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Do Any Readers of Hit & Run Know Where Video of This Ayn Rand Bit Is Available Online?

Nick Gillespie | 6.5.2009 1:41 PM

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Back in March, I linked to this bit on Jimmy Fallon's late night show, which was about vendors selling Ayn Rand books to eat like hot dogs.

The video has gone missing from Hulu (damn you, Ellsworth Toohey!). Can anyone find it online, I wonders?

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Nick Gillespie is an editor at large at Reason and host of The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie.

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  1. Episiarch   16 years ago

    What do I get if I find it, Nick? I don’t work for free.

  2. JLM   16 years ago

    You get an empty bottle of leather conditioner for your services.

  3. Warty   16 years ago

    No matter how hard you stamp your foot, Nick’s not giving you an Obama buttplug, Epi.

  4. BPC   16 years ago

    Have you seen the skit in question? It was truly awful. Unfunny even by Jimmy Fallon standards.

  5. Episiarch   16 years ago

    This is a much better take on Jimmy Fallon and SNL, Nick.

  6. JB   16 years ago

    Unfunny even by Jimmy Fallon standards.

    Wow, that’s a frightening description. That must be very, very unfunny.

  7. BlueBook   16 years ago

    I noticed this at the Hulu page:

    Availability Notes:
    Episodes may stream for 24 days.

    Google video search turned up several alternate sites with the video, but apparently they were all linking to Hulu, so it’s gone, unless you can find a bootleg copy. (There are viable links to the interview between Fallon and Myers, but the Ayn Rand bit must have been during another segment.)

  8. Cool Cal   16 years ago

    I just watched the first half of The Fountainhead on TV the other night, and while I find it to be a generally decent piece of entertainment (the Book, that is), with a nice theme, the film version was awful. I actually really truly think this could benefit from a remake.

  9. Cool Cal   16 years ago

    But you gotta love that post-rape line,

    “I’m looking for the tall, gaunt man who works a drill.”

    Nice!

  10. John C. Randolph   16 years ago

    I actually really truly think this could benefit from a remake.

    I agree, but I wouldn’t trust those pinkos in Hollywood to do it.

    -jcr

  11. m   16 years ago

    Matt and Trey might be willing to do a marionette version.

  12. IceTrey   16 years ago

    It wasn’t rape, she wanted it. Plus did you see the way she was dressed? OMG.

  13. Stan   16 years ago

    Dominique, Dominique! The Fountainhead movie is cool in its peculiar way. Remember Ayn describing Dominique as herself in a bad mood? (Or a very horny mood?) It’s a hoot ‘from a certain point of view’ as Obi Wan would say.

  14. zoltan   16 years ago

    I think Dominique is like Ayn Rand in a tall, thin, hot blond sort of mood.

  15. Sean W. Malone   16 years ago

    You know… this may be the film-composer in my rearing its ugly head, but I think the thing that made the movie version of The Fountainhead suck the most was Max Steiner’s ridiculous score. That guy had this uncanny ability to force violins to scrape away in a register no human should ever have to endure.

  16. Sean W. Malone   16 years ago

    *in me rearing its ugly head*

    …preview fail.

  17. William Walsh   16 years ago

    Dear Leader Obama is the image I’ve had in my mind of Howard Roark. I’m just sayin’

    I pray to Obama. Prayer changes things.

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