After weeks of lame-duck jokes about the new format of coffee that Starbucks is introducing, finally somebody has the guts to lampoon the issue entirely. But instead of the risky, high-octane satire we expect from Conan O'Brien, we get a bit where Andy Richter is paid to dunk himself (like a doughnut) into a vat of coffee. The operative word in the joke is impossible to conceptualize, would it be troughe? Troffe? Things are getting grim and dangerous in the TV business, evidently.
Anyhow, there's a great joke in that image, whether in the background or in the foreground, but it's doubtful whether anyone could actually make that joke and tell it properly, so the victory has to be handed to the crew who made it happen.
The real question, as usual, is where did they get that much coffee? The idea of huge, bad-coffee-filled tankers rolling around LA ready to meet the challenge of any coffee gimmick makes me uneasy.
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