Conan Recaps The Mark Twain Prize Ceremony With Mike Sweeney

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Speaker 1 Hey, Conan O'Brien here, and we're doing something a little different today. I know this is usually a fan episode, but there are no more fans.

Speaker 1 They're all gone. It's been a while.
It's been a while. And we've actually used

Speaker 1 a couple of people 10 times using different voices and mustaches, which is unnecessary when it's audio. But anyway,

Speaker 1 women. Yeah.

Speaker 1 But anyway, the point is, we want to do something a little different because I just had

Speaker 1 a very momentous moment in my career, and we thought maybe we should talk about it. And there was some people asking questions.

Speaker 1 Actually, no one was. I just want to talk about it.

Speaker 1 No one felt it.

Speaker 1 I received the prestigious Mark Twain Award. Prize.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's right. It's a prize.
No, it's and we looked it up. Prize is six notches downstream.
Right, exactly.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 It comes in a Cracker Jacks box.

Speaker 1 But no, the Mark Twain prize, which they've been giving out for, I think, 28 years or something like that. Yeah, late 90s.

Speaker 1 The previous century. Sure.
That's so far not helpful at all, Sweeney. I'm joined by people who were there and participated.
That would be Mike Sweeney and Sonom Obsessian. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And I'll start by just saying that

Speaker 1 it was a huge honor. I mean that.

Speaker 1 I'm not someone who usually gets worked up about awards and such, but the caliber of people that showed up for this event.

Speaker 1 No, no, it's still, but it's still,

Speaker 1 no, I'm saying you guys aside. Um,

Speaker 1 uh, the lineup was incredible. Awesome.
It was a murderer's row. It was a murderer's row of just

Speaker 1 some of the people I respect the most in comedy. And they came out and they were all hilarious and really funny.
And I will set the table, which is that I didn't know what to expect.

Speaker 1 And as you can imagine, being the focus of

Speaker 1 being talked about and possibly complimented is the lowest rung of Dante's hell for me.

Speaker 1 For any Irishman. For any Irishman.
And

Speaker 1 it was,

Speaker 1 I wasn't, I didn't know how to feel about it. And I was feeling very squirrely about the whole thing.

Speaker 1 And then I showed up and there was a dinner the night before, which in this case was MC'd by Mike Sweeney, who was, and you feel free to jump on Mike anytime you want, Adam Sachs, because you were there as well.

Speaker 1 Wow, you seem thrilled.

Speaker 1 It looked like I just asked him, hey, if you want to, you can swallow a cup of my mucus.

Speaker 1 Adam, it'll help till time.

Speaker 1 No,

Speaker 1 just as a, you were an observer.

Speaker 1 And it's like he was at the Hindenburg. Yeah.
Yeah. He was there at Lakehurst.
The humanity. He said.
The humanity, the humanity.

Speaker 4 But Sweeney was awesome. He was.
I told you in the moment, Sweeney,

Speaker 4 he's so funny and so he has a nonchalance about his, the way that he works,

Speaker 1 works.

Speaker 4 But it just brought, I think it, you know, put everybody at ease.

Speaker 1 He was so, you were so funny. You, you came up.
And it's a strange thing because

Speaker 1 we're all here the night before.

Speaker 1 There's some corporate tables from different companies that have, that have given money to the, to the Kennedy Center to help support the arts and have been doing so for many years.

Speaker 1 And immediately you started started to go after those tables, which was hilarious. I want to set the stage, which is this is how strange the night was the night before.

Speaker 1 The night before we all gather, there's a cocktail party, shaking hands, talking to different people. We sit down

Speaker 1 and I don't quite know what's going to happen. And before the evening, just as the evening is starting, I feel something hit me between the shoulder blades.

Speaker 1 And I'm like, not hard, but something kind of thumped between my shoulder blades. And I'm like, did I imagine that? Was that really happening?

Speaker 1 And someone leaned over and said, David Letterman just threw a bread roll at you.

Speaker 1 And so I wheel around in my chair. And as you're getting started, or the proceedings are starting, I go over to Dave, who's there with his beard.

Speaker 1 And it's David fucking Letterman, you know, who's such an iconic figure for all of us. And I go over and I just said, like,

Speaker 1 sir, did you throw a bread roll at me? And he looked at me in with mock horror. He's like, well, no, I did not.
And he pointed to someone at another table.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 he was,

Speaker 1 and then

Speaker 1 Sweeney took over. You were fantastic.

Speaker 1 I hate complimenting you.

Speaker 1 I love it.

Speaker 2 And you were really, really funny.

Speaker 1 You were crazy. I love complimenting you.
You were really funny.

Speaker 1 And it was nice, too, because I didn't even realize that some of the people who were going to be performing the next night, these big names, were in the room. I didn't realize because they showed up.

Speaker 1 Oh, I did. They sat in the corner.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 and uh

Speaker 1 but people got up and spoke my my good friend amy littman got up and gave

Speaker 1 a beautiful speech and she is so funny but also um one of the best writers i've ever known

Speaker 1 with her so it was a nice perspective she had a perspective on me knowing me when i was uh she was not in a lampoon but she lived across the street and she used to call the cops on us all the time and that's how we became friends.

Speaker 1 I used to sit and talk to her through an open window while while she was working late on one of her beautiful stories or prize-winning essays.

Speaker 2 And she co-created Party of Five, which for my generation is, you know, is like a and Masters of Sex.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and a million other

Speaker 1 she's a brilliant, brilliant, brilliant force and a great friend. And she was amazing.
She gave a, I mean, one of the all-time great speeches. And then I have to give it up.

Speaker 1 So many people got up and spoke. Jeff Ross.
Jeff Ross. He did a very nice job.

Speaker 1 I've never heard Jeff say two consecutive sentences. He was crazy.
And then he gave 30 years.

Speaker 1 In 30 years. Verbiage, I've heard.
And he gave a very nice speech. I have to say something, which is Sona Movesesian takes the stage.
And who's sitting in the crowd? David Letterman,

Speaker 1 John Mulaney, Adam Sandler, just Sarah Silverman, these heavyweights who are going to be speaking the next night at the thing. they

Speaker 1 Sona gets up and she acts like, yeah, okay, here goes. No, that's what she always is.

Speaker 1 That's how you always are. And I'm a superstar.
I have marveled at this, which is that Sona, there's this scientific saying that the minute you

Speaker 1 expose any particle to light, the minute you observe any particle or atom, you change it. Just by observing it, you change it.

Speaker 1 There's one exception to that.

Speaker 1 Sona Mossessian. Sona Mossian.
The time a guest didn't show up, it was Kumail, and Sona just, we told her at the last second, you're going to be the guest. And we

Speaker 1 slapped some makeup on her. This is on the old TBS show.
And she came walking out like she owned the place

Speaker 1 and proceeded to be an amazing guest. And then when the show was over, no,

Speaker 1 no ego. Her head wasn't swollen.
She wasn't like, oh my God, I got to call all my friends and tell them I'm on TV tonight. She's like, all right, I'm going to go get, go to get some in-and-out.

Speaker 1 See you guys later. You're just, I don't know who you are.

Speaker 2 Oh, no, there are no stakes, really.

Speaker 2 I mean, and also, I don't know if you felt this too, but that's one of the most nerve-wracking speeches, though, just to talk to you about how much you mean to people.

Speaker 2 That's a very awkward thing to do.

Speaker 1 Didn't look.

Speaker 1 I mean,

Speaker 1 I knew you'd be great champion. Which you are an Endon Your Championship.
I know. Thank you.

Speaker 1 You are an amazing. You just hit it.
You're

Speaker 1 hilarious. You're great.
And I am great and all. right and i will say this at the risk of being a human being i love you both for being there and just

Speaker 1 that night the night before was so important because i realized oh i'm just laughing and occasionally there's a kind word i'll avoid that and i'll avoid eye contact but mostly people were just being themselves and being really funny and i just found myself laughing really hard yeah and it meant a lot to me my my um

Speaker 1 uh my brother luke and justin were there.

Speaker 2 And your kids were there, Liza was there, which was really nice.

Speaker 1 That I was never knowing that

Speaker 1 those comedians would be there. I know.
Plus, so you knew

Speaker 4 that I wasn't sure if they were going to be there.

Speaker 1 Oh, I had no idea who was going to be there. I did.
And I was like, okay, maybe, you know, maybe David Letterman won't really show up.

Speaker 1 And, you know, it's like, yeah, he's, he's sitting right there, table 18, throwing bread of cone in me. I'm like, fuck.

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 he did a really funny thing, which was

Speaker 1 he was acknowledged at one, I think you acknowledged him or someone said, oh my God, and David Letterman's here. And Dave, everyone else just kind of waved from their seats.

Speaker 1 He stood like King Louis XIV

Speaker 1 and

Speaker 1 acknowledged the crowd and turned. And then turned to acknowledge more crowd and then did more sort of regal turns.

Speaker 1 And it was so funny that the applause continued and he he refused to sit down for the longest time. And I was like, Got to love that move.
That's a really funny move.

Speaker 1 And everyone was just, that night was very special. It put me

Speaker 1 in a good mood and made me feel like, hey, maybe tomorrow we'll be okay. And then,

Speaker 4 real quick on that night before you.

Speaker 1 Oh, and although the fact that you were there didn't bother me at all.

Speaker 1 One way or the other. Were you nervous, Sweeney, knowing that I was in the audience?

Speaker 1 That's podcast maestro.

Speaker 1 Adam's says this is hacks.

Speaker 1 I was just going to say that. Or it's Michael Sarah.
I can't tell which one. That's why Sweeney was none.

Speaker 4 The Kennedy Center put up a highlight clip on YouTube, if people want to watch it, of the night before. I think if you look on YouTube, the night before Conan Twain, you'll find a highlight reel.

Speaker 1 And I think, you know, they can see Sona.

Speaker 1 I will say, I think just for some, from some background, there was some,

Speaker 1 obviously, for the last couple of months with the new administration, there's been some uh controversial stuff going on with the kennedy center and um

Speaker 1 there was a question of should i go should i not go and i i felt like it was important to show up because first of all we were brought in under the old regime and uh

Speaker 1 and the people who brought me in are no longer there but i thought we should honor their decision and we went and it was uh

Speaker 1 really lovely because so many many of the young people that have been working at the Kennedy Center for years were delighted that we came. They don't know what their future is.

Speaker 1 I got to talk to a lot of them and

Speaker 1 they're really

Speaker 1 going through a lot right now. And I had a great deal of empathy for what's happening there.
And I felt something about the situation added to the evening somehow.

Speaker 1 Oh, it sure did. It really made it feel like this is,

Speaker 1 and without being pompous, without

Speaker 1 just, it just felt like this is not a normal

Speaker 1 event, something,

Speaker 1 and we all need to be on our toes and

Speaker 1 kind of be

Speaker 1 funny, but also

Speaker 1 bring some optimism maybe, bring some, I don't know. Yeah, it's not pompous at all.

Speaker 1 It was a very specific moment that this event occurred and that you had all these great comedians there and you had this change situation at the Kennedy Center that was so dramatic and was in the news all week.

Speaker 1 I mean, dramatically in the news. And so

Speaker 1 yes, it's something that

Speaker 1 while

Speaker 1 Fedding Mu at the same time, everyone in their own way, you know, acknowledged what was going on. I thought what was great is so many comedians that came.
I mean, the lineup's insane. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I mean, when you start a show with John Mulaney. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Well, let's get this thing started. John Mulaney was so good.
I was like, you know, as just thinking in terms of comedians and a show order, you're like, everyone has to, everyone was great. Yeah.

Speaker 1 But watching Mulaney, you're like, whoa, I would not, if I was watching him and I knew I was in the on-deck circle or further down the

Speaker 1 Mulaney was so funny that I left

Speaker 1 because I'm supposed to close the evening. Mulaney was so funny.

Speaker 1 When I was giving this award,

Speaker 1 I ran and

Speaker 1 I was halfway into an Uber when Sweeney tackled me and dragged me back.

Speaker 1 I was like, I can't follow that.

Speaker 1 That's John Mulaney.

Speaker 1 He was.

Speaker 1 But then, I mean,

Speaker 1 everyone was.

Speaker 1 I mean, the list of people, Will Farrell, and I mean, I don't know if we're supposed to be talking about who it is or if it's

Speaker 1 a little bit more. Yeah, I mean, Will Farrell,

Speaker 1 just Tracy

Speaker 1 Morgan.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 Sarah Silverman, Nikki Clazer,

Speaker 1 Reggie Watts. Oh my God.
Will Nangiani

Speaker 1 mail. And you know what's so funny is Bill Burr understands because we grew up in nearby towns and we're made of the same stuff.

Speaker 1 And Bill Burr just drilled into me like, I'm going to say a couple of nice things about Conan and he'll never look me in the eye again.

Speaker 1 That was funny.

Speaker 1 And I was just like, this is a guy who knows

Speaker 1 how horrifying this is.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 Andy Richter was there. Did we say Stephen Colbert? Stephen Colbert.
Oh, my God. Steven Burr was amazing.
Sean Evans. And Stephen Colbert came out and did it.

Speaker 1 And I don't want to give away too much, but he... He's got two pictures.

Speaker 1 Okay, fuck you. Oh, okay.

Speaker 1 Fuck you and your pictures.

Speaker 2 You guys know that. He came in.

Speaker 1 He did a Hot Ones thing with Sean Evans that is absolutely fantastic. And

Speaker 1 I was, you know, I mean, I have such respect and admiration and awe for everybody. uh who who showed up and you know there's that part of you that feels like oh no people people have to fly here.

Speaker 1 That's making me uncomfortable. That would make me.
You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 Like you're an imposition. Yeah, it's an imposition.
And oh, shit. And then everybody was so funny that I, that all melted away.
And

Speaker 1 there was,

Speaker 1 it was a happening. And it was also

Speaker 1 really

Speaker 1 nice. to talk to all of the people.
I say young people, they're all different ages, but to me now, everyone's young

Speaker 1 who

Speaker 1 have worked so hard for so many years

Speaker 1 for the Kennedy Center and just really

Speaker 1 want to give their lives to the arts.

Speaker 1 You gave them a shout out, and that was the biggest, that got a standing ovation. Yeah, it did.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Because I was a whole audience was employees. No,

Speaker 1 no, that was a really nice moment. It was very cool.

Speaker 2 It was nice of you to acknowledge that. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Oh, okay. Well, there's a lot of uncertainty there.
No, no, there's a lot of uncertainty. And

Speaker 1 we've, we've heard that a person or two that I spoke to that night

Speaker 1 have lost their jobs since. And this just happened.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And so it's a, it's a,

Speaker 1 you can feel sometimes shallow when you're trying to give encouragement to people who are in that situation. But I did want it to be a positive experience.
And

Speaker 1 I do think, and this might sound shallow too, but when you're younger and you lose a job, that is an incredible, I feel like everyone here has probably been fired or I talk about in my speech.

Speaker 1 I start my speech with

Speaker 1 a period of unemployment and

Speaker 1 what it felt like. Right.

Speaker 1 And I know that parts of what I said, I'm anxious for it to come out on, I guess it comes out on Netflix.

Speaker 4 I think. May 4th.

Speaker 5 May 4th, I think.

Speaker 1 Oh, May 4th. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay. What did you think? I thought it was April 4th.
No, no.

Speaker 1 no, they looked at the tape and everything was great, but the shit you did. No, I was just sitting in the audience.
I know, I know, but even you in the audience.

Speaker 1 And they're doing a lot of CGI and stuff.

Speaker 1 No, I saw the camera near me. No, it looks like one of the skeleton warriors from Sinbad is sitting in the crowd.
That's nice. That's a fun thing.
No,

Speaker 1 it frightened people. And a lot of kids can't watch that.
Oh, yeah, they're like, look, there's a skeleton, and he's going to charge the stage. I think it's.

Speaker 1 Anyway, a lot of work is being done. So now it's been moved to May 4th.
Are they adding flesh to me? Like, are they reanimating me? Yes, and they're also not just flesh,

Speaker 1 but living flesh. So that it looks like you're still alive.
Right, right, right.

Speaker 1 Because we've tried adding flesh to you before using CGI, and it just looks like you're a zombie. I don't know why the word desiccated is always used to describe me.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 Listen,

Speaker 1 it's my own fault because when I found you,

Speaker 1 you were in a tomb in Syria. You knew.
And yeah, I unwrapped you and I said you'll be my head writer. And,

Speaker 1 you know, the list is history. That's right.
I just said the less is history.

Speaker 2 Why did you say the list is history?

Speaker 1 Well, because I'm now, my head is so swollen with the Twain prize that it's hard for me to pronounce words.

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Speaker 2 Did we mention that it's for achievement and comedy and it's given at the Kennedy Center? Did we mention? Yeah, that's what I don't know if we mentioned what the Mark Twain Prize was.

Speaker 1 And it's for athletic ability. Oh, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 2 Someone lied to you.

Speaker 1 And guess what? No, what it is. It's the Mark Twain prize for the most Riz.

Speaker 1 No. Yes.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 For the most

Speaker 2 person who should know.

Speaker 1 Don't make it negative that I know what Riz is, and it says on the award, Twain thinks you got Riz.

Speaker 4 The Rizzler of the Year award.

Speaker 1 Rizzler. Someone like a new

Speaker 1 Rizzo. And guess what? Can I tell you something else? He was famous for piloting a Rizzer boat.

Speaker 2 Oh, no, we got to stop.

Speaker 1 They got to stop. Just put the award away.

Speaker 1 They're here to take it away. Because I said Rizzer boat.

Speaker 1 They should take it oh no they should take it first award to be taken away oh no second oh headed out that may 4th announcement now it's not happening no now it's july 4th because they've got a oh fuck

Speaker 1 we got a skeleton in the audience i'm making dad jokes about riz

Speaker 4 we're all going down the drain without giving anything away i think that will forte also should get a shout out oh my god well

Speaker 1 will forte yeah will forte is a surprise but it's okay to talk about it he was uh I had a notion for how I wanted the evening to end.

Speaker 1 And there was, when I thought of it, I thought there's only one person who can do it, which is Will Forte.

Speaker 1 And I did something I never do, which is I cold called him. And I don't like to do that, but I cold called him and I said, I have an idea, but it means you flying to D.C.
and only you can do it.

Speaker 1 And he was laughing really hard at the idea. And he said, he'd do it.
And then I said, you have to pay for your own flight.

Speaker 1 And you have to pay me $5,000. That's reasonable.
Yeah. And you have to kiss my feet.
No, he came and he,

Speaker 1 i mean he's again

Speaker 1 he's just so

Speaker 1 uh funny and he can i i i thought of this one idea and i thought there's one person who can do it and sure enough and to the degree where if he had if he had said i'd love to do it but i can't because i'm shooting my you know i've got a shooting set i'm in a movie i'm doing this i'm doing that i would have done a different idea because he was the only person who could do it so what everything came together and triumph that was your idea oh my god robert smeigel and Triumph.

Speaker 1 Robert was great. Robert was hilarious, and he took you through the evening.
And the fact that it was a, you're in the Kennedy Center, and it's this very impressive environment.

Speaker 1 And then

Speaker 1 Triumph. And let's just try and remember Triumph is a rubber dog who speaks like an old Russian lady.

Speaker 1 Has a microphone and is leading us through the evening. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know what I mean? It's supposed to be like, this is where Maria Callas gets her special medal.

Speaker 1 But then there were a lot of old characters that came up. That's the other thing.

Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah. And I'm not going to give anything away, but there's a lot of

Speaker 1 you could tease two old late-night writer favorites. Yes.
Made appearances, memorable appearances. Yeah.

Speaker 4 I sent Robert a photo. I looked up at one point, and it was just all you could see was triumph, like watching the show, sitting next to Will Farrell, watching the show.

Speaker 1 And it was just funny. I sent him a photo of just Triumph watching the show.
And you know what's so funny is that when Robert is Triumph

Speaker 1 over

Speaker 1 the whatever, 25 years it's been since Triumph was 1998, 1998, something 97.

Speaker 1 But, but, you know, in between takes of things, I'd be talking to Robert, and the puppet would be on his hand, and we'd be talking about, and sometimes Robert would be doing the puppet, and I find myself talking to the puppet.

Speaker 1 And Robert's not wearing a mask or anything.

Speaker 1 You talk to Triumph. But the fact that is, if Triumph is sitting there just watching the event and Will Farrell's also watching, and no one's like, I'm watching it.

Speaker 1 It's just the most natural thing in the world.

Speaker 1 There'll never be

Speaker 1 a dumber.

Speaker 1 I mean, there may not be a Twain Award again, but there even be one again.

Speaker 2 We don't know. It's it next year.

Speaker 1 I don't know. And we could tease.
David Letterman was at the dinner throwing rolls at you. And maybe he showed up for the big award night as well.
We'll never know until you see it.

Speaker 1 It's May 4th, if it ever comes.

Speaker 1 Yeah, wait till the fourth of may it would have been the fourth of april except for sweeney

Speaker 1 did you say may the fourth be with you yes why don't you take a riser boat

Speaker 1 and find yourself a new job yay

Speaker 1 anyway uh it was um oh no no brand has a

Speaker 4 you mentioned the your speech though i do think it already has hundreds of thousands of views up on youtube one

Speaker 4 excerpt of the speech which i you know i will just say i thought was incredible and powerful and in the moment you know i think i i think people got chills i did you know watching this hearing the speech in the moment and I really suggest everyone go check it out

Speaker 1 oh go ahead well you were so distract well not distracted you were consumed by doing the Oscars and then the Oscars were over and and all this they were planning travel show another travel show we left the morning after the Twain Awards to go to Austria to go to Austria to to finish up yes the show that had been interrupted by uh uh stuff in my life but I just want to mention that that then when you finally the week before the

Speaker 1 Twain Prize, you were like, whoa, this is coming up.

Speaker 1 You wrote your whole speech.

Speaker 1 Every part of it was written by you. And it was a fantastic job.
Oh, wow. Well done, including the serious part, which is out already.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 1 And has already been nominated for a Grammy spoken lately.

Speaker 1 But anyway, yes.

Speaker 1 Great. Oh, and you got nominated for Best Special Effects.

Speaker 1 Incredible. Best skeleton.
How did they get a skeleton in the crowd? Also, Andy was great. Andy was fantastic.
The dinner and the show. Both, both, yes.
Amazing.

Speaker 1 He had some great jokes. Yes.
And he's,

Speaker 1 you know, it's, I get chills because Andy.

Speaker 1 The summer before the show started, I was in so much trouble because I knew I only have literally weeks to try and come up with a show that would replace David Butterman from scratch. Yes, and

Speaker 1 the minute I met Andy Richter, I thought, oh, I like this guy. And in the back of my mind, I thought it'd be cool if he was with me out there so I wasn't alone.

Speaker 1 And he

Speaker 1 reminds me of Sona in that he doesn't give a shit about it. He doesn't,

Speaker 1 which is unusual in a performer. No, no, no.
I interrupted you. I'm sorry.
No, no, no. You were going to say you loved having him.
No, no,

Speaker 1 that Andy is always Andy. Yes, exactly.
And it doesn't matter. You can,

Speaker 1 in a beautiful way, he's always himself. He's true to himself all the time.
And there's no, okay, I better gear up to get into Andy Richter character. There's no such thing.

Speaker 1 And the same with Sona.

Speaker 1 Sona doesn't give a shit about her performances or her work for me.

Speaker 1 Look at me now on your podcast. Who won that one? You know, you

Speaker 1 win all the time. You win at life all the time.

Speaker 2 Didn't it feel like a funeral kind of?

Speaker 2 Doesn't it feel like we were eulogizing you you in a way?

Speaker 1 Didn't Amy sort of reference that in the speech? Amy, she did say that.

Speaker 2 She said it felt like we were eulogizing you and kind of did.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and I did have the strong urge to die afterwards.

Speaker 1 Just because it's like, what are you going to do now? You know, but then I realized, it's on Netflix. People will see it.
They'll forget. I need to get that next prize.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 sorry, there was only one American humorist, apparently. Yeah.
I'm sure if you lived in Britain, there's probably like a humorist award every three weeks. We've only had America, no.

Speaker 1 We've only had one. It's Twain.
Yeah. Who's the guy that created Garfield?

Speaker 1 Right, right, right. What's his name? I don't even know.

Speaker 2 I don't know.

Speaker 1 It would be so cool if I had this set. I only know Charles Schultz.
I don't know if anyone's come since.

Speaker 1 What if they skip over Charles Schultz and they just give it to the Jim Davis. Yeah, Jim Davis, the creator of Garfield.
And it's the Davis. The Davis awarded.
He's going to get the Davis. Yeah.

Speaker 1 But you have to work in a plug for Garfield. And then they sell a bowl of lasagna.
That's right. Because that's what he liked to eat.

Speaker 2 A bowl?

Speaker 2 No one eats lasagna out of a bowl.

Speaker 1 Wow. This was going so well.
Hey, I thought that 20-minute bell was going off.

Speaker 1 It went off. All right.

Speaker 1 And off when you said Rizzer boat.

Speaker 2 That's when it started going downhill.

Speaker 1 Also, some great fun video surprises during the show.

Speaker 1 Yes. Yes.

Speaker 1 Some

Speaker 1 really good video surprises. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Some

Speaker 1 fans will enjoy. Yes.
Fans, if they're there's still Conan fans out there

Speaker 1 after this self-congratulatory podcast episode.

Speaker 1 Well, no, I congratulated you, so that wasn't self-that's true.

Speaker 1 Of course, I'm an employee, and

Speaker 1 I'm going to value my paycheck.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I just wish I had had more time to take it in because literally the next morning everybody had to scatter because everyone's busy. Right.
And

Speaker 1 you and I jumped on a plane

Speaker 1 with Ross and we took off for

Speaker 1 and Jordan for uh for Austria and

Speaker 1 then uh we just got back so I'm still

Speaker 1 um we're at it with this edit the show's edited it's due tomorrow to HBO Mask so we're at it it's insanity yes there's a lot that's happening right now but uh I am I I'm I'm glad they recorded that evening because if there wasn't a recording of it, I wouldn't believe it.

Speaker 1 That's how I feel about it. I kind of just wouldn't believe it.
And my love and thanks to everybody

Speaker 1 who came out. I mean, really busy people flew across the country to be there.
And I'll never forget it as long as I live. Wait, just forgot it.

Speaker 1 It's a very, very funny show and very sweet at the same time. Yeah.
All right. Well, I think May 4th, Netflix, check it out.
I think you will enjoy it. And

Speaker 1 next week in this regular time slot, we'll probably be back with a fan. Or maybe just me talking more about how I won a prize.

Speaker 1 They're casting more fans this week. So we'll have

Speaker 1 more fake time. We're paying people.
His name's Conan. Hey, Cronin.

Speaker 1 I loved your Blate Night show. It's Conan and it's late night.
I love your sister

Speaker 1 in 2011. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I love it. You're great.
I love when you drive with people and see songs. No, that's Cordon.
Whatever. Fucking, where's my money?

Speaker 1 All right, peace out, Tupac.

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