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Conan O’Brien Regrets ‘Being So Intense’ at ‘SNL’ and Burning Out in Three Years: ‘I Robbed Myself of Fun’ and ‘Could’ve Written There Longer’
Conan O'Brien says one of his biggest career regrets is burning out at "Saturday Night Live," where he was a writer for three years.
But O’Brien’s time at “The Simpsons” also did not last long as Michaels called him with an offer to host “Late Night” starting in 1993 after David Letterman stepped down. O’Brien took the offer and became one of late night television’s biggest stables for over a decade. “The thing that Lorne does that’s brilliant that doesn’t exist anywhere else, I’d only worked about three years in television before that, but no one had let me near anything,” O’Brien said.
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