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   Aries Spears:   
   	- He was cast on Mad TV for eight years, surprising everyone who   
   thought it disappeared after like three or four years.   
   	   
   	- He does the best Shaquille O'Neil impression and he worries   
   when O'Neil retires he won't have use for it.  But Spears knows he'll   
   have a career in law enforcement.  O'Neil looks mildly retarded so he'd   
   hate for O'Neil to pull someone over.  ``If you cannot afford an   
   attorney two will be appointed for you.''   
   	   
   	- He did a stand-up gig in a weird place.  Aspen, Colorado,   
   where it turns out there are not black people.  White kids were watching   
   him like an exotic animal.  ``Mom, look at him, he's so chocolatey, like   
   my cereal.  Mom, I want one.''  His first four days he looked for a   
   black people and finally saw one and ran up to him to hug him and say we   
   have to stick together; he thought that was uncool.   
   	   
   	- Growing up he was, surprisingly, not a cool kid.  He'd have   
   been an athlete but was dedicated to cupcakes.  He couldn't play   
   basketball.  He had all the gear, headband, cleats, all, but couldn't   
   play.  He amused girls, though, and learned the benefits of having a   
   Blockbuster, England, accent.   
   	   
   	- He doesn't talk politics, but likes Bush as it proves a black   
   man could definitely be president.  (Huh?)  He'd like to see Barack   
   Obama win just to have Jesse Jackson say ``Barack Obama''.  He does an   
   impression.  With Colin Powell, Oprah Winfrey, and Denzel Washington   
   named.   
   	   
   	- Any new impressions?  Denzel Washington, an impression Conan's   
   never heard of.  But after ``Training Day'' Spears roleplays him.  He   
   practices in the car at red lights while people stare at him.  He uses   
   the scene where Washington tries getting Ethan Hawke to try marijuana.   
   ``I'm gonna lose my job.''  ``I'm telling you this *is* your job'' and   
   he goes onto something about magic eyes and not making Conan   
   uncomfortable.   
      
      
   James Blunt:   
   	- All The Lost Souls: ``1973''.   
      
      
   Closing Credits:   
   	- A nice long one this time, so I was able to get Brumidge's   
   name correct, and also to discover they now have a Web Design person,   
   Lee Dayton.   
   	   
   	- To answer the Audience Question of last week, Conan's   
   cameramen are (at least today) Richard Carter, Kurt Decker, Chris   
   Matott, James Palczewski, Pat Casey, Eugene Huelsman.  (The spelling on   
   Palczewski and Huelsman is a bit conjectural as NBC2000 credits are too   
   narrow and in too slender a Helvetica variant for people with hefty,   
   full-size names and letters with potential ambiguities like I/L.)   
      
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