The moment Conan starts talking about something seriously, you can tell what an intelligent, humble and kind man he really is. He's the offspring of a lawyer and a doctor; graduated high school valedictorian, and left Harvard as magna cum laudi in literature and history. Double-checking this on Wikipedia, I find that when he was serving the Harvard Lampoon as its president, the rival magazine, The Harvard Crimson, was being headed by current NBC President, and one of the main forces behind Conan's departure from NBC, Jeff Zucker.
Old grudge?
