Late night dies, but Stephen Colbert is ‘essential’

While he accepted one of this year’s top Television Academy Honors, Star Conan O’Brien admitted that the prize came to an unusual time. Speaking on Saturday against the audience of the Television Academy Hall of Fame, O’Brien noted that at the moment: “There is a lot of fear of the future of television, and rightly so. The life that we all have known for almost 80 years is undergoing seismic change.”

But, he told the public gathered in the JW Marriot Hotel in the La Live district in the center: “This may just be my nature. I choose not to mourn what is lost, because I think that in the most essential way, what we have, does not change at all.

O’Brien pointed to the success of the recent series “Abbott Elementary”, “Hacks” and “I think you should leave with Tim Robinson” as a sign that there are still creative opportunities in Hollywood. The comedian said: “It’s all exciting a new generation of viewers. Yes, late-night television, as we know it since about 1950, will not disappear. But those voices are not going anywhere. People like Stephen Colbert are too talented and too essential to leave.”

And that is where O’Brien appealed to the condition of his old late night. O’Brien naturally spent almost 30 years in the Dagpart, via ‘Late Night with Conan O’Brien’, ‘The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien’ and ‘Conan’. “I have coupled in other things, but that’s where I lived,” he said. “And for those of you under 40, Late-Night Television was a service that was designed to distract students until the science would perfect the internet and online pornography. Boy, they did well.”

He then added to Colbert: “Stephen will evolve and shine brighter than ever in a new format that he fully controls. So, technology can do whatever they want. It can make television a pill. It can make TV shows, protein, chewable, vanilla-taste capsule with added fiber.

Regarding the TV Academy Hall of Fame Award, which he shared with Viola Davis, Henry Winkler, Ryan Murphy, Mike Post and Don Mischer, O’Brien added: “This is the honor of your life.

Also in the Hall of Fame, Murphy touched the struggles of the moment, while the nation marches further to fascism and speaks the rights away: “I always thought one thing:” If you were to push hard and this noisy and lively characters to the system, he said: “And you would make a path of my hall or to plant that flag, in this year.

“I had a dream a long time ago to get into the Hall of Fame from my profession so that I could say that I did it,” he added. “I did the thing, and now I can just go on the coast and everything about the money. But a new, darker age that I think none of us suspects has been spent. And so I turn the good fight, namely creating more work with the detached and the ignored and the marginalized groups.”