of a bar or glass. jesse: i like how your body shaming the animal rights activists. i would never do that it s a spirit of the season. jesse: never, never your very forgiving raymond. not so forgiving are the people in. [inaudible] political correctness is invaded hollywood another kicking them the hell out. look whitney collings, actress liberal, very talented, she got in trouble for saying merry christmas. listen to this on conan. lester is working on tv showing got trouble with human resources for saying merry christmas to an intern. isth that true? that is true. i said bye guys, merry christmas, just what you d say. i can back in hr calls and says we need to talk to one of the interns is pissed off that you said merry christmas. jesse: i just love this because we vee been warning about this, we ve been saying there s a war on christmas, you get made fun of by other woople when you say there s a
oh, dave, what a legacy. what a legacy dave. look what you ve inspired. thanks for the inspiration. anyway, getting back to me i ve been on conan s show. he s unpredictable. that we know. years ago when my book came out, the new york times number one bestseller. was i saying that? i think that every time i mention my book. he did something when we spoke recently. during the interview, you won t remember this. i do remember this. during the interview you took a drink and put it down on my book. yeah. i just remember it was great because someone else might not have said something. you actually were kind of i stopped the whole thing. you stopped the whole thing. i was using his book he was promoting as a coaster. i was like i spent a year and a half writing that thing. you re freaking putting a drink on it. yeah. yeah. i think i ended up throwing it out the window.
on ans and then all of the sudden you were competing against your hero in a way. yeah. that must have been weird. i never felt like i was competing against hymn. i never felt i was worthy enough to be a threat. i think he agreed. it was a thrill for kimmel to host letterman as a guest. but an early appearance by letterman on conan s show was especially valuable. how did you get this job, by the way? we had been on the air a couple of months and dave came on as a guest. and that was a huge deal. i felt like his doing that it wasn t just showing up on a talk show it was like hey, everybody get behind the guy. i like this guy. i would like to think that s the case. it was a favor johnny carson had done for letter man as the trail blazing host began what would be a 33-year career. i think your desk is bigger than mine. dave would be the last person to say he was better than johnny but dave wu better than
either law inforcement like the department of justice we have seen with the a.p., or heavy-handed government in itself. earlier today, radel checked into rehab. speaking of drug use, embattled toronto mayor rob ford got a tribute from ron burgundy. will ferrell went on conan and remains in character the whole interview. my dear, dear, dear friend rob ford of toronto is running for re-election. i hold him in the highest regard. he is the best. you have chosen to sing the campaign song for mayor rob ford? of course, who wouldn t? everybody is working for the weekend everybody wants a new romance everybody s going off the deep end don t do anything stupid,
him or not. somebody likes him. steve: they like him better than david letterman. the delicious irony is it was jay leno who had nbc squeeze johnny carson out of the chair. karma ran over his dogma. brian: he ended up getting better ratings than conan. nbc turns on conan and threw him out. alisyn: maybe they just like leno. steve: you heard about that training accident that killed on monday night seven brave marines out in hawthorne, nevada. extraordinarily yesterday on the floor of the u.s. senate, senate majority leader harry reid suggested that the accident was caused by the sequester. listen. one of the things in sequester is we cut back in training and maintenance. that s the way sequester