CONAN O BRIEN - LATE NIGHT HOSTS IN MARX BROS. FEUD

LATE NIGHT HOSTS IN MARX BROS. FEUD

Reminiscent of the feuds between Jack Benny and Fred Allen during the "golden age of radio" when a silly disagreement between the two comics would begin on Benny's show and then carry on to Allen's, Conan O'Brien, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert appeared on each other's late-night shows Monday debating over which one of them "made" presidential contender Mike Huckabee. "My favorite comedy is comedy where nothing is achieved and there is no point," O'Brien told the Associated Press Tuesday. "That this whole Huckabee fight turned into an insane Marx brothers dance was fitting somehow." Stewart and Colbert later issued a joint statement saying, "Conan's claims on Mike Huckabee could not go unanswered. ... We just hope he kids out there learned that sometimes the best way to resolve a conflict is with violence." The A.P. observed that such a gag could not have involved Jay Leno and David Letterman, who have long had icy relations. O'Brien appeared to agree, noting that "this happened because the three of us knew we would like doing this with each other."

06/02/2008