Official Max Trailer for “Conan O’Brien Must Go” [VIDEO]

He’s all over the map. #ConanOBrien Must Go is streaming on April 18 on Max.

Conan O’Brien Must Go is an upcoming travel show starring former late-night host Conan O’Brien. The series is a spin-off to his podcast Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend and a successor to the Conan Without Borders travel specials that originally aired as part of his TBS show Conan. The series will feature O’Brien meeting various fans in person whom he had previously featured via video calls in his podcast series. He will travel to Norway, Thailand, Argentina, and Ireland.

Background

O’Brien has a long history of featuring segments that occurred outside the traditional studio environment, dubbed “remotes”, ever since his first late-night show, Late Night with Conan O’Brien. They became some of his best-received segments, including a famous remote when O’Brien visited a historic, Civil War-era baseball league. The piece was one of O’Brien’s personal favorites, later remarking, “When I leave this earth, at the funeral, just show this, because this pretty much says who I’m all about.”

The apotheosis of the Late Night remotes centered on the realization, in 2006, that O’Brien bore a striking resemblance to Tarja Halonen, entering her second term as president of Finland. Capitalizing on the resemblance and on the 2006 Finnish presidential election, O’Brien and Late Night aired mock political ads both in support of Halonen and against her main opponent, which influenced popular perception of the race,[4] and traveled to Finland shortly after the election. “We took the show to Helsinki for five days,” O’Brien recalled, “where we were embraced like a national treasure.” As part of the five-day trip, which was released as a one-hour special episode of Late Night, O’Brien met with Halonen at the Finnish Presidential Palace.

O’Brien began hosting the show Conan on TBS in 2010. The first international travel special on the show was in February 2015. Following the onset of the Cuban thaw, O’Brien became the first American television personality to film in Cuba for more than half a century. A few months later, O’Brien visited Armenia in an episode that featured his assistant Sona Movsesian, who is Armenian American. Thirteen specials in total aired before the ending of Conan in 2021. The travel series became some of O’Brien’s most popular work, winning an Emmy in 2018 and being nominated in 2019.

	Conan O'Brien Must Go
	Network: HBOGenre: DocumentarySeasons: 3Episodes: 11
	Overview Conan O'Brien visits new friends he met through his podcast, "Conan O'Brien Needs a Fan," where he dives deep with listeners from across the country and the world.