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...Ironically, the first shows forced into reruns - like The Daily Show, The Colbert Report and Late Night with Conan O'Brien - draw the young viewers TV has had the hardest time keeping. (The shows may return early, heavy on interviews and light on gags.) For these fans, TV is just one option in a big digital menu. Without an army of Cyranos to write Jon's, Stephen's and Conan's jokes, those viewers could find watching them an easy habit to break. No, they won't quit TV altogether. But they'll be glad to ditch their shakier...
...mike on-stage in Boston more than twenty years ago. Now, with an Emmy Award win, multiple appearances on “Late Show with David Letterman,” “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” and “Late Night with Conan O’Brien,” and numerous accolades under his belt, he has expanded his talents beyond stand up. Hired as a writer on “Conan,” “Letterman,” and the “Chris Rock Show...
...superb student, Conan Doyle went on to medical school, where he was entranced by Dr. Joseph Bell, a charismatic professor with an uncanny ability to diagnose patients even before they opened their mouths. For a time he worked as Bell's outpatient clerk and would watch, amazed, at how the location of a callus could reveal a man's profession, or how a quick look at a skin rash told Bell that the patient had once lived in Bermuda. In 1886, Conan Doyle - by now an eye doctor - outlined his first novel, A Study in Scarlet, which he described...
...quickly tired of the tales, complaining to his mother that Holmes "takes my mind from better things." So, in 1893, he sent the detective over the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland during a struggle with his underworld nemesis, Professor Moriarty. "Killed Holmes" was all Conan Doyle deigned to scribble in his notebook. The public was devastated, as was his mother, but it would take 10 years of pleading and pressure before he gave in and resurrected Holmes from his watery grave...
...solace and public ridicule. In one of his last letters to his mother, who never embraced these beliefs, he wrote: "What does it matter what anyone says of me. I have a good hide by this time." After his death in 1930, all of this would be forgotten and Conan Doyle would be immortalized as the creator of Sherlock Holmes. It was not the legacy he wanted - but in the end, it was not for him to decide...