Yes, something awful writers are not surprisingly late night fans. They saw what Conan was doing with Walker, and they ran with it. Chuck Norris was already a forgotten nobody in 2005, it’s not like he just popped back into the lexicon out of nowhere. Conan reminded people of Chuck’s cheesy badass schtick, and after that the jokes rolled in. Vin diesel jokes were getting old so they replaced him with Chuck
It was actually Conan O’Brien who started the Chuck Norris craze and people online ran with it
Conan started a segment where he played a clip from the show Walker. Completely unrelated to the line of jokes.
The “facts” Jokes came from Something Awful and was about Vin Diesel, it got changed to Walker later on.
Yes, something awful writers are not surprisingly late night fans. They saw what Conan was doing with Walker, and they ran with it. Chuck Norris was already a forgotten nobody in 2005, it’s not like he just popped back into the lexicon out of nowhere. Conan reminded people of Chuck’s cheesy badass schtick, and after that the jokes rolled in. Vin diesel jokes were getting old so they replaced him with Chuck