Two questions: How the fuck did I not know that Conan O’Brien had a jokey roundtable on his talk show in 1993 featuring William F. Buckley, Hank Aaron, Louis C.K. and Dan Cortese? And: Why couldn’t Dan Cortese have had the flu that night? C.K., not yet the comic genius he would become, and Robert Smigel are among the quartet of stooges mocking the host’s name. The Clinton Administration was a strange time in America.

Conan, of course, still has a show on TV, yet I miss him. I miss that Conan.