Magna Cume O'Brien

Tonight he had Mike Tyson as a guest and I tuned in for two simple facts
1: I am an avid Conan fan and have yet to see host the Tonight Show, so NBC was still on from when I was looking for the Eagles game so I could see Michael Vick play for the first time in two years, but good timing I saw the show had just started and I wanted to watch to see how it was.

2: I did a presentation and wrote a paper about the FCC Regulations in high school and I know that commercial broadcasting regulations are a lot more lenient after the hours of 6 A.M. (I believe to help control the morning news shows i.e. Howard Stern) to 11 p.m. after the blocks of high rating shows for major television corporations. Conan used to be aired on NBC if I remember correctly off the top of my head around 12:35 and now I believe he starts around 11:35 though the regulations wouldn't really constrict the making of the show, It still is for competing for the end of the previously stated time slot audience and the beginning of the late night audience so I was intrigued enough to see how the show would be broadcasted and shown.Conan had a pretty large fan base before moving to a new time slot so I was interested in how the show would change.

I have always respected the show, from a very amateur standpoint, in writing and so forth, but tonight it went to another level. They showed an interview with Mike Tyson for two segments, and it was the most brilliant idea that I have ever seen in broadcasting...even better than Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction. The first half of the interview was introducing you to Mike Tyson and the second was hard hitting journalism. Conan, being the distinguished Harvard product that he is, always has a knack for pleasing numerous genres of audiences simultaneously and tonight showed his brilliance during the interview. He asked very intelligently devised questions to pull more information to avoid one word answers and pull emotion straight from the screen into yourself. Above all that, the production crew was the most surprising of all, they switched camera angles during the second half of the interview to make the questioning more intense, showing Conan asking Mike Tyson the questions to his face a bit more from Tyson's point of view, and used the usual audience point 2 shot to zoom in on Tyson's upper body to show more emotion within the answer. This is where I knew that Conan would go down in history as the Greatest Talk Show Host of All Time. From writing, producing and executing, it has, and will, always be the total package.

I write this because I got into this field to change lives, one chuckle at a time. I know there is no greater feeling than leaving a movie and feeling like the main character, or listening to the radio to hear your favorite song. There is nothing else like it in the world. Couples dance for the first time together as an official couple with a song that tells their attraction...their greatest, deepest feeling in the world. This industry is one in which can take someone who is stuck in traffic, or having one of the worst days of their lives and put a smile on their face and help them cope through their monotonous lives. When I got into my major I wanted to do something that makes a difference, and although I have had a great education, I still need to teach myself how to improve to get to the point where I am satisfied...wherever that may be. This was an amazing piece of cinematography and keeps me continuing down a path that, more times often than not, seems to lead to a cheezy reality show ratings getter. Maybe one day, I'll be fortunate enough to make it into a situation that lives with someone past their half hour of zombie mode....