Who read the newspaper today? You all read the news. (No) Then you're going to love this, did you hear this? A bank reposessed OJ Simpson's car to help pay off his debts. That really happened. (Why?) Why? I'll tell you why. Today he was spotted hitchhiking really slowly with Al Cowlings.

Richter: It's humiliating. As much rationalization as you can do and say "they're just children and they don't know who I am," you've got 700 human beings on stage screaming at you "Boring!" when you're a performer and it's your job to be interesting.

On August 8, 1997, the audience of Late Night with Conan O'Brien was made up entirely of eight-year-old children. The episode in five parts: one four and five Andy Richter remembers on This American Life (starting at 50 minutes).O'Brien's monologue began with the following joke:That joke, as well as much of the episode, provides evidence that the children were responding to the Applause sign with little sense of the meaning of the humor or the conventions of the talk show.The show's guests that night were comedian Dave Foley (talking about a trip to Africa), animal expert Clyde Peeling , and business journalist Myron Kandel . Throughout most of the episode's traditional talk show content, it becomes apparent that the audience of children is increasingly bored. Among other tasks, the children were responsible throughout the episode for fighting the Boredom Monster, a Godzilla-like figure shown live on tape, by screaming and applauding at boring guests. As Richter recalls, the children eventually caught on and chanted "Boring, Boring!" in an attempt to bring the monster on stage.In particular, watch the episode for "Naughty Land" (a holding cell for misbehaving children) and the taped segment in which O'Brien gives the kids a tour of the studio.