As noted yesterday, Conan O’Brien had William Shatner read Levi Johnston’s tweets, which included statements about looking to acquire marijuana. Of course, the Twitter feed was fraudulent, and Johnston’s lawyer issued a demand for a public apology. Because Levi Johnston is such an upstanding public figure, you see.
So Conan issued an awesomely insincere apology, then brought Shatner out to read actual quotes that Johnston has said that make him look like an ass. It’s delicious. He did everything but put air quotes on his apology. That’s what I always do. Gosh, I’m real “sorry” about exposing myself on that subway car, your honor.
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A couple of months ago, Conan O’Brien brought William Shatner onto “The Tonight Show” to read Sarah Palin’s resignation speech (watch it here). Last night, Shatner appeared on the show again — this time to read selections from Levi Johnston’s Twitter feed.
As you should expect, the results are excellent. Shatner’s an actor whose best role is himself, and everything he touches is instantly better. He’s like tits or bacon that way.
(NBC video player here; best of Johnston’s Twitter here)
UPDATE: Johnston is demanding a retraction, claiming the feed is a fake. The feed in question is not one of Twitter’s “verified real” accounts.
On last night’s “Tonight Show,” Conan brought out William Shatner to read the poetic majesty of Sarah Palin’s resignation speech. This is all I ever ask of TV and the Internet. (NBC video player here.)
Second place in making fun of the retardery goes to Stephen Colbert — that video is below. Farewell to a great U.S. American. She is dead, right?
You may remember that an out-of-sorts William Shatner gave Conan O’Brien the finger on a recent episode of “The Tonight Show.” I covered it here because Conan can’t take a dump without me blogging about it.
Anyway, this new footage from behind the scenes shows that there’s a lot of give-and-take and bird-flipping in the Shatner-O’Brien relationship. I can appreciate that — it’s how my family waves goodbye to me at the holidays. Hey, don’t blame me, you’re the ones who didn’t put a lock on the liquor cabinet. Don’t serve chum at your party and expect the shark to sit in the corner, know what I’m sayin’?
William Shatner was the second guest on “The Tonight Show” last night (he was originally supposed to be the first, but Kobe Bryant was a last-second booking, bumping Christopher Mintz-Plasse from the show), and the original Captain Kirk showed up bloated, red-faced, and shall we say — ahem — “out of sorts.”
About five minutes into the interview (clip below), Shatner tries to make the Vulcan salute and fails miserably (he had to tie his fingers together with fishing line to do it on the original Star Trek), and Conan rightfully mocks him. That leads to Shatner giving Conan the finger, and Conan ends up on top of his desk, and… well, can I just say for the 300,000th time how wonderful it is that Jay Leno no longer hosts “The Tonight Show”? Because I never want to stop being thankful for that.
Here it is, the moment you haven’t particularly waited for: Chris Pine, who stars as James T. Kirk in the new Star Trek movie, introducing himself to the original Captain Kirk, William Shatner.
Somehow, I was expecting a little more from this moment. Like, I dunno. This could be the opening scene in Shatnerquake — as soon as Pine shakes Shatner’s hand, the fabric of space and time rips open and Shatner-Kirk kills Pine with a phaser while the real Shatner looks on. “No one. Can? Be me but. Me!” yells Shatner-Kirk.
But no. They just shook hands and Shatner introduced Pine to Mrs. Shatner. Real life is lame.
