Conan O’Brien took time out this evening on Conan to remember longtime NBC late-night executive Rick Ludwin, who died Sunday in Los Angeles at age 71. Ludwin was famously known around the net…
late-night show, O’Brien said Ludwin was always supportive when the comedian was with NBC — from the time he worked on“In 1993, when I took over the late-night show — it was a long time ago — but I had a very rocky start,” O’Brien recalled.
“Pretty much everyone at the network thought that I should be canceled, but one executive disagreed and that was Rick Ludwin. Rick actually came to many of our early shows and watched what we were doing.”“He also saw that there was a lot of value to what we were trying to do. He was a generous laugher when we had something good. Rick argued passionately for me with the network and he helped keep me on the air for those first two years,” O’Brien explained.
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