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Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Ricky Gervais

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Team Coco & Earwolf

Comedy

4.857.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Comedian, actor, writer, producer Ricky Gervais feels strangely underwhelmed about being Conan O’Brien’s friend. Ricky sits down with Conan to discuss getting a laugh out of the worst of humanity, the upcoming season of his Netflix show After Life, and finding out his heroes are just regular people. Plus, Conan shares what he’s learned about tech in the days of quarantine. Got a question for Conan? Call our voicemail: (323) 451-2821. For Conan videos, tour dates and more visit TeamCoco.com.

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Ricky Gibay's and I feel strangely underwhelmed about being Conan O'Brien's friend.

0:30.0

The suckers are not a me, I'm gonna be friends.

0:34.7

Hello and welcome to Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend. Our podcast continues.

0:40.9

Despite this insane pandemic, we're all experiencing right now. We're able to do this because we're all

0:47.1

connected through the Ethernet. That's right. I said Ethernet.

0:54.0

You just learned that like two minutes ago and now you're casually dropping it in.

0:59.6

I have it pinned to my jacket with a safety pin, the word Ethernet, the way a mother puts a note

1:07.3

on a child's ski jacket. It says, be nice to my boy, which is actually a note my mom pinned

1:14.9

to my jacket, be nice to my boy about two years ago. No, she did. She pinned a note to her. I

1:20.0

remember that. I had a giant safety pin. It was like, be nice to my boy and she sent me off to

1:24.2

nursery school and I was savagely beaten. Then they took the safety pin off and they stabbed me with it.

1:33.2

So thanks to mom who's out there. She would be listening but she doesn't know how podcasts work.

1:40.8

So anyway, we are continuing on. We're all from our different locations but we're able to

1:46.4

were able to connect through technology. I'm joined by my stalwart companion, some say my soulmate,

1:55.1

not in a romantic way. Oh, are you talking about me? No, no, no. Matt, I was going to get to you

1:58.9

but you couldn't. You couldn't take it, could you? No, I missed your tender touch. Yes, yes.

2:04.3

You are my tender touch, son, as my soulmate. No. Yes. My wife, of course, the mother of my children

2:10.4

and I call her the tolerator. My wife is the tolerator. That's her position in the hierarchy.

2:18.4

She's the grand tolerator. But, son, I do think if you as my soulmate, I think we're connected

2:24.3

in many ways that are hard to explain. Well, what do you think you are? I don't feel that at all.

2:30.4

I think I'm your employee. Employee, really? Yeah. No, I think we're friends.

2:36.5

Okay, because employee implies that I pay you and then you do things for me. That's where that whole

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