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On his new Tonight Show, Conan O’Brien has the indescribable William Shatner on as a regular guest, but it’s Adam West who was Conan’s first love. Before Seth MacFarlane got his filthy paws on the self-mocking erstwhile Caped Crusader, the late-night host was sort of obsessed with West. From a 1997 Rolling Stone interview :
“I maintain that the television series Batman is one of the most brilliant pieces of American art in the last 30 years,” says O’Brien. The article recalls how a young Conan and the ever-brilliant Robert Smigel teamed with West on a network television series that never got off the ground.
The article continues: “In 1991, O’Brien and fellow Batman obsessive Robert Smigel, his friend from SNL, made a pilot [called Lookwell] for NBC. Of course, it starred Adam West.
Smigel: “We were so happy. We had to fight so hard to get Adam West to be the guy.”