To celebrate Star Wars, Conan kills Ewoks, know-it-all staffer


Team Coco is getting read for its big Star Wars party, when the cast of The Force Awakens comes on Thursday's Conan. And so on Tuesday, Conan O'Brien showed off his new set piece, a Death Star that has replaced the full moon that normally hangs over his desk. "I think it looks pretty cool," Conan said, but associate producer Jordan Schlansky, "our show's resident Star Wars expert," found fault with the model, so Conan brought him out to explain the problem. The crowd cheered, and Schlansky raised some probably pretty valid points. Then he was vaporized, to even louder cheering.
"So let me get this straight," Conan said. "This audience was incredibly happy to see him show up, but even happier when he was killed." Turning Schlansky into a cloud of atoms is one thing, but later in the show, Conan took aim at cute, fuzzy little Ewoks. I mean, if he wanted to go full Dark Side on us, he could have called in the exterminators for Jar Jar Binks and an infestation of fellow Gungans. Few tears there. In any case, you can watch Conan's the massacre of the Ewoks below. Peter Weber
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Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.
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