Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Late Night with Conan O'Brien is an American late-night talk show hosted by Conan O'Brien that aired 2,725 episodes on NBC between 1993 and 2009. The show featured varied comedic material, celebrity interviews, and musical and comedy performances. "Late Night" aired weeknights at 12:37 am Eastern/11:37 pm Central and 12:37 am Mountain in the United States. From 1993 until 2000, Andy Richter served as O'Brien's sidekick; following his departure, O'Brien was the show's sole featured performer. The show's house musical act was The Max Weinberg 7, led by E Street Band drummer Max Weinberg.
Conan O'Brien
O'Brien moved to Los Angeles after graduation to join the writing staff of HBO's "Not Necessarily the News". He was also a writer on the short-lived "The Wilton North Report". He spent two years with that show and performed regularly with improvisational groups, including The Groundlings. In January 1988, "Saturday Night Live"'s executive producer, Lorne Michaels, hired O'Brien as a writer. During his three years on "Saturday Night Live (SNL)", he wrote such recurring sketches as "Mr. Short-Term memory" and "The Girl Watchers"; the latter was first performed by Tom Hanks and Jon Lovitz. While on a writers' strike from "Saturday Night Live" following the 1987–88 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". While living in Chicago, O'Brien briefly roomed with Jeff Garlin. In 1989, O'Brien and his fellow "SNL" writers received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy or Variety Series.