Long before the podcast boom, Howard Stern built the template for intimate, wide-ranging interviews
He fused raunch, confession and marathon interviews into must-hear audio, years before podcasting became a media powerhouse
In a wide-ranging interview, Howard Stern asked Conan O’Brien about everything from his time as a writer for “Saturday Night Live” to the comedian’s final days as host of “The Tonight Show.”
Stern brushed off the idea that credentials mattered.
“It’s being funny,” Stern said. “And it’s a bitch.”
O’Brien said he’d struggled with self-doubt and had felt depressed. It was an opening for the self-described “King of All Media.”
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