Conan O’Brien

Conan Christopher O’Brien is an American television host, comedian, writer, podcaster, and producer. He is best known for hosting the late-night talk shows Late Night and The Tonight Show with Conan. Prior to his hosting career, he was a writer for Saturday Night Live and The Simpsons. He has hosted Conan since 2010 and has also hosted such events as the Emmy Awards and Christmas in Washington. Conan was named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People in 2010.

About Conan O’Brien in brief

Summary Conan O'BrienConan Christopher O’Brien is an American television host, comedian, writer, podcaster, and producer. He is best known for hosting the late-night talk shows Late Night and The Tonight Show with Conan. Prior to his hosting career, he was a writer for Saturday Night Live and The Simpsons. He has hosted Conan since 2010 and has also hosted such events as the Emmy Awards and Christmas in Washington. Conan was named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People in 2010. With the retirement of David Letterman on May 20, 2015, he became the longest-working of all current talk show hosts in the U.S., at 26 years. He was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, and has three brothers and two sisters. His father is a physician, epidemiologist, and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. His mother is a retired attorney and former partner at the Boston firm Ropes & Gray. He currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife and three children. He also has a son, a daughter, and a son-in-law who live in New York City and Los Angeles, respectively. His son is the host of the talk show Conan on the cable channel TBS, and his daughter is the co-host of the reality TV series Conan on HBO Max, which will launch in 2021. He previously worked as a writer and producer for HBO’s Not Necessarily the News, and on the writing staff of The Simpsons for two seasons. He spent two years with improvisational groups The Groundlings and Wilton North, and performed regularly with improvisation groups, including The Groundling.

In January 1988, he put on an improvisational comedy revue in Chicago with fellow SNL writers Bob Smigel and Robert Smirk called Happy Happy Happy Good. In April 1989, he joined SNL’s writing staff and wrote for the sketch comedy series Happy Good Good Good. He left SNL after three years and moved to Los Angeles to join the writing team of HBO’s short-lived The Not-Necessarily-The-News Report. He later became a writer on The Simpsons and The Good Wife, and was a producer on The Good Husband. In 2009, he moved to New York to host his own incarnation of The Tonight show for seven months until network politics prompted a host change in 2010, when he moved back to LA. He now hosts Conan on TBS and has hosted a 32-city comedy tour and later an 18-city live comedy tour. He lives in L.A. with his family and has a wife and two children. His daughter is also a comedian and has appeared on several television shows, including This Is Life with Kelly Osbourne, The Colbert Report, and The Ellen DeGeneres Show, among many others. He and his wife have two children, a son and a daughter who have appeared on numerous television shows and a stepson on The Voice and The Voice Kids. He plans to have a second child with his third child, a girl, in 2015.