Editing Late Night with Conan O'Brien (section)

===The final episode===
''Late Night with Conan O'Brien''{{'}}s last episode was recorded February 20, 2009, and aired shortly after midnight that next morning. The episode featured clips from past shows and a reflection on the show's sixteen-year-long run. [[John Mayer]] sent a farewell video message, singing a song about how Los Angeles is "going to eat [Conan] alive" (an ironic foretelling of [[2010 Tonight Show conflict|things to come]]). In a short [[remote broadcast|remote]] piece, Conan released regular contributor [[Abe Vigoda]] "into the wild," as he could not bring him to Los Angeles for the move to ''The Tonight Show''. [[Will Ferrell]] made a surprise visit as [[George W. Bush]], which quickly devolved into Ferrell tearing off his business suit to reveal an ill-fitting green leprechaun outfit that had been worn in a number of previous appearances on the show.<ref name="ew">''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' article: "[http://watching-tv.ew.com/2009/02/conan-obrien-la.html?iid=top25-Conan+O%27Brien%3A+His+last+%27Late+Night%27+a+triumph%2C+no+insult%2C+highly+comic%2C+not+a+dog Conan O'Brien: His last 'Late Night' a triumph, no insult, highly comic, not a dog]".</ref>

Former sidekick [[Andy Richter]], who re-joined O'Brien when he took over ''The Tonight Show'' in June, joined O'Brien onstage for two segments, watching clips and reminiscing about the show.<ref name="ew" /> Among the clips shown, O'Brien noted that his all-time favorite ''Late Night'' piece was when he attended a re-enactment of an [[American Civil War]]-era baseball game, played at a Long Island, New York museum, Old Bethpage Village Restoration. During the course of the final week, O'Brien began violently dismantling and handing out pieces of the production set to the audience. In the final show, a large piece of the stage's frame was pulled down and chopped into pieces. O'Brien then promised to give each audience member in attendance a piece of the set.<ref name="ew" />

One of Conan's favorite bands, [[The White Stripes]], performed a new, slower arrangement of their song "[[We're Going to Be Friends]]" based on Conan's lullaby rendition of the song, with drummer [[Meg White]] playing second guitar and singing along with vocalist/guitarist [[Jack White]]. The performance proved to be the band's last before their breakup in February 2011.<ref name="RSwhitestripes">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2009/02/20/white-stripes-final-late-night-gig-conan-obrien-on-special-relationship-with-jack-and-meg/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090223061236/http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2009/02/20/white-stripes-final-late-night-gig-conan-obrien-on-special-relationship-with-jack-and-meg|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 23, 2009|title=White Stripes' Final "Late Night" Gig: Conan O'Brien on Special Relationship With Jack and Meg|last=Ganz|first=Caryn|date=2009-02-20|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=February 5, 2010}}</ref> The song would be used many years later as the theme for O'Brien's podcast ''[[Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend]]''. The program concluded with a visibly emotional O'Brien giving a farewell speech from behind his desk, thanking his fans, writers, producers, backstage crew, his family, [[Jimmy Vivino and the Basic Cable Band|the Max Weinberg 7]], [[David Letterman]], [[Joel Godard]], [[Jay Leno]], and [[Lorne Michaels]], as well as a final assurance that he would not "grow up" as he moved to ''[[The Tonight Show]]''.<ref name="ew" />

About 3.4&nbsp;million viewers watched O'Brien's final episode of ''Late Night'', the largest audience since the January 24, 2005 episode that followed [[The Tonight Show with Jay Leno|Jay Leno's]] tribute to [[Johnny Carson]].<ref name="WPost-Conan">{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/26/AR2009022603677_pf.html|title=Seinfeld, NBC Renew Their Vows With 'The Marriage Ref'|last=de Moraes|first=Lisa|date=2009-02-27|newspaper=Washington Post|access-date=2009-02-27}}</ref>

After the end of the series, Studio 6A at Rockefeller Center was remodeled for ''[[The Dr. Oz Show]]''.<ref>Battaglio, Stephen. "He Will Survive". ''TV Guide''. November 7, 2011. Page 20.</ref> In the summer of 2013, NBC moved ''[[Late Night with Jimmy Fallon]]'' to Studio 6A while 6B, which housed ''Late Night'' since Fallon succeeded O'Brien in 2009, was being renovated when Fallon took over ''The Tonight Show'' on February 17, 2014, while ''The Dr. Oz Show'' moved to ABC's Upper West Side studios.