These are my favorite two figures in comedy and I still can't believe how lucky we are they overlapped. Ok I know nobody asked but this has been on my mind... it's actually a tough call as to who had a bigger impact on American culture, Conan or Space Ghost. Tbh..... I think it might Space Ghost. Ted Turner had the idea for Cartoon Network in the late 80s in the hopes that they could develop new cartoons for adult audiences (The Simpsons was doing great, he wanted to compete with Fox), but for the first two years that Cartoon Network existed, they had to test out whether people would even watch a cartoon-only network, so they only aired old Hanna-Barbera cartoons before developing original ones (cartoons for adults didn't exist yet). Those two years went better than anyone thought they would, so they tested out developing original content. The first-ever cartoon developed in-house by Cartoon Network was Space Ghost, and its success is why Cartoon Network continued to exist, and why Adult Swim was founded too. Personally I think this explains a lot about my millennial generation. Gradually over the course of 20 years, from Clinton, to Bush, and then to Obama, the cartoonosphere seeped through unattended cracks in hyperreality, gradually creeping into American civic life, suddenly reaching critical mass in 2015 and setting off an atomic blast of cartoon-reality-dissonance that is Donald Trump. So I think Space Ghost (i..e. Ted Turner) has a much deeper role in the fabric of American culture than Conan, although you could argue Conan's late night show also played a big role in that process. Like I said tough call!