Late Night Hosts' High School Yearbook Photos

By PopEater Staff Posted Jan 21st 2010 04:33PM

With all this drama between late-night hosts, they might as well be in high school, right? Well, we took a trip down memory lane and compiled all the host's year book photos. Take a look at all the funnymen (Conan O'Brien, David Letterman, Jay Leno, Jimmy Fallon and more) before their prime.

Conan O'Brien

Class: 1981
High School: Brookline High School, Brookline, MA

-- He served as the managing editor of the school newspaper.

-- After graduating as valedictorian in 1981, he entered Harvard University.

David Letterman

Class: 1965
High School: Broad Ripple High School, Indianapolis, IN

-- During Letterman's senior year, he was voted "Class Smart Alec."

-- During high school, he worked as a stock boy at Atlas Supermarket.

Jay Leno

Class: 1968
High School: Andover High School,
Andover, MA

-- According to the NY Times, a high school guidance counselor once suggested that his mother take Leno out of school because "education is not for everyone."

-- He stayed and later graduated from Emerson College in Boston.

Jimmy Fallon

Class: 1992
High School: Saugerties High School,
Saugerties, New York

-- At age 17, Jimmy Fallon was ready for stand-up and entered a contest that had him mimicking celebrity announcers for a line of troll dolls. He won the contest and continued to be an active participant in high school plays.

-- Fallon was shortly expelled from school, following an incident where he allegedly pulled a fire alarm.

Jimmy Kimmel

Class: 1985
High School: Ed W. Clark High School, Las Vegas, NV

-- He played clarinet in his high school's marching band.

-- Jimmy Kimmel started working in the radio industry while in high school, hosting a Sunday night interview show on UNLV's college station KUNV.

Stephen Colbert

Class: 1982
High School: Porter-Gaud School,
Charleston, SC

-- In high school, Colbert participated in several school plays and contributed to the school newspaper.

-- During his time as a teenager, he also briefly fronted a Rolling Stones cover band.

Carson Daly

Class: 1991
High School: Santa Monica High School,
Santa Monica, CA

-- Carson Daly dreamed of becoming a police officer but opted to become a DJ instead.

-- Daly was also an active member of the school's golf team.

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Saturday 23 January

By Tom K

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Conan should have kept the "do" he had in high school instead of the stupid pompador he wears now.

By Mike

They all look like a bunch of nerds......except Colbert.....

By Rachel

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LOL....I was thinking the same thing about David Letterman.

By pnapoli117

Jay is NOT at fault here. NBC execs are totally responsible for replacing Jay with Conan. Should never have put conan on tonight show which was a SUCCESS with Leno. Conan tanked the ratings because he is not funny and has a lesser, different fan base. This mess is all the fault of the execs. Good riddence "conan"-who names their kid Conan anyway?

By Roy

Interesting how Leno's fans are as class-less and patheticly unfunny as he is.

Wednesday 17 March

By Bob

Craig is still trying to find his id papers. They got lost swimming across the Reo Grande at Mission, Texas OLAH

By Jean

What is wrong with everyone? Conan wanted the Tonight Show, threatened to leave. NBC took it away from Jay gave it to Conan, He FLOPPED. At the last min. NBC was afraid to let Jay go. How is any of this Jay's fault?? As for Letterman, he is SOOO jealous of Jay, he should be ashamed. And why Kimmel is out to get Jay I don't know. I use to like Kimmel, now I have lost so much respect for him. jay is the only one that has taken the high road through all of this. I will remain ' Team Jay'

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