Speaker 1: Streaking. So there's a thing that dropped on Netflix yesterday.
Speaker 1: It's called the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. It's
Speaker 1: a big event at the Kennedy Center in DC, and
Speaker 1: this year's honorey was Conan. We've seen Dave Chappelle get this,
Speaker 1: We've seen Will Ferrell get this Adam Sandler recently. But
Speaker 1: basically it ends up being just a big lineup of
Speaker 1: heavy hitters of comedy going up and doing five minutes
Speaker 1: and it's not really a roast, but it ends up
Speaker 1: kind of going that way a little bit, and it's
Speaker 1: no joke. Ninety minutes of almost perfection in my estimation.
Speaker 1: Let's start with Will Ferrell, who comes out to honor
Speaker 1: his buddy Conan O'Brien and uh Will Ferrell who won
Speaker 1: this thing back in twenty eleven.
Speaker 2: Look, I don't even know how to get into this.
Speaker 2: Is Conan? Is he even here tonight?
Speaker 3: Do we know?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: Oh okay, Look my therapist told me to not make
Speaker 2: tonight about myself, which I would generally agree with, but
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I just have to address the elephant in
Speaker 2: the room for those of you who might not know
Speaker 2: this about me. I received the Mark Twain Prize for
Speaker 2: American Humor in twenty eleven. No, no, no, it was a
Speaker 2: much more competitive feel back then. Conan gave some lovely
Speaker 2: remarks after the show. Conan said something to me, and
Speaker 2: I remember it like it was yesterday, And he said, hey,
Speaker 2: just so you know, if they ever offer me the
Speaker 2: Mark Twain Prize, I will say no, I will not
Speaker 2: accept it out of respect for you.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes you did, Yes you did.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, you totally said that.
Speaker 6: Really I did.
Speaker 3: Really?
Speaker 5: Oh this is so are.
Speaker 2: You saying that I made this up?
Speaker 3: Look?
Speaker 2: I know this is your night, but you look like
Speaker 2: an idiot right now.
Speaker 1: Perfect his thing of just raising the voice, just start
Speaker 1: yelling a little bit. Conan's kind of miked up, but
Speaker 1: it's low. You kind of hear him saying. He shakes
Speaker 1: his head a little bit. He's just sitting with his
Speaker 1: his wife and his two kids. And old are his kids.
Speaker 1: They look to be I would say the late teens,
Speaker 1: early twenties. Right here, every O'Brien member looks the same.
Speaker 1: It's unbelievable. What channel is this on Netflix? I mean
Speaker 1: it usually airs on like C and N or something,
Speaker 1: but this dropped on Netflix yesterday. This happened a couple
Speaker 1: months ago. So so I've never seen his wife either.
Speaker 1: Is she pasty and redheaded? No, she's blonde. That's kind
Speaker 1: of pale. He's very attractive, you know, comparatively to him, Oh,
Speaker 1: comparatively to the charismatic rich guy. Yeah, well it's still Conan. Okay, Okay,
Speaker 1: John mulaney.
Speaker 5: Little did I know, oh, that being your biggest fan
Speaker 5: for thirty two years would be one of the most
Speaker 5: emotionally taxing experiences of my life. Being a Conan fan
Speaker 5: since the early days has been so stressful. There's always
Speaker 5: a god petition to sign or some kind of protests
Speaker 5: to save him. There's no argument for it, but we're like,
Speaker 5: don't take it away from us. I was a Cubs fan,
Speaker 5: so I knew how to root for people that lose constantly.
Speaker 5: But with Conan, it was like being a Cubs fan,
Speaker 5: but you think the way they lost was so brilliant
Speaker 5: that they won. It was like being a Cubs fan
Speaker 5: if after each game there was a serious discussion as
Speaker 5: to whether or not the Cubs should be allowed to
Speaker 5: be a team anymore. In July two thousand and eight,
Speaker 5: I was a dinner with my mom, and I got
Speaker 5: a call that I'd been hired to be a writer
Speaker 5: at Saturday Night Live. And I went back inside and
Speaker 5: I told my mom, and the waiter overheard me, and
Speaker 5: he said, do you know that's how Conan O'Brien started.
Speaker 5: I said, I've known that half my life. You moron.
Speaker 1: A really good what a distinctive style he's got. Okay,
Speaker 1: now you always have a how about another redhead though,
Speaker 1: Bill Burr.
Speaker 3: Great to see you and everything. Nice to be here
Speaker 3: at the Kennedy Center. Uh. Nothing says comedy like the
Speaker 3: free flowing, creative vibes of the District of Columbia.
Speaker 6: I don't know what it is.
Speaker 4: There's something about, you know, starting and prolonging wars while
Speaker 4: crushing the working man for your own self interest that
Speaker 4: really inspires all who gather on this spurl ground. So
Speaker 4: I always felt the kinship for Conan even before I
Speaker 4: met him, just as a fellow redhead. We are an
Speaker 4: unseen minority hiding in plain sight, under the shade of
Speaker 4: a tree, watching all you pigmented people basking in the sun.
Speaker 3: But I had it easier than him because I was,
Speaker 3: you know, I was regular size.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but Conan cony couldn't hide just a six foot
Speaker 4: six abrasion.
Speaker 1: Am I still want to watch this tonight? No, it's
Speaker 1: so good, I'm telling you. Ninety minutes they break it up.
Speaker 1: But the git here and there, let's go with uh,
Speaker 1: Sarah Silverman.
Speaker 7: Experimental, singular, a revelation. These are just some of the
Speaker 7: words used to describe my appearances on Conan. Too easy
Speaker 7: a joke? Were you ahead of it?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Maybe maybe? But what better way to celebrate our friend
Speaker 7: Conan O'Brien than without effort?
Speaker 1: Okay, one more a sneak ed before we go the
Speaker 1: next of it. Kumel, Nan Johnny and Nan Johnny. Y'all
Speaker 1: know him from Silicon Valley.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 6: I moved here for college on my own, no family,
Speaker 6: just this kid from Pakistan alone at eighteen in a
Speaker 6: strange land. I had no idea what America was going
Speaker 6: to be like. I turned on the TV in the
Speaker 6: lounge in my dorm in Iowa, and the first thing
Speaker 6: I saw on TV in America was a masturbating bear,
Speaker 6: and I remember thinking, I think I'm gonna like it here,
Speaker 6: my god.
Speaker 1: But there's a few others we have a guide to
Speaker 1: Adam Sandler, Conan taking the award from David Letterman, his hero,
Speaker 1: but also something that might have been wrong on our
Speaker 1: show for many years? Did we have the Walker told me,
Speaker 1: Aids told me I have Aid's clip wrong. Have we
Speaker 1: had it wrong all this time? Let's discuss next