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Conan O'Brien

Conan O'Brien is an Irish American comedian. He has been host of the television program Late Night with Conan O'Brien on the NBC network since 1993 and is slated to succeed Jay Leno as the host of The Tonight Show in 2009. O'Brien attended Harvard University. During each of the four years he attended the school, he was a writer for the 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. 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. After Not Necessarily the News, O'Brien worked as the warm-up comic for the Wilton North Report,. O'Brien then moved on to the Happy Happy Good Show, a stage show being put on in Chicago, Illinois at the time. 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... Next

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