Anyone that launched a late night show after 1993 has Conan O’Brien or Jon Stewart to thank for it. Anyone that launched one and kept it can address their thank you notes to Conan Christopher O’Brien. …

(with appreciation and apologies to Ms. Joan Didion) New York, I love you, but you’re bringing me down, New York, I love you, but you’re bringing me down, Like a death of the heart, Jesus, where do I start? But you’re still the one pool where I’d happily drown…” It…