I love Conan O’Brien. There’s something in his juvenile (yet intelligent) brand of humor that just gets me. Maybe because he reminds me of practically every guy I ever dated in the swirl of the Chicago comedy scene. He seems like just a real guy having real conversations. I like him a lot.<\/p>\n
So … then comes this news<\/a>. Jay Leno is passing the torch to Conan.<\/p>\n I remember when Jay Leno used to be a regular on the David Letterman show, and he would wear leather biker jackets, and Dave loved him, and he was absolutely hysterical.<\/p>\n I find Leno’s Tonight Show <\/i>humor, though, to be … well, not humor at all. I can watch the Tonight Show <\/i>the entire way through and not laugh once. It’s made for morons. It’s mediocre.<\/p>\n So … I fear that the same watering-down will happen to Conan. That … his special brand of anarchic juvenile STUPID humor, which I find so charming, will somehow disappear … to please the masses.<\/p>\n Please, Conan. KEEP YOURSELF YOURSELF. DON’T CHANGE!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I love Conan O’Brien. There’s something in his juvenile (yet intelligent) brand of humor that just gets me. Maybe because he reminds me of practically every guy I ever dated in the swirl of the Chicago comedy scene. He seems … Continue reading