BEST OF THE GUESTS: Julia Louis-Dreyfus Implies That Conan O'Brien Is Impotent

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Julia Louis-Dreyfus, best known for playing Elaine on Seinfeld, recently returned to television, playing the vice president in HBO's Veep. While on the April 26, 2012, episode of Conan, Louis-Dreyfus talked about how she started watching C-SPAN to research how politicians behave. One quirk that she picked up was the thumb-on-top-of-fist move.

Now, Louis-Dreyfus acts like she was the first to discover this one, but this move has been around for years. Back when Bill Clinton was still president, my mom and I picked up on this and started making fun of it ourselves. (Yes, I was making fun of politicians back in elementary and middle school.) Dubbing her discovery the "thist," Louis-Dreyfus declares the move an "impotent" one, something that Conan O'Brien takes a great deal of offense to.