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'''Conan Christopher O'Brien''' (born April 18, 1963) is an American talkshow host and writer. He is a former writer for ''[[The Simpsons]]'', writing episodes including "[[New Kid on the Block]]" and "[[Marge vs. the Monorail]]". He also wrote for the NBC comedy hour ''{{w|Saturday Night Live}}''. He later became host of the talkshow ''{{W|Late Night with Conan O'Brien}}'' before briefly hosting ''{{w|The Tonight Show}}''.  He is currently host of the late night talk show ''{{w|Conan (TV series)|Conan}}'' on TBS.
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'''Conan Christopher O'Brien''' (born April 18, 1963) is an American talkshow host and writer. He is a former writer for ''[[The Simpsons]]'', writing episodes including "[[New Kid on the Block]]" and "[[Marge vs. the Monorail]]".
  
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== Early life ==
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In fall of 1991, O'Brien signed on as a writer and producer for ''[[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.<ref name="commencement">[http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=692946 Text of O'Brien's 2000 commencement speech at Harvard] from Everything2</ref>
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Conan O'Brien was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. He is the third of six children in an Irish American family, one of four boys. His father, Dr. Thomas O'Brien, was a research physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School, specializing in infectious diseases. His mother, Ruth Reardon O'Brien, is a former partner of the Boston law firm of Ropes & Gray.<ref name="mother">[http://www.stanford.edu/group/WLHP/papers/obrien.html Ruth Reardon O'Brien], from a Stanford University website</ref> His sister Jane is a comedy writer and producer.
 
  
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After graduating as the valedictorian from Brookline High School (Brookline, Massachusetts), O'Brien entered Harvard University. Throughout his college career, he was a writer for the ''Harvard Lampoon'' humor magazine. During his sophomore and junior 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 History and Literature.
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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 episodes|unproduced sequel]] to "[[Stark Raving Dad]]", which was intended to revolve around {{w|Prince (musician|Prince}}.<ref>{{cite video | people=Reiss, Mike|year=2003|title=The Simpsons season 3 DVD Easter Egg commentary for the episode "Stark Raving Dad"| medium=DVD|publisher=20th Century Fox}}</ref> He also created the character of [[Captain 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.
  
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== Television career ==
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He left ''The Simpsons'' in 1993 to host ''{{w|Late Night With Conan O'Brien}}'', taking over after {{w|David Letterman}} left NBC for CBS.
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O'Brien moved to Los Angeles upon graduating from Harvard 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.
 
  
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After ''Not Necessarily the News'', O'Brien partnered with Harvard classmate [[Greg Daniels]] (who went on to be the executive producer of ''King of The Hill'' and ''The Office'') as staff writers on the short-lived ''Wilton North Report'' for [[Fox]]. He also occasionally served as the show's live audience warm-up person. ''Wilton North'', with former Letterman producer Barry Sand as executive producer, lasted only 4 weeks, and is noteworthy mostly as the show that bumped the Arsenio Hall-hosted ''Late Show'' off the air.
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== Credits ==
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=== Writer ===
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*{{ep|New Kid on the Block}}
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*{{ep|Homer Goes to College}}
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*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror IV|(as Watch Conan O'Brien)}}
  
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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]]. O'Brien also wrote the sketch "Nude Beach", which became infamous due to the fact that the word ''penis'' appeared in it no fewer than 42 times, much of it in the form of song.<ref name="nudebeach">[http://snltranscripts.jt.org/88/88bnudebeach.phtml Transcript from "Nude Beach" ''SNL'' sketch written by O'Brien]</ref> In 1989, he and the other ''SNL'' writers were awarded an [[Emmy Award]] for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy or Variety Series. O'Brien, like many SNL writers, occasionally appeared as an extra in sketches; uncommonly in a speaking role. One of his most visible appearances was a sketch in which Tom Hanks was inducted into the SNL "Five Timers Club" for hosting his fifth episode. O'Brien played the doorman who takes Hanks's coat. Years later, when Hanks was a guest on ''Late Night'', O'Brien showed the clip and jokingly claimed their appearance together was the source of all of Hanks's subsequent success.
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=== Producer ===
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While on a writers' strike from ''Saturday Night Live'' following the 1987-1988 season, O'Brien put on an improvisational comedy revue in Chicago with fellow ''SNL'' writers {{w|Bob Odenkirk}} and {{w|Robert Smigel}} called ''Happy Happy Good Show''.
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In the spring of 1991, O'Brien left SNL to write and produce a pilot for the television 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 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.<ref name="commencement">[http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=692946 Text of O'Brien's 2000 commencement speech at Harvard] from Everything2</ref>
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*{{ep|Homer Goes to College}}
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*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror IV|(as Conan ''12: 30 NBC'' O'Brien)}}
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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 episodes|unproduced sequel]] to "[[Stark Raving Dad]]", which was intended to revolve around {{w|Prince (musician|Prince}}.<ref>{{cite video | people=Reiss, Mike|year=2003|title=The Simpsons season 3 DVD Easter Egg commentary for the episode "Stark Raving Dad"| medium=DVD|publisher=20th Century Fox}}</ref> He also created the character of [[Captain 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.
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He left ''The Simpsons'' in 1993 to host ''{{w|Late Night With Conan O'Brien}}'', taking over after {{w|David Letterman}} left NBC for CBS. The show ended in 2009 when O'Brien replaced [[Jay Leno]] as host of ''{{w|The Tonight Show}}''. After just seven months O'Brien {{w|2010 Tonight Show conflict|left the show over a proposed timeslot change}}. NBC head {{w|Jeff Zucker}} had a 30-year grudge against Conan dating back to their days together at Harvard.<ref>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/05/14/100008738/index2.htm</ref> O'Brien's new show ''Conan'' currently airs on TBS.
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*{{ep|Marge vs. the Monorail|(writer of "[[The Monorail Song]]")}}
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On January 12, 2002, O’Brien married former advertising copywriter Liza Powel in her hometown of Seattle, Washington, in a nuptial Mass at St. James Cathedral. Elizabeth Ann Powel was born November 12, 1970, is from Bainbridge Island, Washington (near Seattle), and is the daughter of Seattle Dixieland band-leader Jake Powel.<ref>http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/1-17-2002-9405.asp</ref> They met in the spring of 2000 when Foote, Cone & Belding (FCB),<ref>http://www.fcb.com/</ref> the advertising agency she worked for, redesigned the television commercials for O'Brien's Houston sponsor, Hilton Furniture.
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They have a daughter, Neve, born on October 14, 2003 in New York City, and a son, Beckett, born November 9, 2005 in New York City.<ref name="baby">[http://nbcumv.com/entertainment/release_detail.nbc/entertainment-20051110000000-birthnoticefroml.html NBC Universal: Birth Notice from ''Late Night with Conan O'Brien'']</ref>
 
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O'Brien is a distant cousin of actor and comedian [[Denis Leary]] through marriage.
 
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Revision as of 04:33, June 8, 2011

For the character, see Conan O'Brien (character).
Conan O'Brien
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Gender: Male
Job: Producer
Supervising producer
Writer
Guest voice actor
Birth date: April 18, 1963 (1963-04-18) (age 61)
Status:
Unknown
Number of episodes: 54
Character(s): Himself
First episode: "Stark Raving Dad"
Most recent episode: "All Singing, All Dancing"


Conan Christopher O'Brien (born April 18, 1963) is an American talkshow host and writer. He is a former writer for The Simpsons, writing episodes including "New Kid on the Block" and "Marge vs. the Monorail".

In fall of 1991, O'Brien signed on as a writer and producer for 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.[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 Captain 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.

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Producer

Supervising producer

Guest starring

Soundtrack

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References

  1. ↑ Text of O'Brien's 2000 commencement speech at Harvard from Everything2
  2. ↑ Reiss, Mike. (2003). The Simpsons season 3 DVD Easter Egg commentary for the episode "Stark Raving Dad" [DVD]. 20th Century Fox.


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