Madeleine Albright zings Conan O'Brien on Twitter
Lesson learned: If you take aim at Madeleine Albright, you should be prepared to get it as good as you give.
Conan O'Brien learned this firsthand Thursday, after tweeting a joke about the former Secretary of State and his choice of Halloween costume.
I picked out my Halloween costume. I’m going as “Slutty Madeleine Albright.”
— Conan O'Brien (@ConanOBrien) October 23, 2014
Albright soon fired back with a joke of her own:
.@ConanOBrien I'm considering going as hunky Conan O'Brien - but that might be too far fetched.
— Madeleine Albright (@madeleine) October 23, 2014
Zing!
Their back-and-forth continued, with O'Brien expressing delight over his "first Twitter war with a former secretary of state" and Albright warning him against getting into a war of words with a diplomat.
.@Madeleine YES - My first twitter war with a former Secretary of State! You're next, George P. Shultz!
— Conan O'Brien (@ConanOBrien) October 23, 2014
.@ConanOBrien Never get into a word war with a diplomat. We talk even more than comedians.
— Madeleine Albright (@madeleine) October 23, 2014
After that, the "Conan" host finally admitted Twitter war defeat, which Albright accepted graciously:
Damn - Whenever I go toe to toe with @Madeleine Albright, she always wins.
— Conan O'Brien (@ConanOBrien) October 24, 2014
.@ConanOBrien Ha, you're certainly not the first to make that mistake... But all in good fun! #TeamCoco
— Madeleine Albright (@madeleine) October 24, 2014