Conan, in contrast, is an Ivy League fancyboy whose experience prior to getting his own show was as a writer for “Saturday Night Live” and “The Simpsons.” A writer! A member of that august society of the most socially awkward, least charismatic people you will ever encounter outside of a ComicCon. The fact that O’Brien has managed to milk 17 years out of talking to people on television is a miracle on par with Beethoven writing symphonies while deaf.
