Who even remembered that Conan O’Brien once dated Lisa Kudrow?! That’s just one of the many highlights of Vanity Fair‘s new oral history of the first year of Late Night with Conan O’Brien, in which various interviews track the humble beginnings of one of the best late night talk show hosts of all time.
Our fave quote is from the Friends star, who was actually Conan’s girlfriend at the time took over hosting Late Night when David Letterman famously quit and headed to rival network CBS.
She told the carrot-topped comic: Ha! Telling a guy trying to be a TV star that he’s “no one” sounds pretty harsh, like tough love.
But it wasn’t, it was genius! Related: Matthew Perry’s Death May Affect Where You Can Watch Friends Reruns See, she meant it as a compliment.
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