Music Booker Jim Pitt Revisits Radiohead, Disturbed & More

Inside Conan: An Important Hollywood Podcast

Team Coco & Earwolf

Comedy

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Legendary music booker Jim Pitt joins writers Mike Sweeney and Jessie Gaskell to discuss Conan’s most memorable musical guests. He talks about booking Radiohead as the first Late Night musical act, David Bowie’s willingness to perform sketch comedy, and how Disturbed’s performance of The Sound of Silence became the biggest Conan clip ever. Visit Team Coco’s Spotify account here to check out the year-by-year playlists of musical acts from 1993 to 2016.

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0:00.0	And now it's time for Inside Conan, an important Hollywood podcast.
0:17.4	Hello and welcome to Inside Conan, an important Hollywood podcast.
0:22.0	I'm Mike Sweeney, a writer on Conan and...
0:24.4	I'm Jesse Gaskell, also a writer on Conan.
0:27.8	This is the podcast about all things Conan related.
0:31.2	Yes, so thank God we work there because it helps.
0:34.2	It does help.
0:35.2	It does give us a leg up.
0:36.4	Yes.
0:37.4	Sweeney, I saw you in real life this morning.
0:40.0	That's right.
0:41.0	We saw each other.
0:42.0	Yeah, in person.
0:43.0	We had coffee together.
0:44.0	We did.
0:45.0	You were wearing a p-coat and a scarf.
0:47.6	You looked very fall.
0:49.6	There's really never an excuse to wear a scarf ever in LA, maybe in the last thousand years,
0:54.5	but...
0:55.5	There's not.
0:56.5	You have a round in case you need to strangle someone.
1:00.3	Exactly.
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