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"http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/encyclopedia/entry/President_of_Finland" class="copylinks">President Of Finland , Tarja Halonen , after meeting a Finnish man in the audience before the show Since then he has done many comedy bits about that fact, including one that promoted Halonen for second term Halonen's appearance in American popular culture received publicity in Finland About a week and a half after the initial show, Conan showed actual Finnish newspaper articles which commented on the resemblance, one calling them "like two berries" (''kuin kaksi marjaa'', a metaphor similar to "two peas in a pod" in English) After the initial publicity received by O'Brien's sketch, Tarja Halonen's re-election campaign started advertising on the Finnish broadcast of ''Late Night with Conan O'Brien'' On February 9 , 2006 , O'Brien announced that he would be visiting Finland the week of February 12 while the show is pre-empted for the Winter Olympics [http://tvzap2itcom/tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271999401,00html] The footage of O'Brien's visit aired on the March 10, 2006 episode[http://wwwnbcumvcom/release_detailnbc/entertainment-20060302000000-conanobriendebutshtml] Video footage of O'Brien's Finland trip is available here
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