George Lopez welcomes Conan O'Brien to TBS

If George Lopez really isn't happy about Conan O'Brien coming to TBS in November, he's doing a really good acting job.

And, having seen his sitcom, I don't think he's that good an actor.

Lots of people — including yours truly — were taken aback when it was announced that O'Brien will be getting Lopez's time slot on TBS, pushing "Lopez Tonight" back an hour.

The irony was instant and apparent. O'Brien rejected NBC's plan to push his "Tonight Show" back a half hour to accommodate a half-hour, late-night Jay Leno show. And now O'Brien was doing the same thing to Lopez that Leno did to O'Brien.

Except ... Lopez is welcoming O'Brien with open arms. Obviously, he's hoping that having Conan as a lead-in will help him attract a larger audience.

"I want to say that I am completely, 100 percent on board with this move," Lopez said during his "Lopez Tonight" monologue. "I talked to Conan on Wednesday, and I talked to him last night, and I said I welcome you into my deep, loving embrace."

And a bit later, he re-created O'Brien's familiar bit in which he speaks to a still picture as someone else's mouth speaks on a big screen.

Only in this case, it was Lopez talking to a picture of O'Brien.

"We're going to be like a classic TV team," fake O'Brien said.

"A Latino and a redhead. It's worked before," Lopez said. "Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball. ... A same-sex Lucy and Ricky."

"We got some 'splaining to do!" fake O'Brien said.

If Lopez wasn't sincere about welcoming O'Brien, he's a much better actor than I thought.

And, either way, he handled this in an extraordinarily classy way.

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