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A guest on Conan O'Brien's Late Night show was a professional modern clown. His hair was a light yellow buzz-cut with a widow's peak, and his face was simply painted white with a few short black lines at the corners of his facial features. He appeared to be an older man who might have gone through war. He spoke with a somber quiet tone. As part of his clown act, he demonstrated how every time he honks a horn, a tiny red plastic crab peaks out from beneath his right suspender at the shoulder. His large suspenders were bulky, stiff, shiny, perhaps made of vinyl, and pastel green in color. His control of this little plastic crab is apparently a testament to his attention to detail. Conan asked him, "So when do people get it?" The clown started explaining the purpose of the crab, and the audience started going wild with laughter. Also laughing were other guests on stage from earlier in the show sitting in the chairs to the left. One of them looked a bit like Mark McKinney from "Kids in the Hall," and he started shooting a small gray pistol in all directions from laughing so much. His loud shots were so rapid that at one point he succeeded in emulating the sound of a burst of automatic fire. Conan could not control the situation, so he simply yelled, "Thats too loud!" at Mark McKinney, and then took the show to commercial with forced laughter.