Today, a Swedish friend (Richard Svahn) sent me some pictures of Conan O'Brien and the Finnish president Tarja Halunen (here's more). This is funny, of course, but I was more struck by the amount of Conan-specific noise on this one particular Finnish blog called Finland for Thought:
And this is all since the 13th of February---the day before Conan went to visit the Finnish president.
The tagline of the blog is "Politics, current events, culture - In Finland & United States," which I suppose does cover Conan O'Brien. However, 45% of all content on the first two pages is devoted to Conan O'Brien. Furthermore there are hundreds of megabytes of Conan video clips and at least 187 comments--JUST POSTED IN THE PAST FEW DAYS! Perhaps a new tagline should be considered.
Don't get me wrong, I love Conan, but this seems a little unhealthy for the proud country of Finland. As an outside observer, I think it's a bit overboard.
I will say this, if Finland is worried about an infiltration of American culture, I can't think of a better ambassador than Conan O'Brien (1, 2) to spearhead an American cultural invasion.
i think this is good 4 conan and halunen
its a littl funny....but good............i was watching conan last night and he was talking about all this............it was a rerun but i think that if conan iz popular and he looks like halunen.......she cood win da election and conan cood get sum................respect?
Is this obsession any different than the Germans and David Hassalholf or the French and retreating?
Oh snap! ...or "ihatetrucks" and not traveling well. Perhaps Jerry Lewis would have been a more diplomatic choice of words.
Olivier, feel free to kick this man in the groin.
Hold on. Let me finish eating my freedom toast first.
I saw Conan on the Today show. Apparently it all started when someone from Finland told him he looked like their president. Then he just started making regular jokes. After a while, he decided to make the trip over there and do a few shows from Finland. When he got off the plane, he was mobbed by over 2,000 people. That is nuts. He is like the Beatles to them
"Let me finish eating my freedom toast first" Ba-ZING!
I can't be the only person who has missed Jimmy's typo filled responses that magically get fixed later on in the day.
Don't be a stranger Jimmy.
As a Scandinavian, I'm not that surprised over all of this. If your light in life is to sit and sweat in a small room (sauna), or get insanely drunk on Finish Vodka, maybe Conan seems a bit exotic! Did you know that a typical appartment in Finland contains a sauna? It doesn't matter how small the appartment is. :)
"Did you know that a typical appartment in Finland contains a sauna?"
I did not know that and I find that funny on levels. I, however, hope the trend doesn't catch on in the states though as I find saunas pretty much useless.
I knew there were a lot of saunas and that they beat each other with birch branches while in these saunas, but I did not know that they were in practically every home.
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