We may have the next great “Late Night With Conan O’Brien” character- a Mr. Ed-like talking horse called “Cloppy the Late Night Horse.” On last night’s show Cloppy (a guy in a horse costume), in the course of an interview with Conan, shot both a farmer and the paramedic trying to save him with a shotgun, and later intimated that he had once committed bestiality with the arresting officer.
Googling around for Cloppy info after the show was over, I came across two interesting websites- the first, which I will not be linking to, was a pro-bestiality message board expressing hope that the Cloppy character was an indication of mainstream “acceptance” of man-on-horse love (Sen. Santorum, however, may be interested in such a site).
The second was just as funny (albeit unintentionally) as the sketch itself- a group called CleanTV apparently goes through every network television show, points out all the raunch, and produces a weekly “Raunch Report,” along with boycott-ready lists of local advertisers. (In this case, it’s KSL-TV, the NBC affiliate in Salt Lake City, Utah; no, I wasn’t able to find the Super Bowl installment). These are people who clearly love to be self-righteous, yet have no clue whatsoever about anything they’re writing about.
Yes, there are references to racy jokes on Jay Leno and “Friends,” especially a “Friends” episode with “Baby's Birthday Cake Decorated with Penis with Baby's Face on Penis.” But aside from that, the “Raunch Report” seems to have a bit of, shall we say, a one-track mind. Within just a few paragraphs, it refers to:
- “Homosexual Andy Dick” (who, last I heard, was straight)
- Ellen DeGeneres, “a funny lesbian activist.”
- “Homosexual comedian/actor Scott Thompson.”
- Leno regular “Ross the Gay Intern.”
- Conan joking about “Barbie and Ken dolls --Ken being a homosexual.”
- And a “Will & Grace” episode review states, wrongly, that it is “a top rated show about two homosexual lovers (Will & Jack).”
Clearly, these guys throw around “gay” the way al-Jazeera throws around “Jew.” Yet for some reason, Boy George is referred to as simply “singer and guest Boy George”- this writer’s gaydar must be way off.
But my favorite of the whole roundup is this, referring to a Leno appearance: “Guest Will Ferrell was pretty clean with only a reference to having a threesome.”
Sick of nonsense like this? Check out Howard Stern’s new website, which has evolved from the usual T&A festival to a sort of command center for Stern’s First Amendment battle. It even leads with a Justice William Brennan quote.
Posted by Stephen Silver at April 15, 2004 06:15 PMdid you know that carrot top's real name is also scott thompson? I learned that at Quizzo ...
Posted by: LilB at April 18, 2004 12:31 PM