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Succeeding Letterman as NBC's 12:30 a.m. late night host, as a virtual `unknown,' Conan O'Brien '85, the "Simpsons" comedy writer whose career began as a two-term Lampoon president, had no small task ahead of him. By all reports Conan is extraordinarily well-man-nered, quick-witted, and undeniably charismatic in person. Yet his show is not consistent enough to be pigeonholed, not unpredictable enough to be shocking. Inaugural televised appearances of peripheral bands like Urge Overkill, Morphine, and Jowbox follow interviews with hip literati like George Plimpton and rapping Allen Ginsberg. He's the clean...
...place as a nightly cultural ritual. It has a personalized and cultivated classic sense fostered by Conan's own penchant for past-hipster 1950's graphics and classic Hollywood photo stills, and a first-rate jazz ensemble fading to commerical with bop-style selections. The peppering of slightly-off Lampoon humor and cutting-edge musical guests propels the show out of the starchy promotion-circuit interview format. After nearly nine months of gestating under constant media scrutiny of the now-hyper-commercialized late night niche, the energy at the tapings has perceptibly and sharply mounted to a proudly fevered level...
...Lampoon piece-about a recurring nightmare that someone steals your elaborately set up punchline. Do you still have that dream...
...basic college party. You know, there was the beer. I was like, is there any wine here? No no no, it was just beer, keg parties, stuff like that. And it'd depend on where you were at, what final club you went to. You know, the Lampoon is a different party altogether than from like, say, you go to the Owl Club. That's whole, a whole, a whole different ballgame...
...good for the Harvard community that it'sback. Maybe now the Lampoon will focus on puttingout a humorous issue," said Gammill, adding theshe was honored merely to see her favoriteguitarist