Does time – and a new host – heal all wounds? Fourteen years after Conan O’Brien was messily ousted from NBC’s The Tonight Show to make approach for the return of Jay Leno –the comic is lastly again.

O’Brien will seem on the April 9 present to advertise his new journey sequence (*14*) for Max in dialog with Jimmy Fallon, who took over from Leno in 2014.

After greater than 15 years of internet hosting Late Night with Conan O’Brien on NBC, O’Brien was promoted to steer the community’s flagship late-night present in 2009, after it was introduced Leno would be given a new prime-time present, additionally on NBC.

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After seven months of slipping Tonight Show rankings and and strain from associates who mentioned The Jay Leno Show wasn’t a sturdy sufficient lead-in to their nightly newscasts, NBC made a plan to shorten Leno’s present to a half-hour and provides it a 11:35 p.m. timeslot, which might have bumped The Tonight Show to 12:05 a.m.

“It was my mistaken belief that, like my predecessor, I would have the benefit of some time and, just as important, some degree of ratings support from the prime-time schedule,” O’Brien mentioned on the time in a assertion.

He refused to just accept the transfer, and the general public spat ended with O’Brien and his employees receiving a multimillion-dollar payout to exit NBC in early 2010.

“And I just want to say to the kids out there watching: You can do anything you want in life. Unless Jay Leno wants to do it, too,” O’Brien mentioned in a monologue earlier than his departure, calling The Tonight Show the achievement of a lifelong dream.

O’Brien did not keep off the airwaves for too lengthy, returning to late-night in November 2010 on basic-cable community TBS. Conan would run for almost 11 years. (The first episode beat Leno’s Tonight Show within the rankings.)

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In 2012, O’Brien instructed The Hollywood Reporter that whereas he nonetheless had latent resentment, he acknowledged a onetime “amazing partnership with NBC.”

“There are moments of, ‘What the hell happened? Why did that person do that or say that?’ But there’s also lot of, ‘OK, let’s file this under There’s A Lot I Can’t Control,'” he instructed the commerce publication, including that he and Leno now not spoke to at least one one other.

O’Brien’s return to The Tonight Show – which moved from Southern California to New York when Fallon took the helm – is not the primary time Fallon has used his present to increase an olive department. On his first night time as host, Joan Rivers made a temporary look in a bit the place celebrities paid up after betting cash Fallon would by no means be host.

Rivers had been infamously banned from the present when Johnny Carson was the host after she obtained her personal late-night present on Fox. (After his acrimonious departure from NBC, O’Brien himself visited Late Night with Jimmy Fallon in a shock look.)

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As for O’Brien, he now hosts the podcast Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend. In his new journey present, O’Brien visits nations like Ireland, Thailand, Argentina and Norway.

The general vibe amongst late-night speak present hosts has additionally advanced from the times of intense competitors between Leno and CBS’ David Letterman to congeniality – and even friendship.

Last summer season, Fallon, Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, John Oliver and Jimmy Kimmel teamed up for a podcast known as Strike Force Five to help their employees through the writers strike.