Conan seems like a good dude.
I really think Maron is doing a great culture-historical service by getting all these people to open up so much for the microphone. Not that people are going to care, 50 years from now, what was going on with 95% of them, but with the ones (like Conan and Tom) who people will still find interesting (in the way that we find, I don't know, Ted Healy interesting)*, Maron is creating an archive that will have lasting value.
By the way, after the last Best Show I was bored so I googled Ted Healy. Did you know that the Three Stooges once did business as "The Three Lost Souls"? I almost wish they'd stuck with that (except that Iggy and the Ashetons probably wouldn't have found it very appropriate and we would have missed out on one of the best band names ever).
* I don't mean to equate Tom with Ted Healy. I'm probably trying to pack too much disparate shit into one post.