COJO ON CONAN O'BRIEN ?
1-11-07 POST KEYWORDS: HornyManatee, HornyManatee.com Conan, Conan O'Brien, Late Night, Artsucks D., Victoria's Seacow, Victoria's Secret, Cojo Art Juggernaut, Artsucks.com, Cojo
Not exactly yet, but I'm on his site HORNYMANATEE.COM. For anyone who's been living under a rock for the past month here's the deal with the manatee: A month ago Conan did a bit were Pender from the Max Weinberg Seven was looking at a laptop with a person in a Manatee costume sitting on a bed. "The Webcam Manatee" (see above) was rubbing it's body seductively to the music "I touch myself" while Pender lustfully wiped his brow.
Conan, in an unscripted joke to the audience said "Pender's watching hornymanatee.com" (SEE NY TIMES ARTICLE). NBC, by it's own rules have to buy any domain mentioned on the air that doesn't actually exist. Considering they spent the money on the domain Conan decided to turn it into a jokey site where the manatee posed in faux web porn type scenarios.
Amazingly it was a huge hit virally and in the first month got around 20 MILLION VISITORS. The part that intrigued me was that the site had a button to view and submit fan art to the site. Conan kept showing these humorous little drawings people submitted of manatees in weird situations, usually seducing Conan, or in other weird horny pop culture manatee inspired Photoshop manipulations. I've been a Conan fan since it first went on the air and it's not every day that a national network show gives out an illustration assignment.
The week after Christmas nobody works so I had a few days to kick around an idea of making a "fan art" piece and submitting it to the site. I was going to make a jokey Maxim type cover with a Manatee but I thought that would be too easy. I was flipping through the Victoria Secret catalog and it hit me, wouldn't it be funny to recreate a page from the catalog, but with Manatees instead of models? If a manatee was horny, and wanted to dress in sexy lingerie, where would they shop?
I didn't want the manatee to look too realistic. I tried to make it look like the person in the manatee costume they use on the website. If the Victoria Secret supermodels have ever wondered what they would look like if they were somehow magically transmogrified into manatees, well now they know.
I went to the site and went through the submission process. It required that you put a first and last name, and from seeing on the show whenever Conan showed art he would say that it was submitted a first name, and the first letter of their surname. I went with first name "Artsucks" last name "DotCom." And I wrote a note saying he doesn't have to say Dot Com, just Artsucks is fine. Of course when they came back to work on Tuesday and updated the site the art was put up with a credit line "Artsucks D." That's funny anyway because what else would D be a shortening of? (SEE THE ART ACTUALLY ON HORNYMANATEE.COM)
How many millions of people are seeing the Victoria Seacow a day has to be off the carts. I'll keep tabs on the show over the course of the next few weeks to see if they put it on the air. Hurray Horny Manatees!
