Sensing this news couldn’t wait until 11 pm tonight, Team Coco has posted the above clip from tonight’s show a full 2 hours before air time.

In it, Will Ferrell reprises the role of Ron Burgundy from his 2004 star making film, “Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy” and after playing some jazz flute an insulting Conan, he announces Paramount Pictures has agreed to finally make a sequel. For several years, director Adam McKay and Ferrell had been trying to get a follow up made, but couldn’t get a deal in spite of the cult status of the character.

Other stars from “Anchorman” such as Paul Rudd, Christina Applegate, and Steve Carell have gone on to much greater success since the 2004, and Will Ferrell has become one of the most powerful men in comedy. Given McKay and Carell also hyped this appearance on twitter, it is likely that most of the cast and crew will reunite for the sequel.

Conan O’Brien had Harrison Ford on last night to talk about his new movie, Cowboys and Aliens. It was mentioned that it only just barely beat out The Smurfs to take the top spot at the box office this past weekend.

Conan has been at home for months at his show on TBS, its almost easy to forget that he was a star at NBC for 22 years and was ejected from his seat as part of a talk show dynasty. Conan took to the road with his writers and band and performed sold out live shows for the fans that craved more during the months he was off air. A camera crew followed, and now its a movie called Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop.

Fittingly, the movie will only play in a few cities before appearing on cable video on demand services next month.
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Conan’s new show is filmed on the Warner Bros lot, and that means he’s on the same campus where DC Entertainment is run. In this bit from his December 9th show, Conan sits down with Warner Bros Animation Creative Director Peter Girardi to grill him about some of the less awesome characters from the DC Universe.

Conan then joins Bruce Timm, character designer from Batman The Animated series and producer of many DC animated works that came after (Including the upcoming Green Lantern series). Timm takes direction on turning the host into a character worthy of joining the DC Universe, The Flaming C.

Barricade gets his revenge against Bumblebee on the Transformers 3 set. Brett Favre’s penis threatens to dwarf the Hulk, but we still manage to have an episode largely devoid of Sindra’s mom!

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