Talk-show diplomacy? Conan O'Brien visits Cuba for a special edition
Talk-show diplomacy? Conan O'Brien visits Cuba for a special edition
By Frazier Moore, The Associated Press February 26, 2015 12:49 PM
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In this image released by Team Coco, late night talk show host Conan O'Brien appears in Havana during a taping of a special
"Conan in Cuba" episode of his talk show "Conan," airing Wednesday, March 4, 2015, at 11 p.m. EST on TBS.
(AP Photo/Team Coco)
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NEW YORK, N.Y. - On Wednesday's show, Conan O'Brien will be found in a familiar place: behind a desk. Or, rather, what he describes as a borrowed cafe table. In Havana, Cuba. But for most of the hour (11 p.m. EST on TBS), "Conan" will find its host footloose and fancy-free, airing a talk show from this nearby but isolated island country for apparently the first time since Jack Paar took his own late-night show to Cuba in 1959.
"Conan in Cuba," still being edited, was unavailable for preview. But in a chat with reporters recently, O'Brien listed a few highlights: He tries to learn to play authentic Cuban music and how to rumba. He visits a cigar factory where 400 virtuosos make cigars he calls "works of art." (He'll try to make one, too.)
He tries to supplement his 8th-grade Spanish vocabulary with instruction in Spanish slang. And he takes a meal at an out-of-the-way paladar (a family-run restaurant in a Cuban home), where he revels in having made a dining discovery no other Americans would likely stumble on — then spies a photo on the wall signed by comedian Rob Schneider.
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