If you haven’t been watching The Tonight Show since Conan O’Brien took over the show last week, you might have missed a segment that aired Monday night featuring local WUSA-9 TV news reporter Armando Trull. The sketch, which Conan dubbed “Trull Busters,” features a clip of Trull reporting on a story outside a Metro station (looks like it could be Silver Spring, but it’s hard to make out), only to have a portly gentlemen take a rather exaggerated pratfall directly behind him. You can view the video here; the sketch gets going around the 11:30 minute mark.

Now, Conan’s staff probably just stumbled upon this rather hilarious clip, figured the last name Trull was funny sounding enough to make into a joke, and rolled with it. But we’ll admit to harboring fantasies that this is really going to be a regular feature on The Tonight Show, if only for the opportunity to see this fab logo Conan whipped up featuring Armando’s serious newsman face.

We’ve got messages in to Trull to see what he thought of being featured on rival network NBC’s premier late night talk show. Stay tuned!

UPDATE: Just got off the phone with Trull, who tells DCist he first found out about the sketch via a late night email from a reader, who asked the reporter whether Conan O’Brien was “mad at him.” Trull works the 3 a.m. to 11 a.m. shift, so by the time he got to work on Tuesday, word of the sketch had spread through the newsroom and he was greeted by laughs and ribbing from his co-workers.

As for the video clip, Trull confirms the original piece aired on WUSA9 about a week before The Tonight Show picked it up — he had been reporting from outside the King Street Station on the ongoing Metro retail kiosk story — and that the man had fallen behind Trull without him noticing until he reviewed his work from the day.

“I thought, that guy looks like he’s sliding into home plate!” Trull said. “I hope he didn’t get hurt.”

No one at WUSA9 said anything about the man’s spill on the air, but some alert Tonight Show staffer must have found the clip on the internet, and the segment was born. For his part, Trull loved the comedy bit.

“I thought it was hilarious,” he said. “When I told my mom I hoped I’d be on network TV some day, this wasn’t quite what I had envisioned,” Trull added with a wink in a subsequent email.