Flyerman on Conan O'Brien

Christopher Horrell

Feb 10, 2004 — 1 min read

Late Night with Conan O'Brien was being presented from Toronto this week so I stayed up until 11:30 p.m. to catch the first show. It started an hour later which was too bad because I wanted to watch it while I ran. I was pretty sure someone on TV said 11:30 p.m., but that may have been wishful thinking.

Anyway, I did catch a bit of the show after my shower and Mike Myers was on. There was a lot of Canadian references about back bacon and such, which was a bit lame. Just before they went to commercial this guy was shouting out from the audience and Conan (or maybe it was Mike) noticed the guy had a jacket that lit up. Then Mike (or maybe it was Conan) said something like "Hey, it's the Flyerman". The camera pans to the audience up to the second tier of the Elgin Theatre and sure enough it was the Flyerman with his jacket a blazing.

Well, I didn't see that coming.

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