The highly anticipated premiere of “Conan” came with a massive boom Monday night as the ousted “Tonight Show” host regained his late-night desk on basic cable at TBS.
Now, the “first guest of all-time” role is one that is not taken lightly and, yes, even though it’s basic cable Conan has lined up a list of heavy hitters this week, including Tom Hanks and Jon Hamm.
But Monday night’s premiere was when all eyes were watching and Conan looked to the north to find his first guest in Vancouver’s Seth Rogen. The once-plump, lovable star of “Knocked Up,” among other films, had nothing in particular to promote (“Green Lantern” doesn’t come out until January, but it did get a mention), but Conan repeatedly said Rogen was his choice for the coveted first-guest slot.
Check out the full episode below and tell us what you think of the choice.
We here at Canadian of the Week might have fallen a bit behind on our one-time promise to resurface the classic Canadian Heritage Minutes, but we still love them.
And it appears we’re not alone. “Scara,” the venerable founder and editor of GhoulsonFilm.net and good friend of Canadian of the Week, ran into Seth Rogen’s longtime buddy and co-writer Evan Goldberg, who beamed with excitement at the mention of CanadianoftheWeek.com and our mutual love of the renowned Heritage Minutes.
“I contacted the government and asked if we could make new ones like three years ago,” Evan said. “Me, Michael Cera and Seth wanted to go up there and make new ones. We wanted to do part of our future heritage and try to do a thing where we get like Pamela Anderson, Jim Carrey, Mike Myers and Seth and Michael Cera — just get, like, every famous Canadian we can to do something like that. I’m still kind of into doing it.”
Scara and her morbid mind went straight to Dr. Wilder Penfield’s infamous “I smell burnt toast” bit.
“Burnt toast! Burnt toast?” Evan repeated. “I lived on Penfield Drive in Montreal. I lived outside the building of the man who came up with that. We’ve got a Chinese railroad worker episode … there’s more, burnt toast, the hockey mask one. Ah, those are the best.”
The highly anticipated premiere of “Conan” came with a massive boom Monday night as the ousted “Tonight Show” host regained his late-night desk on basic cable at TBS. 
