This is my hope anyways.  We’ll see.

But I know that the reasons people think Conan will fail are erroneous. The prevailing theory is that his comedy—and indeed his personality—are simply too weird for the kind of mass audience NBC wants to draw to The Tonight Show. “As Conan Goes West, Where Will the Humor Go?” asks an indicative piece in Sunday’s Boston Globe arguing that Conan will have to “graduate” from perpetual immaturity—from characters like the “Masturbating Bear,” a frequent guest—to succeed. But while it’s true that Conan’s brand of comedy is not exactly like Leno’s, I think this attitude both misses the point of what makes The Tonight Show successful and under-rates Conan’s ability to connect with a broad audience.