From: nebusj-@-rpi-.edu   
      
   	This was rerun on 26 December 2006, and that time itself was   
   a rerun from 20 December 2005.  I think that, at three years from the   
   original airing to the rerun, this makes this the longest-ago-rerun   
   Late Night's done.   
      
      
   	Anyway, my thoughts from when this aired, and internal evidence   
   suggests from 2006 rather than 2005, which is a lot different from how   
   I write these nowadays:   
      
   26 December 2006 - Jim Carrey, Isaac Hayes   
           Hey, they moved the NBC bug!  Now if they can just put it   
   out of TV range.   
      
   Conologue:   
           - The Transit Strike: Hey, that lasted like, what, 12   
   minutes?   
           - Jessica Simpson: Is she still a celebrity?   
           - So do you suppose that gingerbread trailer home was   
   actually made, or was it just cardboard and colored toothpaste?   
   Or was it entirely a Photoshop job?   
   Walkover Music:   
      
           Winter Wonderland   
   You know:   
      
           I think I reviewed this episode when it was on a year   
   ago, but I didn't know back then that my alt.* posts weren't   
   getting through, so I just assumed you all ignored me.   
   Conan helping out the Transit Strike:   
      
           Part of me knows that Conan is acting up in his stage   
   persona with his silliness in the van and acting as driver and   
   volunteering to carry Reesa and so on.  Part of me also suspects   
   that he's really just like that, and this is how he'd be taking a   
   van ride with his old college pals too.   
      
           ``Look at that guy in the Segway ... he's from the   
   future.''  Good, natural, funny Conan.  Woman who tries to escape   
   Conan and ``It's high school all over again'', yeah, that feels   
   sincere.   
      
           I was surprised after saying the guy at the Christmas   
   Tree place had no immune system and had to stay in the plastic   
   bubble lest he die that Conan didn't poke his hand in.   
      
           Now, if people weren't being allowed to drive in the city   
   with less than four people in the car (as mentioned in a   
   Conologue joke), how did Conan drive around?  Obviously there was   
   at least one guy for the camera and maybe another for the   
   microphone, but either the van got mighty overcrowded or there   
   was a while Conan was driving illegally.  But if he was, I'd have   
   expected him to make fun of that fact.   
      
   Jim Carrey:   
           Yes, the string dance makes it a clincher.  I did review   
   this last year and the thing was lost to the ages. Well, unless I   
   saved a copy locally, which I may well have done. Is Moviephone   
   still around, for that matter?  For some reason the Singapore DVD   
   stores were much more likely to show video from ``Fun with Dick   
   and Jane'' than from ``King Kong'', though.   
      
           I wonder who it is writes interviews that are essentially   
   extended comic segments like this -- Carrey wasn't really   
   interviewed, he just did a couple of spot comedy pieces.  Is it   
   the guest's idea, since they're usually people highly regarded as   
   comics like Jim Carrey or Steve Martin, or is it the writers   
   overachieving?   
      
   Horny manatee:   
           Oh, they're changing bumpers from last year.   
      
   Jim Carrey, Part II:   
           Why is Jim Carrey doing the Vulcan Neck Pinch?  Well,   
   yeah, he set up the bit, but I was expecting a reference.  The   
   bit about him being everything was genially odd; doing a heavy   
   metal ``Silent Night'' was a bit too far a forced wacky for my   
   tastes.   
      
   Isaac Hayes:   
           There is an air of coolness which attaches to anyone   
   attempting with sincerity to play the theme from Shaft, and even   
   people as inherently cool as the Max Weinbert 7 or Isaac Hayes   
   and his band gain from it.  You could have the Vienna   
   Philharmonic play it and they would have soul.  I believe   
   similarly that everyone fantasizes about having a version of   
   Shaft rewritten to star them.  It's a shame we didn't get to se   
   Conan's face during the song; he has to have been giddy to the   
   point of explosion.   
      
   Closing Bumper:   
           Irwin Allen's Land of the Giants?  Cool.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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