"Conan O'Brien may be putting on a brave face publicly, but two reports say that he teared up while sharing the news with his staff that he would not accept an offer from NBC to host the "Tonight Show" after midnight. ...[Q]uotes an insider: "When Conan read the statement to the staff, "he broke up. He began to cry," one of my insiders reveals. "Because for 17 years he was working towards The Tonight Show, and now he says he's prepared to walk away from it. That's an amazing thing. An amazing thing. But he takes very seriously the fact that The Tonight Show baton was passed to him."" " - Christopher Chung