George Lopez is pulling out “The Welcome Wagon” for his new partner in late-night, Conan O’Brien.
On Monday, former Tonight Show host Conan O’Brien announced that he is heading to TBS to host a flagship late-night show on the basic cable network, which is expected to air Mon.-Thurs. beginning in November. While most comedy fans were excited to hear about Conan’s move, many were concerned about where the one-hour 11 PM program would leave George, whose Lopez Tonight show also airs on the network.
In his opening monologue Monday, a gracious George notified fans that Lopez Tonight will move to midnight, but will remain on TBS. He also noted that he is happy to have the redhead funny guy join the network as his official lead-in.
Hey, that can’t be bad for ratings, right?
“If you haven’t heard by now, Conan O’Brien will be joining us on late night on TBS. Welcome! Welcome!” George said. “I want to say this, I want to say that I am completely 100% on board with this move,” he noted. “I talked to Conan on Wednesday and I talked to him last night and I said, ‘I welcome you into my deep loving embrace. Then I said, ‘Let’s take the party and make it bigger and take it into the next generation of late night TV. Lets do that! Lets do that! Lets do that!’”
“Everybody’s heard of ‘I’m With CoCo’ but now everybody can ‘Go LoCo,’” he laughed.