January 23, 2010
Video Highlights: Conan O’Brien’s Final Tonight Show Episode
Conan O’Brien hosted his last episode of the The Tonight Show on Friday, January 22 after coming to a separation agreement with NBC. Jay Leno will return as host of the show on March 1; until then, NBC will show O’Brien reruns.
Click the widget below for the full episode, available only for a limited time. Below it are NBC’s archived clips from the episode; the network did not archive the following clips from the show: Neil Young’s performance of ”Long May You Run;” O’Brien’s goodbye speech; and Will Ferrell ending the episode with “Free Bird,” helped by O’Brien, Beck, Ben Harper, ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons, and Max Weinberg and the Tonight Show Band.
At the very bottom is Jimmy Fallon’s brief show-starting nod to O’Brien’s departure on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.
O’Brien’s suggestions for the fate of the studio:
The “World’s Most Expensive Sketch”:
A video montage of his time on the show:
Steve Carell conducts an exit interview:
Tom Hanks is revealed to have been the one who created the tongue-in-cheek nickname “Coco” for O’Brien:
Jimmy Fallon and The Roots sing “It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday”:
