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Tomorrow's episode of Late Night With Conan O'Brien will mark the lanky Irishman's last show before he takes over hosting duties for The Tonight Show. The end of Late Night's sixteen-year run with O'Brien will also mark his departure from New York City; the Harvard alum and former Simpsons writer is expatriating to Los Angeles where NBC has built him a brand-new studio. On Monday, Conan took an axe to the familiar archway in studio 6A at Rockefeller Plaza, giving—literally—an audience member a piece of the show itself. Less haphazardly mementos are being auctioned off for charity on eBay, with all proceeds benefiting the House To Home Project.
O'Brien, of course, leaves a vacancy in the chair he inherited from David Letterman nearly two decades ago, which will be filled by Saturday Night Live alum Jimmy Fallon beginning in March. Not much is known about the format or style of Fallon's iteration of Late Night, save for the rather big news that hiphop legends The Roots have signed on as his house band. Max Weinberg And The Weinberg Seven, it's assumed, will follow Conan out to California, although one has to wonder whether The Boss is okay with his drummer moving that far away from his New Jersey base.
Information on tickets for Late Night With Jimmy Fallon can be found here.
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Posted on 2/19/2009
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