Confessions of a Late-Night Madman: The Book That Ends My Career

A laugh-out-loud, behind-the-scenes look at the bad ideas, great comedy, and beautiful disaster of late-night television

Frank Smiley was a comedy-obsessed kid with questionable impulse control who somehow grew up to become one of Conan O’Brien’s longest-serving producers, spending more than four decades in late-night TV wrangling celebrities, pitching absurd ideas, and walking the line between comedic glory and career extinction.

In Confessions of a Late Night Madman, Frank recounts naviga...