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This article is about the guest star. For the character, see Conan O'Brien (character).

Conan O'Brien

Crew Information Gender: Male ♂ Job: Producer Supervising producer Writer Guest voice actor Birth date: April 18, 1963 (1963-04-18) (age 61) Status: Inactive Number of episodes: 54 Character(s): Himself Seasons active: Seasons 3 - 5, 9 First episode: "Stark Raving Dad" Most recent episode: "All Singing, All Dancing" First album: Songs in the Key of Springfield Latest album: Go Simpsonic with The Simpsons

Conan Christopher O'Brien (born April 18, 1963) is an American television host and writer, best known for his talkshows.

In fall of 1991, he signed on as a producer and writer for The Simpsons, where he also became a supervising producer. In a speech he gave at Harvard on Class Day in 2000, he credited The Simpsons with "saving" him, a reference to the career slump he was experiencing prior to his hiring for that show.^[1]

He wrote the episodes "New Kid on the Block", "Marge vs. the Monorail", "Homer Goes to College" and the wraparounds of "Treehouse of Horror IV". He also wrote the unproduced sequel to "Stark Raving Dad", which was intended to revolve around Prince.^[2] He also created the character of Horatio McCallister (the Sea Captain) and he named Patty and Selma Bouvier's iguana Jub-Jub (something he would say during awkward silences while writing). Of the episodes he wrote while there, he considers "Marge vs. the Monorail" to be his favorite. In the writer's room O'Brien used to act out jokes and other actions, entertaining the other writers.

He left The Simpsons in 1993 to host Late Night With Conan O'Brien, taking over after David Letterman left NBC for CBS. He was also interviewed in The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special – In 3-D! On Ice! and performed "The Monorail Song" with the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles in The Simpsons Take the Bowl.

Credits

Written by

• Episode – "New Kid on the Block"
• Episode – "Marge vs. the Monorail"
• Episode – "Homer Goes to College"
• THOH – "Treehouse of Horror IV" (as Watch Conan O'Brien)

Producer

Supervising producer

• Episode – "Homer's Barbershop Quartet"
• Episode – "Cape Feare"
• Episode – "Homer Goes to College"
• Episode – "Rosebud"
• THOH – "Treehouse of Horror IV" (as Conan 12: 30 NBC O'Brien)
• Episode – "Marge on the Lam"

Guest starring

• Episode – "Bart Gets Famous"

Soundtrack

• Episode – "Marge vs. the Monorail" (writer of "The Monorail Song")
• Episode – "All Singing, All Dancing" (writer of "The Monorail Song")

For The Simpsons

• Album – Songs in the Key of Springfield
• Album – Go Simpsonic with The Simpsons

Interviewee

• Special – The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special – In 3-D! On Ice!

References

External links

• Conan O'Brien at the Internet Movie Database
• Conan O'Brien at Wikipedia
• Conan O'Brien at Twitter