Tuesday, February 05, 2008

Late Night Logic aka BEST TV EVER

There I go again, hyping things up, but let's just say, you don't want to have missed this. They call it Super Brawl 2008. Get your wings and pizza and let the clip roll! Or watch the whole episode on nbc.com.

The story behind the brawl takes place in 4 episodes, and it's really like one big logic game. You see, Conan and Colbert both took credit for making Mike Huckabee (it had nothing to do with Huck's Army). Conan's argument was that he made Chuck Norris with his Walker Texas Ranger lever (which is also doubly worth checking out!). Before that Walker was a fool in cowboy boots. Or is it the cowboy boots that made him a fool? Anyway, then Conan came along wielding a giant yellow lever in hand, and suddenly there are all these jokes about Chuck Norris like "Chuck Norris can divide by zero," and "There is no 'ctrl' button on Chuck Norris' computer. Chuck Norris is always in control." And so on. Anyway, we were talking about Huckabee. Chuck Norris started campaigning for Huck, which made Huck big, so the logic here is:

Chuck made Huck.
Conan made Chuck.
Therefore, Conan made Huck.

It's a simple application of the transitive property of Late Night: C made K, & K made H => C made H.

Conan also points out that by merely mentioning Colbert on his show, he made Colbert. So, even if we were to suppose that Colbert made Huck, the logic then goes:

Colbert made Huck.
Conan made Colbert.
Therefore Conan made Huck.

But then John Stewart comes along and shows evidence (a VHS- you know, the thing we used before DVD came along) that he made Conan, and so in fact the complete iron-clad logic goes:

Colbert made Huck.
Conan made Colbert.
Stewart made Conan.
Therefore Stewart made Huck.

Plato would be proud. I'm proud. And notice how Chuck Norris just completely dropped out of the picture.

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