Adam McKay

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Team Coco & Earwolf

Comedy

4.8 • 57.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Writer/director/producer Adam McKay feels old-fashioned-twelve-year-old-about-to-have-a-sleepover excited about being Conan O’Brien’s friend. Adam sits down with Conan to talk about birthdays in Worcester, MA, famous pranks from the early days of UCB, the challenge of adapting The Big Short to film, and exploring the untold narratives around basketball players who lost their lives with his new podcast Death at the Wing. Later, Conan demands his assistant Sona explain her reasons for not owning a microwave. Got a question for Conan? Call our voicemail: (323) 451-2821. For Conan videos, tour dates and more visit TeamCoco.com.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Adam McKay, and I feel old-fashioned 12-year-old about to have a sleepover excited
0:13.8	about being Conan O'Brien's friend.
0:15.9	Yes, and then if it's anything like my sleepovers, we will commit arson and then murder.
0:20.5	Hello and welcome to Conan O'Brien, Needs a Friend.
0:45.9	I do need a friend.
0:47.1	No man is an island, as Simon and Garfunkel famously told us, and I am now thanks to this
0:52.2	podcast.
0:53.2	I'm no longer an island.
0:54.2	I'm kind of a very narrow peninsula.
0:55.8	Yeah, like a spit of sand at the end.
0:59.1	Very narrow peninsula, very little access to other humans, but at least connection.
1:04.1	So very grateful for this podcast.
1:06.4	Join us always by my trusty assistant, Sonoma Sessi and Hay Sonoma.
1:11.1	Hi, yeah, you know what?
1:12.3	Friends are fun.
1:13.3	I agree.
1:14.3	That's very profound as well.
1:15.6	I think Plato said that.
1:17.1	That's a fun.
1:18.1	And then I think Aristotle said BFF forever.
1:20.8	Yeah, yeah, he did.
1:22.4	Socrates said Chums for Life and then drank the hemlock.
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