Robert Smigel

Inside Conan: An Important Hollywood Podcast

Team Coco & Earwolf

Comedy

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Comedy legend Robert Smigel joins Conan writers Mike Sweeney and Jessie Gaskell to talk about connecting with Conan through their shared cartoony sensibility at Saturday Night Live, the behind the scenes drama of launching Late Night with Conan O’Brien, the inception of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, and much more. This episode is brought to you by Roman (www.getroman.com/insideconan). Check out Conan Without Borders: Australia: https://teamcoco.com/australia Check out Conan25: The Remotes: https://conan25.teamcoco.com/ Got a question for Inside Conan? Call our voicemail: (323) 209-5303 and e-mail us at [email protected] For Conan videos, tour dates and more visit TeamCoco.com

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0:00.0	And now, it's time for Inside Conan, an important Hollywood podcast. Podcast. I'm Mike Sweeney Jesse Gascal
0:23.0	We're writers here at the Conan show and right now we have a really really great guest.
0:28.0	Oh my god I mean a legend.
0:31.0	Yes, if you love if you love this guest. It's Robert Smygle, the man who helped
0:37.6	create the show in 1993. He created the character of Conan. That's right.
0:43.0	The puppet.
0:44.0	Yep.
0:45.0	He breathed life into him.
0:47.0	He also created Triumph, The Insult Comic Dog.
0:50.0	That's right. Lots of other.
0:51.0	Lots of other.
0:52.0	Yeah. We talk about Triumph a bit,
0:54.0	but and we talk about the way the show got off the ground in 93.
0:58.2	There's a lot of drama.
0:59.2	Oh, I learned so much.
1:00.4	There's a lot of drama.
1:01.4	I thought I'd heard all the early drama, but no, there were a lot of stories that were a lot of surprises.
1:08.0	And I mean, I was amazed that we even got him because he's so busy, he's still constantly running from thing to thing and he even during our
1:14.3	show got a call from somewhere else he was supposed to be you'll hear that happen.
1:20.6	So that's pretty awesome.
1:21.6	Well that is a vintage that's a classic
1:24.1	classic.
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