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* MeanCharacterNiceActor: He often portrays himself as a loud and obnoxious BadBoss with a violent streak who is constantly looking for ways to antagonise people and make himself look good. Ask anyone who's ever met him or worked for him however, and they'll tell you he's one of the nicest, funniest, generous and respectful people you'll ever meet. He also loves to play up how much much distaste for others he has on-screen, but Conan himself is very social, and can make friends basically anywhere in the world no matter the situation, as evidenced by his ''Conan Without Borders'' series.
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** It's generally understood that his rapport with his employees is beyond that of any other talk show, to the point that his skits and sketches featuring his employees, especially Sona and Jordan Schlansky, are considered his best material and what fans love to see the most. In fact, Sona herself, despite the [[VitriolicBestBuds turbulent]] relationship they portray on-screen, readily admits in interviews and podcasts how much she loves Conan and how generous and nice he and his wife Liza really are.
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With the retirement of David Letterman on May 20, 2015, O'Brien became the longest-tenured of all current late-night talk show hosts in the United States, a position he would hold until his own retirement six years later, on June 24, 2021. It was announced that he would be moving to Creator/HBOMax with a "weekly, comedy-variety series", about which little else is known; it should be noted that this was ''before'' the Warner Bros.-Discovery merger which has since hugely impacted the programming available on HBO Max. Eventually, this show was revealed on May 18, 2023 to be ''[[https://youtu.be/HaIev3bMmhA Conan O'Brien Must Go]]'', a SpiritualSuccessor to the "Conan Without Borders" specials.

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With the retirement of David Letterman on May 20, 2015, O'Brien became the longest-tenured of all current late-night talk show hosts in the United States, a position he would hold until his own retirement six years later, on June 24, 2021. It was announced that he would be moving to Creator/HBOMax with a "weekly, comedy-variety series", about which little else is known; it should be noted that this was ''before'' the Warner Bros.-Discovery merger which has since hugely impacted the programming available on HBO Max. Eventually, this show was revealed on May 18, 2023 to be ''[[https://youtu.be/HaIev3bMmhA Conan O'Brien Must Go]]'', a SpiritualSuccessor to the "Conan Without Borders" specials. \n This four-episode limited series premiered on April 18, 2024 -- his 61st birthday.

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-->--'''Conan O'Brien'''[='s=] former bio statement on his Website/{{Twitter}} account.

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He served as president of ''The Harvard Lampoon'' while attending Harvard University, and was a writer for the sketch comedy series ''Series/NotNecessarilyTheNews''. After writing for several comedy shows in Los Angeles, he joined the writing staff of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' during the late 1980s (when the show was back to its former glory after several missteps and threats of cancellation by NBC). O'Brien was a writer and producer for ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' for two seasons (writing such memorable episodes as [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E8NewKidOnTheBlock "New Kid on the Block"]][[note]]season four episode where Bart has a crush on an older teenage girl who lives with her divorced mother while Homer sues a seafood restaurant over not getting his fill at the "All-You-Can-Eat" buffet[[/note]], [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E12MargeVsTheMonorail "Marge vs. the Monorail"]][[note]]season four episode where Mr. Burns' $3 million fine for dumping toxic waste into a public park ends up in the hands of a con artist who tries to sell the town on building a monorail. It also has Creator/LeonardNimoy guest starring as himself and is considered one of the greatest ''Simpsons'' episodes of all time, not to mention Conan's personal favorite[[/note]] [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E3HomerGoesToCollege "Homer Goes to College"]][[note]]season five episode where Homer...[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin goes to college]] after [[EpicFail spectacularly failing]] a nuclear plant competency test[[/note]], and the wraparounds for [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E5TreehouseOfHorrorIV "Treehouse of Horror IV"]][[note]]the season five one where Homer sells his soul for a doughnut, Bart freaks out over a gremlin taking the bus apart, and Mr. Burns is Dracula and makes Bart a child of the night[[/note]], as well as the infamous unproduced SequelEpisode to [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E1StarkRavingDad "Stark Raving Dad"]][[note]]the now-banned season three episode where Homer gets put in a mental hospital for wearing a pink shirt to work and meets a big, bald mental patient who claims to be Michael Jackson[[/note]] where the big, bald mental patient who thought he was Music/MichaelJackson now thinks he's Music/{{Prince}} and wants everyone in town to be free with their sexual sides) until he was commissioned by Creator/{{NBC}} to take over Creator/DavidLetterman's position as host of ''Series/LateNight'' in 1993.

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He served as president of ''The Harvard Lampoon'' while attending Harvard University, and was a writer for the sketch comedy series ''Series/NotNecessarilyTheNews''. After writing for several comedy shows in Los Angeles, he joined the writing staff of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' during the late 1980s (when the show was back to its former glory after several missteps and threats of cancellation by NBC). NBC).

O'Brien was a writer and producer for ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' for two seasons (writing such memorable episodes as [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E8NewKidOnTheBlock "New Kid on the Block"]][[note]]season four episode where Bart has a crush on an older teenage girl who lives with her divorced mother while Homer sues a seafood restaurant over not getting his fill at the "All-You-Can-Eat" buffet[[/note]], [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E12MargeVsTheMonorail "Marge vs. the Monorail"]][[note]]season four episode where Mr. Burns' $3 million fine for dumping toxic waste into a public park ends up in the hands of a con artist who tries to sell the town on building a monorail. It also has Creator/LeonardNimoy guest starring as himself and is considered one of the greatest ''Simpsons'' episodes of all time, not to mention Conan's personal favorite[[/note]] [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E3HomerGoesToCollege "Homer Goes to College"]][[note]]season five episode where Homer...[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin goes to college]] after [[EpicFail spectacularly failing]] a nuclear plant competency test[[/note]], and the wraparounds for [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E5TreehouseOfHorrorIV "Treehouse of Horror IV"]][[note]]the season five one where Homer sells his soul for a doughnut, Bart freaks out over a gremlin taking the bus apart, and Mr. Burns is Dracula and makes Bart a child of the night[[/note]], as well as the infamous unproduced SequelEpisode to [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E1StarkRavingDad "Stark Raving Dad"]][[note]]the now-banned season three episode where Homer gets put in a mental hospital for wearing a pink shirt to work and meets a big, bald mental patient who claims to be Michael Jackson[[/note]] where the big, bald mental patient who thought he was Music/MichaelJackson now thinks he's Music/{{Prince}} and wants everyone in town to be free with their sexual sides) until he was commissioned by Creator/{{NBC}} to take over Creator/DavidLetterman's position as host of ''Series/LateNight'' in 1993.
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