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Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Staff Review With Brian Kiley

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Team Coco & Earwolf

Comedy

4.859.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Conan sits down with comic and staff writer Brian Kiley for a look back on their storied partnership over the years. Wanna get a chance to talk to Conan? Submit here: teamcoco.com/apply

Transcript

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0:00.0

Conan O'Brien needs a fan.

0:06.0

Want to talk to Conan?

0:07.4

Visit team cocoa.com slash call Conan.

0:10.6

Okay, let's get started.

0:13.1

Hey, Conan O'Brien here.

0:15.1

Normally on Thursdays we drop a fan episode,

0:18.4

but I want to do something a little different today.

0:20.6

On Monday, I talked to Dennis Leary, and he was chatting about a comic we both love, a Boston comic, Brian Kylie.

0:27.9

Brian is working with me in my office right now on the Oscars, and I thought, hey, Brian's in the building.

0:35.5

Let's get him in here.

0:36.6

He knows all the dirt on me. Anytime I do anything where I need great jokes and everyone else is busy, I get Brian Kyla.

0:46.3

I'll take it, yes. I need the work. I mean, I really cast a wide net and no one wanted to work with me. No, Brian, we've, I mean, our story is kind of crazy. We've

0:57.2

known each other since we were kids because you would chat with my brother Luke at our Catholic

1:04.7

instruction class that met at the Senegal. What town was that in? In Brighton. In Brighton.

1:10.4

We were in Brighton on a top of a high hill.

1:13.1

These nuns taught Catholic instruction on Monday afternoons.

1:17.4

I think you and my brother Luke started chatting with each other about the Bruins and the Red Sox.

1:23.9

Yes.

1:24.2

And I was in the corner doing bits for like a snowman.

2:01.0

Yes. It's insane. We went to CCD, which is, you know, Catholic Sunday school, the same place. I would sit next to Luke and we would talk about the football games the day before, which we would still be doing now. We were like eight years old or nine years old. You and my brother's dance class. And then Dan, Dan, say that a little slow because it said you were in my brother's, it sounded like you were in my brother's dance class. I was not in your brother's dance class. Oh, I thought that's what you meant. No, no, no, I'm sorry. My brother Dan and Conan, sorry, we're in the same class. And then they both...

2:02.8

You were in my brother at Lamaz's class.

2:06.0

What?

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