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Conan O\u2019Brien<\/a> knows a thing or five about late-night talk shows.<\/p>\n So he spoke with plenty of authority when he was honored as an inductee at the 27th Television Academy Hall of Fame<\/a> ceremony Saturday (Aug. 16) in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n O\u2019Brien was a leading voice of late-night TV for 28 years.<\/p>\n He hosted NBC\u2019s \u201cLate Night with Conan O\u2019Brien\u201d from 1993 to 2009 and \u201cThe Tonight Show with Conan O\u2019Brien\u201d briefly from 2009 to 2010 followed by \u201cConan\u201d on TBS from 2010 to 2021.<\/p>\n The future of late night?<\/p>\n Admittedly not bright, O\u2019Brien said at the hall of fame ceremony.<\/p>\n \u201cYes, late-night television, as we have known it since around 1950, is going to disappear,\u201d he said. \u201cBut those voices are not going anywhere. People like Stephen Colbert<\/a> are too talented and too essential to go away. It\u2019s not gonna happen.\u201d<\/p>\n Last month, Colbert<\/a>, a Montclair resident, announced on CBS\u2019 \u201cThe Late Show\u201d that not only was his time with the show coming to an end<\/a> in 2026, but the network had also decided to completely axe \u201cThe Late Show.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cYeah, he\u2019s not going anywhere,\u201d said O\u2019Brien, 62, continuing his hall of fame remarks (see clip below). \u201cStephen is going to evolve and shine brighter than ever in a new format that he controls completely. So technology can do whatever they want. It can make television a pill. It can make television shows a high-protein, chewable, vanilla-flavored capsule with added fiber. It still won\u2019t matter. If the stories are good, if the performances are honest and inspired, if the people making it are brave and have goodwill, then somewhere, two weird siblings huddled in their crowded living room just off Route 9 outside Boston are going to be moved.\u201d<\/p>\n