Goodnight Conan
Conan O’ Brien had his last show as host of The Tonight Show on NBC last night. It was a sad moment for me as far as entertainment is concerned. I don’t watch as much TV as I used to but I still have a couple shows I watch daily. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart being one and Conan the second. A series of strange and unfortunate events by NBC executives over the past few weeks led to the premature demise of Conan’s reign as the host of The Tonight Show. I will give my opinion on that a little later. First I would like to say a few things about Conan as an entertainer and simply as a man.
I grew up as a child of the 80’s which is to say I was too young to stay up and enjoy Johnny Carson’s classic late night antics. Truth be told I never once saw an episode of The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson live. It wasn’t until my teenage years in the early 90s that I began staying up to enjoy late night comedy on TV. I learned of David Letterman only after his move to CBS and for a long time much preferred his show and style of comedy over that of Jay Leno’s. One night after tuning into Letterman, rather than flipping the 13″ tube TV off in my bedroom and calling it a night I started channel surfing. After only a few clicks of the remote I stopped at the sight of this pale skinned, wild red haired comedian’s new late night show. I had never heard of Conan O’ Brien before but I quickly became a fan. Long before the age of DVRs I tried my best to catch his show regularly for years. Especially during the summers.
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