New York magazine brings the funny this week with a cover story about Conan O'Brien as well as some other NYC-comedy features. The Conan story delves into his "unsuave" persona and the possibilities of bringing his style to the rest of America when he takes over the Tonight Show (he says, "I’m open to going to L.A. Mostly because it won’t be my choice."). Gothamist highly recommends you read it, but we have pulled out his thought about the city:
"New York is a social experiment—the results aren’t in yet, it may not have worked, they took way too many people with a large disparity of wealth, stacked them on top of each other, and sprinkled bagels over the whole thing. Contrast breeds comedy, and the more extreme the contrast, the better the comedy."We just want to know what kind of bagels O'Brien thinks are sprinkled on top of the city - H & H, maybe? And is there lox involved? Anyway, Gothamist wonders if now is too early to start a petition to keep him in NYC, but a sunblock pharmaceutical will probably lobby to send him to L.A.
