After 17 years, Brian McCann and his characters exit Team Coco
Fewer people have had as much of an impact on Conan O’Brien’s three late-night TV talk shows as has Brian McCann. Late Night with Conan O’Brien was still trying to prove its worth to NBC in 1995 when McCann joined the show’s writing staff and supporting performing players (though McCann showed up on-air there as early as May 1994). He made the big move to Hollywood for the ill-fated run on The Tonight Show — during which time he managed to coin the nickname Coco for Conan while serving as the “Twitter Tracker” announcer, thereby spawning Team Coco — and...
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