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Newark Mayor Bars Conan From NJ in Playful Feud

Booker fires back after O'Brien's Newark joke

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(Newser) – Conan O’Brien and Newark Mayor Cory Booker have been lobbing insults back and forth—O’Brien on the Tonight Show, Booker via YouTube—for the past week. It started when Conan made a joke about Booker’s drive to improve Newark's health care—it "consists of a bus ticket out of Newark.” Booker responded in a jokey video post banning O’Brien from Newark—including the airport, notes the New York Post. “Try JFK, buddy," Booker said.

O’Brien fired back last night, challenging Booker to a debate and sarcastically listing the city’s virtues while showing video of slums. "There are other ways to get to your city," he said of the airport ban. "I can navigate the nation's sewer system because everyone knows all sewers lead to Newark." Booker then extended things with yet another YouTube video, extending his ban to all of New Jersey.

Newark Mayor Cory Booker.
Newark Mayor Cory Booker.   (AP Photo/Mike Derer, File)
Conan O'Brien and Newark Mayor Cory Booker are shown in this composite headshot.
Conan O'Brien and Newark Mayor Cory Booker are shown in this composite headshot.   (AP)
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cornelison
Oct 1, 09 6:07 PM CDT
That mayor has something in common with one of Canada's premiers (governor). In Alberta the premier offered people on welfare a bus ticket to British Columbia. The premier and people of B.C. were not impressed. Reply
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I_hate_to_say
Oct 1, 09 6:29 PM CDT
Conan has definitely stepped over the line here. First he traitorously moves his show from NYC to the "left coast." Now he has launched brazen and cruel attacks on our beloved "Brick City", and indirectly on each and every citizen of the Garden State. He should be banned from the entire east coast until he grovels on his knees before Mayor Booker AND Mayor Bloomberg and begs forgiveness. What calumny! Reply
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yellowjeep
Oct 1, 09 6:55 PM CDT
Its a joke. Lighten up Francis
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BlahBlahBlah
Oct 2, 09 10:58 AM CDT
Ummmmm, boo hoo, Conan is on a late night COMEDY show. It's called joking.
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Fondue
Oct 1, 09 6:48 PM CDT
This is obviously a PR stunt. Reply
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