Chris Albers

Chris Albers has been a monologue writer at Late Night with Conan O'Brien since 1995. He has also written for Late Night with David Letterman, Late Show with David Letterman, The Jon Stewart Show and Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher, as well as numerous award shows and specials.

Chris is a past President of Writers Guild of America, East (2005-2007). Before being elected President, he served on the Council and was Chairman of the Organizing Committee. During Chris's term as President, the Guild was finally able to organize the Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report. This led to organizing most of Comedy Central. In the first months of his term he scheduled a series of meetings with Writers Guild of America, West in neutral cities across the country. During those meetings the two unions reached agreement on a number of outstanding issues, which ended an extended period of hostility. Guidelines were put in place to ensure that the unions would work more as partners in the future.

Over the years Chris has been nominated for 15 Emmy Awards, and in 2007 he won an Emmy for his work on Conan. During that same time he has been nominated for 13 Writers Guild Awards, and won six. In addition to writing, Chris has co-produced numerous specials, including the GQ Men of the Year Awards and The Writers Guild Awards. He teaches a comedy-writing course at Columbia University's Graduate Film School.