Conan O’Brien reveals show that saved his life after ‘Saturday Night Live’

Conan O’Brien revealed the job that helped him through a dark period after he exited "Saturday Night Live."

On his "Conan O' Brien Needs a Friend" podcast, the Emmy-winning comedian said he entered a "funk" around the time he left the sketch series in 1991.

"I loved that job and I loved everyone there, but I thought, 'I need to go. I’m just in a bad place in my life,'" he told his guest, animator Matt Groening.

Years before he hosted his own late-night show, O' Brien found a job as a writer and producer on "The Simpsons," which Groening created. He thanked Groening for being a major reason his life changed "in this amazing way."

"I walked away from 'SNL' with no job, and two of your writers, I think it was [Mike] Reiss and [Al] Jean, heard that Conan O’Brien might be loose and available. So the next thing I knew, I was submitting, I don’t know, some of the sketches I had written on 'SNL,' and then I was told, 'You've got a job on 'The Simpsons' and you need to be here in 4 days,'" he said. "And it really saved my life."

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