Conan O'Brien is an American television host, comedian, and producer born in 1963. He began his career as a writer for Saturday Night Live and has since hosted several late night television shows, including Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien, and Conan. O'Brien had a highly publicized conflict with NBC in 2010 over The Tonight Show hosting position that resulted in him leaving NBC and starting his current show Conan on TBS. He is known for his witty humor, celebrity interviews, and musical guests.

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Conan was born on April 18th 1963 and is popular America
TV host, comedian and producer. Hosting various shows
such as late night, tonight show, SNL, Conan and more. He
has also played in key roles as characters and producers
on shows like the Simpsons and Saturday night live.
Conan was raised in an Irish catholic family and attended
to Harvard university and became president of the
Harvard lampoon at his time in university. He began his
career as a writer for Saturday night live and his career went upwards from that point. Late
night is popular talk show that follows after prime time and he became popular celebrity
making appearances on other media shows and movies. He worked for NBC but was fired
due to disagreements with NBC and Jay leno creating a controversy.
He is mainly famous from his TBS TV show Conan is now
what he’s currently doing his popularity went viral especial
on the internet becoming famous worldwide and not just in
North America. The Late show “Conan” is an hour long
show with him at the helm of the show. He draws comedy
from recent news stories and celebrities also with him
doing monologues with his sidekick Andy Richter. He
usually has celebrity interviews with A list people and the
segment usually being a musical act from a famous singer
or band. Or the show ends on a comedy act with props and
sets. He also has very popular YouTube channel called team Coco where upload clips from
his show like interview or remotes and sometimes upload internet exclusive like on his
website. The channel has over 4 million subscribers and growing and includes a lot creative
acts like fan corrections, remotes, and such.
Conan has a popular website that includes a variety of
different areas like full episodes, videos, fan feedback
like fan art and feedback. There also an area of jokes,
music performances on his show and a schedules of
shows and where to buy tickets. With the retirement
of David Letterman on May 20, 2015 Conan became
the longest-working of all current late-night talk show
hosts in the United States, at 22 years
Conan is married to Liza Powell O’Brien in 12th January
2002 and they have two children together Neve and Beckett and they all currently live in
L.A. Conan also has five other siblings that he grew up with in Brookline Massa chutes where
he was born. One of Conan’s sister’s Kate B O’Brien is also an actress and has been in big
films such as Ted 2 and The Fighter becoming a decent actor but not really famous. Conan’s
father Thomas Francis O'Brien who was a doctor being a physician his specialty was being
Epidemiologist and also became a professor at Harvard as a medical school teacher and is

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where his son would later be studying. Conan’s mom Ruthe M O’Brien who is now divorced
from Thomas is now a retired lawyer.
The tonight show conflict with NBC and jay leno was one of the biggest late show drama in
the decade. The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien and The Jay Leno Show failed to attract
immediate viewers, seeing their viewership decline, grew restless. NBC CEO Jeff Zucker,
alongside other made the decision to move Leno back to his 11:35 pm start time and bump
O'Brien a half-hour later, to 12:05 am. O'Brien and his staff were both disappointed and
furious; when it became clear O'Brien would not agree to the proposed changes, the
situation grew heated. Though not a breach of either host's contract, the change resulted in
a public outcry and public demonstrations largely in support of O'Brien. O'Brien's public
statement that he would "not participate in the destruction of The Tonight Show" led to
negotiations with NBC for a settlement. O'Brien and his staff received $45 million to walk
away from the network, with his final Tonight Show airing January 22, 2010; Leno was
reinstated as host that March. The reaction from people was heated as most people
supported Conan and criticized jay giving him negative publicity even today but positive for
Conan. There was also another conflict with leno before all this when he and David
letterman had a conflict over the same job after Johnny Carson retired. Leno took the job
and letterman left the network in in public conflict and made his own show on CBS.