On Sunday Late night talk show host Conan O’Brien came to Finland.
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Finland is ultimately just another entry-stamp in Conan O’Brien’s passport: he has filmed past segments for his show in Canada, the Republic of Ireland, Germany, The Netherlands, and Australia. His 2004 Canadian road-trip – and the off-colour jokes it spawned about the hosts, particularly among the Québecois – led eventually to a tongue-in-cheek “grovelling apology” from the talk-show host.
It remains to be seen how Finland will fare at Conan’s hands when he gets home. You can invite a comedian here, but it’s a lot harder to tell him what’s funny and what is not.
Still, we’re used to it. The country has emerged more or less unscathed from the mosquito-swatting, wife-carrying, sauna-sitting, mobile phone-tossing, tango-dancing, air guitar-playing coverage it has routinely received in past years – and hey, let’s face it, the news items could have been a lot worse.
Ultimately another Irish wit was probably right on the money 115 years ago, when he noted that: “There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”