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Conan O'Brien's upset continues in monologue from Jan. 13

By April MacIntyre Jan 14, 2010, 3:34 GMT

Conan O\'Brien - © Albert L. Ortega / PR Photos

Conan O'Brien's fans are coming out of the woodwork and watching the late night host, as NBC revealed that near 42% more viewers ( age 18 and 49) watched the "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien" Tuesday compared to a day earlier, according to preliminary Nielsen data given by the network.

NBC also sent us O'Brien's transcript for his show tonight, after he rejected NBC's plan to slide him into the late Tom Snyder's slot of "The Tomorrow Show."

NBC's plan, announced Sunday, would push Conan back by half an hour to make way for Jay at 11:35 p.m. ET.

Social media is drawing a large cadre of online supporters. Facebook registered over 52,000 people as fans of a page dubbed "I'm With COCO" as of late Wednesday.

NBC just sent us Coco's transcript for tonight's show, January 13:

Hi, I’m Conan O’Brien, and I’ve been practicing the phrase, “Who ordered the mochaccino grande?”

Hosting “The Tonight Show” has been the fulfillment of a lifelong dream for me – and I just want to say to the kids out there watching: You can do anything you want in life.  Unless Jay Leno wants to do it too.

According to a new TV Guide poll, 83 percent of voters want me to stay at 11:35. When he heard this poll number, President Obama asked, “How can I get NBC to screw me over?”

I’m getting a lot of support out there, especially from an online group calling themselves “Team Conan.”  It’s very exciting—it’s the first time in my life I’ve been on a team where I wasn’t picked last.

Last night, the new season of “American Idol” started on the FOX Network and it was watched by an audience of 30 million people. When they heard that, NBC executives said “That’s not true, there’s no such thing as an audience of 30 million people.”

Natives on the Pacific island of Vanuatu recently apologized to the great-great-grandson of a missionary who their ancestors ate 170 years ago.  Witnesses describe the conversation as “awkward.”

The other day in Turkey villagers in a small town were shocked when a sheep gave birth to a calf with a human face.  Sounds like there’s one guy in that town who has a lot of explaining to do.