Jimmy Fallon is hosting the Emmys this year (which is being televised on NBC as you know) and he says that it’s almost crucial to touch upon the whole NBC debacle with a few gags, which he has already planned with Conan.

FALLON SAYS CONAN GAGS WILL FIGURE IN EMMY TELECAST

Jimmy Fallon insists that neither NBC nor the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences is restricting him in any way when he hosts the Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday. In an interview with DeadlineHollywood.com, Fallon said, “No one’s telling me anything like, don’t go here, don’t talk about Conan. We’ll touch on the stuff the network’s gone through. We’ll probably have a couple of jokes in there about all of the late-night stuff. You can’t not talk about it. And we have a couple of ideas with Conan.” Asked whether the network was “scared” about the possibility of violating the non-disparagement clause of its severance agreement with Fallon, the Late Night host replied, “Nah, it’s all cool. He’ll be there. At least that’s the plan. We’re not sure Jay is going to be around. We hope he comes, too. We’re not sure right now.” Asked whether he himself has any hope of someday hosting The Tonight Show, Fallon replied, “The one thing I’ve learned from [David Letterman and Conan O'Brien] is that hosting Late Night is a one-way ticket to not hosting The Tonight Show.

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The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien is nominated, don’t forget to watch this Sunday!

It’s been reported that the Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Series category will not be televised on the Primetime Emmy this year, but instead will be aired as part of the Creative Emmy Awards on E! Apparently, it’s an agreement between the guilds and the TV academy “in which they agreed that the writing and the directing competitions for best variety, musical or comedy series (aka “VMC’s”) and VMC specials (think “Kennedy Center Honors”) would take turns being part of the televised portion of the two-night Emmy ceremony.” It’s really a drag since it produces some of the biggest laughs (seriously, the only laugh) in the whole ceremony since we all get to see the writers’ nomination video from Conan’s team to Jon Stewart’s to Stephen Colbert’s writers.

SOURCES:

- NY Post
- TV Squad
- Deadline.com
- Washington Post

As you all may have heard by now (as I am late in updating this piece of absolute good news), The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien is up for FOUR Emmy Awards! Yay! And for those of you keeping score, Jay Leno’s version got none… (just throwing it out there)
Anyways, congratulations to every member of the staff and we are rooting for the win!

Oh, and here are some links that you can check out: Team Coco’s reaction, Emmy Official Nomination list, LA Times – The Envelope

As all of you may now know, Conan made a really cool appearance with Jack White on stage at Third Man Records and the word going around is that a vinyl is planned to be released in the near future. Here are some scoops and articles about this live recording session that you can check out and, of course, don’t forget to visit teamcoco.com for the latest updates!

- Conan O’Brien drops the needle on a vinyl record

- Conan O’Brien teams up with Jack White at Third Man Records

- Conan and Jack White Jam Together, Plan To Release Vinyl Record

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EDIT: You can now PRE-ORDER the vinyl at Third Man Records!

Andy Richter and the writers will be a part of the Just For Laughs festival in Chicago on June 17th, and this event will be taped for a special to be aired on TBS on June 27th. Click here for more ticket information. And here are some excerpts from the New York Times and the event’s official website:

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