Conan O’Brien has declared that TV in the evening is fading but praised Stephen Colbert as “too talented and too important to go away.”
For the UVERSED, the 62-year-old American TV host and comedian received one of this year’s Top Television Academy Head Certificate.
Formulating his thoughts in the Academy Hall of Fame on Saturday, August 16, the O’Bria claimed that the award was coming at a strange time because “there is a lot of fear of the TV time, and rightly. The life we all have known for almost 80 years is under seismic change.”
He continued to share with the audience at the JW Marriot Hotel in the center of La Live District and said, “This is perhaps just my nature. I choose not to mourn what is lost because I believe in the most important way what we have, do not change at all. Streaming changes the pipeline, but the connection, the talent, the ideas, the ideas that come into our home … I believe it is in focus here.”
The Now you see me Star also reflected on the success of the recent series Hacks I think you should leave with Tim Robinson, and Abbott Elementary, Noticing Hollywood still has creative opportunities.
“It all electrifies a new generation of viewers. Yes, late in the evening TV, as we have known it since around 1950, will disappear. But these voices do not go anywhere. People like Stephen Colbert are too talented and too important to go away,” said O’Brien.
