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Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Johnny Knoxville

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Team Coco & Earwolf

Comedy

4.859.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Actor, producer, and television host Johnny Knoxville feels harder than a turnbuckle about being Conan O’Brien’s friend. Johnny sits down with Conan to discuss how he began producing stunt videos as a means to support his family, hare-brained ideas from the upcoming fifth Jackass film, and how hosting Fear Factor instilled in him a strange new kind of empathy. Plus, Conan grills Sona and David Hopping about their least favorite tasks as his assistants. For Conan videos, tour dates and more visit TeamCoco.com. Got a question for Conan? Call our voicemail: (669) 587-2847.

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0:00.0

Hello, my name is Johnny Knoxville.

0:07.7

And I feel harder than a turnbuckle about being Conan O'Brien's friend.

0:13.7

You know what? I think you just may have had the best one ever.

0:16.6

Would you prefer harder than a folding chair? Because I can switch.

0:19.7

I like turnbuckle. It's got a nice, it's really poetic. And I want that on my gravestone, harder than a folding chair because I can switch? I like turnbuckle.

0:22.5

It's got a nice, it's really poetic.

0:25.0

And I want that on my gravestone, harder than a turnbuckle.

0:26.4

And soon.

0:42.5

Fall is here, hear the yell, back to school, ring the bell, brand new shoes, walking loose, climb the fence, books and and pens i can tell that we are gonna be friends because i can tell that we are going to be friends hey there welcome to connor brian needs a friend

0:50.2

joined by sona mousessian and uh matt goley, still out on a parental leave. He has a brand

0:55.9

new baby, very excited for him and for his wife Amanda. He's got two girls now, which is just lovely.

1:01.3

And David Hopping, filling in for him, David. Good to have you here again. Thank you. Happy to be here.

1:06.6

Nice to see you. David, you love your reality television. You just love it. Yeah. Explain one thing to me because David loves the show Traders. Yeah. And so I checked out the new season of Traders because someone I knew was a contestant on the show. And I thought, I just want to see what this is like. And I've seen it before, but I don't know what the strategy is on a show like that.

1:29.8

I was watching traders and I thought, isn't it, they all act like, oh, I'm going to really

1:34.8

practice my wiles and my expertise and I'm going to win the game. And I think it's not like

1:41.2

chess. Yeah. It looks like people are just doing stuff, but I don't really see a strategy and then they get voted off or not. Yeah. It feels kind of random. Am I wrong about that? They're supposed to really be like paying attention to people like to slip up. Like if someone as a traitor, I'm like really watching to see if she messes up and gives me any clue that she's the person going and meeting at night to like kill people in the castle.

2:05.0

Well, here's why I watch.

2:06.3

I watch because Alan Cumming saying the word murder.

2:11.2

That is what keeps me coming back.

2:13.7

And he says it.

2:15.0

I mean, he must know it's working for him because his outfits are fantastic. They're just wonderful. But, and he's, he's, uh, he's, uh, he's, uh, he's just chewing scenery left and right in the most delicious way. But he manages to say, Mardar, maybe every other sentence. Yeah. You know? And, um good. And it's, so that's fun.

2:34.6

And then people are doing stuff like they're running around and you've got to put this camelope on top of that gravestone. Oh no, not on that gravestone. And it doesn't seem to, I try to figure out what it's all about and I don't know. I don't watch it. What reality shows you obsessed with, Sona? You know what? I'm not watching reality right now. I'm watching, I'm in the, I just like, I like horny shows. That's what I do. I'm sorry. And you knew that about me. Heeded rivalry. Well, yeah, now I'm watching the new season of Tell Me Lies. David and I talked about that. I don't know what that is. Of course you don't. How is it horny?

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