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TBS is putting the squeeze on Conan O’Brien, as late-night’s most battle-tested host has agreed to lop a half-hour off the running time of his show.

Starting in 2019, TBS will pare down “Conan” from its current one-hour format to a brisk 30 minutes, which is in keeping with the length of single-host shows like the network’s own “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” and Comedy Central’s long-running “The Daily Show.”

O’Brien is spinning the slimmed-down “Conan” as a reinvention of the hoary old late-night talk show format, which effectively hasn’t changed since Johnny Carson popularized the monologue/skit/guest/guest/roaring sidekick structure in the early ’60s on NBC’s “Tonight Show.”

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