List of Late Night with Conan O'Brien sketches
The sketch was invented prior to the actual year 2000, but the show's writers decided to keep the named year the same even after the passing of the titular year, in a sort of ironic twist. However, when the sketch was revived on "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien", Richter heaped ridicule upon O'Brien for failing to update the name of the skit nine years after the year 2000 had passed. The sketch is renamed "In the Year 3000", with the black robe (referred to as a 'ratty smock' by Richter) being replaced with a more futuristic-looking outfit consisting of a large metallic collar with a series of blinking lights, which Conan said were very expensive to make and Andy said smelled bad. Appearing on "Tonight" June 3, 2009, it was the first "Late Night" sketch to be carried over to Conan's "Tonight Show". The open to the sketch included narration by William Shatner and, on one occasion, George Takei.
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Neither O'Brien's version of the program, which premiered June 1, 2009, nor "The Jay Leno Show" generated the ratings NBC had expected. The network decided to move a condensed 30-minute version of Leno's show to O'Brien's time slot, and O'Brien's "Tonight Show" a half-hour later. This decision met with opposition from O'Brien, whose stint on "The Tonight Show" ended January 22, 2010, after which he began his own talk show, "Conan", on TBS. "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" then began its second incarnation, the sixth of the franchise, on March 1, 2010. Leno left "The Tonight Show" for good on February 6, 2014 and on February 17, was succeeded by "Late Night" host Jimmy Fallon, at which time the series returned to New York for the first time since 1972.