Friday night, Conan O'Brien's show aired a nine-minute segment of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog (Robert Smigel) heckling folks at the Comic-Con in San Diego. I'm embedding it here even though I must admit that the one joke — convention-goers are all obese losers who can't get laid — has been pretty well beaten into the ground by now. Smigel's one of the cleverest, funniest guys on TV and I love the fact that he doesn't even try to be a real puppeteer as he manipulates Triumph. One of these days, I'm sure, he'll have more to say about fans and conventions.
And now here, running seven minutes, is the totality of Triumph's speech at the con, an excerpt of which is in the above video. I don't know why the "f" word is bleeped some times and not others but such are the ways of television…