"The nightmare is you spend the rest of your life being funny at parties and then people say, 'Why didn't you do that when you were on television?'“


-Conan O'Brien

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The nightmare is you spend the rest of your life being funny at parties and then people say, 'Why didn't you do that when you were on television?'

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