Al and Conan O’Brien

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4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2020

⏱️ 52 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, Prime Members, you can listen to the Elf Franken Podcast, add free on Amazon Music.
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0:09.0	In a four-part series, the Generation Y Podcast unravels the story of Khalif Browder, a young
0:14.3	boy falsely accused of stealing a backpack and held it Reikers Island for three years
0:19.5	without trial.
0:21.0	This is a story about a young life caught in the middle of the Justice System.
0:25.0	It's a Generation Y on Amazon Music, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:32.0	Hey, everybody.
0:34.4	We got a great one today, you know, for a change.
0:38.6	It's also a departure of sorts.
0:42.4	Conan O'Brien and I have been friends for, I think, over 30 years now.
0:50.8	When I was in LA a little while ago, I was a guest on his late night talk show on a TBS.
0:59.3	He is now the Dean of late night TV hosts.
1:04.2	I think he's been 30 years host of the show and it's so hard to believe because when he
1:09.2	first started, he was everyone went, who the hell is this guy?
1:13.8	Anyway, he's been a huge influence on comedy and he has this unbelievably successful podcast
1:22.6	and he interviews a lot of comedians and John Mulaney was on a recent one and talked about
1:31.8	what an influence Conan was.
1:35.0	Not unlike Letterman, who is an influence on comedy.
1:39.5	Conan has been a tremendous influence on comedians and I did the talk show and then immediately
1:45.5	after I went and did the podcast, the agreement we had was that we both posted.
1:53.4	What you're about to hear cost my team nothing.
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