“Late Night With Conan O’Brien,’ an hour of aimless dawdle masquerading as a TV program and airing at 12:35 each weeknight on NBC…he’s the host who should never have come…clearly he should be the head writer of the show, not the star…O’Brien is a kind of walking shambles all by himself.”
- Tom Shales, well read TV critic in the Washington post, in 1993 after Conan’s first show