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Last night, we were the first to point out the striking similarities between a video on Conan last night about Sarah Palin shooting Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and a similar skit on Jimmy Kimmel Live 2 weeks ago. Now, Conan O’Brien has issued a video apology to the folks from Jimmy Kimmel:
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Heh, that was pretty cool. They turned a potentially embarrassing situation into a comedy bit. This kind of stuff happens almost every other week on late night television.
My 63 year old Aunt FWD’d me an email with a photoshop of Palin over Rudolph’s body 3 weeks ago.
Can she get an apology from Kimmel?
What’s with him blaming it on “one of our staffers” like a PA did it. What a bunch of horse crap that is. They can’t even admit that their writers f’d up? And isn’t the show the place for this apology, not the internet?
P.S. I doubt they “stole” this. It’s not exactly so original that nobody else would ever think of it.
Final P.S. Isn’t the real Conan story not that he did a bit that another show did, but that his ratings have plunged since last week to a new all-time low? I think he’s getting the same ratings now that Lopez was getting at 11.
Are you for real? Or are you just being sarcastic? Because you sound like an idiot. It was a joke. He wasn’t really blaming it on a staff member. I hope for the sake of humanity, you knew this and were just trying to show some humor yourself (which failed).
And Conan might have thought that the same people who saw the story on the internet would be the same people to see his joke apology(since most of the news stories would link back to this like Deadline did).
P.S. and Final P.S. — You belong in the movie “Idiocracy.”
Hi Joe, and I’m guessing that’s you’re real name, instead of Conan Employee Or It Wouldn’t Have Gotten Me All Erect Like This.
Did you even watch Conan’s apology video before shooting off your mouth and embarrassing yourself like this? You think he’s joking when he blames a staffer there? Based on what? Your need to have your hero never be wrong in your eyes? What happened, “Joe”? Did you used to pleasure yourself to Lance Armstrong photos until the doping scandal broke so now you had to find a new hero and the beard turned you on so you chose Mr. O’Brien? What kind of delusional psychopath could watch that clip and think Conan is joking? That means you think he’s happy that he looked like an idiot by doing the same bit that Kimmel had just done two weeks earlier? And a tired bit it was at that.
Maybe you are as ignorant as you are stupid, Joe, but Conan used to be a writer before he was a host. Writers value originality. Conan does a lot of original stuff on his show. So for him to have done the same bit Kimmel had just done… trust me, Joe, he’s not happy about it. And of course he adds some humor to his apology, that’s how he deals with things. Did you not read his “People of Earth” letter? You have about as much of a sense of humor in you, Joe, as Conan did in that 60 Minutes interview.
I have seen some twits post on Deadline Hollywood in my day, but I haven’t seen such an obvious victim of child abuse like you since the network flacks who were sent out to trash the WGA in the writers strike.
I guess it is the truth of the rating that hit you between the eyes like your daddy’s alcoholic fist, Joe. You must be a staffer there who just bought a home based on the asinine assurances of your bosses that TBS was even better than NBC. How else to explain your public breakdown here over the news of the 0.7 rating. That’s right, Joe, 0.7, lower than Conan ever got on NBC. You’re goin’ down, Joe, you’re gonna be living beneath the underpass on LaCienega soon with your crackwhore wife and your pertussis-infected kids. And you’ll be burning their arms with cigarettes just like momma used to do to you. Can’t wait. Please post some pix. Oh, and congratulations for becoming the laughingstock of the Deadline Hollywood board. What a clown.
… somebody didn’t get they wanted for christmas.
Wow….who shit on your parade? Dick.
omg you’re scary.
Wow. Really?
You need to chill out.
and this is why I hate article/blog “comments”.
You hate them? But but…. you’re reading them?
Come on, its one of the best things about the internet… you get to find out what people really think when they’re sitting around at home.
Never type on meth.
We’d like to recruit you.
wow. I’m not connected to joe or conan…but reading your comment, i just had to throw my two cents in to agree what an idiot you are “bogus apology.” It’s hilarious how much effort and time you put into your response. I’m laughing at losers like you. And regarding the ratings, people are on vacation or preparing for the holidays, not watching late night tv. They’ll pick up in the beginning of the year. Try again buddy.
I know it’s almost been a week but I just saw this. But wow. Just wow. bogus Apology offers up the most pathetic and hostile post on this board that I’ve ever read. This must have really touched a nerve with you to make you bare your hollow, bitter soul in such detail for all to see. You’re clearly the clown here.
What’s a pertussissis?
I’m a week late to this, too, but holy CRAP! Are there REALLY people like this?? Mr Bogus Apology, thank you for my first belly laugh of the new year (I’m in a forward time zone to DHD). That someone could so completely miss the joke is funnier than the bit itself!
I wish that I could say “I’m glad you got THAT off your chest”, but I have a feeling that you are just getting started. I agree with one of the other posters… they should hire you. I’m not sure who ‘they’ are quite yet, but you definitely have a career in propaganda. Robert Mugabe? He’s looking for a few good men… who still have both of their arms.
Dude…this is a thread about accidentally plagiarizing a sketch on Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer. It’s not WORTH being enraged about!
And it’s not like he blamed an actual staffer. He didn’t use anybody’s name or anything.
Does Conan have to open a freaking vein before you’ll be satisfied?
It just isn’t THIS big of a deal.
I would STRONGLY recommend anger management classes for you.
Wouldn’t a writer be on the staff?
Not to mention a number of these shows buy jokes that other people write (like you think of something funny, you mail it in to Conan and Leno etc and see who bites) so it’s quite possible both Jimmy and Conan picked it up, which would be the submitters folly.
Someone could have made a comment even earlier, or last year, or the year before about Palin shooting Rudolf, and both shows could have either been said to have stolen it, or were inspired by the same source.
Bad troll is bad 1/10
really? you just lick the envelope closed and put a stamp on that sucker and mail it to Jay Leno c/o NBC and he reads it and says, “haha, this dude’s funny! we’re going to buy this joke!”
seriously — what planet are you on?
this is the only way anyone will know Conan even has a show on. what a sad character.
It’s just an apology turned into a bit, don’t act like a dick.
Why is it always OK to take the cheap shot? I remember Red Skelton and Milton Berle, but I don’t remember them making their victims into sadistic Bambi Killers. Is that the best our current crop of “comedians” can do?
Jesus man, I think you’ve just shown your age. Kids would sit there stone-faced wondering what’s supposed to be funny if comedy was the way it was in the 50′s and 60′s. Things have gotten edgier in the world, deal with it.
Dave, does Palin or does she not hunt? If so, how is it a “cheap shot” or painting her as anything other than what she is? It’s a joke about her hunting, because she’s a hunter.
If you think that makes her sadistic, that’s on you.
Conan’s work is beyond lame. Are you kidding me? Writing staff’s have writers assistants. Writers assistants track every comedy show on television. There is absolutely no way the staff did’nt know about the Kimmel sketch. Conan’s on TBS for a reason, so that he’ll finally fade away, a guy who by the grace of God figured out how to get rich without having a shred of talent.
Not true.
Uh…if you’re old enough to have watched Milton Berle, you should ALSO be old enough to know that “Uncle Miltie” was infamous in comedy circles for stealing everybody’s jokes…and NEVER apologizing for it!
Genius.
His show is not funny, the skits are awful, the show will be cancelled. TBS get out now. Conan start writing for the Simpsons again, if they would even hire you back.
I’m pretty sure The Simpsons would hire him as a writer or voice actor at this point, happily. Do you need a few links to a tutorial on how television works or are you just venting a little irrational bitterness right now to make yourself feel good? Let me know – I can definitely find some links for you.
Dave, I agree. If Hollywood doesn’t wake up, there will be no audience left except far left wing zealots who revel in this type of crap. Is it any wonder the ratings for these shows is way down from years past? You can’t keep offending more than half your audience week after week while expecting them to tune in again. I watch a fraction of the television shows I used to watch and I rarely reach into my wallet to go tho the movie theater.
Everywhere you go politics has poisoned the water. A few years ago, I ventured with a group of friends to see Bugs Bunny on Broadway at the Phoenix Symphony. I was incensed when the idiot conducting the orchestra couldn’t resist taking a swipe at President Bush.
It’s a mystery to me why the left despises Sarah Palin and her family so much. The left-wing has come unhinged. Their obsession is irrational to say the least. Something tells me Sarah will have the last laugh. Her star continues to rise and her fortunes increase with every senseless attack.
Only an immature slacker could call this kind of comedy “genius.” Now that’s laughable.
@AaronSch,
Funniest thing I’ve read all week. You must give great Halloween candy.
HEY we on the left don’t despise The Tundra Tootsie. We LOVE her, she is an unending supply of jokes and head shaking for her unbelievably idiotic statements, complete lack of intelligence, her inability to grasp reality and well…just about everything about her is hilarious.
AND we hope she is the GOP Thug party nominee for president. The best part will be her having a debate with Obama where her complete idiocy will be shown in all it’s blowhard glory.
It will also mean Obama will win by the largest land
slide in history.
So no we don’t despise her, we want her around for years to come.
Of cource you douchebags want her around, you media libs are nothing but a bunch of fowl tempered scumbags who “ENJOY” coming up with awfull insults about this woman AND her family. Mean while you ignore that jugeared lying phonie Obama and Biden’s coke snorting daughter. This is why talk radio and FOX News are kicking ass and taking names in viewership, while MSNBC and CNN slide into “also rans”. Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and Lara Ingraham have tons of material about Barry and the liberals while you one hit wonders keep going back to the Palins. People arn’t getting sick of you lying dirt bags THEY’RE SICK OF YOU NOW!! GOP picked up 63 seats in the house, thanks Barry!
Wow. You are horrible, and make the rest of us republicans look bad.
But you love, “two and a half men,” right?
“Jugeared”, you say? Well played. I’ve got some sharecroppers for you to hire while we’re at it.
Media Libs?? Even when it has been shown by countless studies that the GOP and right-wingers get far more press than the left?
And your so called media (Beck, Ingraham and Rush?) has stories? That’s all they have. Made up stories, without a ring of truth to them. All three have been shown to deliberately obfuscate (look it up)the truth countless times. So stick to your Faux News, watch as your elected Republicans begin to fall into line with what the old guard did(which I’m guessing you have a short memory, but THEY are responsible for the present economic crisis, it didn’t happen on Obama’s or the Democrats watch) and drag us down into another sinkhole where the rich get richer and the middle class slowly disappears. What an idiot.
WOW. You are an embarrassment to our name.
Because she, and her family, are vapid media whores who will do anything for a buck.
Sarah Palin’s star isn’t rising and she’s no celebrity. She nothing more than a really horrific accident. You know, the kind with lots of blood and guts…you don’t WANT to look, but you just can’t tear your eyes away. The public is just waiting for her to hack up a lung or a brain…well, no, never mind that last one…and that’s the ONLY reason.
BTW…if she does get elected as President, I hope Canada’s ready for millions of refugees from the U.S. seeking political asylum.
A guy from Harvard being an asshole? That makes the news? How? Why? How is that new? Very funny.
I’m sure everyone can think of a handful of comedians that have stolen jokes before. At least conan has the balls to apologize unlike many other pansies. And let’s be serious – old farts and uptight twats are the only people that dislike Conan / his show. To them I say “move to the left”… Let the new generation breathe. I’m with Coco!!!
doing what others could learn from! Hey PEOPLE, there’s a thing called the INTERNET and you could use it to your advantage… don’t have to wait! in fact, you can create all KINDS of supplemental content and use it as a vehicle to drive eyeballs BACK to your production.
Shouldn’t the writer who stole this bit be fired?
I don’t think he stole it at all..I think it was an honest mistake. It happens.
That’s a tad harsh.
I’m surprised he didn’t blame NBC, he should issue an apology for his stupid haircut.
Hey Bogus Apology YOU’RE acting like a clown…
What do you work for Leno? I don’t necessarily agree with Joe but you’re response made you look like a tool. What’s up with being fixated on crackwhores and living under a bridge? I’ve seen way worse Deadline posters and you may be added to the list. I’m with team JoJo… just because he called you an idiot doesn’t mean you should defend your pride by being completely obnoxious!
nice apology then more unfunniness from conan. i wonder if they really fired the dude who did the skit? i wonder if the dude thought he was doing something original or knowingly copied it from kimmel?
The only thing we know for sure is if the writer works for Conan, it is a dude. He doesn’t hire any women, does he? Maybe we don’t steal enough material.
Are you for real dude? Of course hes getting lower ratings on TBS…its cable! You cannot be serious with your recent posts.
Where’s Conan’s apology to Craig Ferguson for stealing his robot?
Conan probably has Ed Ames booked next week for a tomahawk tossing bit.
Team Coco apologists out in full force!
Did you actually read the comments? It seems pretty split down the middle. Sorry that everyone can’t always agree with you all the time on the Internet. PURE HYPOCRISY! as you say. By the way, for a working definition of hypocrisy I would consult http://www.dictionary.com.
Palin apologists/Leno diehards out in force as well.
You don’t know the difference between “your” and “you’re.”
The real story is that Conan’s rating has dropped to a 0.6 this week. Basically what Lopez was drawing in the slot. Ouch.
I’m a Conan fan, but Jimmy Fallon is the future of late night. He’s funny, social media savvy, photogenic and has a certain Carson-esque quality to him. He’s also got buzz with a capital B.
Sadly, Conan doesn’t really have momentum. Ferguson — overrated. Jon Stewart – brilliant. Fallon – currently the best. Kimmel – a hack. Leno — I could never again watch someone with no morality or ethics whatsoever.
Letterman – the Tomb Raider of comedy.
You’re a Conan fan? Fallon buzz? Are you sure you’re not the NBC publicity department? They’re paying a fortune to get Fallon all over the internet. He’s a kid in a suit and I’m not buying.
“I’m with team JoJo”
The ultimate joke of the year,
First I didn’t see Coco’s apology over the Rudolph snafu.
Now back to the future: prior to leaving the Tonight Show,if some tinseltown libs have short memorys they may not remember this. Sarah Palin made a surprise guest appearance last year and she freaked out William Shatner who had been doing a find reading of her book. Well Sarah hit back with her humor by reading William Shatner’s autobio and she brought the house down. I should know I watch the episode of the tonight show.
It was how I got to like Conan. I don’t mind him make fun of politicians at all. And I agree some liberals need to chill out. Hmm has the Grinch who stole christmas made his appearance in tinseltown I wonder? HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
That Palin joke is so obvious and easy, who really gives a shart?
Milton Berle used to say that he is a comedian because he knew how to steal comedy from the best. If in fact Obrien stole the skit who cares? If it’s a copyright issue let the courts figure it out. As for me, using Sarah Palin as the butt of a joke is just a sign of intellectual laziness something the majority our “enlightened entertainers” seem to suffer