Conan O'Brien
Conan O'Brien, the son of a epidemiologist and a lawyer who majored in American history at Harvard, doesn't seem a likely candidate for funniest man in the world. Perhaps it was growing up a ginger middle child fighting for attention against five siblings or maybe his cousin Denis Leary rubbed off on him. Whatever the reason, the lanky Easterner has long exceled in comedy from being one of only two people to be chosen as Harvard Lampoon editor twice, a Groundlings veteran and a TV writer for "Not Necessarily the News", "The Simpsons" and "Saturday Night Live" (1988-91). He won
