MaxxLarge: That sentence needs to be taken out behind the shed and shot.

Good call. Fixed.

Calmamity: Fixed what?

Touche.

MaxxLarge: FTA: "We were just in a Best Buy today, though we did not see an ridiculously tall Irishmen with large heads of red hair parading around the aisles."

That sentence needs to be taken out behind the shed and shot.

Now it reads "enormous skulls".

What?

Conan's skull is, in fact, enormous.

Conan is brilliant. His success will NEVER fleet.

Conan, why are you underrated?

/saw it last night, I laughed myself to sleep

klymen: Conan is brilliant. His success will NEVER fleet.

Yeah, he turned an ad for Best Buy and Kodak into a semi-funny sketch. I swear, they should pay him for this magical feat.

Soooo....Conan did a 6 minute commercial for Best Buy and Kodak, ate some Italian food and stole a blender. Hilarious.

I'd rather see him dubbing voices on anime.

Direct link to the video at NBC: Conan Works at Best Buy (new window)

Video was good, but I almost passed out from hunger after reading that long headline that went so far to achieve so little.

I wonder if I can get green lights by writing a little video description for the Examiner and whoring it out to Fark.

/nah, way too lazy

IAmNotRickMoranis: Calmamity: Fixed what?

Touche.

So someone took that sentence out back and shot it? It was just trying its best!

Meh

Actually Andy did it to stay grounded otherwise he would have worked as an accountant or something a little more lucrative. Being a bus boy ensured he never looked down on other people.

I thought "ok, I guess I can sit through a Best Buy commercial for the sake of comedy".

Then came the "best buy exlcusive Kodak product" crap and I was done.

All they left out was the closeup of them chugging Pepsi while discussing their next job search on Monster.com (tm).

All that's left is for Congress to mandate printing the words "paid advertisement" during any paid product placements and my TV would have permanent burn-in.

theologian: I thought "ok, I guess I can sit through a Best Buy commercial for the sake of comedy".

Then came the "best buy exlcusive Kodak product" crap and I was done.

All they left out was the closeup of them chugging Pepsi while discussing their next job search on Monster.com (tm).

All that's left is for Congress to mandate printing the words "paid advertisement" during any paid product placements and my TV would have permanent burn-in.

Welcome to America. For many years I have been filtering the internet with blockers and such, my fingers are trained to automatically detect an approaching commercial on television and hit the mute button without me even thinking it, and do so in the short fade-to-black between the show and advertisement. In fact, my fingers have a high success rate at also guessing exactly what commercial ends the long stretch of advertising feces and usually unmutes the TV exactly as the show resumes.

That's in the odd chance you can even catch me watching TV, 98% of "TV" that I watch is actually commercial-free full HD episodes downloaded from the internet.

When visiting somebody else's home, and they are watching TV, and commercials come on AT THREE TIMES THE LOUDNESS OF THE PROGRAM, they don't even mute it or change the channel but sit there staring straight into their brainwash session, I cringe.

I consciously look away from billboards on the side of the road that litter the landscape like chickenpox on a dalmatian.

Conan, I understand you need to make money, we all do. However a man of your status should be able to turn a profit with quality comedy skits instead of just blatantly sucking the penis of advertisers in the red light district. They get enough farking airtime in their hour-long slot that's only broken by the occasional interjection of your show. And I'm positive they absolutely hate to stop showing people their commercials for the programs the people actually tuned in to see. This is evident by the fact that every farking channel superimposes large animated ads ON TOP OF THE SHOW you are watching in such clever transparent ways that initially you think the little 3-inch man in the lower-left corner of your screen is actually in the show you are watching and you think "what's that little 3 inch man for?", then you realize he's cramming an advertisement for another show at you while you are attempting to watch the program you tuned in to see, and you miss a great downblouse shot of some hot chick on Scrubs b/c there's a dancing elf in the way trying to get you to watch some reality smut tomorrow at 8/7 central.

/end rant