Conan O’Brien joked that he feels like he has a term paper due when it comes to his new HBO Max series. Show
The comedian, talking on his Conan Needs A Friend podcast, said that he is working on the new show, which comes after he ended his late-night stint with TBS’ Conan last June. He said he can’t say exactly when it will come out, joking, “Have you ever had a term paper when you were in high school and it was due on a Thursday and Thursday came by and you didn’t have it?” He reiterated that it won’t be a nightly show but hopes to focus on remote segments that he has done in the past such as Conan Without Borders, which saw the former Simpsons writer travel the world. “What I’d like to focus on is the stuff that I think I’m particularly useful at or adept at. I want to double down on that… remotes and when I’m with real people in real situations, that’s exactly the kind of stuff I’m thinking about and want to do,” he said. “When I travel, people say they just saw the one where I went to Korean spa and they saw my whole body and now can’t unsee it. It’s really nice… I would like to add more foolishness to that mountain.” O’Brien added that Covid made it more difficult to get out and about but he’s “optimistic” that “things are turning a corner and I can’t wait to get back out there”
Conan O’Brien left The Tonight Show after a brief tenure over a decade ago, but his untimely exit still stings the comedian. O’Brien — who hosted The Tonight Show between 2009 and 2010 before leaving after a bitter battle with the network over air time — spoke with Adweek about his controversial departure from NBC, and how the internet helped point him toward his next gig. When asked by Adweek what it feels like to look back at his short time on The Tonight Show over 10 years later, O’Brien didn’t hold back. “At this point, even beginning to try and explain to people all the different ways in which I thought that was a screwed-up situation—and in some ways unjust—is absolutely asinine and feels completely stupid and self-indulgent,” the comedian said, before adding, “But it was really important to me.” O’Brien was tapped to replace Jay Leno on The Tonight Show in 2009, while Leno got his own show. But when both programs failed to pull in viewers, NBC brought Leno back for The Tonight Show and paid O’Brien to leave after just one season… All of which riled up the internet enough to start a movement of support behind O’Brien. “Talk about luck: I happen to exist at a time when the internet at that point, 2010, is really starting to flex its muscles. There was this explosion online, and that took me completely by surprise. I didn’t see it coming,” O’Brien told Adweek, denying that he organized the online fervor that followed his Tonight Show ousting. “That was a lot of young people who thought it was bullshit. And they use the internet, so they went to town, which led to this grassroots movement,” he explained. “From there it was immediately this feeling of: ‘Let’s do a show for these people.’ “It’s an interesting example of, take what you’ve been given. My sense of humor didn’t change, I didn’t change as a person,” O’Brien continued. “But the situation changed completely overnight from, I’m heading the oldest late-night franchise in America, the storied Tonight Show, to that’s over.” O’Brien told Adweek, “I really didn’t want any of that craziness with NBC or Leno; I wasn’t looking for any of that. But once it happened, and this is the situation, you react to that situation using what skills you have.” That “craziness” led him to go on tour, where O’Brien said he could give audiences “much more vaudeville” than he could have ever as host of The Tonight Show. After touring, O’Brien landed at TBS, where he hosted Conan for 11 years on the network before ending his show in 2021. But O’Brien is far from retirement — he’s forging ahead with his podcast, Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend, and working on a new show on HBO Max. While O’Brien didn’t divulge many details about his HBO Max series — even telling Adweek “nothing’s been formalized” at the streamer — he hinted that progress isn’t too far off. ‘My hope is that we will be working on that this fall, and we can start to get it going,” O’Brien said.
TagsMore From DeciderIs anyone taking over for Conan?It has long been rumored, and it's finally official that Fallon will take over as the new Late Night talk show host on NBC next year. With an eight-year history on Saturday Night Live and a few comedies under his belt, Fallon has established himself as a worthy Conan successor.
How much did Conan get paid to leave NBC?O'Brien and his staff received US$45 million (equivalent to about $56 million in 2021) to walk away from the network, with his final Tonight Show airing January 22, 2010; Leno was reinstated as host that March, while after a contractual seven-month ban against appearing on television, O'Brien moved to TBS to host Conan ...
Why did NBC get rid of Conan?O'Brien does agree with NBC's comments that it was a business decision motivated by money and he acknowledges that Leno had the more expensive contract and would have been even harder to let go. "Some people have reported that NBC would have had to pay him $150 million," Kroft remarked. "Uh huh, yeah," O'Brien said.
Who is Conan obrien wife?Liza Powel O'BrienConan O'Brien / Wifenull
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