Conan O'Brien

Greg Daniels on writing humor at Harvard and partnering with Conan O'Brien

Greg Daniels on writing for Not Necessarily the News with Conan O'Brien

Greg Daniels on being hired to write for Saturday Night Live

Greg Daniels on writing with Conan O'Brien

Greg Daniels on the end of his writing partnership with Conan O'Brien

Kevin Eubanks on Jay Leno's 2009 exit from The Tonight Show and move to a 10pm show (The Jay Leno Show)

Kevin Eubanks on talking to Conan O'Brien during the The Jay Leno Show /Tonight Show controversy

Lisa Kudrow on meeting Conan O'Brien at The Groundlings when they were both struggling actors; and how he impressed her in their acting classes

Lisa Kudrow on working with Conan O'Brien on Web Therapy

John Moffitt on hiring a writer out of Harvard named Conan O'Brien for HBO's first series, Not Necessarily the News

Keith Raywood on production designing for Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Robert Smigel on Conan O'Brien's tenure on Saturday Night Live; on Conan's contributions as a writer on the show and how he inspired Smigel's own writing

Robert Smigel on leaving Saturday Night Live as a writer; on Lorne Michaels not wanting him to leave SNL; on Michaels wanting Conan O'Brien to produce the Late Night weekday slot first held by Steve Allen and later Jay Leno; on Michaels initially wanting Dana Carvey to host the show; on Conan O'Brien turning downing producing the late-night show slot because he wanted to be an on-camera performer again; on Conan auditioning for Lorne Michaels to take over Late Night; on Michaels' involvement with Conan's show

Robert Smigel on a television pilot he did in 1991 with Conan O’Brien called Lookwell; on Smigel's love of Batman and Adam West (who played "Batman" on the original TV show); on actor Adam West having to audition for the role; on hiring a detective show director instead of a comedy director (E.W. Swackhamer); on NBC executive Rick Ludwin; on Brandon Tartikoff leaving the NBC network and Warren Littlefield coming in, who was not as enthusiastic about the project; on not being able to impersonate Conan O’Brien

Robert Smigel on the working relationship he had with Conan O'Brien after the failed Lookwell pilot they had developed together, and on not being able to impersonate Conan

Robert Smigel on working with Conan O'Brien on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, on what made that show unique, and on Conan as a host

Jeff Zucker on attending Harvard with Conan O'Brien and pranks they played on each other as Presidents of the Harvard Crimson and the Harvard Lampoon, respectively

Jeff Zucker on the then-upcoming switch from Jay Leno to Conan O'Brien as host of The Tonight Show  and Leno's planned The Jay Leno Show