Conan O’Brien as Ahmed Chalabi
Like everyone else on Twitter, apparently, I have fond collegiate memories of laughing at Triumph the Dog after a few bingers with the roomie. Perhaps more importantly, I think of Jay Leno as an irritating boil on the ass of comedy, on the rare occasions I think of him at all. I’m also not the audience for late-night talk shows. In some abstract sense, I guess I prefer to live in a world where viewers prefer high-middlebrow gag sketches and marginally smarter interviews with celebrities, but it doesn’t really matter, because I’m not going to watch the Tonight Show with Conan any more than I’m going to watch it with Leno. Neither are like half the people sporting a #teamconan.
We understand by now that this is a mistake in foreign policy. The fuzzy liberal cleric has no credibility or influence with the marginal terrorist in the short term. The urbane western-friendly candidate turns out not to have built a domestic support base during his time at Oxford. It’s an error in domestic talk shows too: Conan O’Brien is the late night host most popular with people who don’t watch that sort of show much.
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Exactly:
“If you’re wondering why you didn’t make a killing in the ratings, or why the affiliates don’t have your back, it’s because your audience is on the Internet. We’re huge, we just happen to be online, having abandoned television years ago after some perceived nerd slight. The ruining of Heroes, perhaps, or the destruction of the Star Trek franchise by Scott Bakula or something. We’re all here, and we’re all waiting for you to come out and save us.”
http://www.cracked.com/blog/why-conan-should-work-for-cracked/