Conan O'Brien

Yes. I know that you have a successful stand-up career, but then you have this pedigree as a writer, which is just off the charts. When do you start to realize, okay, I love stand-up, I love doing stand-up, but I want to be in that room. I want to be in the writer's room.

What year would that be?

What year would that be?

What year would that be?

Okay.

Okay.

Okay.

It was not necessarily the news.

It was not necessarily the news.

It was not necessarily the news.

And a woman named Pat Lee gave me... I know her, yes. Yeah, she hired Greg and I. We got us into the Guild. It was our first show. And... We work like maniacs, and I have such clear memories, and I'm always passing Sunset Gower Studios, and I always have the same flashback to Greg and I. We took an overnight flight. It was cheap. It was, I think, called People Express, where you could fly.

And a woman named Pat Lee gave me... I know her, yes. Yeah, she hired Greg and I. We got us into the Guild. It was our first show. And... We work like maniacs, and I have such clear memories, and I'm always passing Sunset Gower Studios, and I always have the same flashback to Greg and I. We took an overnight flight. It was cheap. It was, I think, called People Express, where you could fly.

And a woman named Pat Lee gave me... I know her, yes. Yeah, she hired Greg and I. We got us into the Guild. It was our first show. And... We work like maniacs, and I have such clear memories, and I'm always passing Sunset Gower Studios, and I always have the same flashback to Greg and I. We took an overnight flight. It was cheap. It was, I think, called People Express, where you could fly.

Yeah. Yeah. People Express was a- Live poultry. Literally you could, for like $40, you could fly across the country. I mean, something insane. And obviously it was a whole other world before 9-11. I mean, you just would buy your ticket at the counter. You'd get on the plane, no frills. We flew overnight.

Yeah. Yeah. People Express was a- Live poultry. Literally you could, for like $40, you could fly across the country. I mean, something insane. And obviously it was a whole other world before 9-11. I mean, you just would buy your ticket at the counter. You'd get on the plane, no frills. We flew overnight.

Yeah. Yeah. People Express was a- Live poultry. Literally you could, for like $40, you could fly across the country. I mean, something insane. And obviously it was a whole other world before 9-11. I mean, you just would buy your ticket at the counter. You'd get on the plane, no frills. We flew overnight.

I remember my writing partner, Greg Daniels, put a blanket over his head to try and go to sleep because the seats didn't go back. So he was sitting upright. He looked like a bad kid's ghost. Sitting next to me. And we landed, we got this really cheap rental car and we drove to Sunset Gower Studios and walked in and said, we're here to work for television. I have acne. And that's where it started.

I remember my writing partner, Greg Daniels, put a blanket over his head to try and go to sleep because the seats didn't go back. So he was sitting upright. He looked like a bad kid's ghost. Sitting next to me. And we landed, we got this really cheap rental car and we drove to Sunset Gower Studios and walked in and said, we're here to work for television. I have acne. And that's where it started.

I remember my writing partner, Greg Daniels, put a blanket over his head to try and go to sleep because the seats didn't go back. So he was sitting upright. He looked like a bad kid's ghost. Sitting next to me. And we landed, we got this really cheap rental car and we drove to Sunset Gower Studios and walked in and said, we're here to work for television. I have acne. And that's where it started.

But it was a show that at least had, it was pre-tapes and it wasn't, we weren't writing four characters and it wasn't all these shows that I really liked. It was sketch comedy that I thought, okay, this is respectable. We can do this with an eye towards hoping to get a job with Letterman, which didn't work out.