Descartes just quipped that it took Conan O’Brien leaving the Tonight Show to get us to watch it again, which may be true, but I do think he’s a good guy, more in the vein of Johnny Carson instead of Jay Leno.
from his farewell speech last night, :
“All I ask of you is one thing: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism — it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere,” he concluded. “Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.”
– Conan O’Brien, The Tonight Show, January 22, 2010
Cynicism: A philosophy characterised by the mistrust and disbelief of everything and everybody. It is most common amongst the intellectually elite. It is a degree of perspicacity to which we should all aspire.