Although all late night shows have several comedy bits at the begining of there show, usually the interviews afterwards are boring, but Conan usually has a way of making his interviews fun and sometimes down right halarious. So, which interview do you think was Conan's best? Theres no poll because there's too many canidates, and probly some I've missed. (damn school, and lack of cable).
I have to say that his interview with Drew Berrymoore, Camron Diaz, and Lucy Liu, for Charlie's Angels 2 was the best I've seen. Part way through the interview Conan takes off his jacket, unbuttons his shirt partially and messes up his hair so that if someone just changes the channel to NBC and seems him like that with three chicks they'll wonder what the hell was going on. Pluse there were several other funny parts.
Best Conan Interview.
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The key is for the other person to lighten up and go with the flow. Sometimes the guest will sit there and look nervous while Conan cracks all the jokes, and then its not a good interview. Did you see Al Roker's interview last night? That was pretty funny. They were groovin' all over the set with their bad selves.
As for all-time favorites...There's just too many. Conan is that good.
As for all-time favorites...There's just too many. Conan is that good.
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The funniest interviews I can remember off top of my head are:
Tom Arnold - winter 2003, I think
They were supposed to talk about Arnold's new movie, but the interview somehow derailed and it became a discussion about his third testicle.
Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu and Cameron Diaz - spring 2003?
Bunny explained it pretty well.
Patrick Stewart - december 2002, just before Nemesis premiere
He was really great!
An Aussie guy - no idea of his name or when this interview was made
"Crickey!"
Tom Arnold - winter 2003, I think
They were supposed to talk about Arnold's new movie, but the interview somehow derailed and it became a discussion about his third testicle.
Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu and Cameron Diaz - spring 2003?
Bunny explained it pretty well.
Patrick Stewart - december 2002, just before Nemesis premiere
He was really great!
An Aussie guy - no idea of his name or when this interview was made
"Crickey!"
"Thousands of years ago cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this."
the funniest one was Al Roker about a year or two ago--he had knee surgery and was high as a fucking kite on pain killers. He and Conan had an absolute blast, mostly because Roker was so high--he kept messing with the sound effects guys, making weird noises while each other were speaking and doing all sorts of funny things that had nothing to do with the interview. Later on in the show he appeared on the moon in the backdrop behind conans desk and started shooting the other guests with a pellet gun. That whole interview so damn funny.
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anything with Christopher Walken.
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"If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little."
-George Carlin (1937-2008)
"Have some of you Americans actually seen Football? Of course there are 0-0 draws but that doesn't make them any less exciting."
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"Have some of you Americans actually seen Football? Of course there are 0-0 draws but that doesn't make them any less exciting."
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When he interviewed Jackie Chan and they did stunts on the stage together was classic. The stunt ended up with Jackie "kicking" Conan in the face who flew backwards and tipped over in his chair. Hilarity.
And who can forget Mr. T when he was promoting TV Land? Mr. T seriously got the longest standing ovation from the crowd I've ever seen on a late night show when he walked onto the set. He actually teared up. Then of course he and Conan went berserk with A-Team stories
And who can forget Mr. T when he was promoting TV Land? Mr. T seriously got the longest standing ovation from the crowd I've ever seen on a late night show when he walked onto the set. He actually teared up. Then of course he and Conan went berserk with A-Team stories
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I know YOko Ono isn't the most beloved person on the planet, be her interview with conan when they climbed in tthe black bag and started removing items of clothing and tossing them out was...interesting to say the least.
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This was perhaps the most bizarre interview I've ever seen on Conan. I knew it was going to be crazy, so I recorded it, and thought it was worth transcribing
(First few sentences missed)
CONAN O'BRIEN: Yeah, this is a real treat for you.
HARLAN WILLIAMS: A real treat. I'm here in the middle of, what is it, level orange that we're at?
CONAN: We're at code orange, I guess.
HARLAN: You know what it is for me, Code Orange is not only a state of preparedness, but its also what I call your hairstyle.
CONAN: Oh, really? You think this is Code Orange? Why?
HARLAN: Well, cause you got like your red hair and its standing up, like, alert, and on (audience laughs.) Instead of getting duct tape together they should just hand out Conan O'Brien wigs, and kids could put em on and hide under school desks
CONAN: That's a good idea.
HARLAN: I don't know what I got, but I got it.
CONAN: so, do you have a problem with anything else going on here(puts hands on face), or do you think Conan O'Brien's looking OK?
HARLAN: I'm a little jealous of your chin.
CONAN: My chin?
HARLAN: Well, because you've got one(rubs chin). I mean look at this, man. I'll never play the violin, man. You could play the cello, man.
CONAN: Yeah, me, I could get right in there.
HARLAN: I got no chin- when I drool, it goes right down into my underpants.
CONAN: How terrible for you.
HARLAN: I tried to give like an Italian guy the fungula. the other day.
CONAN: Yeah, that's how they swear at each other (NOTE:they seem to be referring to when you put you fingers under your chin and then flick them out).
HARLAN:And I got no chin, and it went right in my eye.
CONAN: Well, don't do that anymore.
HARLAN: Yeah, no fungula for me.
CONAN: You, I've talked to many times, I know about your life, you're from Canada-(audience members cheer)- well, there you go. Now, you';re living in Los Angeles. How are you handling the transition-a Canadian living in L.A? Is it difficult?
HARLAN: It's kinda tropical there. You got your coconut trees and your pineapple shrubs-
CONAN: (laughing)There's not a pineapple shrub.
HARLAN: Isn't there pineapple there?
CONAN: No, there's not a pineapple shrub. What are you talking about? Where's my dictionary?
HARLAN: Maybe that's why that old lady said "Stop spraying whipped cream on my bushes, you bastard!"
CONAN: (after prolonged laughter) You say the dumbest things(continues cracking up)! Now, so, but is it a hard transition. You say it's tropical. I mean, you're not used ot that in Canada.
HARLAN: Well, what happens is you get critters in your house. A lot of spiders and ants and creatures. And you go to sleep. The other night I could feel things crawling in my bed. So I flick on the light and there's Barry Manilow and David Hasselhoff.
CONAN:(after more laughter) Even you're enjoying that one.
HARLAN: Yeah, that one was a... a Double...uh...
CONAN: Double Whammy there
HARLAN: No.
CONAN: Sorry.
HARLAN: Double Swedish Treat, is what I was going to say.
CONAN: Now, the Oscars have been announced.
HARLAN: Yeah.
CONAN: You're in show business. What's your take on this Oscar thing?
HARLAN: I don't know. About everyone's going nuts for "Harry Potter" and "Harry Potter's Twin Towers."
CONAN: Do you like the "Harry Potter" movies?
HARLAN: No, everything's wizardly now. Even like, Hans Blix and Boutros Boutros Gali-Gali... (seems to trail off) But what I'm getting at, Conan-
CONAN: Yeah, if you could tell me what you're getting at we'd all be thrilled.
HARLAN: Well, everything's becoming magical and wizardly now. Like the other day I woke up and thought I was a magical wizard. Here's what happened. I was over at the mall just wandering around and I had to do a tinkle. So I went into the mens room to do a tinkle. I don't know if you or any of the fellas in the crowd are in the middle of doing a tinkle and all of a sudden some of that weird mysterious underwear lint gets stuck in the eye of the cyclops- (huge burst of laughter)- and I went to do a tinkle and two of 'em came out! I thought it was a magical wizard, man! I thought I had Harry Potter penis!
CONAN:(amidst laughter and laughing himself) what are you talking about?
HARLAN: Come on, you ever done-
CONAN: NO! I'm not gonna- even if that happened, I'm not gonna go "Yeah! That happened!" That's insane! I'm not gonna talk about my Harry Potter tinkle penis! It's crazy! You're a crazy man!
HARLAN: It's nutty-nutty-nutty-McFudgy stuff.
CONAN: What?
HARLAN: Well, you just said crazy, which is-
CONAN: No, your trolley went off the tracks. Mine was on the tracks. You're an insane person.
HARLAN: I love all the stars here. Every night when I watch your show I look at all the little speckles in the sky. And if you suint just right, just right, it a;lmost looks like thjose cute little dots on Morgan Freeman's face. (Huge laughter) Those cute little dots he has.
CONAN: Those are lovable dots. That's what they're like for you? So your viewing experience is very different form everyone else's.
HARLAN: Well you asked me about movies.
CONAN: Yeah, I guess this is all my fault. I said "How are the Oscar picks" And next we're looming at Morgan Freeman's face in the sky. That means I'm cuckoo, huh?
HARLAN: How dare you rape me with your lunges.
CONAN: (Cracking up) I didn't lunge at you.
HARLAN: He just lunged at me! It's like I was here talking to Cujo or something.
CONAN: This Friday Harlan's going to be performing at the University of Florida, and Feb 20-23rd- I did not rape you-will be at Cobb's CoOmedy Club in San Francisco. You know what, it's seriously, I always just thoroughly enjoy it, always really funny. Harlan Williams.
(First few sentences missed)
CONAN O'BRIEN: Yeah, this is a real treat for you.
HARLAN WILLIAMS: A real treat. I'm here in the middle of, what is it, level orange that we're at?
CONAN: We're at code orange, I guess.
HARLAN: You know what it is for me, Code Orange is not only a state of preparedness, but its also what I call your hairstyle.
CONAN: Oh, really? You think this is Code Orange? Why?
HARLAN: Well, cause you got like your red hair and its standing up, like, alert, and on (audience laughs.) Instead of getting duct tape together they should just hand out Conan O'Brien wigs, and kids could put em on and hide under school desks
CONAN: That's a good idea.
HARLAN: I don't know what I got, but I got it.
CONAN: so, do you have a problem with anything else going on here(puts hands on face), or do you think Conan O'Brien's looking OK?
HARLAN: I'm a little jealous of your chin.
CONAN: My chin?
HARLAN: Well, because you've got one(rubs chin). I mean look at this, man. I'll never play the violin, man. You could play the cello, man.
CONAN: Yeah, me, I could get right in there.
HARLAN: I got no chin- when I drool, it goes right down into my underpants.
CONAN: How terrible for you.
HARLAN: I tried to give like an Italian guy the fungula. the other day.
CONAN: Yeah, that's how they swear at each other (NOTE:they seem to be referring to when you put you fingers under your chin and then flick them out).
HARLAN:And I got no chin, and it went right in my eye.
CONAN: Well, don't do that anymore.
HARLAN: Yeah, no fungula for me.
CONAN: You, I've talked to many times, I know about your life, you're from Canada-(audience members cheer)- well, there you go. Now, you';re living in Los Angeles. How are you handling the transition-a Canadian living in L.A? Is it difficult?
HARLAN: It's kinda tropical there. You got your coconut trees and your pineapple shrubs-
CONAN: (laughing)There's not a pineapple shrub.
HARLAN: Isn't there pineapple there?
CONAN: No, there's not a pineapple shrub. What are you talking about? Where's my dictionary?
HARLAN: Maybe that's why that old lady said "Stop spraying whipped cream on my bushes, you bastard!"
CONAN: (after prolonged laughter) You say the dumbest things(continues cracking up)! Now, so, but is it a hard transition. You say it's tropical. I mean, you're not used ot that in Canada.
HARLAN: Well, what happens is you get critters in your house. A lot of spiders and ants and creatures. And you go to sleep. The other night I could feel things crawling in my bed. So I flick on the light and there's Barry Manilow and David Hasselhoff.
CONAN:(after more laughter) Even you're enjoying that one.
HARLAN: Yeah, that one was a... a Double...uh...
CONAN: Double Whammy there
HARLAN: No.
CONAN: Sorry.
HARLAN: Double Swedish Treat, is what I was going to say.
CONAN: Now, the Oscars have been announced.
HARLAN: Yeah.
CONAN: You're in show business. What's your take on this Oscar thing?
HARLAN: I don't know. About everyone's going nuts for "Harry Potter" and "Harry Potter's Twin Towers."
CONAN: Do you like the "Harry Potter" movies?
HARLAN: No, everything's wizardly now. Even like, Hans Blix and Boutros Boutros Gali-Gali... (seems to trail off) But what I'm getting at, Conan-
CONAN: Yeah, if you could tell me what you're getting at we'd all be thrilled.
HARLAN: Well, everything's becoming magical and wizardly now. Like the other day I woke up and thought I was a magical wizard. Here's what happened. I was over at the mall just wandering around and I had to do a tinkle. So I went into the mens room to do a tinkle. I don't know if you or any of the fellas in the crowd are in the middle of doing a tinkle and all of a sudden some of that weird mysterious underwear lint gets stuck in the eye of the cyclops- (huge burst of laughter)- and I went to do a tinkle and two of 'em came out! I thought it was a magical wizard, man! I thought I had Harry Potter penis!
CONAN:(amidst laughter and laughing himself) what are you talking about?
HARLAN: Come on, you ever done-
CONAN: NO! I'm not gonna- even if that happened, I'm not gonna go "Yeah! That happened!" That's insane! I'm not gonna talk about my Harry Potter tinkle penis! It's crazy! You're a crazy man!
HARLAN: It's nutty-nutty-nutty-McFudgy stuff.
CONAN: What?
HARLAN: Well, you just said crazy, which is-
CONAN: No, your trolley went off the tracks. Mine was on the tracks. You're an insane person.
HARLAN: I love all the stars here. Every night when I watch your show I look at all the little speckles in the sky. And if you suint just right, just right, it a;lmost looks like thjose cute little dots on Morgan Freeman's face. (Huge laughter) Those cute little dots he has.
CONAN: Those are lovable dots. That's what they're like for you? So your viewing experience is very different form everyone else's.
HARLAN: Well you asked me about movies.
CONAN: Yeah, I guess this is all my fault. I said "How are the Oscar picks" And next we're looming at Morgan Freeman's face in the sky. That means I'm cuckoo, huh?
HARLAN: How dare you rape me with your lunges.
CONAN: (Cracking up) I didn't lunge at you.
HARLAN: He just lunged at me! It's like I was here talking to Cujo or something.
CONAN: This Friday Harlan's going to be performing at the University of Florida, and Feb 20-23rd- I did not rape you-will be at Cobb's CoOmedy Club in San Francisco. You know what, it's seriously, I always just thoroughly enjoy it, always really funny. Harlan Williams.
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I would say it was an interview with patrick stuart, but an older one.
Patrick told the story of how, after a Trek convention, he had a
disagreement with his cab driver, who then realized he was talking
with captain picard. The driver then remarked"good thing i was not
arguing with captain kirk, or i would have been in for a problem'
Patrick told the story of how, after a Trek convention, he had a
disagreement with his cab driver, who then realized he was talking
with captain picard. The driver then remarked"good thing i was not
arguing with captain kirk, or i would have been in for a problem'