3 January 2007 -- Placido Domingo, Patton Oswalt, Moe.
Joseph Nebus
- Arnold, Brittany Spears, regular stuff. Bush and the
bye-bye session. Doctor for the 67-year-old mother being
nauseous. Nothing too spectacular. Conan even admits the doctor
for the old woman joke is a rerun.
- Toyota's car that stops when the driver is drunk:
oncoming traffic. Fair, not quite sick enough somehow.
- The first Muslim Congressman, Thomas Jefferson's koran,
George Washington's torah: Yeah, I like that too.
Late Night Year in Review:
- Chroma-key Bush talks about Imma-gay-tion. Arnold has
a car accident.
- Trump's wife named Milania. If he's told us one he's
told us 9/8 central times.
- Bush understands being in a strange place where they
don't speak words you understand. I expected he'd say 'The White
House' as his two words.
- Mauie Wowie, We Got Zakawrie, who nobody heard of
before he was dead.
- The camera adds fifty pounds. Isn't it ten pounds?
Not if you eat it.
- John Kerry tries to tell a joke. Rush Limbaugh insists
Michael J Fox acts like he has the symptoms of the disease he
has.
- Conan reassures Bush he still controls Fox News, at
least.
- Barbara Bush goes on about who knows what.
Placido Domingo:
- He could have been named Turbulendo. They're filming
an opera so that people who aren't up to the night-at-the-opera
performance might be able to see it, except there's no tickets.
Opera singers actually know how to sing; Conan's voice is trapped
in the top of his throat. Placido offers Conan advice in
speaking. ``That sounds very Irish, yes.''
- Women ask Placido to sign their bodies, often arms. He
doesn't think you can sign other parts; Conan thinks he's missing
the point. He has the world's record for 101 curtain calls.
Placido doesn't know why it went on so long, and he finally just
went and sat in the orchestra pit and asked the audience to
leave. He now cuts audiences off around fifty.
- Conan hasn't had a Muppet made of him? You'd think
he'd be a natural. Placido Flamingo I haven't seen, but I
haven't followed the Muppets closely in recent years. The Muppet
tried teaching Placido how to sing.
- Asking whether it's easier to perform in a large or a
small crowd is a good question. I'm not surprised the larger
crowds can be easier to play for.
Mark Pender's Sleep-Blowing:
- His sleep-blowing is big in Japan. (Well, what isn't?)
There's merchandising and everything. Good premise, but it
hasn't got a conclusion.
Patton Oswald:
- He was part of the William Shatner roast. Did he
actually thing 'Physics for Poets' was an odd name for a
cross-discipline course? He had a word problem using an Original
Series setting, and got upset that it had Kirk telling Chekov to
fire phasers. However, Kirk *did* order Chekov to fire phasers
in 'Obsession', and to stand by his phasers and to hold his fire
in 'Journey to Babel'. (In this episode Chekov is even given the
conn when Kirk has to leave and he remembers Scotty's not in this
episode!) He also gets phasers ready in 'Patterns of Force'.
I bet Oswald also thinks Spock was the first Vulcan in Star Fleet.
Moe:
- I missed the title of this piece. Enjoyable enough.