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Leno’s Mean-Spirited Facebook Gag Puts Times Square Bomb Suspect on “Team Coco”

by Robert Quigley | 2:27 pm, May 5th, 2010

Add this to the list of things Jay Leno has done to Conan O’Brien that Conan would probably never do to him: In a Facebook-centric gag on last night’s Tonight Show, Leno briefly showed a fake Facebook page for Faisal Shahzad, the suspect in the attempted Times Square bombing this past weekend. (Since fake Facebook pages are always funny.) In addition to participating in such uproarious activities as “rollerblading” and “blowing up Nissan Pathfinders” and being a member of “Al Qaeda” and the “Pakistan Frequent Flyers Club,” Leno makes the terror suspect a member of Team Coco.

And this isn’t some Photoshopped Internet hoax, either: You can see it at the 3:45 mark in Hulu’s official clip from the show. Video evidence below:

(via The Daily What)

  • http://twitter.com/CRZ CRZ

    Oh, come on. After watching the clip, I think Danny Bonaduce would have a more legitimate beef. Also, by not highlighting THAT section, one could argue that Leno vetoed whoever actually wrote the piece by leaving it out of the monologue.

    (DISCLAIMER: I am on Team Coco but he’s not, like, Apple Computer or anything. You know what I mean.)

  • Fred

    Mean spirited? Have a sense of humor, please. What about Slash coming on the show with a Conan button? What about Kimmel & Letterman’s verbal “abuses”? And Oprah’s one-sided interview on Leno? So the suspect is Team Conan… I thought it’s funny and not a big deal. Not something to whine about.

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