Love seeing the Conan O'Brien love blowing up so I'll tell my @ConanOBrien story. I was a summer intern at Late Night in 2005. Most interns only came in a couple days a week but I was there full-time as part of a special archival process to backup every episode for Conan. [1/6]
Early on in the internship I was waiting for the elevator to go home and Conan came up to me unprompted and said, "While you're here, don't you steal anything from me! Because I'LL FIND YOU. Oh yes, I'll FIND YOU!" It was hilarious. [2/6]
Anyway, the summer went along and I didn't have another interaction with Conan. Interns don't really have a reason to and he's obviously extremely busy. I had a great time there, met many wonderful people and it crystallized my desire to work in a creative field. [3/6]
On the final day, ALL of the interns gathered in his office and he gave us advice and thanked us for our work. As we're leaving his office we all lined up one by one to shake his hand. [4/6]
To most interns he said things like "Good luck" and "Thank you so much." Now it's my turn to shake his hand. He grabs my hand and bends down low, eye to eye to me (he's very tall) and he doesn't thank me, instead he just menacingly whispers "I KNOW YOU STOLE FROM ME!!!" [5/6]
I could not believe it. He waited TWO MONTHS to deliver a punchline to a joke that absolutely no one but me would understand. That's Conan O'Brien. He is the absolute best. [6/6]
@kevinlieber Love this story, Kevin, thanks for sharing.
@kevinlieber I love everything about this.
@kevinlieber At least he didn’t force you into orgies like your last boss (SBF)