On last night’s Conan, Conan O’Brien discussed at length how — during rehearsal — he’d made the GIANT mistake of trying to ride a water buffalo. Yes. A water buffalo. With no training. Naturally, he got flung off within the first half second (I don’t even know if he made it that long). The result was the giant bruise pictured above, which Conan spent a good two-minutes detailing and bragging about, calling it “the greatest bruise of my life.”
I don’t know whether the bruise is the funniest part of this segment, or watching Conan fall off a water buffalo. Check it out.
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I’d say the audience’s transition from glee to horror back to glee at the sight of the bruise is the best part.
The fact that Conan is the palest person on earth makes it even worse.
I’m pale like Conan, and yeah, my body reacts like that to the slightest bump.
I think I see the Virgin Mary in that bruise. Someone alert the local news, we have our 2 minute filler that comes after the weather.
That’s why I never trust water buffalos.
So, yes, I maaaaaybe I almost accidentally killed Conan.
The idea behind this was to have Conan ride this domestic water buffalo (which is a working animal, and routinely ridden) to give me an entre to talk about how these animals are so important to the cultures of Southeast Asia, which depend on them as a mode of transportation, beasts of burden, for agriculture (plowing fields), for milk, meat and leather. But when you work with animals – even domesticated species and animals that are trained for certain behaviors — there’s always an element of unpredictability. Thankfully, both Conan and the buffalo were ok. And now you all can laugh at this blooper!
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