today's video is brought to you by squarespace if you're a simpsons fan or even just a comedy geek you know conan o'brien wrote for the simpsons in fact despite only being on the series for a couple seasons he's arguably the most famous simpsons writer largely in part to his successful late night comedy career that came afterwards conan wrote some incredibly popular episodes but the simpsons has been on the air for NUMBER_TOKEN seasons now and he was really only a staff member for two of them was conan's impact on the simpsons as monumental as his popularity suggests well let's find out because today we're going to deep dive into the history of conan o'brien's time on the simpsons if y'all ever listen to conan's podcast conan o'brien needs a friend it's really great but boy does conan have a lot of sponsorships on that thing so i want to take a page out of conan's book and talk about today's sponsor squarespace squarespace is the all-in-one platform to build your online presence run your business or make a personal website it's seriously so user-friendly i threw this cool page together pretty quickly it was easy to use and there are so many different customization options my website looks professional and it matches the aesthetic of my brand and youtube channel highlighting some of my favorite video essays i've worked on as well as some of the recent productions i've worked on professionally complete with links to my work and contact info i seriously can't express how easy squarespace is to use so head over to URL_TOKEN for a free trial and when you're ready to push that website public use my link URL_TOKEN johnnyNUMBER_TOKENcellos to save NUMBER_TOKEN off your first purchase of a website or domain before the simpsons conan had a pretty solid history of comedy writing he ran the harvard lampoon when he was only a sophomore and had major dreams of writing for his favorite talk show late night with david letterman infamously conan submitted a writing packet for letterman but was not hired and instead went on to write for saturday night live of course the mind-blowing fallout from this development is that thanks to his time writing on snl conan would end up replacing david letterman as the talk show host of late night but before that major milestone conan felt as though he was in a slump and he gives credit to being hired on the simpsons to helping him get out of that slump and that is when the simpsons saved my life i got a job there i started writing episodes about springfield getting a monorail or homer going to college i was finally putting my harvard education to good use the simpsons was heading into its fourth season the second season run by dual showrunners al jean and mike reese who had the challenge of beginning to replace some of the first writers to leave the staff since the simpsons began conan was actually their third choice for this staff role but his impact on the show was felt immediately during a story retreat before season NUMBER_TOKEN when writers would pitch stories to jim brooks conan managed to get three episode ideas through despite algine suggesting that conan not pitch his now famous monorail episode idea for
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