Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Late Night with Conan O'Brien is an American late night television talk show on NBC featuring varied comedic material and celebrity interviews. From the show's inception until May 2000, Andy Richter served as cohost alongside Conan O'Brien. O'Brien is currently the sole host of the show.

Late Night has followed The Tonight Show on the NBC network for decades. The Tonight Show has always had more viewers than Late Night. However, Late Night has always had a stronger hold on the much sought-after 25 to 35 age bracket than The Tonight Show, which tends to attract older viewers.

In 1993, O'Brien replaced David Letterman, long time host of the Late Night with David Letterman, when Letterman left NBC to host the Late Show with David Letterman on CBS. The show's first three years under O'Brien were generally considered mediocre, but by 1996 he had found his comic voice and it quickly returned to the cult status it had enjoyed under Letterman's tenure. During the 10th anniversary show in 2003, Mr. T observed that fact by handing Conan a chain with a large gold "7" on it

Conan: But Mr. T, we've been on the air for ten years!
Mr. T: I know dat, foo', but you only been funny for seven!

O'Brien began his stint at Late Night after serving as a writer for The Simpsons.

Late Night with Conan O'Brien makes frequent use of running jokes, such as If They Mated, In the Year 2000, and SAT Analogies. In addition, regular characters such as Masturbating Bear, Pierre Bernard's Recliner of Rage, and The Cactus Chef Playing 'We Didn't Start the Fire' on a Flute play an active role in the show.

O'Brien's show also launched the career of Robert Smigel's Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog.

Drummer Max Weinberg of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band fame, leads the "Max Weinberg 7."

Famous Sketches

• Actual Items
• Car Chases
• Celebrity Secrets
• Celebrity Survey
• Conan O'Brien Hates My Homeland
• Conan on the Aisle
• Conan takes his desk on a ride
• Conan Sings a Lullaby
• Frankenstein Wastes A Minute of Our Time
• In the Year 2000
• New College Mascots
• Holiday Pictures
• If They Mated
• Krunk
• Kids' Drawings
• The Walker, Texas Ranger Lever
• New Reality-TV Formats
• New Stamps/State Quarters/Euros
• Patterns
• Pierre Bernard's Recliner of Rage
• Pleasing the Affiliates
• Satellite TV
• String Dance
• What in the World?

Characters

• Abe Vigoda, an actor who sometimes appears on the show
• Cactus Chef playing 'We didn't start the fire' on a flute
• Chinese Fabio
• Cloppy, the Late Night Horse
• Cobb, the Living Ear of Corn
• Coked-Up Werewolf
• FedEx Pope
• Frankenstein of "Frankenstein Wastes a Minute of Our Time"
• The Guy Who is Protected From Three-Inch Bees
• Hannigan the salesman
• Jesus
• Joel Godard, the Late Night Announcer
• Leonard Diesel, Vin Diesel's Brother
• Little Jay Leno
• Mansy, the Half Man/Half Pansy
• Masturbating Bear
• Pierre Bernard, graphic designer, of "Pierre Bernard's Recliner of Rage"
• Pimpbot 5000
• Preparation H Raymond
• Robot on a Toilet
• Shoeverine, a Wolverine-like character with shoes instead of metal claws
• They Might be Slipnuts (formerly known as Slipnuts, a band that 'just happened' to be actually booked on the same show with Slipknot, and later with They Might be Giants)
• The Trekkie, wearing a costume of Mr. Spock from Star Trek. Protests any non-Trek sci-fi movie or television series.
• The World's Fastest Menorah and the World's Fastest Baby Jesus, rivals to the World's Tallest Christmas Tree
• Vomiting Kermit