“Conan O’Brien” on The Daily Caller

Comedian David Cross is not laughing these days. (more)

This week’s edition includes tweets about Chris Christie, Andy Rooney’s retirement, Sarah Palin flubbing Herman Cain’s name and much more: (more)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — George Lopez, who surrendered his TBS time slot to Conan O’Brien and then saw ratings for “Lopez Tonight” slide, got a cancelation notice Wednesday. Lopez’s Thursday show at midnight will be the final one, the cable network said in a statement. (more)

TBS spent big bucks to land Conan O’Brien because they hoped he would lure young comedy fans back to late night. So far, the bet seems to be paying off: TBS has just released data showing that, during its first two months on the air, Conan was the No. 1 show in late night among viewers under 50. O’Brien’s show is averaging about 1.44 million viewers in the adults 18 to 49 demo, about 100,000 more than nemesis Jay Leno (1.35 million) and substantially more than CBS’s David Letterman (1.16 million) and Comedy Central’s The Daily Show/Colbert Report tandem (about 829,000 for the hour). There’s a catch to the figures, though: TBS’s numbers are so-called “live plus seven” figures, which mean they counts folks who catch up on Coco within a week of each show’s broadcast. (more)

With a budget of $65 million, Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark is touted as the most lavish musical ever mounted on Broadway. Much of the money has been invested in mechanical lifts and flying machines, high-tech costumes and, unfortunately, medical bills. Already one performer has broken both wrists, another has broken both feet, another has fractured his ribs and injured his back, and the leading actress has suffered a concussion that took her out of the show for a while. And Spider-Man hasn’t even officially opened yet. (It’s still in previews, and the official opening date, when the show will be set in stone and critics are invited to write their reviews, keeps being pushed back.) (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — What Betty White did in 2010 doesn’t usually happen: an 88-year-old actress with more than six decades in Hollywood suddenly became the object of adulation of the Facebook-connected masses, which campaigned for her to host “Saturday Night Live,” boosting the show’s ratings and helping her set ratings records for her own show. (more)

WASHINGTON – The Homeland Security Department is proposing to discontinue the color-coded terror alert system that became a symbol of the country’s post-9/11 jitters and the butt of late-night talk show jokes. (more)

Conan O’Brien’s contractually mandated wandering in the wilderness that is Everything That Is Not Television came to an end Monday night with the premiere of his new TBS late-night show, ” Conan.” Technically, it came to an end the previous week with a three-minute walk-on to new late-night neighbor George Lopez’s “Lopez Tonight,” which “Conan” has bumped to midnight; a sexy mock-sexy promo involving a garden hose; and an impressive American Express commercial in which O’Brien travels to India to buy, weave and dye the silk for the curtain for his new show. But those were just appetizers: This remains, for the indefinite moment, the story of a talk-show host and his still unpredictable future. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — Conan O’Brien relaunched his TV career on Monday night with a stylishly back-to-basics hour that radiated hard-won lessons from his brief stay hosting “The Tonight Show.” (more)

As his TBS yakker bows Nov. 8, don’t expect Conan O’Brien to reinvent the talkshow format. (more)

As their new 11 p.m. TBS talk show gets ready to roll Monday, Conan O’Brien and his staff have started to learn how the other half lives. After 17 years at NBC, they’re adjusting to cable-sized portions. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — There’s Madonna, Oprah and now … “Conan.” (more)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The darkly intimate 1960s-era drama “Mad Men” and the comedy romp “Modern Family” were the top honorees at Sunday’s Emmy Awards as American life past and present proved a winning formula. (more)

“Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television” is what Conan O’Brien calls the comedy tour that he brought to Radio City Music Hall on Tuesday night. That presumes that he was funny on television. (more)

“I’m doing great. I hope people still find me comedically absurd and ridiculous.” (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — In his first post-”Tonight” show interview, Conan O’Brien said that if he had been in Jay Leno’s shoes, he would not have taken back the show less than a year after publicly handing it off to someone else. (more)

Since joining Twitter last Thursday, Keith Olbermann has tweeted an astonishing 443 times and counting. The man even tweets during the commercial breaks of his own show. Seriously. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — As Conan O’Brien sought a new place to play TV host, conventional wisdom said he’d be bringing his talk show to Fox. (more)