His Emmy award winning Conan Without Borders series has visited 13 countries and his podcast Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend currently has over 312 million downloads since it launched in 2018. Since then, he’s won four Emmy Awards, seven Writers Guild Awards, and the People’s Choice Award for “Favorite Television Host.” Conan has hosted two Emmy Awards, and performed at the White House Correspondents Dinner for two presidents. In 2021, O’Brien concluded his 11 year run with “CONAN” on TBS, solidifying his 28 year career as a late night host and one of the longest tenures in late night history. He went on to become a writer and producer on several television shows, including Saturday Night Live and The Simpsons, until 1993, when NBC tapped him to take over as host of Late Night. One key to the strip’s success may be that it doesn’t just comment on nerd culture, it embodies nerd culture.” - Wired, in an issue featuring “the people who have shaped the planet’s past 20 years”Ĭonan O’Brien‘s path in comedy started when he served twice as the president of The Harvard Lampoon. “With his steady regimen of math jokes, physics jokes, and antisocial optimism, xkcd creator Randall Munroe, a former NASA roboticist, scores traffic numbers in NBC.com or territory. A former NASA roboticist, he left the agency in 2006 to draw comics on the internet full time. Randall Munroe is the author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers How To, What If? and Thing Explainer, the science question-and-answer blog What If?, and the popular web comic xkcd. The New York Times bestselling author of What If? and How To answers more of the weirdest questions you never thought to ask.

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