Top Comments: Good Bye Conan O'Brien and Thanks Edition

After 28 years hosting The Late Show on TBS, Conan O’Brien is called it a night this week and he did it with class.

As an unknown comedy writer, O'Brien was tasked with replacing David Letterman on NBC's "Late Night" in the early '90s. After a somewhat bumpy start, he captured the love of a loyal audience while making a unique name for himself thanks to a mix of solid interviewing and silly humor.
After "Late Night," O'Brien had a brief and tumultuous stint as the host of "The Tonight Show" before being replaced by the host he took over for, Jay Leno. Then he ended up on TBS, where he's branched out away from his desk to do travel specials in countries such as Cuba and Armenia.
As much as Thursday is an end, it's also a beginning for O'Brien. He will host a new weekly variety series for HBO Max, WarnerMedia's streaming service. (Like CNN, TBS and HBO Max are units of WarnerMedia.)

He spent the last 15 minutes of his show heaping praise on everyone he worked with:

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His show was primarily just comedy — blessed relief from the day. A lot of silliness helped as exemplified by Triumph the Insult Comedy Dog, a frequent “guest” and “reporter”. His audience generally hipper and younger than the usual late night crowd, he will leave a gaping hole in the choices available late night.

His interviews were always solid with comedy thrown in as an afterthought.

While I was a Colbert/Daily Show with Jon Stewart devotee, I appreciated what Conan brought and was happy that his show was available On Demand for those times when silliness became necessity.

He could also be profound as he was when he was saying goodbye on his last show with:

Try and do what you love with the people you love and if you can manage that it’s the very definition of Heaven on Earth.

But his departure from TBS isn’t the final end. He’ll do a weekly show for HBO Max.

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