Word: briens
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Past Class Day speakers have included Coretta Scott King in 1968, actor Rodney Dangerfield in 1978 and Mother Teresa in 1982. In 2000, comic Conan C. O’Brien ’85 delivered the address...
...TRIUMPH The put-down pup of Late Night with Conan O'Brien fame finds plenty to insult in his musical debut album, due this fall...
Florida Atlantic starter Matt O’Brien was rested after just three innings, allowing the Owls to cycle through six relief pitchers, who combined to strike out eight...
When Conan O'Brien's sidekick quit his Late Night gig in 2000, the headlines might as well have read ANDY RICHTER LOSES MIND. Richter, 35, seemed the definition of a lucky stiff. An actor-comic whose brief pre-Conan resume included doing stage productions of Brady Bunch scripts, he was now being paid to sit on a couch, scope out the guests' jowls for plastic-surgery scars and make wisecracks. "There were some days when I would joke to people, 'If I play my cards right, I won't have to say a word tonight,'" he says...
...show-biz roles and gave it something like dignity. (Even if he once had to streak onto the Today show set in flesh-colored underwear as a prank for Late Night.) "Sometimes we'd have an older guest who wasn't too familiar with the show," remembers O'Brien, "and he'd point at Andy and ask, 'Who's the dummy?' And the audience would boo! [The guest] would be shocked: 'What's going on? I called Ed McMahon a dummy on Johnny Carson 20 years ago, and it got a laugh...