It’s one thing to stand up for your boss, and it’s another thing to go on an entirely unprompted rant about how everybody but your boss sucks. Andrés du Bouchet, a writer for Conan O’Brien who dates back to the Late Night show, decided that doing the latter would be a good use of his time and a good way to promote Conan. In a series of tweets that have now been deleted, du Bouchet went off on Jimmy Kimmel’s pranks, Chris Hardwick’s @Midnight hashtags, and Jimmy Fallon’s, well, everything. Though the tweets are gone forever, Uproxx had the foresight to copy all of them, so we’ll just quote them here:
“Comedy in 2015 needs a severe motherfucking shakeup. No celebrities, no parodies, no pranks, no mash-ups or hashtag wars. I’m fat.”
“And shove your lip-synching up your ass.”
“Prom King Comedy. That’s what I call all this shit. You’ve let the popular kids appropriate the very art form that helped you deal. Fuck.”