Word: conan
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...eldest and most famous of the lot. This is Alec Baldwin, of course, whose fame as a thespian often leads us to forget that he is, first and foremost, a political philosopher. I came to this realization during the Monica Lewinsky imbroglio, when he told a bemused Conan O'Brien '85 that "if we were in other countries, we would all go down to Washington and we would stone Henry Hyde to death! We would stone him to death! . . . We would stone Henry Hyde to death, and we would go to their homes and we'd kill their wives...
...time, Conan did not ask him which "other countries" he meant, but this election season Mr. Baldwin provided us with a possible answer, when he declared that if George W. Bush becomes President, he--accompanied, one assumes, by his wife, the lissome Kim Basinger--would pack his bags and move to France...
Other alums also lent a hand. Conan C. O'Brien '85, last year's Class Day Speaker and two-time Lampoon president, wrote an unsigned piece for the last section of the book...
...looking for someone who will nudge the guest, point to me and ask, 'Isn't Conan something,'" O'Brien told me when I offered myself as a candidate. I told him I was more interested in putting the "kick" back in sidekick, mocking him ruthlessly at every opportunity. He then tried several methods to dissuade me, including telling me the salary was $26,000 a year, demanding I have Samoan heritage and making vague sartorial threats. "You're going to have to do a lot of cross-dressing segments," he said. "Andy looked good in low-cut gowns...
...told Conan that this was the kind of banter America loved to hear at 1 a.m. as they slept soundly. It seemed the only thing keeping me from the job was my previous experience on TV. When most people are asked to relate their most embarrassing moment, they inevitably tell some suspicious story about "accidentally" getting naked in public. At least they do in the kinds of magazines I read. But all my most embarrassing moments happened on television. There was the segment for Entertainment Tonight, when the interviewer asked me if Bruce and Demi's divorce would affect their...