Billy Eichner is certainly not for everyone. Whereas shows like Cash Cab pretend to give random people on the street the chance to win money (I’m sorry, did I just disillusion you?), Eichner’s style is to actually just run up to people and start screaming at them like a crazy person. On his Fuse game show, Billy on the Street, you can see him harassing poor pedestrians with questions like “True or false, Zac Efron looks like he wants to be molested by an older person?” Clearly, this is the kind of thing that viewers will either hate or find laugh out loud hilarious. For those of you lucky enough to fall in the latter category, Eichner’s appearance last night on Conan is an almost too perfect heightening of this idea.

Back in November, Conan O’Brien made the amazing discovery that all it took to transform Andy Richter into Newt Gingrich was a white wig. And it was amazing. Now, Gingrich is surging so the wig is back but it’s not alone. Last night, the hosts realized that all it took was a blonde wig and lipstick to transform O’Brien into Calista Gingrich. And it was…horrifying.

Things were bleak here at the Mediaite office a few minutes ago. After the crushing reveal that, no, a presidential candidate hadn’t had a conversation with mannequin, we were all in a dark place. How could anything be as good as that? Would we ever laugh again? Fortunately, we saw this video from last night’s Conan in which Ricky Gervais showed off his hairy man-boobs and Conan O’Brien discussed why his face had the ability to kill erections.

We don’t do many clips of just TV stars promoting their work here at Mediaite. Sure, we’ll get on it if the star says something interesting while promoting. However, what we do post about is any moment of television that could be considered historic and this moment from last night’s Conan is just that. You see, while comedian David Cross was talking up the second season of his IFC series The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, he did something amazing; he gave the greatest set up to a clip in the history of the talk show.

The lovely and vivacious Andy Richter has put together a video obituary looking back on the life and times of Kim Jong-il, the recently deceased former dictator of North Korea. The video focuses on some of things for which Kim is best known, including her unique fashion sense and flair for sunglasses. RELATED: North Korean [...]

Chances are, you’ve very likely been dreaming about Ron Paul‘s “little shih tzus” ad since it first aired. Well, Conan O’Brien and company have stumbled upon yet another masterpiece of a campaign ad that is sure to tug at your heartstrings and envelop your brain in a gentle… brain hug.

It’s amazing the amount of effort some impressionists take in crafting their work. They hole themselves up alone for hours upon hours, watching tapes of their subjects over and over, looking for those magical, key phrases and pronunciations that will make their incredible transformations complete. Meanwhile, on Conan, all it takes for Andy Richter to magically become Newt Gingrich is a white wig. It’s incredible! It’s like, one minute Andy’s there and then…POOF! Newt!

Conan O’Brien‘s lovable, trash-talking puppet Triumph the Insult Comic Dog paid a visit to Occupy Wall Street, taking the opportunity to gleefully excoriate both demonstrators and bankers. “Here at Yeast Infection Park on the corner of Hurts When I Pee Boulevard, we are out here with a group of people who are protesting our country’s history of allowing corporate greed to go unpunished,” Triumph said. “As you can see from the crowd, many are also protesting our country’s history of good hygiene.”

Conan O’Brien was in New York City all week for special tapings of his show, and on Thursday he found a couple of celebrities had snuck into his audience. While addressing the crowd post-monologue, O’Brien turns, surprised, to find himself Jon Stewart in the audience, and when he has to leave to record The Daily Show, he finds the next person waiting on the standby line was none other than Stephen Colbert.

Conan O’Brien is back in New York City for a spell, affording him the opportunity to officiate a wedding between his longtime costume designer, Scott Cronick, and David Gorshein at the Beacon Theatre.

Last night, Conan O’Brien kicked off a week of special shows from his old home, New York City. Throughout the week, the host is going to do all kinds of great New York things like eating Chinese delivery, catching a Reggie Watts show, and officiating a gay wedding. However, he is now by definition a tourist, so he also engaged in an activity that no actual New Yorker would ever dream of actually doing; he attended a Today Show taping.

However, since he is an ex-NBC employee, O’Brien had to visit the studio in cognito.

Conan O’Brien returned to the NBC studio at Rockefeller Center last night in a surprise walk-on comedy bit on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. O’Brien had basically hosted the very same show now hosted by Jimmy Fallon for 16 years, and was received warmly with a standing ovation by the studio audience. The overall bit was more sweet than funny — sort of like the end of a a funny episode of The Simpsons or Modern Family — but no less satisfying.

For shame! Last night, Nicole Scherzinger appeared on Conan to promote Fox’s The X Factor and, during the interview, caught Conan O’Brien looking at her ample cleavage instead of at her face.

What on earth is wrong with you, Conan? This is the breakout star of the Pussycat Dolls, a group that was famous for their music, not how they look! That’s why everyone reading this post can totally name five Pussycat Dolls songs off the top of their head. Easy! And she was talking about becoming a host of The X Factor! How could that not be fascinating enough to keep your attention!

The Wall Street Journal has delved deeply into the ratings for TBS’s highly hyped Conan, the return of the red-headed former Tonight Show host to late night, and WSJ concludes it’s a flop. “In the nine months since Conan‘s debut, TBS has canceled its only other late-night show, George Lopez‘s Lopez Tonight, and viewership of Conan has tumbled, by about 60% since its high-profile debut last fall,” writes the paper’s Lauren A.E. Schuker. TBS’s pricey Conan O’Brien experiment is flopping—and is about to get even more expensive.”

Having arrived on the campaign trail amid a thunder of media coverage and the instant status of “top tier” candidate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry can now add late night comics to the group of people who’ve elevated the Republican presidential candidate–in this case to prime joke material. On TBS’ Conan, Conan O’Brien opened his monologue with a discussion of the Perry campaign, observing that Perry “distanced himself from George W. Bush” by saying that he’d gone to Texas A&M, while Bush went to Yale. “In other words, Rick Perry’s idea of instilling confidence is to say ‘don’t worry, I’m not as smart as George W. Bush.’”

Last night on Conan, Kathy Griffin described a chance encounter she had with Michele Bachmann in an elevator. At the end of her story, she looked at the crowd and said, “President Bachmann, come on, think about it, people,” reveling in the assumed horror of the idea. If the audience is anything like us though, they’re too distracted considering the absolute misery that would be being stuck in an elevator with both Griffin and Bachmann.

Forget four years, that’d be hell in four seconds.

TBS has canceled Lopez Tonight, the late night show hosted by George Lopez. In a statement, the network says the final episode will air tomorrow: “TBS has reached the difficult decision not to order a third season of Lopez Tonight,” TBS said in the statement. “Thursday will be the final episode of the show. We are proud to have partnered with George Lopez, who is an immensely talented comedian and entertainer. TBS has valued its partnership with George and appreciates all of his work on behalf of the network, both on and off the air.”

That Newsweek cover of Michele Bachmann‘s giving Conan the creeps. “It’s scaring me…those eyes,” O’Brien said on his TBS show Tuesday night. Calling the cover creepy, Conan explained how the image of the GOP presidential candidate has haunted him, transforming the congresswoman from politician to a character in the comic’s nightmares.

On Monday night’s Conan, CNN’s Piers Morgan made a public apology over the whole dustup involving Paul McCartney‘s ex, Heather Mills, and her claims that a reporter working for a newspaper then edited by Morgan hacked her phone. “I introduced her to Paul McCartney,” Morgan revealed, telling Conan that Mills and McCartney attended an event organized by Morgan’s paper, the Daily Mirror. “I actually introduced them…and that one decision by me cost Paul McCartney fifty million dollars.” Morgan suggested Mills ought to be thanking him for the cash, and then made his mea culpa. “I do want to apologize, but to Paul, for introducing him to Heather.”

How did this one escape the all-seeing eyes of Mediaite? Somehow the Republican Party has unveiled a 2011 “campaign ad” in Spanish, and we’re seeing it for the first time on Conan O’Brien‘s late night show. But hey, it’s been a busy few weeks. At any rate, if this ad is to be believed as a genuine message by the Republican Party–and we have our doubts–the GOP needs to work on its accent. A lot. As Conan explains, the “Get Your Own Patatas” ad comes in response to a slick Spanish language ad produced by the Democrats.

This week’s headline-grabbing Paris Hilton interview by ABC’s Dan Harris got most of the attention for the reality star’s decision to walk out mid-chat rather than address Harris’ question–has your “moment” passed? But as Conan O’Brien discovered, there was an equally significant revelation in the interview–that Hilton’s on-camera voice is, basically, a put-on. In a clip aired on Conan Thursday night, Hilton ditches the baby voice and breathy whine and reveals–for the first time on camera–her real voice. And, well, it’s probably best that she sticks with the baby talk.

The team over at Conan made the mistake (cue sly wink) of booking two comedians – Jon Dore and Rory Scovel – to perform their stand-up routines on the same night. How awkward yet opportune! How embarrassing yet rife with comedic possibilities!

The result was a fun look at the nature of the genre itself, complete with a joke about butt warts.

Ever the cool kids in class, the gang at Conan have found the funny in a subject You’ll Just Never See On Leno. In case you haven’t been swept up in the uproar over Apple’s latest version of its massively popular video editing software Final Cut Pro, Conan O’Brien set it up for you: “Apple just released a new version of their famous editing software Final Cut Pro, but apparently it’s so different from the last version of Final Cut, video and film editors all over Hollywood are having a hard time adjusting to it.” Ah, but not the whizbang editors at Conan! They love Final Cut Pro X!

President Barack Obama‘s recent trip to Ireland was highlighted by many by his visit to a local pub during which he consumed a pint of Guinness. After watching footage of Obama’s later speech, Conan O’Brien could only conclude that the President of the United States is a light weight.

A discussion of healthy ways to add years to your life got mildly–and entertainingly derailed–on CONAN last night when CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta asked Conan O’Brien about his sex life: “Are you having regular sex?” Apparently, having “regular sex” is good for you, as is limiting your coffee intake and making sure you floss daily (flossing? why’s it always got to be flossing?) But 30 Rock‘s Tina Fey, sitting next to Gupta, immediately jumped on the adjective “regular.”