Frank Smiley & Michael Gordon

Inside Conan: An Important Hollywood Podcast

Team Coco & Earwolf

Comedy

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Merry Christmas! Writer/producer Frank Smiley & writer Michael Gordon (Conan, Late Night with Conan O’Brien) join writers Mike Sweeney and Jessie Gaskell to talk about helping make the Late Night show different from other talk shows in the early days, the time director Abel Ferrara walked out before his interview, the failed rehearsal bit that made Conan hold his head in shame, the process of prepping a guest for a show, the origin of Michael’s character the Masturbating Bear, and Frank playing Mother Teresa trashing her hotel room. Plus, Mike and Jessie answer a listener question about the whereabouts of The Masturbating Bear. Abel Ferrara on Late Night with Conan: https://youtu.be/aY7yyhjOXWw Christmas Shopping Desk Drive on Late Night with Conan: https://youtu.be/Fa6Vj5No7qI Conan Reveals Who Is Playing The Masturbating Bear: https://youtu.be/k4QGFnqnQ90 Got a question for Inside Conan? Call our voicemail: (323) 209-5303 and e-mail us at insideconanpod@gmail.com 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.
0:22.0	Welcome to Inside Going In, an important Hollywood podcast. Wow, I feel like you've been taking voice over lessons.
0:25.1	I really been working hard.
0:28.4	On a Will Arnett impression.
0:30.4	That's right.
0:31.1	I'm Batman.
0:32.3	We are your hosts.
0:34.0	I'm Jesse Gascal and this is Mike Sweeney also known as
0:38.0	Sweeney, comma Mike.
0:39.0	And we're writers on the Conan show and we have a podcast. I don't know it must be a write-off for the company I
0:45.5	don't know they gave us a podcast I think it's a money laundering flow-through
0:49.6	entity yes we've asked them to open the books several times and they said which set. Anyway. Anyway.
0:58.0	We laundered money and we occasionally talk about the Conan show. Yes we tell stories of Conan's past, present, and future.
1:07.0	It's like a Christmas Carol.
1:09.0	Exactly. Oh, today's show is, uh, it's Christmas. It is. It's literally Christmas. I want people to think we're recording this on Christmas.
1:18.0	We've been talking about how Conan is releasing a Christmas album sort of piecemeal. He started uploading them a couple weeks ago the first song.
1:27.8	Was this a lifelong dream of his? I didn't know where this came from.
1:31.5	You're assuming there wasn't an incredible groundswell of demand for these recordings.
1:37.9	He did, what was the first Christmas song he did? It was Run Run Rudolph. Oh Oh good one. Is that Chuck Berry? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. That
1:45.7	Chuck Berry song that sounds so different from all the other Chuck Berry songs.
1:49.3	Right. I love Chuck Berry. Chuck Berry's, he was a madman.
1:54.7	There's so many great crazy stories about Chuck Berry.
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