The Ghost Crooner Sings A Thanksgiving Tune

Conan is fretting about the 2008 economic slump being compared to the Great Depression when a translucent, bow-tied figure starts scatting beside his desk. The apparition introduces himself as Artie Kendall, a singer who performed in the building back when it housed NBC radio studios in the 1930s, and Conan asks him for an old tune to cheer up a struggling nation. Kendall's stock-market-crash number swerves into a violent rant against the poor, his song for the ladies proposes treating women like livestock, and he cheerfully explains that a mob of housewives murdered him. When Conan says he is relieved there is no Thanksgiving song, Kendall launches into a holiday tune about spending the day on drugs and debauchery, and Conan banishes him as the show heads to a break.