Conan jokingly imagines other self-aggrandizing Brian Williams fabulations

Conan O'Brien has some fun with Brian Williams

(Image credit: Conan)

published 9 February 2015

NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams has put his career in jeopardy with his shifting story of a harrowing helicopter ride in Iraq during the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. Williams apologized and took himself off the air for several days, "but I don't think this is the first time Brian Williams has tried to get in on someone else's glory," Conan O'Brien said on Conan last week. If you're looking for a serious indictment of Williams, this is not it. If you're looking for a good chuckle, watch below. —Peter Weber

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Peter Weber is a senior editor at TheWeek.com, and has handled the editorial night shift since the website launched in 2008. A graduate of Northwestern University, Peter has worked at Facts on File and The New York Times Magazine. He speaks Spanish and Italian and plays bass and rhythm cello in an Austin rock band. Follow him on Twitter.

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