Conan

How’s that for a needy-sounding subject heading? Anyway, Conan has announced its guest list for the first week, which includes Seth Rogen and Michael Cera, some token Americans like Tom Hanks, Jon Hamm and, for NBC jokes, O’Brien’s old creation Jack McBrayer. (Okay, it wasn’t McBrayer his show created, it was McBrayer’s “page” character, which Lorne Michaels transferred from Conan O’Brien to 30 Rock in a very successful inter-company crossover.) My fellow Ottawan Jon Dore will be a guest comic on the last show of that first week.