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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...heart of gold. I didn't mean to hurt people. And I still don't. Triumph, fortunately - one nice thing about devolving into silly comedy is that there's less of a sting to it. The dog is so silly that the people I make fun of on Conan's show, they kind of eat it up. They have to love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'I Was the Class Comedy Bully' | 11/24/2000 | See Source »

...What I originally envisioned was doing a parody of "Bozo's Circus," which ran in the Midwest for years - still runs. It's really just, you know, I started combining puppets and live animals on the Conan show, most famously with Triumph the dog, and this is just an attempt to see how stupid that technique can get. It's an experiment. Right after "The Dana Carvey Show," I really had the idea to do something like this, and I got to do some of it on "Saturday Night Live," but I wanted to do more than 10 cartoons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'I Was the Class Comedy Bully' | 11/24/2000 | See Source »

...That started to make me think, "Wait a minute, maybe it's worth a try..." So I went to Chicago and joined a comedy group there. Took improv classes. Was found by Franken and Davis and hired by SNL in 1985. Did that show 'til 93. Then I did "Conan," which was the best experience of my life, but exhausting, and I quit after a year and a half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'I Was the Class Comedy Bully' | 11/24/2000 | See Source »

...Helllo? That's why I'm an absentee. In any case, four other family members didn't vote so it looks like the vote's going to come down to all the absentee Indians...In terms of possible solutions to the recount problem, I like the one proposed on Conan the best: "Governor Bush is president in the red states and the Vice President takes the blue states." Hell yeah! Give the fascist Idaho and Utah. But what happens to Florida, you ask? Sell it to Cuba for a nice pack of cigars!...Lara Flynn Boyle had flings with Jack...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In the (K)now | 11/17/2000 | See Source »

...late-night TV, Conan fantasized about a 24-hour breastfeeding channel. Madonna, however, clearly would not be a subscriber; frustrated by the pains of lactation, she pounded her fist during a recent interview to yell, "There will be life after breast feeding...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Soman's in the (K)now | 10/20/2000 | See Source »

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