After only seven months and 146 episodes, The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien came to a close. The finale began airing on January 22nd and ended on January 23, 2010 — the five year anniversary of Johnny Carson’s death.
Here’s what happened…
After a long standing ovation, O’Brien is finally able to calm the audience down with, “Ladies and Gentleman, we have exactly one hour to steal every single item in this studio…”
O’Brien’s monologue is peppered with jabs at NBC, as it had been for the past week. He jokes that, since his settlement prohibits him from hosting another show for seven months, Andy Richtor will begin hosting a show the following week — with O’Brien as his sidekick.
He reminds the audience that they’ve all had a lot of fun doing the Tonight Show but, like everything in life, it must come to an end — a decade too early.







