And now, it's time for Inside Conan, an important Hollywood Podcast.

Welcome to Inside Conan, colon, unimportant Hollywood Podcast. I'm Mike Sweeney.

My real name is William Michael Sweeney,

but that's right.

Just for brevity's sake, I'll go by Mike Sweeney today.

We usually put initials next to the writer's name when a bit is going on the show. I remember the first time I saw

WMS next to one of your pieces and I was like

Who the hell is that? Oh yeah, well they used all three my initials. This is so ridiculous because when I was hired

There was another writer with initials MS on the show so I had to become WMS his name was Mike Stoynoff he was a star on the show Blossom what I never watched

Blossom and he and I weren't a teen girl. Although I dressed like one.

And he and I would go out for lunch

and Rockefeller Plaza and people were fainting

and screaming and pointing at him.

People stopped in their tracks wherever he walked it was hilarious I'm glad I

hadn't watch a show I'd be too nervous to talk to I know I'm Jesse Gascal also a

writer on the Conan show and we have a great show today. I don't know if there's time for a guest after you're talking about my initials but we'll try to squeeze him in. His name is Dana Gould.

Dana Gould. Super successful stand-up comic and writer.

He's written for The Simpsons for years and many other television shows.

And he also has had a very memorably bad appearance on the Conan show,

which we get into.

And we'll give a small editorial note here

that this was recorded before we all went into quarantine.

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