The key for Conan, is Andy Richter, if they can recapture what they had on the old Late Night with Conan show, then I think it will eventually overtake Letterman.
Andy was hilarious, I say put him back on the couch like Ed McMahon.
I’d say ‘the key’ is getting the opening monologue ‘right’. Thats always been THE STAPLE, the ‘connection’ between the four previous hosts from Parr forward.
Once Leno ‘got it’ he destroyed Letterman for well over a decade.