Editing Tarja Halonen (section)

== In popular culture ==
A long-running joke, which stems from the recurring segment "[[List of Late Night with Conan O'Brien sketches#Conan O'Brien Hates My Homeland|Conan O'Brien Hates My Homeland]]", is that American talk show host [[Conan O'Brien]] resembles Tarja Halonen. After joking about this for several months (which led to his endorsement of her campaign), O'Brien travelled to Finland, appeared on several television shows and met President Halonen.<ref>{{cite news|access-date=9 April 2013|url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/people/2006-02-14-obrien-finland_x.htm|title=Conan O'Brien meets with Finnish leader|work=[[USA Today]]|date=14 February 2006|agency=Associated Press}}</ref> The trip was filmed and aired as a special.<ref>{{cite news|access-date=26 January 2010|url=http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/01/26/conan.obrien.vacation/index.html?hpt=C2|title=5 places Conan should go on vacation|publisher=CNN|date=26 January 2010|author=Barish, Mike}}</ref>

Halonen also appears as an animated character in the [[political satire]] TV series ''[[The Autocrats]]''.<ref>[https://yle.fi/aihe/artikkeli/2021/02/01/itse-valtiaat-nauroi-2000-luvun-poliitikoille-nama-hahmot-olivat-suomen YLE: Itse valtiaat nauroi 2000-luvun poliitikoille – nämä hahmot olivat Suomen huipputehtävissä 20 vuotta sitten] (in Finnish)</ref><ref>[https://www.is.fi/tv-ja-elokuvat/art-2000007775315.html IS: Suomalaisia poliitikkoja ärsyttänyt sensuroimaton Itse valtiaat -sarja alkaa alusta – presidentti Tarja Halonen kutsui tekijät Linnaan] (in Finnish)</ref><ref>[https://www.is.fi/viihde/art-2000000013518.html IS: Tarja Halonen pohti uudelleen Itse Valtialta] (in Finnish)</ref>