Tracee Ellis Ross

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Team Coco & Earwolf

Comedy

4.8 • 57.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Actress, producer, and entrepreneur Tracee Ellis Ross feels really strange, excited, a little squirrelly about being Conan O’Brien’s friend. Tracee sits down with Conan to talk about getting the wiggles out, the characters that have developed out of her love of fashion, exploring questions of identity and race with Black-ish, and more. Plus, producer Matt Gourley shares the origin of his H. R. Giger obsession. 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, my name is Tracy Ellis Ross.
0:05.0	And I feel really strange, excited, a little squirrely about being Conan O'Brien's friend.
0:15.0	Squirrely, I don't know if I want to be a friend, I don't want to ever be a friend.
0:18.0	No, it's more like nervousness, like I don't know, like what's this going to turn out like?
0:23.0	How does that have to be?
0:24.0	You know what I mean?
0:25.0	Like my stomach's like all over the squirrely.
0:27.0	Hahaha!
0:29.0	Fall is here, here and now, back to school, ring the bell, brand new shoes, walking leaves,
0:37.0	Climb the fence, books and pens, I can tell that we are going to be friends.
0:43.0	I can tell that we are going to be friends.
0:49.0	One, two, three, go!
0:51.0	Hello there and welcome to Conan O'Brien's Needs A Friend.
0:54.0	This is a crisp professional opening of the show.
0:58.0	I've been criticized.
0:59.0	I was criticized last week and I got in my head because you guys were saying that I overthink
1:06.0	the opening, I take a long pause, so today I just jumped in.
1:09.0	It's been one minute.
1:11.0	Well, I think so far, have I addressed the note, Matt?
1:14.0	Do you think?
1:15.0	Yeah, I actually think this energy you're coming in right now is right in the sweet spot.
1:18.0	Let's write it.
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