Conan O’Brien has been at TBS for just about a year now. That seems crazy. It feels like we were just going through the nasty divorce with NBC together, collectively wondering when our favorite ginger would return to television. But a year on TBS? Time sure does go by quickly.

It’s been quite a year for Team Coco. Conan, Andy Richter and everyone else behind the scenes have done what they do best — deliver offbeat and quirky comedy with a touch of class.

Sure, Conan hasn’t delivered as much bloggable content as Jimmy Fallon, but Fallon is in a league all by himself on that front. And, if delivering bloggable content is the new yardstick by which we judge the relative success of late-night comedy, then Conan is leaps ahead of third place.

And while his ratings are flailing, he’s not failing: His online viewership is impressive. It may be propaganda, but TBS claims Conan’s combined online and TV audience reaches 20 million people between 18 and 49.

The ratings will increase next week, surely. Conan is returning to New York City to tape a round of shows at the Beacon Theater in celebration of his one-year anniversary. That’s notable, but nothing special.

This is the special part: Vulture heard through the grapevine that Team Coco is going to officiate a wedding on-air during one of those episodes. Okay, now Conan’s got our attention.

Word is, however, this won’t be just any wedding, either. Conan O’Brien will officiate “a legal wedding between two men,” Vulture’s Kyle Buchanan notes. That’s pretty incredible.

We’ve come a long way from Johnny Carson and the records-breaking marriage ceremony between Tiny Tim and Miss Vicki 42 years ago. The wedding ceremony isn’t meant as a comedy sketch and actually has personal meaning for Conan — he’ll be marrying a longtime staffer and his partner.

Producers are still determining which night the Conan wedding will air, but sketch or no sketch, this may be the coolest thing anyone on late-night television has ventured to do in years. It’s the kind of thing that culturally normalizes something that many people still have a problem with.

We’re not saying Conan O’Brien, of all people, has become a monumental gay-rights activist, but sometimes it’s the smallest gestures that can have the biggest impact within society.

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