Canadian crowd on Conan O’Brien boo’s AWOL

[Room101]

Conan is doing the show in Canada during the monologue he mentioned AWOL and the crowd started BOOING.

But Conan said “hey that’s my president” GRRRRRR

[KissMyAsscroft]

1. They were booing the president, right?

Not Conan?

[Dogmudgeon]

2. Why the GRRRR?

It allowed "Conesy" to get in another lick.

Sometimes, faint praise is the worst damnation of all!

--bkl

[Room101]

4. They booed AWOL aka Bush

I loved it;) I would edit my post for clarity but time ran out.

[onebigbadwulf]

3. Yeah and then conan said

"I'll come out there and we'll go have a beer"


Obviously agreeing that Bush deserves boos.

[iverglas]

5. yup

It was indeed a faint defence ... "that's my president (unfortunately ...)", was the impression I got. ;)

I don't normally watch Conan so I don't know whether he'd be quite so overtly receptive to booing of Bush on his home turf. Was he emboldened by the feeling of distance from the power centres?? Maybe just being nice to the neighbours, when in Rome, etc.

My favourite was when Mike Myers said how it was good to be at home, and how Conan could now know what it felt like to be the foreigner ... adding "yankee boy" aside into his hand.

Michael J. Fox is tonight, I think. I'm wondering whether he'll relate the Canadian-humour panel anecdote -- which I can't find on any Canadian site! And unfortunately, the Salon writer of this piece really just didn't get it, fairly obviously not having tried too hard. (Really, presuming to understand Canadian humour and humourists from what one sees of them outside Canada, in performances and material aimed mainly at non-Canadians, is just a little, well, presumptuous, not to mention dumb. Would he think that someone in France understood USAmerican humour from watching Jerry Lewis, if s/he had never seen or heard of Lenny Bruce?)

http://www.salon.com/ent/music/vowe/1999/01/27vowe.html

In a recent panel discussion
at New York's 92nd Street Y called "Why Are
Canadians So Funny?" moderator (and Vancouver
native) Michael J. Fox mentioned a contest once
sponsored by MacLean's magazine. MacLean's,
which Fox identified as the "Canadian Time" (as is
the Canadian comparative habit), once asked its
readers to fill in the blank at the end of the phrase,
"As Canadian as ..." to counterbalance the motto
"As American as apple pie."

According to Fox, the
winning entry was "As Canadian as ... possible
under the circumstances."

It's probably not possible to explain. ;)

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[Loonman]

6. If Conan is the bar for late night talk

That's it.


Carson, where are you?