| | | | | TimesTalks - Conan O'Brien: A Conversation Author: Conan O'Brien and Bill Carter
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Audio Length: 1 hour and 24 min.
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Publisher's Summary: Conan O'Brien marks his ninth season combining his talents as a writer, performer, and interviewer as host of NBC's Late Night. Mr. O'Brien also heads up Conaco, a production partnership with the network to develop original programming for NBC prime time, as well as programs for other networks. His early television work includes Saturday Night Live and The Simpsons. In every year since 1996, Mr. O'Brien and the Late Night writing team have been nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Writing in a Comedy or Variety Series. In both 1997 and 2000, he and the Late Night writing staff won the Writer's Guild Award for Best Writing in a Comedy/Variety Series.Bill Carter joined the New York Times as a national media reporter in 1989. Mr. Carter has covered the television industry for more than 25 years. In a frank and funny conversation, Conan O'Brien talks about taking tap lessons as a kid to prepare for a career in entertainment, and says that writing for the Harvard Lampoon was "the first thing in my life that came easily to me." Acknowledging that he is "a lucky white man," he talks about the difficult early days of Late Night, when viewers, the network, and the press all seemed ready to kill the show. He describes his goals for the show (silly, abstract, surreal, weird) and how the show has evolved. |
