Ashley Nicole Black

Inside Conan: An Important Hollywood Podcast

Team Coco & Earwolf

Comedy

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Emmy award winning writer and comedian Ashley Nicole Black (A Black Lady Sketch Show, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee) stops by to talk with writers Mike Sweeney and Jessie Gaskell about leaving her PhD to pursue comedy, performing sketch comedy with Second City on a cruise ship, becoming a writer and then correspondent on Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, how getting used to hearing no is important as a writer, and finding out that her comedy niche is rom-coms while working on A Black Lady Sketch Show. 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. Hey, everybody.
0:17.0	Welcome back to Inside Conan, an important Hollywood podcast.
0:22.9	We're your hosts.
0:24.0	I'm Jesse Gascal, and this is Mike Sweeney.
0:26.3	Hi, I'm Mike Sweeney.
0:28.5	We're writers on the Conan show.
0:30.3	And we talk about it.
0:31.6	Ad nauseum. No, we talk about it. Ad nauseum.
0:33.0	No, we talk about the inner workings, the dramas, the office romances.
0:40.0	No, we haven't really talked about that, but I would like to someday. I would love more. rom Goodness gracious, yes there have. And probably a few things we maybe haven't heard about.
0:54.0	Yeah. Because we'd go to HR. First we'd have to get an HR. That's right. And then report.
1:01.7	How have you been?
1:02.6	I've been okay.
1:03.6	We start working on the DIY Conan.
1:06.6	Oh, right.
1:07.4	That's where we put together an episode of Conan and put it online and ask
1:12.1	fans to recreate the entire show.
1:15.0	That's so cool. How do they do it?
1:17.0	Well, they divvy the show up into like 30 second chunks
1:21.0	and you can pick one that strikes your fancy and recreate it any way you want.
1:25.6	Sort of like adopting a highway. Exactly. You just get your little mile of highway and get to beautify it.
1:32.4	You get to clean up the con and shit.
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