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Conan O'Brien Born in Brookline, Massachusetts on April 18, 1963, O'Brien was the third of four boys in a staunchly Irish Catholic family headed up by his father, a research physician at Brigham and Womens' Hospital, and his mother, a Boston lawyer.

O'Brien later followed in the family tradition for excelling in education persuits, and graduated valedictorian from Brookline High School. He entered Harvard University shortly after, where he began his fledgling career in comedy as a writer for Harvard Lampoon. Receiving his B.A. degree in American history, he eventually graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in 1985.

Following graduation, O’Brien moved to Los Angeles to join the writing staff of HBO’s Not Necessarily the News for two years while performing in a variety of improvisational groups including The Groundlings. In 1988, Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels hired him on as a staff writer for the hit show. O'Brien made most of the opportunity with such now-famous comedy sketches as "Mr. Short-Term Memory" and “The Girl Watchers” garnering an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy or Variety Series in 1989. Following the end of his stint at SNL in 1991, O'Brien was next hired to write for the popular animated series, The Simpsons, for which he eventually became the supervising producer.

Then, with the departure of David Letterman in 1993 to CBS, it was Lorne Michaels again who called upon O'Brien to assume the late-night spot hosting Late Night with Conan O'Brien. The show has since won, or been nominated for, a variety of awards for comedy writing.

Most recently, NBC named O'Brien as the successor to Jay Leno following Leno's planned retirement from The Tonight Show in 2009.

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