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'Poonster Gets the Last Laugh

Once panned by critics, Harvard grad makes it big

Or "If They Mated," a segment in which computer graphics simulate the unlikely offspring of such celebrities as New York Senate candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.).

Or Triumph, the Comic Insult Dog, a hand puppet that threatens to poop on guests.

Or O'Brien himself, who is now, according to Shales, the most watchable personality on late night television.

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O'Brien's Lampoon cronies say this was always the case.

"I thought it was funny from the start," Reiss says.

"I thought it was funny from the start," parrots Jean. "And it's still funny."

"Best show on TV," Flender says.

O'Brien has said he blames the show's initial failure partly on his inability to make proper use of Richter, who has since become a star in his own right.

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