Conan O’Brien has always been a little saltier when he leaves the studio: There’s just something about venturing from behind the desk that brings out the late-night host’s edgy side.
When O’Brien visited Cuba last month — jumping at the chance just a couple of months after President Obama re-opened relations there — he became the first late-night host to do so since The Tonight Show‘s Jack Paar interviewed Fidel Castro there 50 years ago. And he definitely packed the rum punch
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Unlike a lot of late-night hosts who set up a studio and local audience when they take their show on the road, O’Brien opted instead to roam around Havana with a handheld camera crew and not much else. Along the way, he riffed on most of the clichés and cultural touchstones that we all associate with Cuba, including, but not limited to: Read more…
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