Conan O’Brien knows a thing or five about late-night talk shows.

So he spoke with plenty of authority when he was honored as an inductee at the 27th Television Academy Hall of Fame ceremony Saturday (Aug. 16) in Los Angeles.

O’Brien was a leading voice of late-night TV for 28 years.

He hosted NBC’s “ Late Night with Conan O’Brien ” from 1993 to 2009 and “ The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien ” briefly from 2009 to 2010 followed by “ Conan ” on TBS from 2010 to 2021.

The future of late night?

Admittedly not bright, O’Brien said at the hall of fame ceremony.

“Yes, late-night television, as we have known it since around 1950, is going to disappear,” he said. “But those voices are not going anywhere. People like Stephen Colbert are too talented and too essential to go away. It’

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