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   Joseph Nebus to All   
   18 September 2007 - Kelsey Grammer, Arti   
   20 Sep 07 01:50:36   
   
   From: nebusj-@-rpi-.edu   
      
   Kelsey Grammer:   
   	- Grammer congratulations Conan on his Emmy.  And he had 20   
   years as Frasier.  It's already three years since 'Frasier' left the   
   air.  Frasier was impressed Conan passed the trophy off to one of his   
   writers for the acceptance speech.   
   	   
   	- What's he been doing?  There's a wonderful story about   
   sailing.  He's kept it up since he was eight or nine; he's got a 37-foot   
   sloop.  A few months ago he finally got sailing again after an interlude   
   with children.  It changes a life rhythm a bit.   
   	   
   	- He gets crazy on the water, singing and reciting Shakespeare,   
   like bits from Henry V.  Conan uses lines from Chips.   
   	   
   	- He decided it important he name the boat to remind himself not   
   to take himself too seriously or get too big-headed, so its name is an   
   acronym telling off Grammer.   
   	   
   	- There's nothing like live theater, where things can get   
   screwed up.  He was in 'My Fair Lady' recently.  He once shot a man   
   on-stage when he wasn't supposed to.  It was in 'Wild Oats',   
   western-styled, in Santa Fe, and he rehearsed at home with six-shooters   
   strapped to him and he set five alarm clocks to ring randomly and get   
   his draw reflex down.   
   	   
   	- The first night he was supposed to pull them out he pulled the   
   guns and instead of doing the tricks he popped the guy in the chest.   
   David Brooks, the guy, covered his chest and coughed, and Grammer called   
   him off since it was the first at.   
   	   
   	- But it gave him a feeling for being Billy The Kid, with it   
   being so instant and there was powder on the guy's heart.  No wonder you   
   get a reputation for shooting people when you shoot them.   
   	   
   	- In the new show he plays a news guy who fell out of   
   local-Los-Angeles, screws up on air, and is demoted to Pittsburgh to do   
   closed captioning.  Conan says it sounds funny but gives no hint to   
   whether he's actually seen it.   
      
      
      
   Artie Kendall, Radio Ghost:   
   	- Is there a reason for Conan to feign surprise every time he   
   pops up?  Can we have a bit of progression to the premise?   
   	   
   	Song 1:  Oh, the wealthy shouldn't have to pay their tax / We   
   should get a free ride on poor people's backs / And if the poor folks   
   say we're mean / We'll just get some gasoline / And burn down all their   
   corrugated shacks / Torchity tram.   
   	   
   	Song 2: Oh, women all have very low IQs / So it's pointless when   
   they try to share their views / They should use their tiny brains / To   
   clean out laundry stains / And to wash the dog krunk off their husband's   
   shoes / Scrubbity poo.  (Every woman who heard it wanted to kill him,   
   and one of them did.)   
   	   
   	Song 3: Oh, Irish people force their kids to drink / And they   
   often use their toilets as a sink / They grunt instead of talk / And   
   drag their knuckles when they walk / I'm pretty sure that they're the   
   missing link / Mickety Ape.   
      
   	+ Last time this sketch was on, the first song was the   
   Politically Unpopular Expression (in that case, surrender to the Axis   
   Powers), the second the women-are-stupid, complete with the ``I *was*   
   murdered, I had it coming'' joke, and finally a bit about the irish   
   having monkey DNA.  I don't have offhand a log for the previous time   
   the sketch was on, but it does have a note about the anti-woman song   
   being a repeat of an earlier one.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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