, Dick Cavett, Jay Leno, Július Satinský, Johnny Carson, Simona Ventura, James Lipton, Kang Moon-Suk, Jerry Springer, Antonella Clerici, Hubertus Meyer-Burckhardt, Miklós Vámos, Bettina Tietjen, Thomas Koschwitz, Boris Izaguirre, Arūnas Valinskas, Phil Mcgraw, Leo Busch, Maury Povich. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Thomas Gottschalk (b. 18 May 1950 in Bamberg, Germany) is a famous German TV host. He is best-known for hosting the popular show Wetten, dass..?, which he has led to a huge success in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and South Tyrol. Gottschalk was born in the German city of Bamberg as the son of a lawyer. After attending the Humanistisches Gymnasium (Humanistic gymnasium) in Kulmbach, he studied history and German philology, eventually taking his exams as a teacher for primary and secondary schools; however, it was during this time that he discovered his true vocation: entertainment. From 1971 on, Gottschalk worked as a freelancer for the youth program of the Bayerischer Rundfunk (Bavarian radio); in 1973, he became anchor for a news program. In 1976, after a brief detour to the newspaper Münchner Merkur, he became a regular employee of the Bayerischer Rundfunk, and subsequently gained popularity as the host of the show Pop nach acht. He was awarded the Kurt-Magnus-Preis for his "outstanding talents" as a radio host in 1978. His career continued with him hosting the TV show Telespiele from 1977 onwards; the show was first broadcast on the Bayerischer Rundfunk's television channel, and switched to th...http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more