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   18 November 2008 - #2677 - Jeff Corwin, Debra Messing, John Hodgman.   
   	Conologue.  Barack Obama and John McCain met, put their   
   differences aside, sat down, and really made fun of Sarah Palin.   
   President Bush awarded a National Medal of the Art to Stan Lee, creator   
   of Spider-Man; Bush said it was the first thing he's done as President   
   that felt right.  70 pole dancers are suing a strip club for lost wages;   
   each dancer wants $50,000 in singles.   
      
   	Green Your Routine Public Service Announcements: Conan wants air   
   conditioner in the car when it's 28 degrees out in Manhattan.   
   Keyboardist Scott Healy just wanted camera time.   
      
   	Jokes About Barack Obama: 'Obamas enjoy fine food, wine, but   
   hold the beets'.  Will other root vegetable aversions ... turnip?  o/`   
   Clinton loved the ladies, Bush was dumb, but Obama, he hates beets. o/`   
      
   	LaBamba acting out-takes: he spent it all on gum, can he come   
   back?   
      
   	Advertisement for 'Need For Speed Undercover'.  Max Weinberg 7   
   try it out.  Penda hasn't eaten; he's paying Brian McCann $5 an hour to   
   drop french fries in his mouth.   
      
   Jeff Corwin:   
   	An enormous frog.  It's poisonous.  Asian Shortclawed Otter that   
   Conan crushes and who eats a hard-boiled egg.  'You say ferret, I say   
   otter.'  Black leopard.  'Stop molesting my leopard' as Conan does his   
   Tiger Beat bit.  'It's got scabies, too.'  An attack pen-goo-yin makes a   
   break for it like Larry King.  The American Alligator, roughly 30 years   
   old.  Someone grabs the Eisenhower mug off. Corwin always goes for the   
   webbed toes.  The alligator's inexplicably angry.  Nictating membrane.   
      
   Debra Messing:   
   	Tried filming what was supposed to be set in Los Angeles; mob of   
   kangaroos hopped up and stared.  Actual kangaroos are dangerous.   
   Kissing people on-screen becomes normal.  What if you have to kiss   
   someone you hate?  Starter Wife dream sequence from Basic Instinct lead   
   to odd filming day; Messing's not regarded as a sex symbol.   
      
   John Hodgman:   
   	He wears a tuxedo every day, which is why he's a famous minor TV   
   personality.  Used to rent all his clothes but now he can buy a new pair   
   of pants every day.  He fills his books with fake trivia by lying.  Went   
   to Conan's high school.  Watched a lot of Doctor Who and reading trivia   
   books as a child.  Knows nothing about sports.  He likes cricket and   
   gambling.  Dick Van Patten's Hobo Chili For Dogs: he'd like that to be a   
   joke and is annoyed it really exists.  Folk remedies.  Lots of cat   
   involvement.   
      
   	+ It turns out he liked The People's Almanac, which was critical   
   to my development, and got really into The Straight Dope too.  Also last   
   Christmas I gave a copy of his first mock-trivia book to my soon-to-be   
   brother-in-law, and you could see the joy in his eyes dying as he opened   
   it up.  He liked the Dukes of Hazzard DVD a lot more.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)