Conan O’Brien And Ricky Gervais Take On WikiLeaks With “RickyLeaks”

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by Jon Bershad | 12:12 pm, December 7th, 2010

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While the WikiLeaks saga brings about it a lengthy debate about the thin line between transparency and ruining the privacy necessary to run a government, it’s also a comedy gold mine. I mean, how often are public figures routinely described as “James Bond villain-esque.” (God, probably not since that week Dick Cheney got a pet cat he kept on his lap. Or that week he changed his last name to “Galore.”) Anyway, while SNL went about butchering a fright wig just enough for it to look properly Assange-like, Conan O’Brien went the goofier route, bringing back Ricky Gervais to reveal some new deep, dark, classified secrets…all about Conan!

The segment involves Gervais (who was probably the best part of Conan’s first episode) hosting “RickyLeaks” in which he rattles off facts like how you should never wake Conan up while he’s sleeping because it might send him into a Vietnam flashback which will inevitably lead to him dancing on a table saying, “Five dollar! Five dollar!” Good to know.

(via Splitsider)

Check out the clip from TBS below:

Conan, Conan O'Brien, Julian Assange, Ricky Gervais, Wikileaks

CosmosDan

Ricky Gervais kills me. He can be so soft spoken and gross at the same time.
Magister

While the revamp is very topical, it makes one wonder if NBC retained the rights to the “Secrets” concept that Conan did for a while on his 12:30 show. After all, they basically did the same format and used the same music, but this time, it wasn’t Bill Shatner or someone like him revealing made-up things about himself, instead they just turned it around toward Conan and changed the name.
stoogedudes

CosmosDan said:
Ricky Gervais kills me. He can be so soft spoken and gross at the same time.

I agree, although some of his statements on Christianity kinda turns me off, but he is incredibily funny. Might I suggest, if you haven’t seen them already, Ghost Town and Cemetery Junction? Both great Gervais movies and very funny.

Magister said:
While the revamp is very topical, it makes one wonder if NBC retained the rights to the “Secrets” concept that Conan did for a while on his 12:30 show. After all, they basically did the same format and used the same music, but this time, it wasn’t Bill Shatner or someone like him revealing made-up things about himself, instead they just turned it around toward Conan and changed the name.

YES! I wish they’d bring back a thousand things from his old Late Night show, but NBC being the sourpusses they are, doesn’t want to let go of their Masturbating Bear. Also, I very much enjoyed In the Year 2000 as well.