President Biden has taped an interview with comic Conan O’Brien, marking the president’s first sit-down media interview since he appeared on “60 Minutes” in October.

The episode of Conan O’Brien Wants a Pal put up, recorded Friday, will drop on Dec. 20 and can air that day on Sirius XM’s Conan O’Brien radio channel at 8 a.m. 

Since taking workplace, Mr. Biden has skipped showing on mainstream media packages in favor of extra pleasant show-business-style interviews. He has but to look on Fox Information and final did a CNN city corridor in October 2021, however he has appeared on the Tonight Present with Jimmy Fallon and the Drew Barrymore Present. 

These low-risk conversations with supportive celebrities have been a method of making optimistic publicity for the president with out operating into the hazard of a serious gaffe. Ms. Barrymore, for instance, pressed Mr. Biden about whether or not he was a very good reward giver to his spouse, prompting lengthy conversations in regards to the poems he’s written for her.

Mr. Biden has given fewer interviews to main information organizations than his predecessors regardless of his promise to revive conventional media relations, which had been strained underneath 4 years of former President Trump.

Mr. Biden has granted a sit-down interview to 1 wire service outlet, the Related Press. He’s the primary president in a long time who has not sat for an interview with The Washington Publish or The New York Occasions.