\n\tConan O\u2019Brien remembers the good ol\u2019 days but warns things are changing.<\/p>\n
\n\tAsked whether he believed comedians were losing something by having fewer opportunities to be in a writers\u2019 room, the former Tonight Show host said it was a \u201creal problem\u201d.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cWhen I first was put into a writer\u2019s room when I was 22. I really did feel like a fish that had been living in the desert for a long time, and then I suddenly was put into my environment, and it\u2019s my happy place,\u201d he said at Bloomberg\u2019s Screentime event. \u201cThings are changing.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tO\u2019Brien got his start as a writer on HBO sketch show Not Necessarily The News and Fox talk show The Wilton North Report before landing a job as a writer on Saturday Night Live, where he worked between 1988 and 1991, before getting a job on The Simpsons.<\/p>\n
\n\tThen he moved into late-night with Late Night with Conan O\u2019Brien and The Tonight Show.<\/p>\n
\n\tHe said during the early days of his late-night career, his writers enjoyed lavish meals. \u201cMy writers\u2019 meals were paid for, and like assholes, they used to order lobster and champagne,\u201d he quipped. \u201cI would come in. I\u2019d be mad. They\u2019d be like, they said we could have whatever we wanted, and they have bibs on. That\u2019s not coming back, it shouldn\u2019t come back.\u201d<\/p>\n