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Conan O’Brien will return to NBC’s “The Tonight Show” for the to start with time because getting fired from the host’s chair in 2010.
O’Brien, 60, will be a visitor on “The Tonight Exhibit Starring Jimmy Fallon” on April 9 to promote his new travelogue series, “Conan O’Brien Should Go,” premiering April 18 on Max. He’ll be on Fallon’s exhibit with Nicole Richie and musical visitor Benson Boone.
O’Brien, who started on NBC web hosting “Late Night” after David Letterman jumped to CBS, took above “The Tonight Show” from Jay Leno in June 2009 — while Leno pivoted to a primetime demonstrate identified as “The Jay Leno Show.”
But O’Brien’s “Tonight Show” viewership dropped right after Leno remaining, and Leno’s ratings in primetime also took a major strike.
NBC proposed setting up Leno’s display at 11:35 p.m. and going O’Brien’s “Tonight Show” to 12:05 a.m. — which O’Brien did not appreciate.
Then, in an unprecedented go that left O’Brien stunned and bitter — and Leno reviled by some — NBC moved Leno back to “The Tonight Show” in 2010 and axed O’Brien, who went on to host the late-evening demonstrate “Conan” on TBS from 2010-2021.
O’Brien hosted his past “Tonight Show” in January 2010, with Leno having in excess of two months later on.
“I are not able to specific in words and phrases how significantly I delight in web hosting this system and what an massive personalized disappointment it is for me to take into consideration shedding it,” O’Brien explained when he was canned from “The Tonight Present.”
“My employees and I have worked unbelievably tough and we are extremely very pleased of our contribution to the legacy of the ‘Tonight Clearly show.’ But I are unable to take part in what I actually believe that is its destruction. Some individuals will make the argument that with DVRs and the World wide web a timeslot doesn’t make any difference. But with the ‘Tonight Present,’ I imagine nothing could matter more.”
O’Brien did make a prior visual appeal of types on Fallon’s “Tonight Show” in 2018, when he appeared in a prerecorded skit that Fallon did with “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert.
Leno went on to host “The Tonight Show” as a result of 2014, when he was succeeded by Fallon, 49.
He talked about the O’Brien kerfuffle on Bill Maher’s “Club Random” podcast in 2022 — and denied that he “deliberately sabotaged” O’Brien’s tenure on “The Tonight Show.”
“That doesn’t operate,” Leno stated. “It doesn’t get the job done that way. You consider and do the very best you can and it didn’t operate.”
In O’Brien’s new Max sequence, “Conan O’Brien Should Go,” he will visit new friends in Norway, Thailand, Argentina Eire that he fulfilled through his podcast, “Conan O’Brien Demands a Supporter.”
