Conan Christopher O'Brien (born April 18, 1963) is an American television host, television writer, comedian, producer, and the current host of The Tonight Show on NBC. He rose to fame as the host of NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien from 1993 to 2009, before leaving to succeed Jay Leno to The Tonight Show helm, airing his first broadcast on June 1, 2009. Prior to his hosting career, O'Brien was a writer for Saturday Night Live and the animated ...
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Conan Christopher O'Brien (born April 18, 1963) is an American television host, television writer, comedian, producer, and the current host of The Tonight Show on NBC. He rose to fame as the host of NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien from 1993 to 2009, before leaving to succeed Jay Leno to The Tonight Show helm, airing his first broadcast on June 1, 2009. Prior to his hosting career, O'Brien was a writer for Saturday Night Live and the animated series The Simpsons.
O'Brien was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, the son of Ruth (née Reardon), an attorney, and Thomas O'Brien, a physician, epidemiologist and professor of medicine at Harvard. He is the third of six children. O'Brien's family was Irish Catholic and descended from pre-Civil War era immigrants; In a Late Night episode, O'Brien paid a visit to County Kerry, Ireland, where his ancestors originated.
O'Brien attended Brookline High School, where he served as the managing editor of the school newspaper. After...
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