Last Night, David Cross Gave The Greatest Set Up To A Talk Show Clip Ever

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by Jon Bershad | 11:36 am, January 10th, 2012

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We don’t do many clips of just TV stars promoting their work here at Mediaite. Sure, we’ll get on it if the star says something interesting while promoting. However, what we do post about is any moment of television that could be considered historic, and this moment from last night’s Conan is just that.

You see, while comedian David Cross was talking up the second season of his IFC series The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, he did something amazing; he gave the greatest set up to a clip in the history of the talk show.

It’s just wonderfully helpful and exhaustive. An example of perfect clip set uppery.

Side note: This clip is particularly funny to me as it almost perfectly echoes a conversation in my apartment this weekend when we tried to watch the premiere and remember what on earth happened last season. After 30 minutes of discussion, we still couldn’t figure out why Todd’s assistant now had Jon Hamm as a butler. Thank God for Wikipedia!

Watch the clip from TBS below:

(h/t Splitsider)

Conan, Conan O'Brien, David Cross, IFC, the increasingly poor decisions of todd margaret

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Cross is brilliant.
Anonymous

Anyone who hasn’t seen his former partner Bob Odenkirk’s hilariously crooked attorney Saul Goodman on Breaking Bad is missing out. Better Call Saul!
Anonymous

Has Jay Leno ever done anything this funny?
Anonymous

He actually needed that set up to make the short clip make any sense.
Yes I’m Right

This show is brilliantly funny. I’m glad the new season is finally here.
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The clip is better and more honest than 99% of the writing on mediaite .
Anonymous

I got bored halfway through. Who gives a shit?
Anonymous

About your inability get the joke? No one.
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The really bright idea was to keep the actual clip that short.
Anonymous

Kind of reminds me of that notorious short of some monster and Bambi. I think it was Godzilla. Its the one there’s an exhaustive introduction with an incredible amount of time.It lists practically every opening credit.This takes about fifteen minutes. Finally the film begins. The first scene is the monster crushing Bambi. End of movie. It isn’t a steal since David Cross was talking about a scene of the IFC TV series “The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret. That’s a scene vs an entire movie. BTW that Bambi movie I hope to goodness there was an intermission.