Conan O'Brien

when you're at the forefront of a lot of this, you know?

I mean, there are a lot of people who the first time they saw, I mean, a black person with their own show and it's a late night show, which is, it's just unheard of.

So you're the first person doing that.

And the first is hard.

You know what I mean?

And you must have so many people that have come up to you over the years and have said like, no, I grew up watching you

And I saw whatever my values, what I liked reflected back at me.

when he did this one.

But you know what?

He made it look cool.

Oh, yeah.

He slid all the way across the stage.

Well, here's the thing you knew.

What I could tell is something authentic and new is happening here.

And that has nothing to do with race.

That has nothing to do with... This is just someone who knows what he wants to do and has a vision and is expressing himself and bringing all these different people in.

And it wasn't just, I mean...

you have people like Prince, you have all these incredible performers come on who weren't doing other shows, but Madonna is coming up.

People that don't do these shows are showing up on your program.

Robert De Niro.