(Maybe that would have been different if his show was still an hour long, but maybe not.)
It’s been as rough a year for Conan and its crew as everyone else in late-night TV, considering the pandemic shifted the production from in-studio to in-home.
Here’s hoping the world is closer to normal by the time Team Coco gets to work on the HBO Max variety series.
While Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show made the move to jump back into the studio for in-person interviews, O’Brien and others chose to remain remote as the TV industry continues reshaping itself to keep up with pandemic protocols.