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Tylertwo
Conan's similarity to the Finish Prime Minister? or Finish President? was very amusing, but did you know that the voice that he uses to represent nerds like Trekkies or fools who believe WWF wrestling is not a staged pseudo-wrestling is very similar to two important historical figures. The first is only more than slightly close. Marvin the Martian from Bugs Bunny must come from at least the same planet as Conan's nerds. A linguist would be able to tell within several asteroids the nerd that Conan is imitating's home planet by using Marvin the Martian as a starting referrance.

The second more important figure that Conan's nerd voice imitates is former Prime Minister of Canada Lester B. Pearson! He was as I remember it the author of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights! He also was the Prime Minister who when he was in office worked with the other parties to create the National Medicare System of Canada. An idea that started in the early fifties in Saskatchewan and that some States are just toying with now!

If you would like to get a hold of sound bites Of Prime Minister Pearson you can contact CBC radio and they have an archive. They also have a talk show called "Sounds like Canada" which specializes in all things auditorally Canadian. When you hear Pearson speak you will laugh at how cruel nature was to give such a compassionate intellegent statesman such a goofy sounding voice.

While we are on the subject of voices that are too silly for the credibility of the person speaking them see if you can find a later recording of Einstein. His voice is the voice used to model Professor Mc Qwack on Donald Duck cartoons and movies.
SonOfJoel_1
I've always sensed that Conan idolizes Lincoln, who came into "a house divided" and made the nation one again. You can see it in last year's jokes about uniting the red and blue states, the most prominent joke from which was "Gun totin', NASCAR-drivin' Jesus."

And maybe being tall and depressive has something to do with it, too.

Conan should grow a big Lincoln-sized beard and do the monkey dance with a ten-gallon hat on.

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OK, maybe not. But I still think the Lincoln connection is there. Especially when head writer Mike Sweeney "became" Lincoln and was rescued from Booth by Late Night staffer Jerry who went back in time and accidently saved his life. You should have seen what happened when Sweeney's Lincoln and his double from Planet of the Apes met in person. Let's just say that "bones" were "jumped." (I'm not saying by who, though.)

SonOfJoel
Pernod
And that's just the tip of the canoe.
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