'I am absolutely devastated ... I will never laugh that hard again.': Conan O'Brien mourns his longtime friend and frequent guest Norm Macdonald.
after just seven months on the air.
“This is an older basket,” he told him. “I procrastinate, you know. This is a basket I got you back in June. I keep forgetting it…There’s a card. ‘Congratulations Conan on finally securing your place as permanent host of. That’s something they can never take away from you. It is perhaps the shrewdest programming decision ever made by the NBC brain trust. Sure, the pressure is on. But if I know you, Conan O’Brien, miserable failure is not an option. You are the new king of late night.
Perhaps his most infamous Conan appearance took place on May 15th, 1997 when he happened to be a guest whileChairman of the Boardto make a movie with Carrot Top?” Macdonald asked. “I know what it’s going to be called. If it’s got Carrot Top in it, you know what a good name is for it? Box Office Poison.”
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