Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Late Night with Conan O'Brien is an American late-night talk show hosted by Conan O'Brien that aired 2,725 episodes on NBC between 1993 and 2009. The show featured varied comedic material, celebrity interviews, and musical and comedy performances. "Late Night" aired weeknights at 12:37 am Eastern/11:37 pm Central and 12:37 am Mountain in the United States. From 1993 until 2000, Andy Richter served as O'Brien's sidekick; following his departure, O'Brien was the show's sole featured performer. The show's house musical act was The Max Weinberg 7, led by E Street Band drummer Max Weinberg.
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.