The BEST episodes written by Conan O'brien

#1 - George Wendt/Elvis Costello

Saturday Night Live - Season 16 - Episode 20

Sketches include ""Dennis Miller is Nervous,"" ""Da Superfans,"" ""Mr. No Depth Perception,"" ""Pat Gets a Haircut,"" ""Doo-Wop,"" ""Deep Thoughts,"" ""Burger Barn,"" ""Li'l General Fireworks,"" and ""The Sunrise Show.""

#2 - Jeremy Irons/Fishbone

Saturday Night Live - Season 16 - Episode 16

Sketches include ""Pumping Up with Hans and Franz,"" ""Richmeister,"" ""Wayne's World,"" ""Sherlock Holmes,"" ""McIntosh Jr. Commercial: The Power To Crush Other Kids"", ""Weekend Update with Dennis Miller"", ""Football Days by Jack Handey"".

#3 - Catherine O'Hara/R.E.M.

Saturday Night Live - Season 16 - Episode 17

Sketches include ""Frank and Nancy Sinatra,"" ""It's Pat,"" ""The Justice League of America,"" ""Frank Gannon, P.I. P.I.,"" ""In Conclusion Theater,"" ""Daily Affirmation With Stuart Smalley,"" and ""Wedding Dress to Funeral"".

#4 - Sean Penn/L.L. Cool J., Michael Penn & the Pull

Saturday Night Live - Season 13 - Episode 2

Live from New York, it's... Sean Penn! Sketches include "Fatal Attraction 2," "Wall Street Week," "Church Chat," "Pitman & Bullock," "The Teeny Cafe," "Keister Family Talk," "Discover," "The Spimozo Brothers," and "Cat Dentist" (film). LL Cool J performs "Go Cut Creator Go." Michael Penn and The Pull performs "This & That."

#5 - Justine Bateman/Terrance Trent D'Arby

Saturday Night Live - Season 13 - Episode 11

""53rd. Debate of the 1988 Republican Presidential Candidates"", ""Learning to Feel with Denise Venetti, Ph.D."", ""Family Ties: If These Old Walls Could Talk (Flashback-Flashback Episode)"", ""Blocked songwriter Derek Stevens loses his Muse"", ""An older man, the bimbo girlfriend Linda and his Judgemental Friends"".

#6 - Steve Martin/Sting

Saturday Night Live - Season 13 - Episode 1

Sketches include ""Ronald Reagan and George Bush,"" ""Gary Hart Ad,"" ""Common Knowledge,"" ""NFL Today,"" ""Slide Whistle Sound Effects,"" ""Bullets Aren't Cheap,"" ""Permission to Speak Freely,"" ""Adventures in the Lost Realm,"" and ""Pumping Up With Hans and Franz"".

#7 - Andie MacDowell/Tracy Chapman

Saturday Night Live - Season 15 - Episode 9

Sketches included ""Interrupted PSA,"" ""Church Chat,"" ""The Night Hanukkah Harry Saved Christmas,"" ""Hal Jerome Tribute,"" and ""Before the Wedding."" Tracy Chapman performed ""Gimme One Reason.""

#8 - Matthew Modine/Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians

Saturday Night Live - Season 14 - Episode 4

Sketches include "Nicknames", "The Republican Party", "The Liberal", "Dukakis After Dark" and "Church Chat". The New Bohemians perform "Little Miss S".

#9 - Michael J. Fox/The Black Crowes

Saturday Night Live - Season 16 - Episode 15

Sketches include--""Another Post-Desert Storm Speech"",""America's Most Wanted"",""Daily Affirmation with Stuart Smally"" and ""Michael J. Fox Fanatics"".

#10 - Dabney Coleman/The Cars

Saturday Night Live - Season 13 - Episode 3

Live from New York, it's... Dana Carvey! Sketches include "Lifestyles of the Rich, Famous, and Scary," "Nature's Broom," "The Winning Spirit," "Don't Go Down To The Basement," "Scary Campfire Stories," "Marriage Counselor," "Count Dracula, Self-Taught Auto Mechanic," "The Pat Stevens Show," "New High School Mascot," and "Lambert & Fitch Securites." The Cars performs "Strap Me In" and "Double Trouble."

#11 - James Woods/Don Henley

Saturday Night Live - Season 15 - Episode 4

Sketches include ""The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson,"" ""Yard-a-pult,"" ""Dracula and AIDS,"" ""Primetime Live,"" ""Ventriloquist Act,"" ""Falling in Love,"" ""Three Dudes Holistic Automotive,"" ""Hemsley Spook House,"" and ""Tonto, Tarzan, and Frankenstein.""

#12 - Marge vs. the Monorail

The Simpsons - Season 4 - Episode 12

When Springfield gets a sudden windfall, a charismatic traveling salesman convinces the town to build a monorail.

#13 - Conan in Italy

Conan Without Borders - Season 4 - Episode 2

#14 - Robert Mitchum/Simply Red

Saturday Night Live - Season 13 - Episode 4

Sketches include: The Rolling Paper Chase, Compulsion, Death Be Not Deadly, The Mountain Man, Musical Performance "The Right Thing", Weekend Update, Sweeney's Comeback, Out Of Gas, Andre & Rex: Macho Hairstylists, BeautyBath, Musical Performance "Suffer", Mysterious Old Man

#15 - Carl Weathers/Robbie Robertson

Saturday Night Live - Season 13 - Episode 10

Sketches include ""Bush-Whacked,"" ""The NFL Today,"" ""Handi-Off,"" ""Democratic Debate '88,"" ""Helen and Cheri,"" ""TV Actress,"" ""Master Thespian,"" and ""The Garden"" (film). Robbie Robertson performed ""Testimony"" and ""Somewhere Down the Crazy River.""

#16 - Leslie Nielsen/Cowboy Junkies

Saturday Night Live - Season 14 - Episode 13

Sketches include "The Pat Stevens Show", "The 60's Movie", "Subliminal Man and Friend" and "Wayne's World".

#17 - John Goodman/k.d. lang & The Reclines

Saturday Night Live - Season 15 - Episode 7

Sketches include ""It's a Wonderful Savings and Loan,"" ""Wayne's World,"" ""Cooking with the Anal-Retentive Chef,"" ""Toonces The Cat Who Could Drive a Car,"" ""The Mike Ditka Type-A Christmas Special,"" and ""The Referee Pitman Show"".

#18 - Corbin Bernsen/Smithereens

Saturday Night Live - Season 15 - Episode 17

Sketches include ""Cable Shopping Network,"" ""Celebrity Lawyer Court,"" ""Hanukkah Harry,"" ""George F. Will's Sports Machine,"" ""His Face,"" ""Movers and Shakers,"" and ""Playgirl Models"".

#19 - Candice Bergen/Notting Hillbillies

Saturday Night Live - Season 15 - Episode 20

Sketches include ""George Bush,"" ""Toonces The Cat Who Can Drive a Car,"" ""The Carsenio Show,"" and ""Wayne's World.""

#20 - Andrew Dice Clay/Spanic Boys & Julee Cruise

Saturday Night Live - Season 15 - Episode 19

Sketches include "It's a Wonderful Dice," "Diceman Employment Agency," "Cooking With the Anal-Rententive Chef," "Dad, What's Sex?", "DJ Tony Trailer," "Jan Hooks Protest," "Cool Mite," "Ridiculous Bull," and "Kevin Nealon Protest"

#21 - George Steinbrenner/The Time

Saturday Night Live - Season 16 - Episode 3

Sketches include ""Kevin Nealon, Victoria Jackson, and George Steinbrenner,"" ""Middle-Aged Man,"" ""Ultra Slim Fast Commercial Parody,"" ""Winston-McCauley Funeral Homes,"" ""Carl's Quick Stop,"" ""What Was I Thinking?""

#22 - Jimmy Smits/World Party

Saturday Night Live - Season 16 - Episode 5

Sketches include ""George Bush,"" ""Chia Head,"" ""Game Challengers,"" ""NBC News Employees,"" ""Simon,"" ""Date With a Ditz,"" ""The Dark Side With Nat X,"" ""Two-Faced Doormen,"" ""Mobile Home,"" and ""Verbal Reversals"".

#23 - Dennis Quaid/Neville Brothers

Saturday Night Live - Season 16 - Episode 9

Sketches include ""George Bush,"" ""Dysfunctional Family Christmas,"" ""Sally Jessy Raphael,"" ""Family Loves Ex-Boyfriend,"" ""Massage Students,"" ""Renegade,"" ""Sprockets,"" ""Schillervision Theatre,"" and ""The Specialty Songs Of Cal McLane, Jr.""

#24 - Dennis Hopper/Paul Simon

Saturday Night Live - Season 16 - Episode 6

Sketches include ""Live With Regis and Kathie Lee,"" ""Nikey Turkey,"" ""Toonces,"" ""Inflatable Dolls,"" ""Liason Mocking,"" ""The Civil War,"" ""What Animal Were You Raised By?"", ""Schillervision,"" and ""Gambling to Win"".

#25 - David Mizejewski & Animals, Nasim Pedrad, Robert DeLong

Conan (2010) - Season 5 - Episode 150

Nasim Pedrad ("Scream Queens" (2015)); wildlife expert David Mizejewski. Also: Robert DeLong performs.

#26 - Treehouse of Horror IV

The Simpsons - Season 5 - Episode 5

In "The Devil and Homer Simpson," Homer sells his soul for a doughnut. In "Terror at 5 1/2 Feet," everyone doubts Bart's sanity when he's the only one to see a gremlin sabotaging the school bus. In "Bart Simpson's Dracula," the family turns into vampires, and Lisa sends Homer to the Burns mansion in an attempt to kill the head vampire.

#27 - Dial M for Laptop

Andy Barker, P.I. - Season 1 - Episode 4

When his laptop disappears, Andy races the clock to file his father-in-law's tax return and gets caught up in a credit-card scam.

#28 - Homer Goes to College

The Simpsons - Season 5 - Episode 3

Burns discovers that Homer is grossly unqualified to be a nuclear safety inspector, so Homer enrolls at Springfield University to study nuclear physics. While there, Homer befriends three nerds and instigates a prank that gets them expelled.

#29 - Christopher Walken/Bonnie Raitt

Saturday Night Live - Season 15 - Episode 11

Sketches include ""The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson,"" ""Eternity,"" ""Hired Break-Up,"" ""The Continental,"" ""Attitudes,"" ""Lease With an Option to Kill,"" ""Hardbound""

#30 - Tom Hanks/Keith Richards

Saturday Night Live - Season 14 - Episode 1

Sketches include "Pumping Up With Hans and Franz", "ABC Presents Debate '88", "Mr. Short Term Memory", "Jew, Not a Jew", "The Pat Stevens Show", "First Citiwide Change Bank: Our business is making change", "Tom Hanks Bullying Kids: Never-Before-Seen Outtakes from the movie BIG" and "Class of 1978 Ten Year Reunion: Two Sad Losers Want To Score With The Ladies".

#31 - Sting

Saturday Night Live - Season 16 - Episode 11

Sketches include ""Wayne's World,"" ""Hedley and Wyche,"" ""Sting in an Elevator,"" ""The Sinatra Group,"" ""The Richmeister,"" ""Frankenstein,"" ""Coffee Talk with Paul Baldwin,"" ""Meeting Parents Flashback,"" ""Bleak Poetry""

#32 - Steve Martin/Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Saturday Night Live - Season 14 - Episode 20

Sketches include "George Bush", "Pumping Up With Hans and Franz", "Tammy Wynette Sings the Classics", "Toonces, The Cat Who Could Drive a Car", "An Ode to the Woman I Love", "Sprockets", "Get to Know Jon Lovitz", "Tonto, Tarzan, and Frankenstein" and "Big Red".

#33 - Tony Danza/John Hiatt

Saturday Night Live - Season 14 - Episode 11

Sketches include "Ted Bundy Lives", "Come Back to Carbon Paper", "War of Da Woilds", "Frankie's Proposal" and "What Are You Looking At?".

#34 - Tom Hanks/Aerosmith

Saturday Night Live - Season 15 - Episode 13

Sketches include ""Ivana Trump Pre-Nup"", ""Wayne's World,"" ""Tales of Ribaldry,"" ""Tradtional Irish Drinking Songs for St. Patrick's Day,"" ""The Mob,"" ""Singles Cruise,"" and ""Black History Minute."" Aerosmith performed ""Jamie's Got a Gun"" and ""Monkey On My Back.""

#35 - Patrick Swayze/Mariah Carey

Saturday Night Live - Season 16 - Episode 4

Sketches include ""Dirty Square Dancing,"" ""Pumping Up With Hanz and Franz,"" ""Ghost 2,"" ""Super Feud,"" ""Chippendales Auditions,"" ""The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson,"" ""White Trash Bed and Breakfast,"" and ""Mouse Trap Seminar"".

#36 - Kevin Kline/Bobby McFerrin

Saturday Night Live - Season 14 - Episode 8

Sketches include: A Trump Christmas, Game Breakers, Plug Away, Musical Performance "Drive", Weekend Update, The Big Chill, Executive Island, Musical Performance "The Star-Spangled Banner", Raspberry Response, Roy Orbison Tribute

#37 - The New Kid on the Block

The Simpsons - Season 4 - Episode 8

Bart has a crush on his new neighbor, a teenage girl who only has eyes for Jimbo Jones. Bart sets out to prove that Jimbo is not as tough as he seems.

#38 - Tom Hanks/Randy Travis

Saturday Night Live - Season 13 - Episode 12

""A male figure skater's flawed perfomance in tight pants"", ""The Pat Stevens Show with Mrs. Bush and Mrs. Dole"", ""The Bean Cafe: We only serve beans"", ""On 49th and First: Two sad guys want to score with the ladies"", ""This is a stick up!, yelled the Psychotic Vietnam Vet with great acting skills"", ""Can't come up with an ending for a bad sketch"", ""Casey Kasem sings The Beatles"", ""Compulsion by Calveen Kleen: The World's Most Indulgent Disinfectant"", ""A Pawnshop That Pays Full Sentimental Value"".

#39 - Demi Moore/Johnny Clegg & Savuka

Saturday Night Live - Season 14 - Episode 5

Sketches include "Bush's Final Negative Campaign Ad", "Beauty and the Beast: The Double Date", "In a Camping Site at Night with Hans and Franz", "One Man's Demons" and "Neuburg's Bleu Cheese Cooler".

#40 - Ted Danson/Luther Vandross

Saturday Night Live - Season 14 - Episode 12

Sketches include "Cheers", "Iranian People's Court", "Plug Away", "Kevin's First Love" and "The Long Goodbye".

#41 - Mary Tyler Moore/Elvis Costello

Saturday Night Live - Season 14 - Episode 15

The 61st Annual Academy Awards, The Dan Quayle Show, Customs, Musical Performance "Veronica", Weekend Update, Sweeney Sisters, Robot Repair, Lady Rhemington, Musical Performance "Let Him Dangle", Requiem For Death, Schiller's Reel: Broadway Story, Wayne's World

#42 - Robert Wagner/Linda Ronstadt & Aaron Neville

Saturday Night Live - Season 15 - Episode 8

Sketches include ""George Bush and Dan Quayle"", ""Yard-A-Pult,"" ""Messy Date"", ""Tales of the Runaway Boulder,"" ""Attack of the Masturbating Zombies,"" ""Rockefeller is Evil,"" ""A Betty Ford Straight Arrow Christmas"", and ""In the Middle."" Linda Ronstadt and Aaron Neville performed ""Don't Know Much"" and ""When Something Is Wrong.""

#43 - Quincy Jones

Saturday Night Live - Season 15 - Episode 12

Sketches include ""Pumping Up With Hans and Franz,"" ""Century 21 Marriage Counselors,"" ""Toonces,"" ""Bob Waltman Special,"" ""Jazz Perspective,"" ""Reverend and Rabbi,"" ""Tonto, Tarzan, and Frankenstein,"" ""Soviet Central Committee,"" ""House Committee on Dials and Gauges"".

#44 - Debra Winger/Eric Clapton

Saturday Night Live - Season 15 - Episode 16

Sketches include ""Reagan Census Count,"" ""Wayne's World,"" ""Toonces the Cat Who Could Drive a Car,"" ""Calamity Jane,"" and ""Senate Record Labelling Hearings"", ""Weekend Update""

#45 - Susan Lucci/Hothouse Flowers

Saturday Night Live - Season 16 - Episode 2

Sketches include ""Victor Kiam's Classic Bitch and Lezbo Shavers,"" ""All My Luggage,"" ""Great Love Stories,"" ""Game Breakers,"" and ""Her First Period"".

#46 - Joe Mantegna/Vanilla Ice

Saturday Night Live - Season 16 - Episode 10

Sketches include ""Godfather Bush,"" ""New York Radio,"" ""Nightline,"" ""Officer Miller,"" ""I'm Chillin',"" ""Complaint Letter,"" ""Superfans,"" ""Insane Inventors,"" and ""Eddie O'Hanlon Funeral"".

#47 - Alec Baldwin/Whitney Houston

Saturday Night Live - Season 16 - Episode 14

Live From New York, it's...Dana Carvey Sketches include: The McLaughlin Group, The Dancer, The Honest Planet, The Sinead O'Connor Awards, Lank Thompson: I'm A Handsome Actor, Pan Am, The Godfather IV, I'm Chillin', Confession Can Be Exciting For The Soul, and Cyrano De Bergerac Whitney Houston performs: ""I'm Your Baby Tonight"" and ""All The Man I Need""

#48 - Conan in Haiti

Conan Without Borders - Season 4 - Episode 1

Conan travels internationally for the 8th time in three years for CONAN Without Borders: Haiti, a primetime special. After hearing President Trump's disparaging remarks about Haiti, O'Brien immediately decided to announce his intentions to visit the island nation.

#49 - Wayne Gretzky/Fine Young Cannibals

Saturday Night Live - Season 14 - Episode 19

Sketches include "Carter in Panama", "Fishing With the Anal-Retentive Sportsman", "Wayne's World", "This Week with David Brinkley", "Stanley Cup Loss", "Point Blank" and "Waikiki Hockey".

#50 - Robin Williams/James Taylor

Saturday Night Live - Season 13 - Episode 9

Sketches include ""Pumping Up with Hans and Franz,"" ""Compulsion,"" ""Birthing Video,"" ""Cable ACE Awards,"" ""Hard to Say I Love You,"" ""Discover,"" and ""Robin's 60th Birthday.""