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Conan O'Brien says late night TV is "going to disappear" but "people like Stephen Colbert are too talented and too essential to go away." The comedian weighed in on Colbert's cancellation while being honored at the TV Academy Hall of Fame ceremony, alongside Viola Davis, Ryan Murphy and Henry Winkler.

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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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