{"id":360,"date":"2006-02-14T07:56:41","date_gmt":"2006-02-14T04:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kemars.com\/wordpress\/?p=360"},"modified":"2006-02-14T07:56:41","modified_gmt":"2006-02-14T04:56:41","slug":"conan-obrien-comes-to-finland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kemars.com\/?p=360","title":{"rendered":"Conan O’Brien comes to Finland"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Sunday Late night talk show host Conan O’Brien came to Finland.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.hs.fi\/english\/article\/Chat-show+host+sends+fans+into+near-hysteria+at+Helsinki+Airport\/1135218742446<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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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 Qu\u00c3\u00a9becois – led eventually to a tongue-in-cheek “grovelling apology” from the talk-show host. <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Sunday Late night talk show host Conan O’Brien came to Finland. http:\/\/www.hs.fi\/english\/article\/Chat-show+host+sends+fans+into+near-hysteria+at+Helsinki+Airport\/1135218742446 An excerpt of the article link above: – 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 – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kemars.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kemars.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kemars.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kemars.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kemars.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.kemars.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kemars.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kemars.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kemars.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}