Conan O'Brien all set for 'The Tonight Show' in new NBC promos

NBC is preparing for Conan O'Brien's upgrade to Tonight Show host this coming Monday with a series of ads letting us know just how ready he is to fill Jay Leno's shoes (if not his chin strap). See five of the ads here. And by "ready," we mean "pale, Irish, and self-deprecating." Conan, for his part, is telling us we can watch him on this obscure device called the television, which has been around since the late 1930s and is a system for both transmitting and receiving moving images. Sounds like a fad to us, but it's excusable given that he's trying to build excitement around his new hosting duties. We like these ads because they give us hope that Conan won't turn into an unfunny kiss-ass like his predecessor, but we're still going to boycott out of principle until NBC reinstates the Masturbating Bear.

—Posted by David Kiefaber