Conan O'Brien's show sent Triumph the Insult Comic Dog to the final presidential debate to make trouble. It's wonderful how because he has a hand puppet and a camera crew, Bob Smigel has access and a certain amount of credibility to be in that room. I wonder how much he'd be tolerated without the puppet.
Have to admit that I'd largely forgotten that Conan was still on the air. When he went on TBS, I had my TiVo take a season pass to his program but they piled up on it unwatched. The ones I did get around to viewing didn't interest me nor did his guest list most nights. I deleted about 40 episodes I never saw, canceled the season pass and that was it for me and Conan. There was a time back in his NBC days I never missed him.
In the clip below, he has a bad spray tan and his hair in cornrows. This was the payoff for a deal he made with viewers: Give enough money to the Autism Programs and I'll host the show that way one night…