Kyle seemed humble during a guest appearance to promote his book on TV's "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" last year.

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On an appearance last year on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, for example, Shimabukuro played an amplified rock solo that sounded very much like an electric guitar.

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Just when the publicity started to ebb, the puppet held a well-attended press conference to announce he was suing a writer at Late Night with Conan O'Brien who had complained that the spokespooch was a lame imitation of his own puppet character.

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Though the stoppage over new media compensation will continue indefinitely, a handful of those shows, including General Electric -owned NBC's Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Late Night with Conan O'Brien, as well as Walt Disney-owned ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live, will return to the screen without writers on Jan. 2.

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Though the stoppage over new media compensation will continue indefinitely, a handful of those shows, including General Electric -owned (nyse: GE - news - people ) NBC's Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Late Night with Conan O'Brien, as well as Walt Disney-owned (nyse: DIS - news - people )ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live, will return to the screen without writers on Jan. 2.

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Women and minorities have conquered other traditionally white male-dominated arenas, on and off TV think anchorwoman Diane Sawyer, President Barack Obama but in late-night even daring cable is content with the homogenized likes of Conan O'Brien, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, with such occasional dashes as E!'

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Late-night hosts Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien plan to return with fresh episodes on Jan. 2, ending two months of reruns care of the Hollywood writers' strike.

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Meyers, 39, would be the fourth comedian to host "Late Night" since it went on the air in 1982, starting with David Letterman and followed by Conan O'Brien and Fallon.

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