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Oh, how the mighty Conan has fallen

Opinion
Feb 25, 20101 min

Out of gig at the moment, talk-show host turns to Twitter

From the “Tonight Show” to Twitter, that’s the path upon which television talk-show host Conan O’Brien, currently unemployed, finds himself today. It won’t pay the bills, but, hey, the fellow has time on his hands.

Here’s the bio on O’Brien’s new Twitter presence:

“I had a show. Then I had a different show. Now I have a Twitter account.”

His one and only tweet, posted 18 hours ago, reads thusly:

“Today I interviewed a squirrel in my backyard and then threw to commercial. Somebody help me.”

How sad.

The good news?

He already has more than a quarter of a million followers waiting for tweet No. 2.