Joel Godard, who was the announcer for Late Night With Conan O’Brien for its entire run, but did not make the move with Conan to The Tonight Show, tells a puppet (really, he’s being interviewed by a puppet) that this wasn’t by choice. He wanted to keep working, indefinitely, but Conan wanted Andy Richter, even though Godard “didn’t think announcing was his strong point … They said that the network didn’t want to pay for both of us. I think that’s what they said. If Conan had really wanted me, he would have said, ‘Look, I want him.’ Conan was the golden boy, the million-dollar baby. If he said, ‘By God, I want Joel Godard, I need to have him,’ I think they would have done that. And I think they should have.” Nothing like spouting sour grapes to a puppet; they eat those right up. [TV Tattle/YouTube]
