Well, if you were on the west coast somewhere and tuned into "Conan" on Tuesday night, you saw . . . 23 straight minutes of commercials.

As opposed, I imagine, to the usual 20 straight minutes. (Hey, it's basic cable!)

Something happened and Conan was forced to address it on last night's show -- which was not commercial free:

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