THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Ichirou on May 07, 2010, 12:00:14 AM
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First Cajole and Jinfash, now BrandNew?!
Forget love; late-night talk shows are the real battlefield.
First, Conan O’Brien went on “60 Minutes” to tell his side of the NBC saga, wherein he briefly mentioned what he would have done had he been Jay Leno - namely, not take the show back. While some may call that criticism, others may say that’s having an opinion.
O’Brien then made another perceived slight at his former colleague while visiting the Google headquarters yesterday. O'Brien was chatting onstage with an interviewer in front of a crowd of 20-somethings, and the interviewer noted that some people in the crowd were so young, “they don’t even know what the ‘Tonight Show’ is.”
O’Brien responded, “Well, that’s good, I like that. There’s no reason to know what a ‘Tonight Show’ is anymore!’
Cue the thunderous applause that Leno perhaps took a little personally. On the “Tonight Show” Wednesday, he fired back at O’Brien – or, at the very least, O’Brien’s followers – by pulling up the “Facebook page” of Faisal Shahzad, the Times Square bomb suspect.
During his monologue, Leno never pointed out that along with being a member of the Al-Qaeda and the Pakistan Frequent Flyers Club Facebook groups, Shahzad was on Team CoCo. Instead, he let it linger on the screen just long enough for those paying attention to catch it.
Perhaps time doesn’t heal all wounds.
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It's comedy–you take jabs, you respond to them. Anyone who got upset over this is just stupid.
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It's comedy–you take jabs, you respond to them. Anyone who got upset over this is just stupid.
Deflecting suspicion...sounds just like what a terrorist would do.
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Sounds rational to me. Lock up BrandNew.
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Nfag, terrorist sympathizer, incest czar. A man must have a line, sir.
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Leno is a douche, news at 11.
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we now know what is under that scarf
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That's no scarf, it's a... it's a... HIJAB :o
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It's comedy–you take jabs, you respond to them. Anyone who got upset over this is just stupid.
The problem is that it's a stupid, tasteless joke.
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It's comedy–you take jabs, you respond to them. Anyone who got upset over this is just stupid.
The problem is that it's a stupid, tasteless joke.
Is it? I don't know. If Conan had done this on his show or his writers did something like this on their twitter accounts, all of the Conan fans would be lapping it up and faux-lolling at Leno's expense. I'm all for that, I just think the outrage is stupid.
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I'm on team CoCo.
Terrorist.
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During his monologue, Leno never pointed out that along with being a member of the Al-Qaeda and the Pakistan Frequent Flyers Club Facebook groups, Shahzad was on Team CoCo. Instead, he let it linger on the screen just long enough for those paying attention to catch it.
Knowing his audience, none of them did.