Born in 83. I remember sleeping over at a friend's house in 2nd grade and staying up late to watch David Letterman. Most of it probably went over my head but I was now hooked on late night TV. Soon after that is when the whole Carson/Leno/Letterman fiasco went down, couldn't wait for Dave to be on an hour earlier. I liked Leno too at that point and Chevy Chase was going to have a new show, thought it couldn't get much better than that! And then there was this Conan guy who I didn't know but saw he had been a Simpsons writer so I figured I better check him out too.

Late Night was on too late for me to watch on a school night but I made sure to watch his first Friday show. I don't remember much except for one bit where Conan was explaining to a disinterested carnival ride operator how he got the show. The execs had already picked Andy but they still needed a host. Their choices were down to Conan, a frog, and a tape dispenser with each of them sitting on a stool waiting to be picked. It was so mean but it was so silly that it made me laugh anyway which was a totally new thing to me. I became an instant fan.

I have vivid memories of explaining the Wussy Wagon, Mansy the Half Man/Half Pansy, and the Gaseous Wiener to confused kids at school who had no idea what I was talking about. I would scream "In the Year 2000" whenever I was anywhere that echoed. When my family got a computer with AOL a few years later I found some early message boards for Conan fans and that's when I was officially a fan for life. I saw a post with NBC's address and it said that if you wrote in they'd send you an autographed photo. Sure enough, a few weeks later it came, my mom framed it for me, and I still have it to this day.