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Full Name: Conan Christopher O'Brien
Born: April 18, 1963 in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
Height: 6'4.5 (1.94m)
Trademarks:
*Begins each Late Night show with by dancing on stage ending with a jump.
*During the Late Night monologue, says "we have a great show tonight", followed by a joke.
*Frequently says how he is unknown, unliked, poorly paid (his salary for 02-03 was 8 million), and underminded by his competition when the opposite is true.
*Frequenly makes jokes at his expense or that of the Late Night band leader, Max Weinberg, and band member La Bamba.
*Graduated Harvard magna cum laude in 1985 with a BA in Literature and History.
*Wrote Simpsons episodes "Marge vs. the Monorail," "New Kid on the Block," "Homer Goes to College" and "Treehouse of Horror IV." He also produced "The Front," "Homer's Barbershop Quartet," "Treehouse of Horror III" (as "Creepy Conan O'Brien"), "Brother From the Same Planet" and "Whacking Day."
*Grew up in a large Irish Catholic family. He is the third child and has three brothers and two sisters.
*Was the editor of the Harvard humor magazine, the Harvard Lampoon for two years in a row. He was only the second person to do this, the other being 85 years before.
*Has a golden retriever named Hudson.
*Calls where he does his monologue "The Laugh Zone" and where he sits "The Chat Zone."
*Replaced David Letterman in the late night slot on NBC having no experience in talks show hosting (he was only a writer before). Almost no one thought the show, now in its 11th year, would last.
*Plays guitar.
*Married Liza Powell January 12, 2002.
*Daughter Neve born October 14, 2003.
*Won an emmy for his writing on Saturday Night Live.
*Took tap dancing lessons as a child and started writing comedic plays early in his life.
