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Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

John Oliver

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Team Coco & Earwolf

Comedy

4.857.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Comedian and host of Last Week Tonight John Oliver feels cautiously optimistic about being Conan O’Brien’s friend. John and Conan sit down to chat about being nominated for an OBE, the silliest ways they’ve spent their show budgets, why the U.S. got the best of British comedy, performing with the Cambridge Footlights, and why John can never watch The Great British Baking Show. Plus, Conan gets a lesson in printer etiquette from his staff. Got a question for Conan? Call our voicemail: (323) 451-2821.

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0:00.0

Hello, my name is John Oliver and I feel cautiously optimistic about being Conan O'Brien's

0:12.1

friend.

0:34.7

Behold, another Conan O'Brien needs a friend. I thought I'd go with something.

0:38.9

I like it. We're unveiling something very beautiful and untrace.

0:42.5

We're flying because of you. Hey, how are you, Conan here? No. Behold. I think you're

0:48.8

doing a life in the renfair. It's another Conan O'Brien needs a friend, the shampoo.

0:57.1

Where I use my inner emptiness of soul to try and wangle conversations with people I really

1:04.5

love and admire and joined as always by Sonom of Session. Hi, Sonom. Hi, hello. Very good.

1:10.5

You get that perfectly. Thank you. All right. Very perfunctory. Hi. You're giving me absolute

1:15.3

minimum today and then and Mr. Matt Corley. Hi. Faithful producer. That's creepy. You do it.

1:23.1

Hi. Hi. Hi. I see you when you can't see me. I just said hi. Yeah. Sure. You did. Hi. Why not

1:30.2

just hello. Good to see you. Hello. Good to see you. Okay. This is. Can't win. Wow. If we

1:36.7

could bottle this chemistry, we would have a nerve agent that killed everybody. Yeah. One gets

1:41.3

with the active ingredient there. Okay. Okay. Nicely done, Gorilly. You'll get your cookie when we're

1:47.0

done. Very excited about our guest today. My guest today was a correspondent on the Daily Show

1:52.5

and now host the Emmy Award winning show last week tonight on HBO. He's also one, two P-Body

1:59.5

Awards for his work on the series. I'm very excited because this guy is so funny, so popular,

2:06.4

and somehow I've never really had a chance to sit down and talk with him. Again, this podcast is

2:12.5

the gift that keeps on giving for me personally because I've been looking forward to getting to know

2:17.6

this guy. I really do admire him a lot. John Oliver is with us. Mr. Oliver. I want to be very

2:32.4

open in this interview. I think of everyone I've spoken to. I know you the least well. I think we

2:39.0

were backstage. I know you've done the show, but I don't think I've ever really had like a long

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