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Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Conan O'Brien & Jeff Ross Look Back

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Team Coco & Earwolf

Comedy

4.857.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2022

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Conan O’Brien and longtime executive producer Jeff Ross join writers Mike Sweeney and Jessie Gaskell to discuss Conan and Jeff's first meeting, the start of Late Night, Tom Hanks’ message to Conan, and the fate of Conan’s Ford Taurus.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, Conan O'Brien here, and got a little bit of a surprise for you today.

0:11.8

Two of my longtime writers are Mike Swinney and Jesse Gaskell, and they have a podcast

0:18.5

they've been doing for a while.

0:19.8

It's really beautifully done called Inside Conan, an important Hollywood podcast, and they

0:25.6

talk to all kinds of people behind the scenes that have played a role on my show, going

0:32.8

way back to 1993.

0:35.5

And recently, they invited my longtime producer, who's been with me since the beginning, Jeff

0:41.1

Ross, and myself on the podcast, and they got us to tell the story of how I pretty much

0:47.8

went from being an unknown writer at The Simpsons to hosting this late night talk show.

0:56.3

And it was a fascinating session, and I thought I didn't expect this whole tale to unravel

1:05.0

this way, but it did.

1:06.6

So I thought you might like it, and so it's going to play for you right now if you'd

1:12.0

like to hear it.

1:13.4

If not, you know, delete, is that even possible, Gorylee?

1:17.9

Yeah, it is.

1:18.9

Okay, great.

1:19.9

Don't delete it.

1:20.9

Trust me, I've deleted you many times.

1:24.2

But I was very happy with this, and proud of the way it came out, and so we thought that

1:30.4

we'd make it available to you right now.

1:32.8

Hope you like it.

1:34.2

And now.

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