inside the last few days of late night with conan o'brien

2/20/2009 03:29:00 PM / Posted by [redacted] /

The elevators open on the sixth floor of 30 Rockefeller Center to reveal a hallway full of activity. We're hours away from another taping of NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien (not to mention test shows underway in an adjacent studio for Jimmy Fallon!). Three floors up on nine, where O'Brien and the writers work, however, the mood feels decidedly different. It's almost as if it's the last week of high school. Make that the funniest high school in America, and most of the students don't know how to react, because they're about to go on summer break in the spring, and meet up again in college in Los Angeles, where they'll put their own spin on The Tonight Show in June. How do you say goodbye, exactly?...


as a former late night intern, it certainly feels like the end of an era. but i'm so happy that conan finally got the tonight show. after 16 years, i can't imagine what kind of gratification it brings to know that you achieved that sort of goal. i still keep in touch with a few people from my conan days and i hope i still do after they move to LA. and although i'm not on the route to being famous (nor do i have the desire), i have always hoped if i did become famous, i could be on his show and tell him some interesting stories of stuff i did while i was an intern. ahhh, the good old days. 

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