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

Do not lecture Conan about Star Wars

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.

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Peter Weber, The Week US

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.