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Tura
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 Posted: 10/05/05 - 11:34 Post subject: Tonight on Conan O'Brian
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Tonight U2 is going to be on the show doing 3 songs and being interviewed about he possibility of the nobel peace prize. I wonder if he's still going to do a monologue or some kind of bit in the beginning?
oh well read it yourselves:
| Quote: | Conan to Turn Entire Show Over to U2
Tuesday October 4 4:47 PM ET
In his 12 years in charge of booking musical guests on Conan O'Brien's "Late Night," Jim Pitt always listed U2 and Johnny Cash as the dream artists he'd tried but never succeeded in getting.
He lost his chance with the late Cash, but the U2 dream is coming true Thursday in a major way.
O'Brien will turn over his entire show to the band, which is in New York for seven sold-out engagements at Madison Square Garden.
"We were able to offer them something to feel enough like an event for them to do the show," Pitt said. "It's basically `Late Night with Conan O'Brien,' the U2 edition."
The NBC show has never before devoted itself entirely to a musical guest, although it gave major time a few years back to a holiday appearance by bandleader Max Weinberg's other employer, Bruce Springsteen.
O'Brien's a big U2 fan, and made a personal connection by talking at length with Bono during breaks in rehearsals for the band's "Saturday Night Live" appearance last season, Pitt said.
It may be a nervous time for Bono, who is nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in trying to ease Third World poverty. People who watch the Nobel closely list the lead singer as one of the favorites. The winner is expected to be named Friday.
The band is expected to perform three songs and be interviewed by O'Brien.
Pitt is not pushing for any material in particular.
"When U2 decides they want to come on the show for an hour, you don't get too picky about what they play," he said. |
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Pags
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Posted: 10/05/05 - 11:47 Post subject:
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Bush should get the peace prize for fighting terrorists abroad, and not at home ;)
WHAT HAS U2 EVER DONE FOR ANYONE??
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Kenbin
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Posted: 10/05/05 - 12:27 Post subject:
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U2 sucks.
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Tura
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Posted: 10/05/05 - 12:33 Post subject:
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I just cant believe they are actually sad they could not get Johnny Cash on the show. I mean I laugh at his music, but then again, I guess that would work on a show like Conan.
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Booker
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Posted: 10/05/05 - 14:26 Post subject:
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| Tura wrote: | | I just cant believe they are actually sad they could not get Johnny Cash on the show. I mean I laugh at his music, but then again, I guess that would work on a show like Conan. |
go impale yourself upon a rusty piece of rebar, you blasphemer!
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Booker
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Posted: 10/05/05 - 14:28 Post subject:
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| Pags wrote: | Bush should get the peace prize for fighting terrorists abroad, and not at home 
WHAT HAS U2 EVER DONE FOR ANYONE?? |
i thought about responding to this, but it just isnt worth my time.
id rather spend time finger painting a replica of the mona lisa with my own feces than respond to this post.
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Tura
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Posted: 10/05/05 - 14:45 Post subject:
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| Booker wrote: | | Tura wrote: | | I just cant believe they are actually sad they could not get Johnny Cash on the show. I mean I laugh at his music, but then again, I guess that would work on a show like Conan. |
go impale yourself upon a rusty piece of rebar, you blasphemer! |
LOL
(scroll down and listen to the last track "I've been everywhere"
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Occulis
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Posted: 10/05/05 - 15:01 Post subject:
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I've always associated the nobel peace prize with research and discipline.
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Nahualli
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Posted: 10/05/05 - 15:05 Post subject:
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| Pags wrote: | Bush should get the peace prize for fighting terrorists abroad, and not at home
WHAT HAS U2 EVER DONE FOR ANYONE?? |
they designed that iPod...
I don't think I've ever seen a single person with the U2 iPod.
-Nah-
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Booker
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Posted: 10/05/05 - 15:05 Post subject:
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i was looking at the list of past winners and there are certainly some strange ones.
like the UN Security Forces won it in 1988.
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Occulis
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Posted: 10/05/05 - 15:08 Post subject:
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Maybe the award is more of a resume highlight than anything any more :\
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Maldek
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Posted: 10/05/05 - 16:16 Post subject:
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just b/c bono is in a rock band doesnt belittle his humantarian efforts
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Ishmobbin
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Posted: 10/05/05 - 16:31 Post subject:
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U2 sucks, i cant stand their music.
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Silvermouse
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Posted: 10/05/05 - 16:35 Post subject:
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| Occulis wrote: | | Maybe the award is more of a resume highlight than anything any more :\ |
Only the scientific awards have any real meaning!
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Pags
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Posted: 10/05/05 - 17:41 Post subject:
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| Booker wrote: | | Pags wrote: | Bush should get the peace prize for fighting terrorists abroad, and not at home
WHAT HAS U2 EVER DONE FOR ANYONE?? |
i thought about responding to this, but it just isnt worth my time.
id rather spend time finger painting a replica of the mona lisa with my own feces than respond to this post. |
So, did you already finish that feces finger painting yet?
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atarom
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Posted: 10/06/05 - 05:55 Post subject:
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I've never been a big fan. I don't really think the quality of their music is that high. There are a few of their old songs that are pretty good. But the new stuff is mostly worthless.
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