Conan O'Brien
- Acting
- April 18, 1963 · Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Biography
Conan Christopher O'Brien (born April 18, 1963) is an American television host, comedian, writer, producer and performer. He is known for being the host of the late night shows: Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993-2009), The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien (2009-2010) and Conan (2010-2021), he is currently the host of the podcast Conan O'Brien needs a friend. O'Brien was born in Brookline, Massachusetts and raised in an Irish Catholic family. He landed his first comedy job as a writer for the sketch comedy series Not Necessarily the News, after first serving as president of the Harvard Lampoon while attending Harvard University. After graduating, he moved to Los Angeles, where he wrote for several comedy shows, and later moved to New York City to work on the writing staff of Saturday Night Live, and later for The Simpsons. O'Brien went on to serve as host of Late Night with Conan O'Brien from 1993 to 2009, before going on to host the short-lived The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien for seven months. He is the only personality to ever serve as host for both the NBC Late Night and Tonight Show franchises. In 2010, it was announced that O'Brien would begin hosting a new late-night talk show on TBS called Conan, which ran from 2018 to 2021. During the time this show was in hiatus, he started the podcast Conan O'Brien needs a friend, which he hosts with his producer Matt Gourley and his assistant Sona Movsesian. Besides this, Conan also starred in Conan O'Brien Must Go, a series on Max in which he visits countries from around the world and meets up fans whom he talked to on the podcast.
Known for
Filmography
- SCTV: The Greatest Show You've Never Heard Of · Self
- Norm: The Tale of Norm Macdonald · Self
- Untold Mr. T: I Pity the Fool · Self
- Toy Story 5 · Smarty Pants (Voice)
- Lorne · Self
- Chris Fleming: Live at The Palace · Executive producer
- Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model · Self Host, Late Night with Conan O'Brien (archive footage)
- Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man! · Self
- Starring Dick Van Dyke · Self
- The Beast in Me · Executive producer
- Mutineer
- Downey Wrote That · Self
- If I Had Legs I'd Kick You · Therapist
- John Candy: I Like Me · Self
- Please Don't Destroy LIVE: Full Sketch Special / Tour Doc · Self
- Everybody's Live with John Mulaney · Self
- Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music · Self
- This Is the Tom Green Documentary · Self
- Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley · Self
- Mr. McMahon · Self
- Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution · Self
- BRATS · Self
- Conan O'Brien Must Go · Self, Executive producer
- Rory Scovel: Religion, Sex and a Few Things In Between · Executive producer
- Gary Gulman: Born on 3rd Base · Executive producer
- Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain · Farley
- Albert Brooks: Defending My Life · Self
- SmartLess: On the Road
- Money Shot: The Pornhub Story · Self
- The Playboy Murders · Self
- Turn Every Page - The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb · Self
- Show Business Is My Life (But I Can't Prove It) · Self
- Meat Loaf - A Celebration Of Life · Self
- Weird: The Al Yankovic Story · Andy Warhol
- Norm Macdonald: Nothing Special · Self
- Murderville · Conan O'Brien
- Moses Storm: Trash White · Executive producer
- The Story of Late Night · Self
- The Mitchells vs. the Machines · Glaxxon 5000 (Voice)
- Sam & Mattie Make a Zombie Movie · Self
- The Game of Thrones Reunion Hosted by Conan O'Brien · Host
- You Cannot Kill David Arquette · Self
- James Veitch: Straight to VHS · Executive producer
- History 101 · Self
- Becoming · Self
- Dads · Self
- Fyre · Self
- Fyre Fraud · Self
- Sobreviví · Self
- Daniel Sloss: Live Shows · Executive producer
- Kidding · Conan O'Brien
- The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling · Self
- What the Fit · Self
- Final Space · Clarence (Voice), Executive producer
- This Is Bob Hope... · Self
- Movie Sound Effects: How Do They Do That? · The Riddler (Voice)
- Sandy Wexler · Testimonial
- The History of Comedy · Self
- The Lego Batman Movie · The Riddler (Voice)
- Laurie Kilmartin: 45 Jokes About My Dead Dad · Self
- Triumph's Summer Election Special 2016 · Executive producer
- The Last Laugh · Self
- George Fest: A Night to Celebrate the Music of George Harrison · Self
- Happy Once Again · Goldfish/ as himself
- How to Lose Weight in 4 Easy Steps! · Craig
- Thank You, Del: The Story of the Del Close Marathon · Self
- Being Canadian · Self
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert · Self
- Clipped · Red-Head Customer
- Hot Ones · Self
- The Jack and Triumph Show · Executive producer
- Conan Without Borders · Self
- Chicken Shop Date · Self
- Sharktopus vs. Pteracuda · Conan O'Brien
- Silicon Valley · Conan O'Brien
- Late Night with Seth Meyers · Self
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon · Self
- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty · Conan O'Brien
- Eagleheart: Paradise Rising · Executive producer
- Batman: The Dark Knight Returns · David Endochrine (Voice)