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Monday, October 12, 2009

Viral Video: Clinton’s Diplomacy in the Conan-Newark Mayor Feud

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It looks like Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will have her hands full with pretty dicey nuclear and terrorism issues in North Korea and Pakistan this week, but she managed to find time last week to try her diplomatic hand at working out the state of emergency between late-night television talk show host Conan O’Brien and Newark Mayor Cory Booker.

Here are the videos.

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Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Viral Video: “Rocket Man” Shatner Channels “Maverick” Palin (Watch Out, Tina Fey!)

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In a genius pairing of subject and artist, here is the best online viral video this week from Conan O’Brien’s “Tonight Show,” featuring actor William Shatner reciting outgoing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s recent farewell speech verbatim.

You simply can’t make this stuff up.

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Thursday, June 11, 2009

Viral Video: Twitter TRACKER Massacres Blue Birdies on CoCo’s Tonight Show

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Even if it never makes any money, Twitter certainly does provide fabulous material for television spoofs.

So far, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have done several funny bits on Comedy Central, deftly mocking the microblogging service.

And now, Conan O’Brien is doubling down with two skits so far dubbed “Twitter TRACKER” on “The Tonight Show.”

In them, a loudmouthed voice delivers pointless celebrity tweets as a flock of blue cartoon Twitter birdies is murdered in various ingenious ways.

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Saturday, May 3, 2008

Grand Theft Volvo

This is an hysterical spoof video, by “Late Night” host Conan O’Brien, with a very sanitized version of Grand Theft Auto IV.
The new version of the ultra-violent videogame came out this week, to rave reviews.
I would rather play this, as I have taken that crazy right on red on the way to my kid’s [...]

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Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997 and also wrote the BoomTown column about the sector. With Walt Mossberg, she co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech and media conference. Read more »

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