Conan O?Brien on how to embrace an ever-changing media landscape

Later that year, he returned with TBS’ Conan, which will celebrate its 10th year on the air in November (and is renewed at least through 2022).The 2018 launch of “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend” found the comedian embracing the new-found freedom of podcasting.“There are a couple of things about doing podcasts that are superior or more fun than doing a talk show,” a quarantine-haired O’Brien said in an interview at TechCrunch Disrupt this week. But after almost 30 years of people caking my very white face with makeup so that I look like I’m still alive.”Team Coco has produced 10 shows in all, including shows from longtime sidekick Andy Richter and actor Rob Lowe, writers Mike Sweeney and Jessie Gaskel’s intimately titled Inside Conan and a six-part mini-series interview with SNL alum, Dana Carvey.“I don’t want to set a number goal,” O’Brien says. Throughout it all, “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend” continued posting weekly interviews.Asked whether he planned to continue his late-night show after the contract runs out in a couple of years, O’Brien seemed unsure.“I think it’s a mistake to think of it as, will you stop doing the show, and only do the podcast?