Seth Meyers has finally landed his white whale
Conan O’Brien, who hosted NBC’s Late Night franchise from 1993-2009 is returning to his old show as a guest for the very first time. (He made a cameo appearance on the show early on in Jimmy Fallon’s run.)
O’Brien is scheduled to appear on the show Wednesday, June 11.
Meyers, who has previously welcomed both of the show’s two other hosts—David Letterman and Jimmy Fallon—has long named O’Brien the guest he’d most like to interview. At an Emmys FYC event in Los Angeles last week, he telegraphed today’s news, saying “I think it will happen soon,” adding that he’d spoken to O’Brien and that he’d expressed his desire to do it.
Though O’Brien and NBC famously had bad blood after parting ways in 2010, he’s returned to 30 Rock quite a few times in recent years, making a cameo on Saturday Night Live in 2022, guesting with Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show in 2024, and attending SNL‘s 50th anniversary special earlier this year.
O’Brien has had quite the run since leaving his TBS late-night show four years ago, presiding over his popular Team Coco podcast network (which was acquired by Sirius XM for 150 million dollars in 2022), producing an Emmy-nominated travel series for Max, making perhaps the best reviewed Oscars hosting debut ever, and taking home this year’s Mark Twain Prize.
O’Brien’s Late Night return also promises to be a full circle moment for Meyers, who made his own talk show debut on Late Night with Conan O’Brien in 2022, when he was just a year into his thirteen-season run on SNL.
Late Night with Seth Meyers airs weeknights at 12:35am ET/PT on NBC and streams next day on Peacock.
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