Hello there and welcome to Inside Conan, an important Hollywood podcast.

We're your hosts. I'm Jesse Gaskell and I'm here with Mike Sweeney, and as some of you may have

heard, our friend Brian Rich passed away last week. It was very sad news, unexpected.

It was a bit of a, I mean, it was a total shock. And we just want to talk about Brian a second

because he was such a brilliant comedy writer and such a sweet guy and such a smart,

funny man. And he was responsible for some of everyone's favorite late night with Conan

of Brian characters, including the masturbating bear and Pimpot 5,000. And so much of his comedy

back then was so unique and had such a great voice that it really helped establish

kind of the bold and silly comedy that Conan became known for in the early years. And Brian

was a big, big part of that. Yeah, that is clear. And Brian went on after late night to

continue making his American comedy. He worked on shows like Brooklyn 9.9,

Sasha Baron Cohen's who is America Eagle Heart, and let's be real. And there are just so many

people who have wonderful stories about working with Brian, really memorable person in

community's lives. Yeah. And you know, if you want to see one of his old late night bits,

it's kind of a piece that's better rated. It's called a late night sting operation,

or it's a sting operation. And it's on Team Coco. And that to me is like a great example

of one of his, the bits he would do. I mean, we were all the writers at Conan. We were all

in awe of him. Yeah. And we were lucky enough to get to talk to Brian on our show last season.

So we wanted to reshare that interview. It features one of our favorite stories that's ever

been told on the podcast. Yes. It's really special. Hey, we're so excited to get that story.

Have Brian come on and tell the story. It's something that he did at late night that I said,

we were all in awe of him. Well, the awe level went off the charts after this. And it's a great,

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