{"id":1966102,"date":"2025-08-18T03:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T03:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1966102"},"modified":"2025-08-18T03:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T03:08:10","slug":"conan-obrien-says-late-night-tv-is-doomed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/conan-obrien-says-late-night-tv-is-doomed\/","title":{"rendered":"Conan O\u2019Brien Says Late-Night TV Is Doomed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Conan O\u2019Brien isn\u2019t holding out hope for a late-night television comeback.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Speaking at the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.televisionacademy.com\/video\/conan-obrien-27th-hall-of-fame-honoree\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:27th Television Academy Hall of Fame;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">27th Television Academy Hall of Fame<\/a> ceremony on Saturday, the former<i> Late Night<\/i> host declared that the traditional talk-show format is on its way out\u2014for good.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cLate-night television, as we have known it since around 1950, is going to disappear,\u201d O\u2019Brien said, after being inducted into the Hall of Fame by <i>Friends<\/i> actress Lisa Kudrow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Still, the comedy veteran stressed that while the structure of late-night may be crumbling, its strongest voices aren\u2019t going anywhere.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed inset-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p>Conan O&#8217;Brien appears onstage during the 26th Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., on March 23, 2025. \/ Craig Hudson \/ REUTERS<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He pointed to <i>The Late Show <\/i>host Stephen Colbert, who revealed last month that CBS was scrapping the iconic program he\u2019s hosted for nearly a decade. The final episode is expected to air in May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cPeople like Stephen Colbert are too talented, and too essential, to go away,\u201d O\u2019Brien said. \u201cIt\u2019s not going to happen. He\u2019s not going anywhere. Stephen is going to evolve and shine brighter than ever in a new format that he controls completely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Executives cited shifting viewer habits and declining ad revenue as the primary reasons for ending<i> The Late Show<\/i>, stoking further anxiety over the future of late-night television.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\"Stephen Colbert arrives for the Saturday Night Live 50: The Anniversary Special at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City on February 16, 2025. \/ Caitlin Ochs \/ REUTERS\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/LdBG2Va62Z1MaFTWSZZbuw--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTY0MDtjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/thedailybeast.com\/0d7ee5656bea051d184de78fa3e1eefe\"\/><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed inset-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p>Stephen Colbert arrives for the Saturday Night Live 50: The Anniversary Special at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City on February 16, 2025. \/ Caitlin Ochs \/ REUTERS<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">O\u2019Brien acknowledged those forces and cautioned that the \u201cfear\u201d over television\u2019s future is very real.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThe life we\u2019ve all known for almost 80 years is undergoing seismic change,\u201d he said. \u201cBut this might just be my nature\u2014I choose not to mourn what is lost. Because I think in the most essential way what we have is not changing at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">O\u2019Brien himself stepped away from late-night in 2021, concluding a 28-year run that ranks among the longest in the genre\u2019s history, according to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kennedy-center.org\/artists\/o\/oa-on\/conan-obrien\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Kennedy Center.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Kennedy Center.<\/a> He remains an influential figure through his podcast, Conan O\u2019Brien Needs a Friend, which had surpassed 660 million downloads as of 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cIf the stories are good, if the performances are honest and inspired, if the people making it are brave and of good will,\u201d he said, \u201cthen somewhere, two weird siblings huddled in their crowded living room just off Route 9 outside Boston are going to be moved.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conan O\u2019Brien isn\u2019t holding out hope for a late-night television comeback. Speaking at the 27th Television Academy Hall of Fame ceremony on Saturday, the former Late Night host declared that the traditional talk-show format is on its way out\u2014for good. \u201cLate-night television, as we have known it since around 1950, is going to disappear,\u201d O\u2019Brien [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1966103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[37056,338684,22653,347491],"class_list":["post-1966102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-conan-obrien","tag-lisa-kudrow","tag-stephen-colbert","tag-television-academy-hall-of-fame"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Conan-OBrien-Says-Late-Night-TV-Is-Doomed.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1966102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1966103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1966102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1966102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1966102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}