Conan Christopher O'Brien is an American comedian, television presenter, writer, musician, producer, and voice actor. Known as the host of nightly comedy shows. Since 2010, he has been running the Conan program on the TBS cable channel.
100% Irish Catholic
Conan O'Brien was born on April 18, 63 in Brooklyn, Massachusetts. Comedian's father, Thomas Francis, is an epidemiologist, physician, and professor of medicine at Harvard University. Mother, Ruth Reardon is a lawyer and partner at Ropes & Gray. The third of six children. The Conan family has Irish Catholic roots. His ancestors immigrated from Ireland before the American Civil War. One of the episodes of the Late Night show O'Brien dedicated to the county of Kerry (Ireland) - the homeland of his ancestors.
Harvard libel
Conan O'Brien attended Brooklyn School, where he edited the Sagamor school newspaper. During his studies, he interned with member of Congress Robert Drinan and won the competition of the National Council of English Teachers.
In 1981 he entered Harvard University. Here he was engaged in history and literature. He graduated with honors in 1985. His thesis was dedicated to symbolic children in the works of William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor. He directed the Harvard libel student humorous magazine while studying at Harvard University and was the author of the comedy sketch series.
SNL and The Simpsons
After working in comedy shows in Los Angeles, he joined the cast of Saturday Night Live. Conan was a screenwriter and producer for The Simpsons for two seasons until he received an offer from NBC to replace David Letterman as host of Late Night in 1993.
Night show
The premiere of the night show with Conan O'Brien at Studio 6A at Rockefeller Plaza 30, New York, took place on September 13, 93 and was accompanied by unfavorable reviews from contemporary critics. On the day of the premiere, Conan wrote an article in the New York Times entitled “O'Brien failed!”
The show was constantly threatened with closure, and in 1994, NBC threatened to transfer the presenter to weekly contracts. Management wanted to replace O'Brien by Greg Kinnear, whose program began later, at 1:30 in the morning.
But the popularity of the show was gradually growing. This was facilitated by the sketches “If They Married,” “A Trip on the Table,” “In 2000”. The turning point was February 1994, when David Letterman visited the presenter. The comedy style of the program arose: a combination of obscene and eccentric jokes with elegant narrative exit scenes.
Honored Awards
The audience of O'Brien, youth and men, has grown steadily, and the show has become a leader in ratings. This went on for 15 seasons. Since 1996, Conan O'Brien and the team of authors of the program were annually nominated for an Emmy Award, receiving it for the first and only time in 2007. In 1997, 2000, 2002-2004, he and the team of authors received the award for the Writers Guild. In 2001, O'Brien founded his own television company Conaco.
02.20.09 NBC broadcast the last episode of the night show. The program consisted of old plots and included the unexpected appearance of ex-buddy Andy Richter, John Mayer and Will Ferrell. The TV presenter concluded the episode by chopping up the stage equipment with an ax, handed out pieces to the audience and thanked everyone who helped him achieve this moment in his career, including David Letterman, Lorne Michaels, Jay Leno, his children and his wife.
Evening show with Conan O'Brien
Subsequently, O'Brien moved from New York to Los Angeles to host his own version of The Tonight Show for seven months. In the end, the TV company’s policy demanded that the host of the Evening Show in 2010 be replaced with Conan O'Brien.
"Conan Show"
O'Brien has been leading the Conan Show since 2010 and has also hosted ceremonies such as the American Television Emmy Award and Christmas in Washington. The autobiographical film Conan O'Brien Cannot Stop was shot about him (2011).
04/12/10, a few hours before the start of his tour in Eugene, Oregon, the presenter announced the transition to the cable channel TBS. The program debuted on November 8, 2010 and will air from Monday to Thursday at 23:00 pm EST.
09/01/10 O'Brien announced via Twitter and Team Coco's YouTube page that the new show program on TBS would simply be called "Conan." Recently, the television company extended the contract until 2018.
In February 2015, after the warming of US-Cuban relations, O'Brien became the first American television operator in the last 50 years to receive permission to film in Cuba.
Conan O'Brien in Armenia
Encouraged by a visit to Cuba and having tripled the rating, Conan decided to devote his next international episode to the homeland of his assistant, Sonya Movsesyan. In Yerevan, the TV presenter visited the market, where he explored local delicacies and practiced in Armenian, referring to sellers with the phrases: “I want to eat your liver” and “I will die on your body”.
Personal life
Conan O'Brien met Elizabeth Ann Powell in 2000. The couple met almost 18 months before they married in 2002 in their hometown of Seattle's wife. On October 14, 2003, they had a daughter, Neve, and on November 9, 2005, their son Becket. O'Brien is a convinced democrat since his first presidential vote in 1984.
10.21.11 Conan was ordained a priest with the right to perform the same-sex marriage ceremony in New York to record a series of programs. The wedding between the employee of the TV presenter and his partner was held on the stage of the Beacon Theater on November 3, 2011 and broadcast the Conan show.
With the retirement of David Letterman on May 20, 2015, the American broadcaster Conan O'Brien became the record holder for the duration of night talk shows in the United States - his experience has already exceeded 22 years.