The dramatic fallout between NBC and Conan O’Brien was full of surprises. Who knew that O’Brien and NBC head Jeff Zucker had been enemies since a series of Harvard Lampoon pranks involving stealing every copy of Zucker’s Harvard Crimson and posting phone sex ads with Zucker’s phone number? But more surprising than the 1.5 Million dollar Bugatti Veyron was Conan’s thanking NBC for twenty good years and his heartfelt rallying cry against cynicism:

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.

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.

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