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khmerhit
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Guilty as charged I am also following this . I used to live in Toronto and tjink Conan is the best of the late nite lot. Letterman is on---even in parts of China but never heard of Conan on TV here. Should be good with Jim Carrey Adam Sandler--even the Barenaked Ladies lined up.. Newspapers are giving it so much attention it wont be hard to hear about every joke. I would pay big money (at least big Maos  ) to see this... |
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khmerhit
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Just hours to go !! :ohttp://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1076439124217_18/?hub=Entertainment                 |
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khmerhit
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CONAN's SECOND NITE STARTS SOON-----'T' MINUS 3 HOURS & COUNTING   :http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/news/artslife/story.html?id=ccde1b54-e740-46b1-acc6-02fb2c48bd15 |
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johnslat
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Dear khmerhit,
This is to advise you that, thanks to that last post, you have used up your quota of emoticons through the year 2008.
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khmerhit
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OK, John--- you might have something there. Too many emoticonans is not necessarily a "Good Thing". Instead, I'll confine myself too egregious cutting and pasting, if that's all right.
RESPECT
khmerhit( )
Thursday, February 12, 2004
CONAN REVIVES FLAGGING ESL MARKET
(Ok i made that up but its not inconceivable)
DAY 2: Morning read leads to a Winnipeg joke ... he gets us
By BILL BRIOUX -- Toronto Sun
TORONTO -- "Did you check out The Toronto Sun today?" Conan O'Brien asked his audience last night on his second of four Toronto shows.
American viewers were probably adjusting the volume. The Toronto What?
O'Brien chuckled to himself. "It's not often I get to mention The Toronto Sun."
O'Brien said he saw a story in our paper about NASA's mission to Mars. "If we wanted to visit an icy, desolate place, we'd go to Winnipeg," he said.
Wow. This guy picks up our punch lines, fast. "Ha, ha, Winnipeg," he kept repeating.
With Tuesday's giddy opening night out of the way, O'Brien put on a late-night clinic last night. The historic Elgin Theatre probably never saw such an hour. The joint rocked to Nickelback, echoed a moose call and hushed for an intimate chat with local fave Michael J. Fox.
It was, as the kids say, sweet.
Even a shot at Celine Dion got a big hand. The guy could do no wrong.
There was a dizzying mix of live and filmed entertainment crammed into the hour. A clip from last night's show, translating Mike Myers Tuesday night antics into "American" for U.S. audiences, got big laughs. "Golf" was substituted for hockey, "Pepsi" for beer.
In the night's most sublime moment, a person in a towering Seattle Space Needle costume came out to mudwrestle a person in an even taller CN Tower costume. Naturally, our tower won.
"It's an old standing rivalry," O'Brien quipped as the crowd worked themselves into a World Wrestling frenzy.
A film was shown of O'Brien romping through several Toronto tourist destinations with former Kids In The Hall player Scott Thompson (O'Brien's producer, Jeff Ross, used to produce Kids). The bit mixed gift-wrapped punch lines like a visit to the Bata Shoe Museum with a shot outside "New" City Hall. New? It was built before O'Brien was born.
Thompson realized a fantasy by stripping down to a jock strap at the Hockey Hall Of Fame. The duo ended their date at Woody's, a gay bar. This all happened before the first commercial.
During that break, six burly crew members pushed the giant mud box, complete with two splattered towers, off the stage. The stage was wiped and ready in the normally allotted commercial time.
O'Brien and bandleader Max Weinberg had another "Official Canadian Small Talk Moment." Again, millions of Americans were confused. That was followed by Fox, who got a standing ovation. Unlike Myers, who milked it last night, Fox seemed humbled by the experience.
The former Spin City and Family Ties star, who guests on NBC's Scrubs again next week, joked about how he had to hide his Canadian accent to work in U.S. television. To flatten his vowels on "sorry," for example, he would simply think of Indira Gandhi and say "sari."
"You sounded Texan for a while," O'Brien noted.
Stories about Fox's humble L.A. beginnings were trotted out. "I sold my sectional couch section by section," he told O'Brien. Another struggling actor named Lance kept buying Fox's furniture. "Did he make it as an actor?"O'Brien asked.
"I don't care," Fox said.
The crowd cheered at the mere mention of Fox films like Back To The Future and Light Of Day. "You like Life With Mikey, too?" Fox asked, a reference to his long lost Canadian sitcom.
At the end, O'Brien plugged Fox's fundraising Web site, michaeljfox.com. It was the one reference to his fight with Parkinson's Disease. Fox showed no symptoms, shaking hands in the front row after the set and bounding off stage.
A bit called "Spot The American" came next. O'Brien writer and warmup guy Brian McCann played the obnoxious Yank, sipping Bud and stripping to his red, white and blue briefs and Uncle Sam hat.
There was a quick cut to the streets of Toronto where some of O'Brien's favourite characters were soiling the city. There was the Masturbating Bear again, doing his thing on top of a Bay St. office tower. On Yonge St., a hooker was squatting on Foam Rubber Conan. "Foam Rubber Conan has all the fun," the host complained.
Moose caller Ken Capling came out and demonstrated his nature sounds.
O'Brien gave Capling's horn a toot; up in the balcony, a moose yells, "Conan, I'll be right down!"
Sometimes, obvious just works best.
Nickelback came out and blew the lid off the dump, as Letterman likes to say.
Letterman should have such a show as O'Brien put on last night.
* Conan ratings blockbuster
* Conan price tag worth it
* Fans in for long haul
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soley and cunfussionly yours
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khmerhit
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The controversial segment featured Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, a plastic puppet that chomps on a cigar, speaking in a quasi-European accent and frequently using the word "poop."
"So you're French and Canadian, yes? So you're obnoxious and dull," Triumph barks at a passerby in Quebec City. Later, he shouts: "You're in North America, learn the language."
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Saturday, February 14, 2004
Smokin'!
DAY 4: Jim Carrey closes out sizzling week of Conan comedy
By BILL BRIOUX -- Toronto Sun
TORONTO --"Welcome to the show. For those of you who don't know me, I'm the guy who was hired to make Don Cherry look good."
That's how Conan O'Brien opened his fourth, and sadly last, late-night extravaganza from the historic Elgin Theatre in Toronto. Basically he was saying to us, "Yeah, I stirred things up last night. Get over it and move on." Brilliant.
Outside the theatre, two protesters waved placards reading "We Love French Fries" and "We won't Eat Your Freedom Fries." They were jeered and booed by the army of O'Brien fans standing in line on Yonge St.
Inside, show number 1857 went into the books. The roar from the floor when O'Brien took the stage was deafening. "Conan! Conan! Conan!" they cheered. Someone tossed up a winter hat; O'Brien pulled it on.
How will this guy ever back to being a mere mortal in New York?
"Yes, Go Leafs Go," he said, acknowledging the week-long chant of choice. "We have to get the word out on that team."
For the first time in three nights, there was no shout out to The Toronto Sun (payback for yesterday's reactionary Bad Dog rant, I guess). Instead, just a reference to a report in "a local paper" about fans being spotted in line smoking joints.
"When asked why, they said, 'We want Conan to be funny whether he's funny or not.' "
There was another money joke, this time at the American greenback. O'Brien noted that the Queen and a loon were on our twenty. An American $20 was mocked up with a queen and a loon: Richard Simmons and Michael Jackson.
The Third Great Tower Test took place. Last night was the agility test, with the giant costumed CN Tower battling the foam Seattle Space Needle in a limbo competition.
When the taller CN Tower toppled, Seattle was declared the winner -- until CN smacked Seattle across the back with a chair. Huge laffs.
O'Brien worked the border in a Mountie suit in last night's filmed bit. He was a doofus Dudley DoRight, demanding border crossers to sing Gordon Lightfoot songs, inspecting and drinking their beer and tossing snowballs at cars.
It was a pretty tame cartoon compared to Thursday night's trashing of Quebec by Triumph The Insult Comedy Dog. Leave them laughing, non?
Jim Carrey made everyone forget about Conan's Quebec Crisis with a sweet Valentine's Eve shout out to his former home and native land. He charmed us Expo Boomers with a spirited sing-along of "Ontari-ari-ari-O." O'Brien gamely chimed in; they even tried to get the crowd to do it in the round.
Trouble is, it's been 30 years since A Place To Stand played eight times a day at the Ontario Place Cinesphere. All those twentysomethings in Leaf Jerseys out front were suddenly as perplexed as the 2.5 million Americans watching on NBC.
Undaunted, Carrey chewed on O'Brien's Maple Leaf-carved desk like a beaver. He brought out his big-shot Hollywood entourage, his "Canadian Posse": The Amazing Kreskin, a giant round Peter Puck mascot and The Bonhomme, the Mickey Mouse of the Quebec Winter Carnival. Again, on behalf of the post-40 crowd, thanks.
Carrey really did everything but stand on his Curly Howard-like coconut. "Your head is sweating a lot," noted O'Brien; Carrey kept toweling off between bits.
The crowd booed on cue when a phony U.S. Department of Immigration official came on stage to award Carrey his U.S. citizenship.
"Traitor!" yelled one patriot in the crowd.
Then the former Scarborough resident played to the house.
"Why would I want to become a U.S. citizen when I come from the greatest country in the world!" Carrey declared, shoving the passport in his yap, chewing it up and spitting it out. "It tastes of Manifest Destiny!"
Carrey completely took over the show with his high-wire act. O'Brien, who had to be exhausted after shaking every hand in the city (as well doing four killer shows) must have been only too grateful that his guest came so ready to play.
Word is Carrey moved heaven and earth to do this gig. Executive producer Jeff Ross held a spot for him in hopes Carrey could somehow work around his film commitments. The 42-year-old comedian was the last guest to confirm, just a week before the shows. He flew in last night on his own Gulf Stream jet and is already outta here and back to work.
Once again, remarkably, no film clip was shown, no project was promoted. It only happened once all week, on Thursday, for Adam's Sandler's 50 First Dates. I'd have to look it up, but that probably hasn't happened in a week of late night since Jack Paar hosted The Tonight Show.
Next up was Will & Grace's Eric McCormack, who was so excited when he heard O'Brien coming to Toronto he booked himself on the show. The former Scarborough son, a classmate of Mike Myers at Stephen Leacock Secondary, as we learned Tuesday, joked that following Carrey, "was every actor's dream."
McCormack remembered Myers as the cool class clown who hung with the smoking kids. "I was wearing leg warmers with the theatre fags," he said.
McCormack, who sang the anthems at the recent NHL All-Star Game, admitted he was never much of a hockey player. As a kid, "I'd be riding my bike and pretending to be the guy driving the Zamboni," he cracked.
He claimed he was born the night the Leafs clinched a Stanley Cup -- April 18, 1963. O'Brien casually remarked that he was born the same day.
Believe it or not, it all checks out. The Leafs won the Cup that night, defeating the Detroit Red Wings -- four games to one. How cool is that?
O'Brien was clearly destined to bring his show to the Great White North.
The Barenaked Ladies took the stage and ripped into their single, Testing, 1, 2, 3.
A spent O'Brien closed with a few gracious remarks, saluting Toronto's "talent, hospitality and terrific spirit."
He signed another 150 autographs as Carrey, in a Leaf Jersey, sat in with the Max Weinberg 7. Together, they signed off for good with a jazzy rendition of O Canada.
Backstage, Wednesday night's Kids In The Hall skit pal Scott Thompson and Carrey's old Barrie comedy club buddy Wayne Fleming joined in the high fives.
It was a week of television like this city has never seen, four hours of pure gold, spiced with a pinch of Quebec pepper spray.
Thanks, Conan, for a glorious week off the Survivor/American Idol/Stupid Reality Flavor of the Week beat. Bring on the Canadian DVD boxed set.
* Conan's dog stirs distemper
* Triumph thrown a bone
* Quebec shrugs it off
* No joke to politicians
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* Conan O'Brien's Quebec jokes draw fire
* Conan & Carrey end T.O. gig on a high
* Sharon Osbourne laments cancellation
* Ray Romano negotiating show's future
* Conan O'Brien unleashes Quebec insults
* This week's 'Survivor' results
* James Spader saves 'The Practice'
* Peter Mansbridge off to Afghanistan
* Conan O'Brien ratings blockbuster
Click here for Canadian TV Listings
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khmerhit
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Feb. 15, 2004. 08:27�AM
REUTERS
Conan O'Brien, keen on all things Canadian, takes in moose caller Ken Capling at the Elgin Theatre last week. "I'm just a normal guy," says Capling, who works as a tool repairman.Moose caller blow his own horn
Ontario man gets TV moment
Local mayors want share of celebrity
PAT CURRIE
SPECIAL TO THE STAR
INNERKIP, Ont.�When you set out to woo moose, you never know what might come out of the woods.
In the case of world champion moose-caller Ken Capling, it was Conan O'Brien, fresh from the wilds of New York, and his roughly 3 million viewers watching Late Night With Conan O'Brien from Toronto.
For Capling, it was a giant step from his Oxford County roots in Ratho, "one intersection, 10 families," or even his current home in Innerkip, "1,000 people, more intersections," outside of Woodstock, to the bright lights of the television stage at the Elgin Theatre last Wednesday.
"I'm just a normal guy and all of a sudden I'm famous," he said afterward.
He's already the subject of one friendly tug of war.
"Ken lives right on the border between us and East Zorra-Tavistock," said Donald Woolcot, Blandford-Blenheim mayor and Oxford County warden.
"Now that he's a celebrity, we're going to have to have a little tussle with Tavistock Mayor Don McKay to see who'll get to honour him with a parade or something. Maybe we can get Ken to blow his horn and see which mayor he attracts first."
Capling said O'Brien's producer called him three weeks ago.
"I won the world moose-calling challenge last September at the International Hunting Show in Toronto, and the O'Brien people were looking for Canadian stuff."
Capling, a tool repairman at a small shop in London and a 25-year moose-calling veteran, said he knew his life had changed Wednesday afternoon.
After taping the show, "I had about five mikes shoved in my face. Then when we came out of the hotel (the next) morning, people started yelling `There's the moose guy,' and taking my picture."
Like a seasoned celebrity, the first thing Capling did was check the morning papers for coverage.
"It's quite exciting. We're all very proud on him," said his mother, Marion.
A stretch limo picked up Capling Wednesday, along with four friends and Capling's wife, Josie, also a hunter and a rookie moose caller.
They were "treated like royalty by the O'Brien people," Capling said.
Dressed in camouflage, Capling demonstrated female and male moose calls on his buckskin-jacketed fibreglass horn, and traded quips with O'Brien. At one point, the host asked, "Did you make the horn yourself?" to which Capling replied, "No, fibreglass isn't very prevalent in the woods."
"There was a lot of stuff going on during the taping that I didn't see, but Conan told me later that the taping went better than his wildest expectations."
Capling said it wouldn't be hard to go back to his workbench at Pryde International.
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Memo to T.O.: It's over now, time to move on
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BILL BROWNSTEIN
The Gazette
Sunday, February 15, 2004
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The Barbarian Invasions have abated. Quebecers can breathe a sigh of relief. For now, anyway. First Don Cherry, then Conannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn OOOOOOOOOOOO'Brien.
The Bostonian blew into Hogtown like a lion but tip-toed out like a lamb following his week-long Late Night With Conan O'Brien tapings at the Elgin Theatre. In yesterday morning's final broadcast, Conan did a lame Mountie bit, did lame beaver-nibbling with Jim Carrey and did his best to avoid issues of national unity, other than to lamely suggest he was the guy hired "to make Don Cherry look good."
And that he did. Conan makes Cherry look like a bloody poster-boy for Canadian unity, a veritable Bobby "Ca-na-da" Gimby.
Some of us in these parts are still sporting our facial visors to avoid getting all the excrement in our mugs Conan and his equally barbarian cohorts kicked up during their ill-conceived visit to Quebec City.
Conan dispatched his cigar-chomping, hand-puppet Triumph the Insult Dog, with his human handler, to the Carnival earlier in the week. The pooch berated unilingual francophones for being "obnoxious and dull." Signs were changed to "Celine Dion Sucks Street" and "Quebecqueer Street."
Throughout the show, Conan and cronies managed to trot out out every tired, tedious, sophomoric stereotype. No clich� left unturned. Perhaps these puerile antics were meant to play to the U.S. TV audience still bearing anti-France sentiment.
Whatever. It wasn't remotely funny - a major failing for satire. In fact, it was as offensive as, say, Triumph heading into the barrios of L.A. and berating Latinos. Wonder how long it would take them to neuter Triumph and O'Brien?
To put it in perspective, the segment with Adam Sandler that night came off as the most high-brow part of the Conan show. And be aware Sandler has been accused of many things, but never of this.
And to think some of us stayed up hoping to catching some Toronto culture.
Hard to believe Conan ever graduated from Harvard. Maybe the big hair is preventing the blood from going to the brain. Maybe it's the ego that is as puffed up as the Conan coif. But it does appear he has now become the human embodiment of the character he helped launch in a past life: Homer Simpson.
Even more offensive than the bashing in Quebec City was the reaction of the studio audience, an amalgam of hormone-addled, Maple Leafs-loving teens who appeared to be sharing the same brain cell Cherry lost. They booed lustily at every mention of Quebec and laughed heartily at all the scorn directed this way- much to the delight of O'Brien, who was doing his best to bait them.
It's worth noting while this was going down in Toronto it was revealed in Montreal the dying wish of Claude Ryan, "the conscience of Quebec," was that Quebecers try to build bridges with the rest of Canada. But Conan's studio audience wouldn't know Ryan unless he had tussled on the ice with Tie Domi.
But most offensive of all is the federal and Ontario governments ponied up $1 million to bring a U.S. late-late-night talk-show host with marginal appeal into this country to insult so many Canadians. Sure, this chunk of change pales in comparison to the big-buck sponsorship scandal, but it's still galling.
The deep thinking was shooting the Late Night show in Toronto would help boost the city's sagging image following its ordeal with SARS. Much like inviting the Rolling Stones et al into the city for a money-losing concert that cost $11.5 million - $3.5 million of which was covered by the feds and $2 million by the Ontario government.
Memo to T.O: It's over now. Time to move on.
And, oh yeah, why do the Toronto brainiacs behind these shows feel compelled to go outside the country to find celebrities to stroke the city and to seek validation for Canadian talent?
It's that age-old dilemma: It seems Canadian stars can only be legitimized here when they are given the stamp of approval on U.S. television.
Calling Dr. Freud. We've got a big city in our midst with an even bigger inferiority complex.
It has been suggested Montrealers raise money to bring, say, David Letterman to town for a week to bash Toronto. But why stoop to their level? Besides, we could get Rick Mercer, who is both funny and a Canadian, to do it pro bono.
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Canuck2112
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| Let these humorless morons trash Conan all they want...he's a comic genius. |
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Wolf
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If the guy who wields the Sword of Atlantis wants to call himself a comic genius, well, far be it for me to challange the Barbarian of the North.
But, your guys's emoticons are making the screen scroll sideways, and that makes it hard to read this thread. |
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