00:00Conan O'Brien is weighing in on Stephen Colbert's late-show cancellation, saying late-night TV is going to disappear.
00:07While being honored at the TV Academy Hall of Fame ceremony alongside Viola Davis, Ryan Murphy, and Henry Winkler,
00:14the comedian spoke about the current state of late-night.
00:17Things are changing fast. I don't claim to know the future of our beloved medium, but I know this.
00:22Getting the privilege to play around with an hour of television has been the great joy of my professional career.
00:27He continued,
00:29We're having this event now in a time when there's a lot of fear about the future of television, and rightfully so.
00:34The life we've all known for almost 80 years is undergoing seismic change.
00:39But this might just be my nature. I choose not to mourn what is lost,
00:43because I think in the most essential way what we have is not changing at all.
00:47Streaming changes the pipeline, but the connection, the talent, the ideas that come into our homes,
00:52I think it's as potent as ever, and we have proof here tonight.
00:55And in the wake of CBS announcing it will end the late show with Stephen Colbert next year,
01:00O'Brien said,
01:01Yes, late-night television, as we have known it since around 1950, is going to disappear.
01:06But those voices are not going anywhere.
01:08People like Stephen Colbert are too talented and too essential to go away.
01:12It's not going to happen. He's not going anywhere.
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