From: nebusj-@-rpi-.edu   
      
   Conologue:   
   	- I thought the reference to ``that Jewish flashlight''   
   needed to be stronger.  It really doesn't make sense as the   
   menorah doesn't look like a flashlight; was that meant to be a   
   dumb-Bush joke?   
      
   	- Conan's Mexican-in-Maine quip with the attempted fusing   
   of accents was funnier than the preceeding joke, not that the   
   Mexicans in Maine wasn't a good start.   
      
   	- The brawl joke needed to be punchier, maybe at least   
   delivered quicker.   
   	   
      
      
   Walkover Music:   
   	Rudolph the Red-Nosed Raindeer, Ramone-style.  Conan   
   seemed confused by it, and possibly afraid.   
      
      
   Max's Menorah:   
   	Nice development.  I take it this is an ongoing thing?   
      
      
   In The Year 2000 with Ben Stiller:   
   	- President Bush will finally read the official report on   
   Iraq when it's handed to him in a Thomas the Tank Engine binder.   
      
   	- John Mayer's carrer will immediately end when it's   
   revealed he wrote the song ``Your Body's a Wonderland'' for   
   Barbara Walters.   
      
   	- Lindsey Lohan will finally give up alcohol when she   
   discovers an organic tea that produces all-natural bad decisions.   
      
   	- Keith Richards will eat a gallon of rat poison, saw his   
   own head off, and jump off the Golden Gate bridge, making him   
   slightly late for a recording session that day.   
      
   	- In an effort to cut costs many day spas will stop   
   offering expensive high colonics and instead just give customers   
   two Taco Bell burrito supremes.   
      
   	- Hugh Grant will will an Oscar.  Hugh Laurie will win an   
   Emmy.  Hugh Jackson will win a Golden Globe.  Prompting Mel   
   Gibson to complain the Hughs run Hollywood.   
      
   	- Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barak Obama   
   will no longer have to worry about his name alienating votors   
   after Republicans nominate senator O J Federline.   
      
   	- Sylvester Stallone will release yet another Rocky   
   movie.  This time he successfully knocks out his opponent with   
   one swing of his low-hanging testicles.   
      
   	- Britney Spears' gynecologist will tell Britney ``You   
   don't need to come in for a checkup this year.  I examined you in   
   the newspaper.''   
      
      
      
   Ben Stiller:   
   	Riffing on the violence of Charlotte's Web would go   
   stronger if it were more tightly based on the actual threats of   
   violence that lurk in children's books; as a group they're often   
   surprisingly scary or alarming.  (I'm thinking here of Rudolph's   
   Shiny New Year, in which Rudolph and heroes are out to to bring   
   death to Eon the bird.)   
      
   	Interesting set of hero actors in the 'Night at the   
   Museum' scene; I'd be mighty impressed by working with Mickey   
   Rooney (ever seen his Judy Garland musicals?  They're goofy but   
   rather fun, at least up to the point there's a blackface scene,   
   and then suddenly the fun ends) or Dick Van Dyke.   
      
   	Ryan Seacrest in the Millennium Falcon: Well, the Star   
   Wars things seem likely to catch on, anyway.  I'd imagine to   
   catch your own face on Imax would be pretty alarming.  Conan   
   identified a lot of funny people, none of whom I recognized   
   besides Robin Williams, who I thought had gone past being funny   
   and into being mawkish and alarming.   
      
      
   Conan's Present from Max:   
   	Yeah, who does wrap presents like that?  I was expecting   
   a much simpler round-robin and wasn't expecting any particular   
   allergies from Scott.  Fun little go-round; I'm just a little   
   surprised they didn't get Andy into it in the earlier years.   
   Knew going into it that Joel would have a duplicate of the   
   sweater.  That's a fantastically ugly sweater, though; where do   
   such things come from now that it's not 1977 anymore?  The   
   sweater circle was used for the closing credits again, as though   
   they were afraid of people hearing Howard Shore's music.   
   	   
      
   Ving Rhames:   
   	You know, if Conan wants to show off these dark outfits   
   he needs a *brighter background.*  Turn on the lights.  My   
   brother Ted shaved his head, one winter, and learned that was a   
   really stupid thing to do going into the coldest part of the   
   year, particularly given that he didn't get more than an   
   indifferent shrug out of our parents.  (He was going through his   
   teenage rebellion phase at the time; it was in its first decade.)   
    Odd little one-man whoop at the request for bald men.   
      
   	I'd think just being in an Adam Sandler movie would be   
   horrible enough.  The kiss was ... well, I wasn't expecting that   
   any time of year.  I didn't realize Rhames had lost his   
   microphone until it was pointed out.   
      
   	Asking about his voice in real life really makes the   
   presence of the pre-interview noticeable.  I'm glad for his TV   
   show, but I really am not going to watch it just because it's   
   supposed to be good for society.  I never found gang stuff   
   attractive anyway; even the outfits look like kids trying to   
   imitate that Tom and Jerry cartoon where Tom makes a Zoot Suit,   
   only with bowling alley gear.   
      
      
   Joshua Bell:   
   	Ave Maria, beautifully played.  I'd have rather gone   
   without the piano accompaniment, though; a tune like this on   
   violin gains in power the simpler the presentation is.   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)