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Conan O'Brien: 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
On April 26, 1993, Lorne Michaels chose Conan to be the new 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 the air when it was realized there was no programming available to replace it.
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, and 2003, he and the
Late Night writing staff won the Writers Guild Award for Best Writing in a Comedy/Variety Series.
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 2003.
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.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/09/27/entertainment/main645832.shtml
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