Newark Mayor goes head to head with Conan O'Brien over joke about city {Gadling}

Oct 3rd 2009 2:40PM This is so cool. Maybe this will end up changing New Jersey's image - it's always the brunt of so many jokes!
So many awesome people are from New Jersey - Bruce Springsteen, Buzz Aldrin, Allen Ginsburg, Danny DeVito, Sarah Vaughan, Ernie Kovacs... hey, here's the whole list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_New_Jersey

And me, by the way - born in Woodbury. Haven't done anything worth getting on that list yet, but I'm working on it. ;)