Conan pronounces Tarja’s name properly (sorta)
Thanks to Conan O’Brien, Tarja Halonen has been re-elected, and he’s got a few demands of her…
Watch the video from January 31st… (7MB) (if anyone has a higher quality clip, please send us a link!)
Here’s a higher quality (36MB) version. Thanks to Mr. T for the link!
LOL! It’s Conan being silly again xD!
Comment by cameraperson — Thu, Feb 2nd, 2006 @ 11:43 pm
http://users.tkk.fi/~ssaarima/c/conan20060131_tarjavoitto.avi (36.9 Mb)
Comment by Mr. T — Thu, Feb 2nd, 2006 @ 11:51 pm
He got Tarja’s name right, then quickly doubled back and mispronounced it again & said they would discuss the correct way to say it. (Does that mean he is actually going to meet with Tarja when he goes to Finland?)
Comment by Gary — Fri, Feb 3rd, 2006 @ 12:07 am
Praise the mighty Conan, for joining Lapland to Norway, instead of Russia!
Comment by Sale — Fri, Feb 3rd, 2006 @ 12:27 am
thank god that was short ^_^
well at least shorter than used to, but the trend is good.
Comment by brlpbrlp — Fri, Feb 3rd, 2006 @ 1:43 am
Haha! I wish he’d commented on that sly remark, “What now, Sauli?” on the newspaper.
Comment by Mo — Fri, Feb 3rd, 2006 @ 6:32 am
That airport picture must be from Siperia or something =)
When Conan comes to Finland he really should visit Helsinki’s nightlife and comment about the boozing culture. And the suburb named Konala.
Comment by Pepe — Fri, Feb 3rd, 2006 @ 12:14 pm
LOL. I know the Finnish guy among the guests. He works at the K-market near my place.
Comment by Nokia Guy — Fri, Feb 3rd, 2006 @ 1:32 pm
is it a kkk market?
Comment by Anonymous — Fri, Feb 3rd, 2006 @ 2:27 pm
For a minute I thought that was Malmi Airport, but its not round enough.
Mind you, would anyone mind if Malmi Airport was renamed Conan O’Brien International Airport?
-BM
Comment by Badgermushroom — Fri, Feb 3rd, 2006 @ 2:59 pm
Huh, bit of an anticlimax dont you think? Considering all that campaigning he did.
“Does that mean he is actually going to meet with Tarja when he goes to Finland?”
I’m Afraid so. Maria Romantchuk (spelling???) said that if they find time then they will consider it. I’m not so sure if it’s such a good idea. If it would be Tim Sebastian or Larry King conducting the interview then hell yeah, but a guy from a late night comedy show – could go sour.
Comment by Timppa — Fri, Feb 3rd, 2006 @ 3:11 pm
“Praise the mighty Conan, for joining Lapland to Norway instead of Russia!”
Huh!!!
Comment by conan — Fri, Feb 3rd, 2006 @ 5:05 pm
LOL. I know the Finnish guy among the guests. He works at the K-market near my place
Actor Kevin Klein works near you?!?
Comment by Phil — Fri, Feb 3rd, 2006 @ 6:38 pm
Conan should visit the KKK-market!
Comment by Sale — Fri, Feb 3rd, 2006 @ 7:31 pm
LOL…it’s just a K-Market…not many KKKs on Mannerheimintie are there.
Haven’t seen him in the last couple of days and he wasn’t there today either.
Comment by Nokia Guy — Fri, Feb 3rd, 2006 @ 7:50 pm
he does look a bit like Kevin Klein and he isn’t coming back to Finland, he’s got the job at Kmart now
Comment by conan — Fri, Feb 3rd, 2006 @ 8:20 pm
Conan should visit the KKK-market!
I bet he’s going right from the airport to the closest one. Oh, and on his way from the airport he needs to stop by the “FAG” store.
Comment by Phil — Fri, Feb 3rd, 2006 @ 9:55 pm
Yeah, he does look little bit like Kevin Klein.
LOL@ the “FAG” store.
I think conan should go to the KKKK…the one up market
Comment by Nokia Guy — Fri, Feb 3rd, 2006 @ 10:59 pm
“Even your clapping is depressing…”
I wonder how nasty Conan will get till this joke finally is over. The plot is already clear and it’s the same as in Monty Python’s song “Finland”. Finland is so obscure and insignificant a country – hell, it doesn’t even have history – that that alone is funny. Add a few stereotypes about drinking, depression, and perhaps tango, and you’ll get sufficiently funny comedy, hopefully.
In case the program team happens to read this, here are a few suggestions:
- Kimi Räikkönen interviewed after a victory in Formula One. How funny can speaking English get, and, by the way, does he have soul at all? A typical Finnish male!
- Present the Washington Post articles praising Finland from last summer and then contrast them with the number of suicides.
- Dig up strange things from Halonen’s past, after all, she’s been an advocate for homosexuals, she was a single mother who wasn’t even married when she got elected for the first time, and she’s a socialist, for heaven’s sake. A typical Finnish male!
- Alko’s spirits monopoly shows that the Finns can’t control their drinking without help from the government – and not even then: show teenagers getting drunk on weekends in down-town Helsinki.
- Matti Nykänen, once the foremost ski jumper (what’s that anyways) in the world, since that a drunk who did time for “knifing” his friend. A typical Finnish male!
- Renny Harlin, not exactly the most successful movie director in history (see Cutthroat Island’s record)
- The Finnish language is not only incomprehensible, it’s ugly too. “Epäjärjestlmällistymättömyydellänsäkään†is actually a meaningful word in Finnish. “Voinks mä tulla teille yöks†asks a typical Finnish male meaning about the same as “voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soirâ€Â.
- Finland fought alongside the Nazis, the ulitimate evil, against freedom. How much worse can it get?
Comment by Anonymous — Sat, Feb 4th, 2006 @ 1:14 pm
The gingerheadman could at least have taken extra land out of Russia and Sweden instead of taking some of Lapland off for the head shape.
Comment by A Finn — Sat, Feb 4th, 2006 @ 7:19 pm
Ah, anonymous, you got the last one wrong:
“Finns fought alongside the Nazis, against the ultimate evil, to save the remainder of their freedom.”
And you forgot that Tarja, as a typical Finnish maale, goes to bellydancing classes…
Comment by Hank W. — Mon, Feb 6th, 2006 @ 9:07 am