While on a writers' strike from Saturday Night Live following the 1987-1988 season, O'Brien put on an improvisational comedy revue in Chicago with fellow SNL writers Bob Odenkirk and Robert Smigel called Happy Happy Good Show. Years later, when Hanks was a guest on Late Night, O'Brien showed the clip and jokingly claimed their appearance together was the source of all of Hanks's subsequent success. O'Brien played the doorman who takes Hanks's coat. One of his most visible appearances was a sketch in which Tom Hanks was inducted into the SNL "Five Timers Club" for hosting his fifth episode. O'Brien, like many SNL writers, occasionally appeared as an extra in sketches uncommonly in 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. O'Brien also wrote the sketch "Nude Beach", which became infamous due to the fact that the word penis appeared in it no fewer than 42 times, much of it in the form of song. ![]() Short-Term Memory" and "The Girl Watchers," the latter of which was first performed by Tom Hanks and Jon Lovitz. During his 3½ years on SNL he wrote such recurring sketches as "Mr. In January 1988, Saturday Night Live's executive producer Lorne Michaels hired O'Brien as a writer. ![]() Wilton North, with former Letterman producer Barry Sand as executive producer, lasted only 4 weeks, and is noteworthy mostly as the show that bumped the Arsenio Hall-hosted Late Show off the air. He also occasionally served as the show's live audience warm-up person. He also acted in corporate infomercials to earn money during this period.Īfter Not Necessarily the News, O'Brien partnered with Harvard classmate Greg Daniels (who went on to be the executive producer of King of The Hill and The Office) as staff writers on the short-lived Wilton North Report for Fox. He spent two years with that show, and performed regularly with improvisational groups like The Groundlings. O'Brien moved to Los Angeles upon graduating from Harvard to join the writing staff of HBO's Not Necessarily the News. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in 1985 with a concentration in History and Literature. During his sophomore and junior years, O'Brien served as the Lampoon's president, making him only the second person ever to serve as president twice, and the first person to have done it in 85 years. Throughout his college career, he was a writer for the Harvard Lampoon humor magazine. ![]() His sister Jane is a comedy writer and producer.Īfter graduating in 1981 as the valedictorian from Brookline High School (Brookline, Massachusetts), Conan entered Harvard University. His mother, Ruth Reardon O'Brien, is a former partner of the Boston law firm of Ropes & Gray. Thomas O'Brien, was a research physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School, specializing in infectious diseases. He is the third of six children in an Irish-American family, one of four boys. Conan O'Brien was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston.
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