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Posted: 8:32 a.m. Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Paul Rudd, "Ted Turner" visit Conan O'Brien 

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"Ted Turner" visited Conan O'Brien's show Tuesday night. Photo: teamcoco.com.

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Paul Rudd visited Conan O'Brien's show Tuesday night. Photo: teamcoco.com
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Private O'Brien, reporting for duty. Photo teamcoco.com

By Jennifer Brett

Paul Rudd and "Ted Turner" visited Conan O'Brien's taped-in-Atlanta show Tuesday night. It is airing from the Tabernacle downtown this week.

(Here are some handy tips for those of you attending today's or tomorrow's tapings, courtesy of my colleague Rodney Ho).

Rudd, sporting the power mustache and wavy locks he had to grow out to play his character Brian Fantana in "Anchorman 2," revealed exactly nothing about the movie, which has been filming in Atlanta for a while now.

"We're in week three," Rudd said. (Actually he and fellow cast members Will Ferrell, Steve Carell, David Koechner, Christina Applegate and James Marsden along with Adam Goodman, president of Paramount Film Group, were spotted in Atlanta back in February. Close enough).

Rudd pranked Conan by offering up a clip of the movie which actually turned out to be this.

The two discussed Atlanta attractions.

"I have been to the Georgia Aquarium twice," Rudd said. "It is very impressive."

He sounded less impressed with Legoland at Phipps Plaza. Then they discussed sports, since the NCAA Final Four comes to Atlanta this week. For some reason that veered into a story about how a 10-year-old Rudd was taken to a football game back in the day and got to visit the lockerroom afterward, where he met a bunch of naked players.

A cranky and irascible "Ted Turner" (played by actor Will Forte) rolled in on a stuffed bison he called "Teddy Jr." (Actually the real Teddy Turner is - gasp - a Republican who just ran for office in South Carolina). Other highlights included a cameo by members of the "Walking Dead" cast, a basketball stunt and a video showing Conan suiting up with Civil War reenactors in Resaca.

His monologue paid tribute to Atlanta with a nod to the Braves, businesses headquartered here including Waffle House, Arby's, Chick-fil-A and Spanx. And of course, a joke about all the roads named "Peachtree."

"I punched 'Peachtree' into my GPS and it commited suicide," Coco quipped.

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