Alec Berg

Inside Conan: An Important Hollywood Podcast

Team Coco & Earwolf

Comedy

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Writer/producer/director Alec Berg (Barry, Silicon Valley, Seinfeld) stops by to talk with writers Mike Sweeney and Jessie Gaskell about his memories of writing for Late Night with Conan before moving on to Seinfeld which included 1AM writing sessions, doing a Nobody’s Watching themed episode that got the lowest ratings ever because of the Olympics, playing the Saint Patrick’s Day beard & Robert Duvall, and sneaking around 30 Rock to watch Pearl Jam rehearse for SNL. Got a question for Inside Conan? Call our voicemail: (323) 209-5303 and e-mail us at [email protected] For Conan videos, tour dates and more visit TeamCoco.com

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0:00.0	And now, it's time for Inside Conan, an important Hollywood Podcast.
0:17.0	Hi! Welcome back to Inside Conan.
0:21.0	Colin, an important Hollywood podcast.
0:24.0	Beautifully done.
0:25.0	I'm half of the hosting team.
0:28.4	My name's Mike Sweeney and you are again?
0:32.0	Jesse Gascal.
0:33.4	We're both writers on the Conan Shoe.
0:36.0	Yeah, the non-EMME nominated Conan show.
0:40.0	Yes.
0:40.8	It's Hollywood's fourth biggest night.
0:43.3	It really is.
0:44.5	We were nominated for the Emmy's a few times
0:47.2	and once I went and, you know,
0:49.5	they have bleachers for fans,
0:51.9	fans of television television I guess.
0:53.7	And they just yell at all, you know, there's celebrities that are walking by like, oh, hey, hi,
0:58.4	blah, you know, people are yelling at Conan and I was like, I don't know, 20 feet behind him and I'm just like you know okay I'm just an anonymous club and then someone yelled hey Lincoln what?
1:10.0	Because I I played a blinking on a few sketches so So I was like to my wife, honey, please stop, hold up, I've got to milk this.
1:18.7	My fan is here. Yeah, exactly. I have to have a one-on-one moment with this sad man in the back of a bleacher.
1:25.7	We did sketches all the time where the way the sketch would end was figuring out a new way to assassinate Lincoln.
1:33.6	Oh, wow, yeah.
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