Tom Green's show is interesting and innovative, and his celebrity interviews are better than any you'll find on a TV talk show. Largely because the celebrities

Tom Green's show is interesting and innovative, and his celebrity interviews are better than any you'll find on a TV talk show. Largely because the celebrities let their guard down in the low-rent facilities. Conan has a couple big personal obstacles to going online. First, he'd have to lay off a lot of his staff, because an online talk show doesn't require and can't support nearly as many crew members as The Tonight Show. Second, he'd be taking a big pay cut. If the show did well he might still have a shot at seven figures, but any TV talk show he does would probably pay him at least $15-20 million. Third, he'd have fewer viewers, which could be a blow to both his ego and his cultural importance (that's not to suggest that either is currently out of whack). The upside is that Conan is probably one of the best-positioned people in the world to do something like this, and he has the means and support to try it out as an experiment for a few months. At this point in his career, though, he may not be looking to make such a big change.