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• Al Roker has the record for the most appearances on the show with over 30. Al Franken is second with over 25. The reason for their numerous appearances is that both Als are usually the "go to" guys whenever another guest cancels. This has been brought up and joked about on one Al Franken appearance.
  
  
• The guests on the premiere episode were John Goodman, Drew Barrymore, and Tony Randall.
  
  
• Radiohead was the first musical guest on the show.
  
  

• Generally, shows are taped at 5:30 pm Tuesday through Friday.
  
  
• In the very first show, O'Brien jogged out from behind the curtains to his mark for the opening monologue. As time went on, he would try new things (in one show, he just jumped up and down to his mark). Eventually, he adopted this "shuffle", where he would walk hunched over and have his arms shuffling at his sides. When the show returned to air for the first time after the terrorist attacks on the USA of 11 September 2001, he replaced the shuffle with a more subdued walk, which he continues to use today for his entrance.
  
  
• Frequent sketches include: The Walker Texas Ranger Lever, In The Year 2000, Celebrity Survey, Stamps, Actual Items, What In The World?, If They Mated, New State Quarters, Clutch (talking lips), Conan on the Aisle, SAT analogies, etc.
  
  
• On 15 May 2003, there was a special claymation episode where the entire show was done with animated clay figures. The guests for that show included Johnny Knoxville, Richard Lewis, and David Bowie.
  
  
• The staff refer to the opening monologue as the "Conologue".
  
  
• Garry Shandling was NBC's first choice to replace David Letterman. He declined because he was launching "The Larry Sanders Show". Letterman himself suggested Dana Carvey as replacement.
  
  
• Dana Carvey was NBC's original choice for the new host of Late Night once David Letterman announced he was leaving to go to CBS. Carvey turned down the offer, but would later host a prime-time variety show, The Dana Carvey Show, in 1996 for ABC. This short-lived series has been considered a good indicator of what his version of Late Night might have been like since it shared regular Late Night with Conan O'Brien writers such as Robert Smigel and Louis C.K. on it staff.
  
  
• Jon Stewart, Drew Carey, Paul Provenza and Allan Havey are among the comedians who auditioned for the job of hosting the show.
  
  
• O'Brien auditioned on the set of "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" (1992). His guests were Jason Alexander and Mimi Rogers.
  
  

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