Conan O’Brien Talks with David Remnick

On the twenty-seventh annual New Yorker Competition, the flame-haired former late-night host Conan O’Brien swapped sides of the proverbial desk with the journal’s editor, David Remnick. O’Brien, who is seemingly a hundred-per-cent Irish, is way lower than a hundred-per-cent fortunate: he has been nominated for an Emmy Award thirty-six occasions, and gained six. His most up-to-date win was for his work because the host and government producer of “Conan O’Brien Should Go,” on HBO Max, the place he capped off one of many longest tenures in late-night-talk-show historical past, with a complete of twenty-eight years as a number; he was the 2025 recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Along with producing a podcast sequence, “Conan O’Brien Wants a Buddy,” he has kindly agreed to host the Academy Awards as soon as once more, subsequent 12 months.