Late Night Television Talk Show Hosts : Conan O'brien

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Conan Christopher O'Brien (born April 18, 1963) is an American television host and comedian. He served as host of Late Night with Conan O'Brien from 1993 to 2009, followed by the short-lived The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien from 2009 to 2010. Prior to his hosting career, O'Brien was a writer for Saturday Night Live and the animated series The Simpsons. On April 12, 2010, it was announced that O'Brien will host a new late-night talk show on cable TV network TBS, beginning as early as November 2010. O'Brien was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, the son of Thomas O'Brien, a physician, epidemiologist and professor of medicine at Harvard, and Ruth O'Brien (ne Reardon), an attorney and partner at the Boston firm of Ropes