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Conan O’Brien visited “The Tonight Present” on Tuesday evening, and stated it’s been a very long time since his days internet hosting NBC’s “Late Evening” in the identical constructing.
“It’s bizarre to return again,” O’Brien advised host Jimmy Fallon. “I haven’t been on this constructing for such a very long time, and I haven’t been on this ground in perpetually.”
O’Brien continued, “I used to be right here for 16 years doing the ‘Late Evening’ present earlier than we went out to LA, and proper throughout the corridor, all these recollections got here flooding again to me.”
He tried to elucidate the “bizarre” feeling to Fallon, saying, “The very first thing that may hit you — and it’ll hit you, too, as a result of at some point you’ll have this present so long as you need it, however if you’re 98, you’ll transfer on and another person can be on this studio. When another person is in your studio, it feels bizarre.”
O’Brien left NBC in 2010 after Jay Leno returned as host of “The Tonight Present.” Previous to that, O’Brien hosted “Late Evening” from 1993 to 2009. His TBS late-night present “Conan” led to 2021 after 11 seasons.
He additionally talked about Kelly Clarkson, who now hosts her personal present in O’Brien’s outdated studio.
“I like Kelly Clarkson. Who doesn’t love Kelly Clarkson? However nonetheless I felt like, ‘It’s not proper! Blasphemy! They need to’ve burned it to the bottom,’” O’Brien joked.
O’Brien has a brand new collection, “Conan O’Brien Should Go,” which debuts on April 18 on Max. (CNN and Max are each a part of Warner Bros. Discovery.)