What Chicago taught Conan

The Chicago Tribune has an interesting write-up about Conan O’Brien’s time in Chicago in the late 80’s (with Bob Odenkirk, Robert Smigel & them) in anticipation of his upcoming week of shows there:

There were a lot of funny people around that summer — O’Brien had landed in the middle of a sketch-comedy mafia that would go on to infiltrate every corner of television over the next two decades — but even then, the gawky Harvard grad stood out.

Read the entire column at the Chicago Tribune.
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