Letterman Wanted Conan for Super Bowl Promo
February 8th, 2010
If you’ve seen the by-now-infamous David Letterman/Oprah Winfrey/Jay Leno Super Bowl promo, then you are probably left with a lot of unanswered questions. “Were they really in the same room together?” “Did this happen before the Second Late Night Wars started?” “What about Conan?”
Well, the answer to the first two questions can be found in this New York Times article on the spot, which was shot last Tuesday. The short answer: Letterman just thought it would be funny. What would have been even funnier though, is if there had been four people on the couch. Because if there’s anything more awkward than Leno and Letterman in a promo together, it would be throwing Conan into the mix. It turns out, that was exactly Letterman’s original plan.
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