OK, Conan O'Brien's third "Tonight Show" was much better than the first two. That's because:
-- He finally had two people on the couch, the way Johnny Carson used to do it. Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Bradley Cooper were able to have some exchanges; that sort of thing happened a lot, back when these were called "talk shows."
-- Instead of having a complex and semi-funny filmed bit, he did a variation on "The Year 2000." That is, simply, joke after joke after joke; it's fun.
My only gripe? Just before showing an unfunny clip from "The Hangover," Conan announced that he'd seen the movie and it's very funny. This announcement was tainted by the fact that he had claimed Tuesday that "Angels and Demons" is a good movie. We're just lucky he wasn't around in the old days, to endorse "Plan Nine From Outer Space."