<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/harrison-ford">Harrison Ford</a> mocked late night host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/conan-obrien">Conan O’Brien</a> for having his iconic “Star Wars” character&#8217;s name written in his notes.
The incident occurred during a recent episode of the “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend” podcast after the “Indiana Jones” actor realized that O’Brien had “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/star-wars">Han Solo</a>” written in his interview notes. 
“I refer you to this piece of paper right here,” O’Brien said. “That says, ‘Born and raised in Chicago to an Irish German father—&#8217;”
When Ford leaned over and looked at the paper, he noticed that it included notes about his role as Han Solo, as <a href="https://variety.com/2023/film/news/harrison-ford-roasts-conan-obrien-han-solo-note-reminder-interview-1235662615">Variety</a> reported.
“Well if that’s a quality of your research, and I imagine it is because right there it says ‘Harrison Ford’ and then you had to write ‘Han Solo,&#8217;” Ford said. “You can’t f***ing remember that?”
“No I can’t. I can’t remember Han Solo,” O’Brien jokingly replied. “I wrote it down because I heard that you were in some of the ‘Star Wars films, and this was news to me because I’ve seen those films and I don’t exactly think that you &#8216;pop.&#8217;”
“I’m sorry. But I mean, I remember Chewbacca, I remember the bad guy with the black helmet and then … there’s some people,” the podcast host added.
The pair continued with their verbal sparring. 
“You came on my show many many times, on the ‘Late Night’ show,” O’Brien told Ford. “And over the years people would say, ‘Who’s one of your favorite guests?’ And I would say, ‘Harrison Ford, because he’s so g**damn funny.’ You are so hilariously funny and you tossed me around like a rag doll, verbally, on these shows, and they’re some of my favorite segments of all time. You are a hilarious man and I’ve always loved being around you.”
“You guys wrote some great stuff,” Ford said. “I don’t remember any of it.”
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Ford, 80, previously said that “Indiana Jones 5” will be his last film playing the character. The movie had a $60 million opening against a $295 million budget. Ford was notorious for saying he objected to anyone else portraying the action star that he’s been playing since the first movie premiered in 1981.

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Harrison Ford Mocks Conan O’Brien For Written Reminder He Plays Han Solo: ‘You Can’t F***ing Remember That?’

Harrison Ford Mocks Conan O'Brien For Written Reminder He Plays Han Solo: 'You Can't F***ing Remember That?'

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Former late-night host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/conan-obrien">Conan O&#8217;Brien</a> mocked the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/white-house">White House</a> on Wednesday, making a crack about the administration downplaying and denying the <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/economy">economic</a> <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/recession">recession</a> hurting Americans.
Treasury Secretary <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/janet-yellen">Janet Yellen</a> turned heads over the weekend when she denied that the U.S. economy is in a recession, instead saying we&#8217;re in a “period of transition in which growth is slowing,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/yellen-were-not-in-a-recession-were-in-a-transition-in-which-growth-is-slowing">The Daily Wire</a> reported.
&#8220;The White House now says it’s only a recession if you see a salamander wearing a top hat,&#8221; O&#8217;Brien mocked on Wednesday.
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The White House now says it’s only a recession if you see a salamander wearing a top hat.
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Despite the White House denial, the U.S. has suffered two consecutive quarters of negative growth, which most economists widely define as a recession, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-in-a-recession-after-second-straight-quarter-of-negative-growth">reported</a> Thursday morning.
“This is not an economy that’s in recession,” Yellen contended, speaking to NBC host Chuck Todd on Sunday. “But we’re in a period of transition in which growth is slowing and that’s necessary and appropriate and we need to be growing at a steady and sustainable pace. So there is a slowdown and businesses can see that and that’s appropriate, given that people now have jobs and we have a strong labor market.”
Again trying to deny the economic reality, a White House <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2022/07/07/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-3/">post</a> last week told Americans that the nation is “stronger economically than we have been in history.&#8221;
“While some maintain that two consecutive quarters of falling real GDP constitute a recession, that is neither the official definition nor the way economists evaluate the state of the business cycle,” the White House <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-materials/2022/07/21/how-do-economists-determine-whether-the-economy-is-in-a-recession/">insisted</a>. “Instead, both official determinations of recessions and economists’ assessment of economic activity are based on a holistic look at the data — including the labor market, consumer and business spending, industrial production, and incomes. Based on these data, it is unlikely that the decline in GDP in the first quarter of this year — even if followed by another GDP decline in the second quarter — indicates a recession.”
Further, on Tuesday, Director of the National Economic Council Brian Deese said, “two negative quarters of GDP growth is not the technical definition of recession,&#8221; seemingly trying to bail out the Biden administration.
“It’s not the definition that economists have traditionally relied on,” the Biden economic adviser said, appearing at a White House press briefing, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/07/27/white-house-takes-heat-after-biden-adviser-accused-of-redefining-recession/">reported</a>.
However, by Wednesday, comments from Deese back in 2008 resurfaced online.
“Economists have a technical definition of recession, which is two consecutive quarters of negative growth,” Deese said in 2008, according to RNC Research.
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Biden’s economic advisors know a recession is defined as two quarters of negative GDP growth. They’ve said so:
Biden’s NEC Director Brian Deese in March 2008: “economists have a technical definition of recession, which is two consecutive quarters of negative growth.” <a href="https://t.co/RnoWSGbJrE">pic.twitter.com/RnoWSGbJrE</a>
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-in-a-recession-after-second-straight-quarter-of-negative-growth">U.S. In A Recession After Second Straight Quarter Of Negative Growth</a>

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Comedian Conan O&#8217;Brien and actor Jeff Goldblum recently bonded over the fact that they both almost met legendary singer and songwriter Bob Dylan — but at the last minute, in both cases, something had happened to derail the meeting.
Goldblum, speaking to <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/sean-penn-conan-obrien-denounce-cancel-culture-calling-it-soviet/">O&#8217;Brien</a> on Sunday&#8217;s episode of the comedian&#8217;s podcast &#8220;Conan O&#8217;Brien Needs a Friend,&#8221; said that he had seen <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/bob-dylan-to-sell-catalog-for-upwards-of-300m/">Dylan</a> while he was shopping with his wife, former Olympic rhythmic gymnast Emilie Livingston.
O&#8217;Brien began by referencing a previous meeting with Goldblum when the latter had recommended a good place to go for jeans. &#8220;It&#8217;s like the John Wyck hotel, but for clothes,&#8221; O&#8217;Brien explained, saying that there was a place in the back where they also made hats.
&#8220;You know who I ran into there once? I was with Emilie, we went there to pick up a pair of jeans or a hat or something. And, um, it was just us and Bob Dylan,&#8221; <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/jeff-goldblum-under-fire-for-questioning-anti-gay-anti-woman-aspects-of-islam/">Goldblum</a> explained, to which O&#8217;Brien exclaimed, &#8220;Oh my God!&#8221;
Goldblum went on to say that he had been talking with someone about his own purchase when he saw Dylan walk in, and by the time he had wrapped up his own business, Dylan had already come and gone.
&#8220;He got his hats from that guy. I saw him outta the corner of my eye. I kept — I had really important business. I was talking about a hat and he came in and before I could say anything to him, he left,&#8221; Goldblum said. &#8220;But I think Emily, I don’t know if she said anything.&#8221;
O&#8217;Brien seemed surprised. &#8220;You didn&#8217;t go up to him?&#8221; he asked — and Goldblum replied, &#8220;No, no. I wish I had.&#8221;
The comedian then revealed his own almost-history with Dylan, saying that he had been backstage at a Dylan concert waiting to meet the singer when then-Vice President Al Gore had swept in and gotten all the attention.
&#8220;I went to see some concert of his and I was backstage and someone pushed me to the front of a line and there he was, the great Bob Dylan. It’s my one chance to meet him. All the conversation stopped and Bob Dylan looked at me and he went, &#8216;I know you from the TV,'&#8221; O&#8217;Brien said. &#8220;And just then, the other person backstage was Vice President Al Gore. And then I hear &#8216;Conan, Conan, it’s me Al Gore.&#8217;
&#8220;And I go, what? We’re all there for — We’re all there for a concert to see Bob Dylan performing. And he goes like, &#8216;I love rock and roll,&#8217; you know? And suddenly he’s talking to me and, and I see Bob Dylan scuttle away. I was c***-blocked with Bob Dylan by Vice President Al Gore. That’s a true story!&#8221; O&#8217;Brien concluded.
Listen to the full episode here:
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‘I Was C***-Blocked!’: Conan O’Brien Says Al Gore Ruined His One Chance To Meet Bob Dylan

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MSNBC guest Laurie Kilmartin brought a panel discussion to a screeching halt when she claimed that she&#8217;d like to &#8220;make sweet love&#8221; to whoever leaked the early opinion draft regarding the Supreme Court&#8217;s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women&#8217;s health Organization.
The <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/clarence-thomas-speaks-out-on-draft-leak-says-court-cant-be-bullied/">draft</a>, written by conservative Justice Samuel Alito, indicated that the court might be preparing to <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/mcconnell-claims-a-national-abortion-ban-is-possible-if-roe-v-wade-is-overturned/">overturn</a> two landmark abortion rulings — Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey — and return control of abortion restrictions and legislation to the states.
Kilmartin, a staff writer for Conan O&#8217;Brien, joined a panel discussion on the topic moderated by MSNBC&#8217;s Ayman Mohyeldin — who began the discussion with the claim that Republicans were relying on the court to advance their agenda because the American people would not vote for it.
&#8220;Do you agree that this is going against the undemocratic will, but this is the only way Republicans can achieve this?&#8221; he asked.
&#8220;Yeah, I guess so,&#8221; Kilmartin replied. &#8221;
Here’s my feeling about the leaker. I would like to find out who the leaker is, so I could make sweet love to that person, because that person is a hero to me. Okay? And if the leaker — a lot of people are saying it could be a conservative — if the leaker is a Republican, and if I get pregnant during our lovemaking, I will joyfully abort our fetus, and let them know.&#8221;
&#8220;I don’t know if that answered your question. I probably didn’t,&#8221; Kilmartin continued as Mohyeldin and the other panelists struggled to keep their laughter under control.
Kilmartin later suggested that if Roe were to be overturned, every Democrat in Congress who was over the age of 87 should protest the decision by going on a hunger strike.
Her comment came about when Mohyeldin asked what she believed Democrats should be doing now, especially in the context of criticisms for those who had not worked to codify Roe and cement the right to abortion with legislation when former President Barack Obama had a supermajority in Congress.
&#8220;Well, this is controversial, but I think that every Democratic member of Congress who’s over the age of 87 should go on a hunger strike for abortion rights, because let’s face it, they don’t have much longer anyway. You might as well go out a hero in a blaze of glory. Be the Bobby Sands of abortion,&#8221; Kilmartin concluded, referencing the Irish Republican Army member who died after going on a <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-56937259">hunger strike</a> while in prison.
&#8220;You know I am a comedian. I know we have like two very serious answers and I’m just giving a joke, and everybody’s like, that’s a terrible policy. It is, guys. You don’t have to take me seriously,&#8221; Kilmartin added.

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Paul Rudd has been trolling Conan O’Brien for years, and he just did it again and got away with it because O’Brien never saw it coming. The incident went down during an appearance Rudd made on the “Conan O&#8217;Brien Needs a Friend” <a href="https://www.earwolf.com/episode/paul-rudd-returns/">podcast</a>. 
Fans will remember that over the years, the actor would appear on O’Brien’s late-night show and start talking about a project he was working on, often coming up with elaborate set-ups full of detail and specifics. But then instead of playing a promo of whatever he was talking about, the actor would instead show a weird 30-second clip from the 1988 bomb “Mac and Me” of a child speeding down a hillside in an uncontrollable wheelchair.
It was like Rudd’s personal version of rickrolling just for O’Brien.
Rudd’s most recent troll happened earlier this week and was especially hilarious because of how unexpected it was. As usual, the actor prefaced the prank with a long-winded setup, this time talking about developing his own scripted podcast for Audible. 
&#8220;It&#8217;s been really kind of great because I don&#8217;t normally get the opportunity to work on my own things like that,” Rudd said. &#8220;I&#8217;m usually a hired gun. But it&#8217;s been fun, and I&#8217;ve been working on it and recording it with my friends.&#8221;
Rudd went on to describe the all-star cast, which he claimed included Adam Scott, Ken Marino, and Celia Watson. The “Knocked Up” alum said he would appear in the series as a publicist who falls in love with a woman working in a New Orleans craft store.
After describing his exciting new project for a few minutes, Rudd offhandedly mentioned that he has a clip to share with O’Brien as a teaser if he wanted to hear it. “We’ve recorded it,” the actor said, “If you want to play a little bit of it …”
“Sure!” O’Brien replied.
Fans laughed when they found out it was none other than the infamous “Mac and Me” clip that Rudd keeps tricking him with.
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“Oh for Christ&#8217;s sake!&#8221; O&#8217;Brien exclaimed upon finding out he’d been fooled again. &#8220;Why? Why! You can&#8217;t do this on a podcast! That&#8217;s why I didn&#8217;t see it coming! &#8230;  It&#8217;s a visual joke!&#8221;
Rudd replied with a laugh. “I know, would it work that way? I dunno!” 
“Was there any truth to anything you said in the setup?” O’Brien asked next.
“No,” said Rudd. “None of that was true.”
“Oh, Jesus,” O’Brien said upon realizing he’d been so utterly fooled once again. “The joke continues. You had me completely fooled, honestly, because I didn’t think … you can’t do that on a podcast,” the late-night host said again.
Maybe next time he won’t trust a word Rudd said. It would be funnier if he kept believing him, though.
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Paul Rudd Trolls Conan O’Brien With ‘Mac And Me’ Clip Yet Again; ‘You Can’t Do This On A Podcast!’

It seems even Hollywood’s most notorious left-wing activists are waking up to the dangers of cancel culture.
In the July 5 episode of the podcast, “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend,” the recently retired host of “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” asked veteran actor Sean Penn about the trend of destroying careers for past political incorrectness.
“Empathy is a very important word and also forgiveness,” said O’Brien. “We found that someone did something in 1979 that is now not appropriate. They’re dead to us.” O’Brien went on to describe cancel culture as “very Soviet,” saying, “People can also be forgiven. If they even need forgiving. What happened to that?”
Penn agreed with O’Brien, calling the practice “ludicrous.”
In illustration, Penn brought up Alexi McCammond, editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue who was fired after only a few weeks on the job for anti-Asian comments she tweeted as a teenager. “When we’re destroying careers like that, what are we really achieving? What are we doing?” the Oscar-winning star of films like “I Am Sam” and “Mystic River” wondered.
The two men then turned to how the trend is impacting their particular genres of show business with Penn pointing out that he would no longer be considered for a part like groundbreaking gay activist Harvey Milk because he’s straight.
“Today, almost certainly I would not be permitted to be cast in that role,” Penn said. “We’re living in a time when, if you’re playing a gay lead character, you’d have to be a gay man or a trans character. And there have been these casting issues.&#8221;
He then warned that the Left has pushed the cause of “representation&#8221; too far. “When you have a period of evolution that certainly has an opportunity for people who have had less opportunities to move forward. That has to be supported, and yet in this pendulum swing society that we’re in, you wonder at some point if only Danish Princes can play Hamlet. It is, I believe, too restrictive. People are looking for gotcha moments and to criticize.&#8221;
O’Brien likened Penn’s experience to the current tendency among late-night talk show hosts to make comedy political—a trend he has pointedly resisted because, he said, it can lead to “losing your way” when it comes to being funny:
“I know people in comedy, people who do the job that I do that feel like there’s so much that’s happening that doesn’t feel funny that they feel like it’s their job to speak out about those things,” he said, adding. “And I think, yes that’s great but it’s easy for that to just turn into anger and outrage, and then you’re not, you feel like you’re losing your way as a comedian. And I think that’s what gets so tricky right now.”
O’Brien continued, “The job is ‘how can I reflect some of what’s happening around me, but also for me, I just know that I serve at the altar of silliness and comedy and that is what I need to try and get back to. That’s what I need to — that’s where my strength comes and that means, I have to be honest with you, there are times when the news is such that I feel like my comedy can’t have anything to do with it. And some people might say, ‘Well, that’s a cop-out. You should make your comedy about what is happening right now.’ And I just think, frankly, I don’t have that ability. There are times when it’s embarrassing to be in show business.”

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Actor Rob Lowe stunned late-night host Conan O&#8217;Brien this week when he revealed his friendship with conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
Speaking about his hosting gig on the FOX quiz show &#8220;Mental Samurai,&#8221; Lowe revealed that Clarence Thomas would be one of his guests and that the two have been rather friendly for a while.
&#8220;Are you guys really close?&#8221; O’Brien asked Lowe.
&#8220;See. Look at those eyes. That eye vein popped,” Lowe joked. “But he’s a guy people go, ‘You know him?'&#8221;
&#8220;Wait, you know him?&#8221; a seemingly surprised O&#8217;Brien responded, as reported by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/rob-lowe-conan-obrien-friendship-supreme-court-justice-clarence-thomas">Fox News</a>.
According to Lowe, the two met when he was inducted into the Horatio Alger Society a few years ago, prompting their friendship.
“I do know him. I got inducted into the Horatio Alger Society a couple years ago. &#8230; It’s a very exclusive, very amazing society that provides scholarships for kids who come from terrible, terrible backgrounds,” Lowe said. “But they are the best and the brightest in their classes. And the people in it are pretty studly. He’s one of them. That’s how we met. They put the medal on me in the halls of the Supreme Court.&#8221;
“Wow. Okay,” O’Brien said.
Lowe described Thomas as a generous man who even provided some helpful career advice to his own son.
&#8220;The reason I bring it up is he’s one of those people who occupies such a perception in people’s minds and he’s like, ‘If you ever need anything, call my number. This is my cell phone,’” Lowe said. &#8220;And then my son Matthew was going to law school. So I had some ideas about clerking and things like that.&#8221;
&#8220;So I call this cell phone and he answers it. And you’re like, &#8216;Geeze. Shouldn’t there be, like, a vetting process?&#8217; And 45 minutes he’s giving me advice on what my son should do vis-a-vis law school and clerking,&#8221; he continued.
Though his political stance is murky at best, Rob Lowe has never conformed to the Hollywood leftist dictates that seek to ostracize conservatives from all of public life by dismissing their ideas and leaders as subhumans unworthy of debate or quarter. The Hollowverse <a href="https://hollowverse.com/rob-lowe/">characterized him</a> as a liberal-leaning man that respects conservative views. For instance, he previously said, &#8220;Liberal politics is built on empathy. I think conservative politics, from my opinion, is built on logic.&#8221;
During the 2016 election, Rob Lowe voiced his support for the movie &#8220;13 Hours,&#8221; which chronicled the 2012 attack on the U.S. Embassy in Benghazi.
&#8220;If you haven&#8217;t seen 13 Hours, it&#8217;s a perfect <a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MemorialDay?src=hashtag_click" data-focusable="true">#MemorialDay</a> movie. A reminder of everything we should never forget. Particularly in 2016,&#8221; he tweeted.
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If you haven&#39;t seen 13 Hours, it&#39;s a perfect <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MemorialDay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MemorialDay</a> movie. A reminder of everything we should never forget. Particularly in 2016.
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Lowe also <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rob-lowe-elizabeth-warren_n_5c5fbf9ce4b0eec79b2424e5">sparked outrage</a> among his liberal peers when he tweeted a joke about Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) that sound like something President Trump would conjure up.
&#8220;Elizabeth Warren would bring a whole new meaning to Commander in &#8216;Chief,'&#8221; he tweeted.
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On Sunday morning, late-night television host Conan O&#8217;Brien, who has consistently attacked Senator Ted Cruz over the years, moaned about the effect the coronavirus has had upon him. Cruz promptly seized the opening, issuing a hilarious and pointed response.
O&#8217;Brien complained, &#8220;I&#8217;m starting to miss things I hated.&#8221;
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I&#39;m starting to miss things I hated.
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Cruz, not mentioning that O&#8217;Brien is harder to find on his current network than he was at the peak of his career on NBC,  answered succinctly, &#8220;I miss you too.&#8221;
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I miss you too. <a href="https://t.co/xv32g5DE2h">https://t.co/xv32g5DE2h</a>
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1251921851649085442?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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In March 2015, O’Brien <a href="https://teamcoco.com/jokes/march-23-2015-texas-senator-and-tea-party-favorite-ted-cruz-has-announced-he-s-running-for-president-he-pledged-to-lead-america-boldly-forward-into-the-late-1950s">carped,</a> “Texas senator and Tea Party favorite Ted Cruz has announced he’s running for president. He pledged to ‘Lead America boldly forward into the late 1950’s.&#8217;”
In March 2016, O’Brien tweeted: &#8220;A lot of people want Ted Cruz to win, but are we ready for a President that’s a melting candle?”
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A lot of people want Ted Cruz to win, but are we ready for a President that’s a melting candle?
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Also in March 2016, O’Brien <a href="https://www.mrctv.org/videos/late-night-hosts-promote-national-enquirer-smear-bash-ted-cruz">promoted</a> the National Enquirer’s smear of Cruz, asserting, “A big possible scandal for Ted Cruz; I don’t know if you’re keeping up with this; it’s been reported that a contributor to CNN has been having an affair with Ted Cruz. Now, all I can say is way-to-go, Wolf Blitzer … no, Ted Cruz is being accused of having affairs with five different women. Five! Five different women! Yeah, and five different women are being accused of having terrible taste in men. So, I’m just telling you what’s happening.”
In May 2016, during a rally in Indiana, which was going to hold its presidential primary, a young boy hollered &#8220;you suck&#8221; toward Cruz while he was on stage.   O&#8217;Brien <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/05/03/punchlines-cruz-trump-indiana-fallon-kimmel-noah-conan-colbert/83872038/">commented,</a>“A young boy, a young boy, yelled ‘You suck’ at Ted Cruz. A little kid! A little kid! He’s a little kid! ‘You suck!’ In other words, there’s hope for America’s future after all.”
After Cruz dropped out of the presidential race in 2016, O’Brien <a href="https://teamcoco.com/video/conan-remembers-the-2016-gop">mocked him</a> by claiming the reason he had dropped out was a  “wooden stake through heart.”
In early March 2020, speaking in his monologue on TBS, O’Brien <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJiksD6iTt4">sniped</a>, “Here’s the latest. After being near someone who had the coronavirus. Texas senator Ted Cruz said he will now work for home. Yeah, yeah. When asked for comment, Ted’s wife and two children said, ‘What a dick.’”
O’Brien rose from serving as a writer for Saturday Night Live starting in 1988 to writing for The Simpsons in 1991, then segueing to replacing David Letterman on Late Night in 1993, where he stayed until 2009. He then moved upward again to host The Tonight Show, taking over from Jay Leno in 2009. But the ratings dropped well below Leno’s, prompting NBC to decide he should move back to late night.
Since 2010, O’Brien has appeared on TBS.
When he left the Tonight Show, O’Brien issued this <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/22/AR2010012200715.html?nav=hcmodule">statement</a>:
<blockquote>Every comedian, every comedian dreams of hosting The Tonight Show and—for seven months—I got to do it. I did it my way, with people I love, and I do not regret a second [of it]&#8230;. All I ask is one thing, and I&#8217;m asking this particularly of young people that watch: Please do not be cynical. I hate cynicism; for the record it&#8217;s my least favorite quality. It doesn&#8217;t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you&#8217;re kind, amazing things will happen.</blockquote>
And if you consistently attack Ted Cruz, your moment will come.

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Comedian Whitney Cummings (&#8220;2 Broke Girls&#8221;) recalled once being reported to Human Resources by an &#8220;agnostic&#8221; intern because she wished the staff of a TV show a &#8220;Merry Christmas.&#8221;
During an appearance on Conan O&#8217;Brien, Cummings said that politically correct terminology is one of the most stressful parts of the season.
&#8220;Last year, I was working on a TV show, got in trouble with human resources for saying &#8216;Merry Christmas&#8217; to an intern,&#8221; Cummings said, as reported by Fox News.
&#8220;Is that true?&#8221; O&#8217;Brien responded.
&#8220;That&#8217;s true. I was leaving&#8230; I was like, &#8216;Bye, guys. Merry Christmas.&#8217; Like just a formality, what you would say,&#8221; Cummings explained. &#8220;I come back, like, June 6th. H.R. calls me and they&#8217;re like, &#8216;Hey, we need to talk to you. One of the interns is pissed off that you said &#8216;Merry Christmas.'&#8221;
Cummings said she meant nothing deeper by the rather generic holiday phrase.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t even care how your Christmas was,&#8221; Cummings said. &#8220;I just meant it as a formality. That&#8217;s what you say when you leave, right?&#8221;
O&#8217;Brien interjected that &#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221; is triggering to some people. &#8220;In these times that we&#8217;re in, that could trigger someone or offend them if it&#8217;s not their holiday,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;Well, that&#8217;s what I said,&#8221; Cummings shot back. &#8220;I asked, &#8216;Well, what should I have said? Do they celebrate something else?&#8217; And they&#8217;re like, &#8216;No, they&#8217;re agnostic.'&#8221;
&#8220;I was like, no, no, no, no, no. You do not get to do that,&#8221; Cummings continued. &#8220;Because had I known that this person was agnostic, that would mean we were in a relationship, like, that would mean we were intimately connected.&#8221;
&#8220;I should not know who believes in God and who doesn&#8217;t,&#8221; Cummings added. &#8220;I also can&#8217;t guess either, you know? I can&#8217;t guess your holiday based on what you like. That&#8217;s offensive. I can&#8217;t be like, &#8216;Hey Merry&#8230; Happy Hannukkah.'&#8221;
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Cummings&#8217; confession about getting put on timeout by Human Resources for uttering the phrase &#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221; comes a few days after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/saying-merry-christmas-is-a-gop-talking-point-leftists-melt-over-gorsuch-fox-friends-appearance">leftists expressed outrage</a> over Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch saying the same greeting during an appearance on Fox News this week. The phrase, said some critics, is a Republican &#8220;talking point.&#8221;
“Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch just appeared on Fox and Friends this morning, making a point to parrot the ‘Merry Christmas’ talking point of the GOP,” said Playboy journalist Amee Vanderpool. “If he’s willing to go on Fox and throw a shout out to Republican narratives, what [else] is he willing to do?”
“On Fox News, Neil Gorsuch made a point to say ‘Merry Christmas’ like he just gained the freedom to say it under Trump. This guy is such a worst case scenario of a stolen Supreme Court seat,” said comedian Sean Kent.
During the campaign of 2016 and following his election, President Trump promised to buck the culture of political correctness he saw during the Christmas season. Accordingly, Trump denounced the phrase, “Happy Holidays.”
“We’re getting near that beautiful Christmas season that people don’t talk about anymore. They don’t use the word Christmas because it’s not politically correct,” he said to a crowd in 2017. “You go to department stores and they’ll say ‘Happy New Year,’ or they’ll say other things and it’ll be red, they’ll have it painted. But they don’t say — well guess what? We’re saying Merry Christmas again.”

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On Monday, Conan O&#8217;Brien had on Bill Burr to give his take on many things, including how President Trump&#8217;s doing, the inauguration, and Hillary. 
In the clip below, Burr perfectly lays out the Left&#8217;s weak attempts to explain away Clinton&#8217;s loss, hilariously punctuating it by saying, &#8220;SHE BLEW IT!&#8221; 
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The video opens with Burr cracking Conan up by admitting he watched the inauguration while his wife was in labor with their child. &#8220;He literally trashed everybody,&#8221; Burr said of Trump&#8217;s speech adding, &#8220;He did it like the Elliot Ness speech in the Untouchables. The only thing he was missing was a 2&#215;4.&#8221;
When Conan segued into Hillary and insinuated that it must&#8217;ve been hard for her to show up after losing two presidential elections, Burr wasn&#8217;t having any of it.
&#8220;I&#8217;m sick of people making excuses for her. She blew it,&#8221; Burr said to a completely quiet audience. &#8220;See that? Nobody thinks that, but she blew it. Listen, she lost to a guy who said three things a week that would torpedo anyone else&#8217;s campaign. How do you do that? It&#8217;s like playing a football game where the other team throws 20 interceptions, and you still figure out how to blow it. At what point do you take responsibility?&#8221; 
Burr wasn&#8217;t done. He slammed the Left for doing what they do best, making it about race even when it&#8217;s two old, rich, white people running for office.
&#8220;I love the &#8216;racist white guy thing,'&#8221; the comedian began as he started an impression of the insane liberal HIllary defenders. &#8220;A bunch of racist white guys came out of the forest and they were just going &#8216;Trump Trump Trump!&#8217; It&#8217;s like where were all these racist white guys the last two elections when they could&#8217;ve voted against a black guy. &#8216;Oh I don&#8217;t mind the black guy but this white lady, we gotta stop her!&#8221;
Conan piped back, chuckling, &#8220;So, not a lot of sympathy there for Hillary Clinton.&#8221;
&#8220;NO. You blew it. YOU. BLEW. IT,&#8221; Burr hammered home. &#8220;You put the wrong team around you. You didn&#8217;t generate enough excitement to beat this guy. I mean, it was unbelievable.&#8221;

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On Tuesday, former Seattle Seahawks star running back Marshawn Lynch, speaking to Conan O&#8217;Brien on TBS&#8217; &#8220;Conan,&#8221; somehow twisted Colin Kaepernick&#8217;s national anthem protest to the Hands-Up-Don&#8217;t-Shoot false narrative of Michael Brown. Lynch said he would rather Kaepernick take a knee during the national anthem then &#8220;put his hands up and get murdered.&#8221;
According to Lynch&#8217;s logic, those nasty police have players standing for the national anthem in their crosshairs.
The exchange with the obsequious O&#8217;Brien went like this:
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O&#8217;Brien: Colin Kaepernick? Lots of opinions out there about what he is doing, taking a knee &#8211;
Lynch: Taking a knee.
O&#8217;Brien: &#8211; during the national anthem. What are your thoughts? I really respect your opinion. What do you think?
Lynch: Well, I mean, with what&#8217;s going on, you know, I&#8217;d rather see him take a knee than stand up, put his hands up and get murdered, so I mean, my take on it is s&#8212;, they got to start somewhere and if that was the starting point, I just hope people open up their eyes and see that there&#8217;s really a problem going on and something needs to be done for it to stop, and I mean, if you&#8217;re really not racist, then you won&#8217;t see what he&#8217;s doing as a threat to America but just addressing the problem that we have.
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O&#8217;Brien, supinely, &#8220;Right. Not a threat to the game, not a threat to America. I was feeling that.&#8221;
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