4.6 • 7.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Al and Conan discuss their time together at SNL, including Tina Fey’s shameless theft of Al’s Fart Doctor sketch and the time Al scared the bejeezus out of George Harrison. Very little public policy discussed.
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0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. We got a great one today, you know, for a change. It's also a departure of sorts. |
0:13.8 | Conan O'Brien and I have been friends for, I think, over 30 years now. |
0:28.9 | And when I was in L.A. a little while ago, I was a guest on his late-night talk show on TBS. |
0:30.3 | He is now the dean of late-night TV hosts. |
0:35.6 | I think he's been 30 years |
0:37.8 | hosts of the show and it's so hard to believe because when he first started he was |
0:42.0 | everyone went who the hell is this guy. Anyway, he's been a huge influence on comedy and he has |
0:49.7 | this unbelievably successful podcast and he interviews a lot of comedians, and John Mullaney was on |
1:00.6 | a recent one and talked about what an influence Conan was, not unlike Letterman, who is |
1:08.0 | an influence on comedy. Conan has been a tremendous influence on comedians. |
1:14.4 | And I did the talk show, and then immediately after I went and did the podcast, the agreement |
1:21.6 | we had was that we'd both post it. So what you're about to hear costs my team nothing. And if I must say, you're going |
1:32.5 | to enjoy this. Now, you'll notice right away when you listen that there is a lot of laughter. |
1:40.6 | And it's not just me and Conan. He has a few people in his studio there, including Sona Mosessian, who is his assistant at the show. |
1:52.2 | And has been his assistant at the show since, I think, since he's come to L.A. |
1:58.0 | And I've known her for a while because I've done the show. And she's |
2:05.5 | great. And she and he have great chemistry. Sona's job, basically, is she gives him a lot of |
2:14.3 | shit. And this is the part of the show where before the guest comes on. So you're |
2:19.1 | not going to hear that. But hopefully my doing this will steer a lot of my vast audience to Conan |
2:29.0 | and his wildly successful podcast and hopefully vice versa. |
2:35.3 | But really what Sona, and you will hear this, part of her job is she laughs. |
2:44.6 | And if you listen to my interview with Dana Carvey about how we did political comedy at S&L, and this is not long after |
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