A National Review editor writes on The Corner about a visit to Conan O'Brien's show:
"Conan O'Brien's a legitimately talented and weird dude. Disturbingly skinny, particularly for someone so tall, he looks especially odd because there's something about his face that just doesn't seem right. It's both expressive and sort of dead — like he's wearing an ill-fitting Conan O'Brien mask. He worked the audience very well, and came across as a very decent guy, which I'd always assumed. I thought it was interesting that O'Brien's opening monologue is delivered more or less to a wall, rather than the audience. When you watch it on TV you'd think he was talking to the audience, despite the obvious cue cards. But the audience is really about fifteen feet over his head when he's doing his opening bit."
I would never have guessed that, logistically, the show was done that way.
Interesting to know such nuts-and-bolts details about how TV shows look when they get made, isn't it?
