Conan O'Brien hosts the NBC television talk show Late Night with Conan O'Brien.

Conan Christopher O'Brien (born April 18, 1963) is an American comedian. He has been host of the television program Late Night with Conan O'Brien on the NBC network since 1993. He is slated to succeed Jay Leno as the host of The Tonight Show in 2009. NBC publicity image of Conan OBrien The text below is generated by a template, which has been proposed for deletion. ... NBC publicity image of Conan OBrien The text below is generated by a template, which has been proposed for deletion. ... April 18 is the 108th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (109th in leap years). ... Events January-February January 11 - The Whisky A Go-Go night club in Los Angeles, the first disco in the USA, is opened. ... The United States of America — also referred to as the United States, the U.S.A., the U.S., America, the States, or (archaically) Columbia—is a federal republic of 50 states located primarily in central North America (with the exception of two states: Alaska and Hawaii). ... A comedian (also comedienne, female) is a person who attempts to make people laugh through a variety of methods, normally through joke telling. ... Late Night with Conan OBrien is an American late night television talk show on NBC featuring varied comedic material and celebrity interviews. ... The National Broadcasting Company or NBC is an American television broadcasting company based in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003) Events Media:January January 1 - Czechoslovakia divides. ... Jay Leno James Douglas Muir Leno (born April 28, 1950 in New Rochelle, New York) is an American comedian best known as the host of the popular NBC television program The Tonight Show. ... The First Lady of the United States, Laura Bush and current host Jay Leno. ...

Biography

O'Brien was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. He is the third of six children and one of four boys. A Roman Catholic, he was a lector at St. Ignatius Parish. His father, Dr. Thomas O'Brien, was a research physician at Brigham and Womens' Hospital and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School. His mother, Ruth Reardon O'Brien, is a former well-known lawyer at the Boston law firm of Ropes & Gray. His sister Jane is a comedy writer and producer. O'Brien is a distant cousin of Denis Leary through marriage; contrary to popular belief, they are not actually related through a recent common ancestor. Brookline is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts. ... State nickname: Bay State Other U.S. States Capital Boston Largest city Boston Governor Mitt Romney Official languages English Area 27,360 km² (44th)  - Land 20,317 km²  - Water 7,043 km² (25. ... Illustration of the backyards of a surburban neighbourhood Suburbs are inhabited districts located either on the outer rim of a city or outside the official limits of a city (the term varies from country to country), or the outer elements of a conurbation. ... Boston is the capital of and the largest city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. ... The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ... In some Christian churches, the Reader is responsible for reading aloud excerpts of the scripture at a liturgy. ... Harvard Medical School is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. ... A lawyer or attorney at law is a person licensed by the state to advise clients in legal matters and represent them in courts of law (and in other forms of dispute resolution). ... Denis Leary (born August 18, 1957 in Worcester, Massachusetts) is an actor/ comedian/ writer/ director, whose father immigrated to Worcester from Ireland. ...

On January 12, 2002, O'Brien married advertising executive Liza Powell in Seattle, Washington, in a nuptial Mass by Father Paul O'Brien (no relation). They have one daughter, Neve, born on October 14, 2003 in New York City. January 12 is the 12th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... City nickname Emerald City City bird Great Blue Heron City flower Dahlia City mottos The City of Flowers The City of Goodwill City song Seattle, the Peerless City Mayor Greg Nickels County King County Area   - Total   - Land   - Water   - % water 369. ... This article deals with the U.S. state. ... October 14 is the 287th day of the year (288th in Leap years). ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and also: The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Events January January 1 - Luíz Inácio Lula Da Silva becomes the 37th President of Brazil. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the state of New York and the entire United States. ...

Education

After graduating as the valedictorian from Brookline High School (Brookline, Massachusetts), O'Brien entered Harvard University. During each of the four years he attended the school, he was a writer for the prestigious Harvard Lampoon humor magazine. During his junior and senior years, O'Brien served as the Lampoon's president, making him only the second person ever to serve as president twice, and the first person to have done it in 85 years. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in 1985 with a concentration in American History and Literature. In the United States, the title of valedictorian is given to the top graduate of the entire graduating class of an educational institution. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ... The Harvard Lampoon is an undergraduate humor organization founded in 1876 at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... This article is about the magazine as a published medium. ... Latin honors are Latin phrases used to indicate the level of academic distinction with which an academic degree was earned. ... 1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Television career

O'Brien moved to Los Angeles upon graduation to join the writing staff of HBO's Not Necessarily the News. He spent two years with that show, and performed regularly with improvisational groups like The Groundlings. He also acted in corporate infomercials to earn money during this period. Griffith Observatory and the Downtown Los Angeles skyline. ... For alternate meanings of HBO, see HBO (disambiguation). ... Not Necessarily the News was a satirical sketch comedy series that ran on HBO from 1983 to 1990. ... The Groundlings is an improvisational comedy troupe based in Los Angeles, California. ... Infomercials are television commercials that run as long as a typical television program (roughly thirty minutes or an hour). ...

After Not Necessarily the News, O'Brien worked as the warm-up comic for the Wilton North Report, a Fox show that was on the air for just four weeks. O'Brien then moved on to the Happy Happy Good Show, a stage show being put on in Chicago at the time. The Fox Broadcasting Company is a television network in the United States. ... Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ...

In January 1988 Saturday Night Live's executive producer Lorne Michaels hired O'Brien as a writer. During his 3½ years on SNL he wrote such recurring sketches as Mr. Short-Term Memory and The Girl Watchers, the latter of which was first performed by Tom Hanks and Jon Lovitz. Additionally, O'Brien wrote the sketch Nude Beach, which became infamous due to the fact that the word penis appeared in it no less than 42 times, much of it in the form of song.[1]  (http://snltranscripts.jt.org/88/88bnudebeach.phtml) He also appeared as an extra in some skits, occasionally with a speaking role. In 1989, he and the other SNL writers were awarded an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy or Variety Series. 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a weekly late-night 90-minute comedy-variety show from NBC which has been broadcast virtually every Saturday night since its debut on October 11, 1975. ... Lorne Michael Lipowitz, aka Lorne Michaels (born November 17, 1944) is a television producer and writer, from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... This article is about the actor Thomas Jeffrey Hanks. ... Jon Lovitz (born July 21, 1957) is a comedic actor who has been in many roles on television and in movies, usually as a supporting character. ... The penis (plural penises or penes) or phallus is the external male copulatory organ, and, in mammals, the external male organ of urination. ... 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... An Emmy Award. ...

In the spring of 1991, O'Brien left SNL to write and produce a pilot for the TV show Lookwell, starring Adam West. It was broadcast on NBC in July but was not picked up as a series. That fall O'Brien signed on as a writer and producer for the Fox series The Simpsons, where he also became a supervising producer. In a speech he gave at Harvard on Class Day in 2000, O'Brien credited The Simpsons with "saving" him, a reference to the career slump he was experiencing prior to his hiring for that show.[2] (http://www.february-7.com/features/conan.htm) Of the episodes he wrote while there, he considers Marge vs. the Monorail to be his favorite. 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Adam West as Batman Adam West (born William West Anderson on September 19, 1928 in Walla Walla, Washington) is best known as the actor who played the role of Batman on the original television program that ran from 1966 to 1968. ... July is the seventh month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... In a general sense, a series is a related set of things that occur one after the other or are otherwise connected one after the other. ... The Simpsons is the longest-running animated television series in television history, with 16 seasons and 352 episodes since its debut on December 17, 1989 on the Fox Network. ... 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Marge vs. ...

On April 26, 1993, Lorne Michaels chose Conan to be David Letterman's replacement as host of Late Night with David Letterman (with Andy Richter as his sidekick), and the show's name was changed to Late Night with Conan O'Brien. It received generally unfavorable critical reviews for the first 2-3 years after its debut. Indeed, the show was reportedly cancelled by network executives, but was allowed to remain on a day-to-day basis when it was realized there was no programming available to replace it. April 26 is the 116th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (117th in leap years). ... 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003) Events Media:January January 1 - Czechoslovakia divides. ... Late Night with David Letterman was the name of NBCs nightly hour long comedy talk show, which premiered in 1982 and went off the air in 1993. ... Andy Richter (born October 28, 1966) is an American comedian, best known for his roles as the sidekick to Conan OBrien on Late Night with Conan OBrien and his own failed sitcom Andy Richter Controls the Universe. ... Late Night with Conan OBrien is an American late night television talk show on NBC featuring varied comedic material and celebrity interviews. ...

Since then, however, O'Brien and the Late Night writing team have consistently been nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Writing in a Comedy or Variety Series, though they have not won as of 2004. In 1997, 2000, 2002, 2003, and 2004 he and the Late Night writing staff won the Writers Guild Award for Best Writing in a Comedy/Variety Series. 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Reef. ... 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and also: The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Events January January 1 - Luíz Inácio Lula Da Silva becomes the 37th President of Brazil. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Writers Guild of America (WGA) is the collective bargaining representative, or labor union, for writers in the motion picture and television industries. ...

In the 2003-04 television season, Late Night with Conan O'Brien averaged 2.5 million viewers each week.

In addition, O'Brien currently heads Conaco, a production partnership with NBC to develop programming for the network. Its first venture, the reality show Lost, debuted in fall of 2001. Lost was a US reality television show screened in the USA in late 2001. ... 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

On September 27, 2004, NBC announced the planned 2009 retirement of Tonight Show host Jay Leno. O'Brien was named Leno's successor, following in the footsteps of Steve Allen, Jack Paar, and Johnny Carson. [3] (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/09/27/entertainment/main645832.shtml) September 27 is the 270th day of the year (271st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 95 days remaining. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2009 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The First Lady of the United States, Laura Bush and current host Jay Leno. ... Jay Leno James Douglas Muir Leno (born April 28, 1950 in New Rochelle, New York) is an American comedian best known as the host of the popular NBC television program The Tonight Show. ... Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen (December 26, 1921 - October 30, 2000) was a musician, comedian and writer, who was instrumental in innovating the concept of the television talk show. ... Jack Harold Paar (May 1, 1918–January 27, 2004) was an American radio and television talk show host. ... Johnny Carson John William Johnny Carson (October 23, 1925 – January 23, 2005) was a United States actor, comedian and writer best known for his iconic status as the host of The Tonight Show from 1962 until 1992. ...

External links

• Late Night with Conan O'Brien (http://www.nbc.com/conan/) - official website
• ConanOBrien.net (http://www.conanobrien.net/) - unofficial fansite and forum
• Conologue - Conan O'Brien Coverage (http://www.conologue.com/)

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