Conan O'Brien

Your Mama’s Kitchen

Higher Ground

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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TV’s funniest redhead, Conan O’ Brien, talks about growing up in a big, loud Irish-Catholic family in Massachusetts. He opens up about being an insecure kid and how he first learned to be funny at the kitchen table. We learn about why Halloween is his favorite holiday, and he shares his favorite childhood meal: fried ham. Yes, you heard that right.

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0:00.0	And I still go home and I go into that kitchen and I think if I'm a clay pot, this is the
0:12.8	kiln where I got baked, this is where it all happened.
0:16.6	More so than my bedroom, more so than any other place in the house.
0:22.2	Food is the excuse and it gets us in there, but then that's where all the molecules
0:27.6	bag up against each other and that's where there's the laughter, there's also some of
0:32.9	the most intense arguments, you know, that I was in with my brothers or with my parents.
0:37.5	So yeah, it's crown zero, really.
0:45.1	Welcome to Your Momma's Kitchen, the podcast that explores how we're shaped as adults by
0:49.8	the kitchens we grew up in as kids.
0:52.3	I'm Michele Norris.
0:53.9	Joining me today is the flame-haired funny man Conan O'Brien.
0:57.8	You know him from, well, you know him from everywhere.
1:01.0	The Harvard grad started off his career writing for SNL and then the Simpsons.
1:06.1	He bundled up all that nervous comedic energy and went on to host NBC's Late Night, then
1:11.8	the Tonight Show and then he charted his own path with his own Late Night Show, Conan
1:17.4	on TBS.
1:19.2	Since then he started a media empire, traveled the world and has gotten a bit more
1:23.8	introspective.
1:25.4	As he's turned 60, he doesn't mind me telling you that, he seems to look through a more
1:30.0	serious lens as a man with a long time loving marriage and kids who've headed off to college.
1:36.6	And as someone who has been able to watch his parents move into old age in the same house
1:41.6	he was raised in, his podcast, Conan O'Brien needs a friend digs deep with interviews
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