Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Is this real or a Saturday Night Live Skit?

I sat down to watch the Conan O’Brien interview on 60 minutes and shortly after the segment started I thought, “this looks a lot like an SNL skit”. Every thing from the way it was framed, to the soft focus, and the banter between Conan and Steve Croft. It was amusing to me that in this time of hybrid type news shows, i.e. The Daily Show and the Colbert Report, where you are getting news delivered in a satirical way, that an actual news show was invoking the same reaction from me as those shows. To me it seemed as though Conan was putting on a performance or an act rather than an interview, and he very well could have been.

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