Last night:
As the generation gap grows wider and wider, entertainers are forced to look at young people and guess what they are.
Last night:
As the generation gap grows wider and wider, entertainers are forced to look at young people and guess what they are. Unfortunately, their context only goes back about a dozen years or so and they’ve never bothered to update it. Therefore, if you have a beard and a headband, you must be doing another 70s revival. Even if your girlfriend has 50s glasses and lots of tattoos.
In this clip, the cameraman doesn’t even get that it’s the hipster and pans over to some jocks because one has a beard and the other has a headband.
Come on guys. You’re in pop culture for fuckssakes. Do a smidge of research every ten years. Cat Stevens? “It’s all groovy baby”?
The hipster is a good sport though and plays along with the seniors by flashing a peace sign.
In this clip, it becomes very clear Conan has never seen a young person with a big beard before. He mimes stroking it in awe.
Dude, get out of the house once and awhile. Where do you live?
In this clip, Conan says “C’mon man” in a hippie accent which hasn’t really been heard for about 100 years. TV comedy is turning into the Catskills.
Good observation. But you do have to admit: hippies and hipsters have a tremendous amount of shit in common.
A Tina Fey tweet
Oh you kids these days. I can’t tell which one is a hipster and which one’s a hobo. You’re all wearing beards, plaid, and riding a bike.
http://twitter.com/NotTinaFey/status/2109011094
“I’m sorry Andy, it seems as though there’s a greaser sitting behind you, a real hep cat.. look at him, he looks like he spends all of his time necking and hanging around the drug store, all hopped up on goofballs and milkshakes.” conan jumped jaws a while ago, but this is really gay.. as tim dog would say.. fuck compton.
what the fuck is the difference between the two? CD collection?
hippies were the hipsters of another era, AINT NO THANG
not even that. probably inseam of jeans is the only differing characteristic. Oh yeah, that and 1 smells like B.O. + weed, and the other smells like B.O. + chain grease.
either way, both will assuredly have ugly girlfriends who think that their “sense of style” makes up for an unkempt vag. go figure
hippie or hipster the guy looks like a goof. Conan should bring back Pimpbot 3000
Ha! He sounds like my uncle.
Proves Conan is becoming Letterman.
What’s all the tomatuhs? Conan can perfectly identify and impersonate any subset from the first few decades of the twentieth century down to the smallest bit of argot and that’s all that matters. Anything post 1949 is all the same shit to him.
hipsters are worse than hippies.
bring back Coked-up Wherewolf
Hippies were just the spoiled rich kids of another generation. I agree with the commenters above, but let me add my own spin: bring back masturbating bear!
yeah, or “if they mated” or “actual items”. all great bits.
Whatever, I’m gonna give Conan the benefit of the doubt on this one. He’s playing stupid in order to prove a point about how meaningless ANY sort of youth movement is since it amounts to the same thing in the end. Which is, oddly enough, kind of a ‘hipster’ point of view, so it’s fair game.
Come to think of it, he’s basically old enough to have been a hippie himself. He’s standing there thinking, yuk it up you asshole, because in twenty years either you’re going to be standing here in a suit forcing jokes that everyone knows are seven years late or you’ll be pushing a shopping cart muttering something about ‘freedom’ to your dog.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Hipster Pride?
store brand cola, i think you are giving conan waaaaaay to much credit. although i hope thats actually whats going down
and who the fuck is tina fey and when was the last time you saw a bum wearing plaid or riding a bike?!
‘who the fuck is tina fey’ is one of the funniest quips ive heard in a while
I witnessed this happen and felt mildly embarrassed for conan at the time, but he is a multi-milionaire jokester charged with keeping afloat a show that would make bob hope proud and keep jay leno on is his feet, what can be expected?
wow, that hippy looks like david cross with a fake beard.
bums ride bikes in los angeles silly. i guess that wasn’t covered in monday’s amazing los angeles expose.
doesn’t really matter what conan thinks of your pants or face. jokes about youthful counter-culture always end up corny as shit and come off like “happy hooker goes to washington”. o wait nobody here has seen that movie because they’re young yadda yadda pheonix at the apple store.
good material about “the kids these days” usually transcends the era it is set in. we all like “withnail” and eugene mirman on grunge. conan is funnier when he’s making the obscure history jokes (remember his simpsons?) and yes, the masturbating bear. who cares if he gets the suffix wrong on a word that pretty much just means pepsi max and rolling your eyes while karen o screams “art star” or something.
o yeah and catskills schlock from the 50s is funny. shecky greene used to slay at the kuchaleyn.
oh yeah…Don Rickles and Mel Brookes used to work the Catskillz and they rule.
i think Bronques has shots of the same guy from last weekend. he gets around.
Fuckin Gypsters
Who cares about Conan?
nobody likes hipsters. why make them even more important than they already imagine they are by referencing them? hippies are fun to ridicule and hang with, but hipsters? you just wanna kick their teeth in and keep moving.
NOTHING beats rickles.. NOTHING!!! not even henny youngman..
Tina Fey has some pretty good ones. To bad it looks like she quit.
It’s less about misunderstanding as it is about landing a joke-
This is late night television Gav’s, perhaps you’re reading deep into lines which aren’t really there.
The guy was a good sport- still, come on– lmao
lmao
Conan got lamer in the new time slot because the audience skews way older… I mean, who watches the Tonight Show? Middle age to late middle age folks who are in bed trying to avoid having sex with their spouse? Oh hello Gavin, what were you doing watching hmmm?
why do people choose to watch any of these shows? Don’t they all suck?
Whoever wrote this, and was truly offended by Conan’s making fun of whichever subset of pop-culture he ended up offending, you are an idiot. You do not deserve to address the internet-reading public . . . and I recognize what a ridiculous thing that is to say, but I still mean it. It would not be an all together bad thing if you simply decided to live a monastic existence, away from any other sentient being. You are poluting our “thought circles,” and the human race can no longer breathe in the vacuum of intelligence you represent.
Gav: he’s a Sneaky Christopher.