If you start pandering to young people, you're going to get accused of simply giving people what they want.

Williams has also appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien where he took part in numerous skits and interviews. Williams appeared on Sesame Street again in a 2008 episode reporting for Sesame Street Nightly News about the Mine-itis outbreak where he becomes a victim of it. When Williams succeeded Tom Brokaw as anchor of NBC Nightly News his annual salary was reported to be $8 million and by October 2006 it had reportedly increased to $10 million.

Brian Douglas Williams (born May 5 1959) is the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News the evening news program of the NBC television network a position he assumed in 2004. Williams was listed among Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2007 and in 2010 a prominent media observer dubbed him "the Walter Cronkite of the 21st century.