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Inside Conan: An Important Hollywood Podcast

Reggie Watts Revisits His Surreal CONAN Performances

Inside Conan: An Important Hollywood Podcast

Team Coco & Earwolf

Comedy

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Reggie Watts joins Mike Sweeney and Jessie Gaskell to discuss performing on the Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour, why he felt so comfortable improvising his CONAN appearances, performing with Jimmy Vivino and the Basic Cable Band, and how James Corden told him the Late Late Show would be coming to an end.

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0:00.0

And now it's time for inside Conan and important Hollywood podcast.

0:15.2

Hi, hello, hello, hi there. Hi, hey there. Come on in. I'm in. The water's fine. This

0:27.1

is inside Conan, an important Hollywood podcast. And we've got the Hollywood goo. Keep going.

0:38.9

I can't wait to hear. As Conan likes to say, what's the buzz? It's literally

0:43.4

due on the streets. It's a goo. He's scraped off a Hollywood sidewalk. It's

0:48.6

may not be what you're looking for. Underneath an executive's desk. Uh, yeah.

0:54.4

We're your host. I'm Jesse Gaskell. And that is Mike Sweeney. That thing over there is Mike

1:00.4

Sweeney. Uh, speaking of goo, he's a human goo that has the gift of speech. I have somewhat

1:07.9

sanctuums. That's debatable. But we're, um, we discussed the behind the scenes. He said he was

1:14.6

going to do abs today. But right yet to do them. Yeah. But who wants that kind of access?

1:21.6

No, that's, that's, there's such a thing as too much access. He's begged us to watch him brush his

1:26.6

teeth. And we always, we just say, no, we're not doing no. That's season four. Uh, you did a gig

1:33.2

with another host. I did. I just, uh, finished a, uh, five week job with, uh, David Letterman.

1:40.9

Yeah. I've heard of him. Yes. No, he's hosting a new show on Netflix. It's a standup show called

1:48.7

That's my time with David Letterman. He does some time up top. And then he has a comedian on, uh,

1:53.6

who does like five minutes. And then they, uh, Dave interviews the comedian. So, yeah, it's a,

1:58.1

it's a new show. Yeah. And it's recorded in front of a live audience. I'm assuming. Yes. We recorded it

2:03.8

at the historic fond of theater here in, oh, I love that theater. Oh, yeah. It's a great theater.

2:09.1

I never worked with him before. And, and so that was quite exciting for me. And there was just one

2:15.2

of the writer, Mike Gibbons, very, very funny comedy writer here in LA. And so you guys wrote all

2:20.6

of Letterman's, right. And Dave, and Dave, of course, yeah, yeah. And, uh, he was incredible. He

2:27.7

was amazing. And, you know, you'd write one line is for him. And then he would just kind of put

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