Editing Late Night with Conan O'Brien (section)

===Remote pieces and episodes shot on location===
Remote pieces shot on location were a recurring staple on ''Late Night'', but occasionally, entire episodes were shot on location, usually during [[Nielsen Media Research|sweeps]] months. The first vacation for the show was a week-long stint of shows in Los Angeles the week of November 9–12, 1999. This was the only location week for the show while Andy Richter was with the show, and the only time the show's theme was altered for the week, with a more surf-style version of the show's normal theme (though the Toronto shows ended the normal theme with a piece of "[[O Canada]]"). The show was broadcast from NBC's L.A. studios (NBC Studios Burbank) and an L.A.-themed set was built, very similar in layout to the New York set.

From February 10–13, 2004, ''Late Night'' broadcast from the [[Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres|Elgin Theatre]] in Toronto, Canada. The guests for these episodes were all Canadians (with the exception of [[Adam Sandler]]), and included such stars as [[Jim Carrey]] and [[Mike Myers]]. As the show was taped at a theater, unlike the trip to L.A., the set built was not like the show's standard set.

[[File:Conan takes over Chicago (186360359).jpg|thumb|Chicago Theatre during Conan's week of shows there]]
From May 9–12, 2006, the show made a similar venture to the [[Chicago Theatre]] in Chicago, Illinois, taking cues from their previous trip to Toronto. Between April 30 – May 4, 2007, the show originated from the [[Orpheum Theatre (San Francisco)|Orpheum Theatre]] in San Francisco.

In a sketch called "Conan O'Brien Hates My Homeland", Conan mocked every nation in the world to see which ones he gets letters from. An announcer on the Finnish entertainment channel SubTV, which airs the show a couple of days after it is aired in the US, asked people to defend Finland before Conan got to insult it, and the viewers in Finland began sending mail before the bit had even gotten to the letter F. Conan responded by assuming the Finnish "just couldn't wait" to be insulted and officially insulted Finland in the segment. An overwhelming number of postcards were supposedly received, which apparently "forced" Conan to give Finland a formal apology. Conan then went as far as to have the flag of Finland shown in the background during a speech and slandered the Finns' "hated" neighbor [[Sweden]] with a sign saying "Sweden Sucks!" printed over the flag of Sweden. It would seem that this chain of events led to elevated ratings in Finland and subsequently also sparked a special relationship with the viewers in Finland. Later when Conan was talking to audience members before the show, a group of fans visiting from Finland commented that he resembled their female president [[Tarja Halonen]].  Conan mentioned the resemblance on his show, even showing pictures of Halonen next to himself.  When he discovered that Halonen was up for reelection he began making satirical commercials in support of Halonen and vowed to travel to Finland to meet her if she won re-election. When she did indeed win re-election in January 2006, Conan traveled to Finland and met with her.<ref>[https://classic.teamcoco.com/late-night-with-conan-obrien/season-13/episode-83/conan-in-finland-presidential-visit?playlist=x%3BeyJ0eXBlIjoidGFnIiwiaWQiOjEwMzN9 Conan Meets The President Of Finland – Conan]</ref> One episode, broadcast on March 10, 2006, was compiled mainly of footage from O'Brien's trip to [[Finland]].  In the episode, Conan greeted fans at the airport, participated in a Sami cultural ceremony, appeared on a Finnish talk show, and attempted to visit a fan who had written to him. The episode was not strictly taped as a live episode there, however, but was prefaced by an introduction by O'Brien taped in New York. The Finland episode came as the culmination of a long-running joke on the show.

Aside from location shows, the show also did special one-shots in its early years. In 1995, one episode of the show was taped aboard a New York City ferry in New York Harbor. Dubbed "The Show on a Boat" by the showtunes-style song-and-dance number performed by a trio of "sailors" at the start of the show, O'Brien, Richter, the band and guests were all crammed onto the deck of the ferry. The show was taped at its normal afternoon time, while it was still light out.