TBS renews contract of Conan O’Brien, late-night elder statesman, through 2018
A strange thing will happen when David Letterman retires next year. Conan O’Brien, the man who brought us the Masturbating Bear and Pimp-Bot 5000, will become the longest-tenured late-night host on American TV. O’Brien has presided over one show or another since 1993 (aside from a couple of notable interruptions), and TBS is apparently happy to have its host serve as the genre’s elder statesman: The network just extended his contract through 2018, the Associated Press reports.