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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 365

Conan O'Brien

Pope Francis shakes hands with US comedian Jimmy Fallon, host of NBC's 'The Tonight Show,' during an audience with comedians in The Vatican, June 14, 2024. (Handout: Vatican Media / AFP)
June 14, 2024, 8:54 pm
Pope Francis tells visiting comedians it’s okay to ‘laugh at God’
Pontiff hosts group of comic actors, including many prominent names, for reception at Vatican hailing the importance of humor: ‘You also make God smile’
By Giada Zampano
Rabbi David Schuck of New Rochelle was a guest on Conan O'Brien's podcast on December 29. (YouTube via JTA)
January 10, 2023, 4:54 pm
Conan O’Brien’s latest podcast guest? A New York pulpit rabbi
David Schuck of New Rochelle’s Conservative Beth El Synagogue Center has a schmooze with the late-night host, who says he went to more bar mitzvahs than first communions as a kid
By Jacob Henry
Kelly Barbieri (l) editor in chief of The Fresh Toast and comic, writer and Letterman alum Jena Friedman (r) at The Fresh Toast Launch Party at Campeon, New York, on October 5, 2016. (Amy Sussman/Invision for The Fresh Toast/AP Images)
February 16, 2018, 6:23 am
Comedian Jena Friedman: It’s easier to be a neo-Nazi than a woman right now
The Jewish comic appears on Conan and focuses mainly on two subjects in her set: misogyny and neo-Nazis
By Gabe Friedman
Gilead Ini
October 25, 2017, 12:15 pm
Gilead Ini
Conan and the barbarians
Anti-Israel activists duped the affable TV comedian into giving their lies air time, starting with the origins of shakshuka
Andrew Silow-Carroll
September 27, 2017, 10:53 am
Andrew Silow-Carroll
Conan and ‘Transparent’ visit Israel
Bland treatment of the Arab-Israeli conflict plus a whole lot of comedy equals sublime publicity for the Jewish state
American TV host Conan O'Brien visits the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem on August 28, 2017, to film an episode of his travel series 'Conan Without Borders.' (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 19, 2017, 1:25 pm
Conan O’Brien’s Israel special set to air September 19
Weeks after he bowled over native Sabras while filming the Holy Land episode of ‘Conan Without Borders,’ the show goes live
By Yaakov Schwartz
American television host, comedian and producer Conan O’Brien visits the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, August 28, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 30, 2017, 9:35 am
Conan goes undercover for hit Israeli TV series
US talk show host tweets he filmed a scene for the ‘Fauda’ television drama about a covert security unit
By ToI Staff
Conan O'Brien, with the Orange T-shirt, meets participants of the Tower of David Museum Hackathon in Jerusalem, Aug. 28, 2017; Elat Lieber, director of the Tower of David Museum, is at the far left (Courtesy: Ricky Rachman)
August 29, 2017, 2:27 pm
Conan O’Brien, Israeli teenagers storm Tower of David in hackathon
American comedian is honorary hacker at Jerusalem event that aims to find out what makes venues attractive to teenagers
By Shoshanna Solomon
A woman sunbathing at the Setai hotel on the shore of the Sea of Galilee in Israel, August 25, 2017. (Andrew Tobin)
August 29, 2017, 2:19 pm
Hosting Conan, new hotel aims to make Sea of Galilee luxury destination
High-end Setai complex hopes to change the image of famous lake where Jesus is said to have walked on water
By Andrew Tobin
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomes Conan O'Brien to Israel in a satirical video uploaded to social media on August 28, 2017. (screen capture: Twitter)
August 28, 2017, 6:12 pm
Netanyahu welcomes Conan to Israel in satirical video
PM gently lampoons visiting late night talk show host as ‘the pale one who melts in the sun’; then they have dinner together
By ToI Staff
Conan O'Brien visits Jaffa, with the Tel Aviv skyline in the background, on August 26, 2017. (Screen capture: Facebook)
August 27, 2017, 10:39 am
Conan O’Brien talks shakshuka, Israeli women
In Tel Aviv-Jaffa, American comedian discusses plans for the rest of his Israel trip and how he dresses like a vampire in the August sun
By ToI Staff
Conan O'Brien practices his Hebrew in an El Al airplane bathroom en route to Israel on August 25, 2016. (Screen capture: Twitter)
August 26, 2017, 5:52 pm
Conan O’Brien shows off his bathroom Hebrew
On flight to Israel, late night host invokes Moses’s commandment to ‘dispose of your towels,’ King David’s love of hand lotion
By ToI Staff
American talk show host Conan O'Brien (Screen capture: YouTube)
August 12, 2017, 11:26 pm
Conan O’Brien set to film special show in Israel
American comedian appears to confirm rumors of visit, tweeting he will come ‘to help’ Jared Kushner during upcoming trip
By ToI Staff
Stand-up comedian and actress Natasha Leggero (YouTube screenshot)
June 2, 2016, 2:01 am
‘Abortions cool’ in Judaism, says newly Jewish comedian
Natasha Leggero touts ‘beautiful religion, steeped in culture,’ claims ‘you could get an abortion on every Jewish holiday and it would be okay’
By JTA
Comedian Louis C.K. performs on 'Saturday Night Live, May 16, 2015. (screen capture: YouTube/JaySipher)
May 17, 2016, 5:41 pm
After Jerusalem tickets snatched up, Louis C.K. adds a show
Provocative comedian to put on two performances on the same day at venue in capital
By Stuart Winer
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