Conan O’Brien Net Worth

Conan O’Brien's Quotes

• The nightmare is you spend the rest of your life being funny at parties and then people say 'Why didn't you do that when you were on television?'
• If you can really laugh at yourself loud and hard every time you fall, people will think you're drunk.
• "I've always believed, in my heart of hearts, that it would be a better show if, when I crossed over to the desk, the band kept playing for an hour and I danced in a cage.
• If I existed 200 years ago, all the other farmers in my community would be like, 'That guy is worthless! He's sitting on a rock, jumping up like a frog, coming up with weird concepts and ideas, making faces, and combing his hair into a giant pastry.' It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy.
• [Final words at the final The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien (2009)]: And all I ask is one thing and this is... I'm asking this particularly of young people that watch. Please do not be cynical. I hate cynicism; for the record, it's my least favorite quality, it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen. I'm telling you, amazing things will happen. I'm telling you, it's just true.

Interesting Facts about Conan O’Brien

1. Worked as a warmup comic for the The Wilton North Report (1987).
2. Appeared as an extra and bit player on a number of skits on Saturday Night Live (1975) - notably as "Sheriff Andy" in a Twin Peaks (1990) parody with Kyle MacLachlan, and drinking in the bar in the "Irish Drinking Songs" commercial parody.
3. Born at 1:38pm-EST
4. His favorite episode of The Simpsons (1989) is "Marge vs. the Monorail".
5. A distant cousin of Denis Leary.
6. Graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University, with a BA in American History & Literature. [1985]
7. He was editor of the Harvard Lampoon for two years in a row, and he is the second person to have ever done this. It had been 85 years since it was done.
8. Had a golden retriever named Hudson, who was originally part of a sketch on "Late Night". He now has a golden retriever named Bosco.
9. Married Liza Powel on January 12, 2002, in a full Catholic Mass by Father Paul O'Brien (no relation) at St. James Cathedral in Liza's home town, Seattle. The couple met when Liza was a guest on Late Night.
10. Lived in Manhattan's fabled West Side apartment building, the Apthorp, whose residents include Rosie O'Donnell, Steve Kroft, Cyndi Lauper, Kate Nelligan and Lena Horne.
11. Older brother of Jane O'Brien and Kate B. O'Brien.
12. A graduate of Brookline High School.
13. Once shared an apartment with Bill Cusack.
14. Took tap dancing lessons as a child
15. The name of his production company, Conaco, was chosen to echo the name of petroleum company Conoco.
16. Daughter Neve O'Brien born October 14, 2003 in New York (6 lbs., 10 oz.).
17. Calls where he does his monologue "The Laugh Zone."
18. Calls where he sits "The Chat Zone."
19. In the 2001 film, Sugar & Spice (2001), one of the cheerleaders is obsessed with "Conan O'Brien".
20. Replaced David Letterman in the late night slot on NBC after Letterman left for CBS. Virtually no one thought the show would last. It did last, for 17 years.