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Speaker 1: Conan O'Brien caught up with Chris Fleming for Interview magazine.
Speaker 1: Did you watch Chris Fleming on HBO Max? I'm curious
Speaker 1: what the quote unquote the normies think of this. This
Speaker 1: is not you know, Bill Burr in front of a
Speaker 1: brick wall. This is something else entirely. I sent it
Speaker 1: to my friend Mark and I'm like, watch Chris Fleming
Speaker 1: and when you think it's weird, stick with it. And
Speaker 1: he wrote back to me, I'm glad you told me
Speaker 1: to stick with it, because I totally would have bailed
Speaker 1: it's weird. I loved it. I thought it was fantastic.
Speaker 1: That is currently the number one special of the year.
Speaker 1: Chris Fleming and Conan O'Brien in Interview Magazine. Fleming said,
Speaker 1: have you seen this magazine? Usually it's like Alexander Scoresguard
Speaker 1: interviewed by Judge Judy or Fiona Apple interviewed by the
Speaker 1: Tinder Swindler. But you and I actually make sense together,
Speaker 1: Gonu said. This makes sense because I have a hard
Speaker 1: time imagining who I can relate to more than mister Fleming. Here,
Speaker 1: your ridiculous figure. I've been enamored with you for a
Speaker 1: long time, and I wish I were talking to the
Speaker 1: late illusionist Doug Henning. Conan said, I can see you
Speaker 1: took my advice. I told you long ago, don't move
Speaker 1: around so much. O'Brien said, I said, I want you
Speaker 1: to wear very masculine, working class clothing. Fleming said, you
Speaker 1: gave me a Men's Warehouse gift certificate, and you whispered
Speaker 1: in my ear stillness is king. Now, if you haven't
Speaker 1: watched the specially, you have no idea why that is
Speaker 1: so funny. Gonan, make sure all the references are accessible
Speaker 1: to all age groups. That means none of your trader
Speaker 1: Joe's marginalia no takes on NPR. And I insisted that
Speaker 1: you talk at length about the nineteen seventy five Red
Speaker 1: Sox and bring up fred Lin repeatedly, and you said,
Speaker 1: got it. And then to my surprise. I tune in
Speaker 1: and you're up to your old high jinks. You imp.
Speaker 1: Chris said, I had a manager who said, I don't
Speaker 1: know what you're talking about ninety percent of the time, Conan,
Speaker 1: you've established a rhythm. It's completely yours. You lull people
Speaker 1: into the state where suddenly they know what everything about
Speaker 1: this specific guy who's serving you a boba t and
Speaker 1: we're all just there with you, even though I shouldn't
Speaker 1: know what you're talking about because I've never had bobat
Speaker 1: in my life. Funny shange here, Conan says, just today,
Speaker 1: Jon Appatow found a clip at me from nineteen eighty
Speaker 1: six in the background at some comedy event that he's
Speaker 1: doing a documentary about. Chris said, oh, I didn't know
Speaker 1: he did documentaries, Conan. It's a documentary about the time
Speaker 1: he stopped doing documentaries. Fun stuff there at the interview magazine.
Speaker 1: We'll talk more about Chris Fleming in the second half.
Speaker 1: Are you following this Jim Carrey thing? Did you see this?
Speaker 1: Last week? There was an award show and Jim Carrey
Speaker 1: showed up, or maybe it wasn't actually Jim Carrey. Did
Speaker 1: you see this? People are like, is that Jim Carrey.
Speaker 1: It kind of looks like Jim Carrey, but yet not
Speaker 1: at all like Jim Carrey. Is Jim Carrey doing a bit?
Speaker 1: Did Jim Carrey have botox? Did Jim Carrey have plastic surgery?
Speaker 1: Did the Illuminati replace Jim Carrey with a clone that's
Speaker 1: not that good? Nobody knows what's going on. Well, there's
Speaker 1: a new wrinkle to this that I love. Makeup artist
Speaker 1: Alexis Stone claims that it was he who appeared last
Speaker 1: week week as Jim Carrey. On Instagram, Alexis posted Alexis
Speaker 1: Stone as Jim Carrey in Paris. The post included two
Speaker 1: photos of quote unquote Jim Carrey at the event, and
Speaker 1: one photo of a masked teeth and a dark wig
Speaker 1: that resembled Jim Carrey's new look. Now, the Cesar Awards
Speaker 1: say that Jim Carrey worked on his speech in French
Speaker 1: for months and that there is no clone. In a statement,
Speaker 1: Gregory Collier, the General Delegate of the Caesar Awards, said
Speaker 1: the rumors are a non issue. Jim Carrey's visit has
Speaker 1: been planned since this summer. From the outside, it was
Speaker 1: extremely touched by the Academy's invitation eight months of ongoing
Speaker 1: constructive discussions. He worked on a speech in French for months,
Speaker 1: asking me about the exact pronunciation of certain words. He
Speaker 1: came with his partner, his daughter, his grandson, of twelve,
Speaker 1: close friends and family members. His longtime publicist accompanied him.
Speaker 1: His old friend Michael Gondrey, who's made a film and
Speaker 1: too serious with him, was there and they were delighted
Speaker 1: to see each other again. For me, it's a non issue.
Speaker 1: I just remember his generosity, his kindness, has benevolence, his elegance.
Speaker 1: I think this is hilarious. Stavros Halkias is pairing up
Speaker 1: with manscaped together. They are auctioning off a hair ball
Speaker 1: collected from the head of Stavros Halkias. At least I
Speaker 1: assume it's the head. Jimmy Stark is the creative director
Speaker 1: at Quality Meats, a creative agency with a quirky name.
Speaker 1: Jamie Stark says, we can neither confirm nor deny the
Speaker 1: sources of the hairs for making of this hairball. We're
Speaker 1: pretty sure there's one hundred percent genuine human body hair
Speaker 1: in it, including Stavros's. We like to think of it
Speaker 1: as a hot dog styled hairball and that you don't
Speaker 1: exactly know all the sources of the hair meats it's
Speaker 1: made up of. You've already missed out on the auction.
Speaker 1: Sorry I didn't tell you in time. You could have
Speaker 1: had the hairball for just five hundred ten dollars. Proceeds
Speaker 1: from the auction went to Manscape's brand partner, the Testicular
Speaker 1: Cancer Society, supporting awareness, education and resources for men's health.
Speaker 1: Are you in Hollywood? Once you head on over to
Speaker 1: the Hollywood Walk of Fame around eleven thirty today and
Speaker 1: you might see Gabriel Iglesias. I hope you see him
Speaker 1: because he's supposed to be there to get his star
Speaker 1: on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. A bunch of the
Speaker 1: cast from the Office reunited at Sunday Nights Actor Awards.
Speaker 1: It was Mindy Kaling, Jenni Fisher, Angela Kinsey, and Ellie Camper,
Speaker 1: which let me decide by here. When I was driving
Speaker 1: around with my wife over the weekend, I was just
Speaker 1: raving about scrubs. Have you caught on that Alex Scrubs?
Speaker 1: And how hard it is to even get everyone back together.
Speaker 1: And I said, for example, if they brought the Office back,
Speaker 1: you would get Jenna Angela, Kevin Creed, Oscar, they'd all
Speaker 1: do it in a second, and yet there's no way
Speaker 1: Steve Crall would do it, and there's no way Krasinski
Speaker 1: would do it. And then my wife was like, what
Speaker 1: about Dwight trut And my take is that Rain Wilson
Speaker 1: would successfully hold out for more money and get it,
Speaker 1: and then they'd put a new lead on top I Digress.
Speaker 1: Jenna Fisher recalled the relentless schedule of the Office. She
Speaker 1: said it meant Christmas episodes and Valentine's episodes and super
Speaker 1: Bowl episodes and sometimes filler episodes that were kind of bad.
Speaker 1: Ellie Camper said, but it didn't matter because there was
Speaker 1: always another one right around the corner. The Actor's Awards
Speaker 1: revealed the reunion was all down to Mindy Kayling, executive producer,
Speaker 1: who told Variety we had reached out to her about
Speaker 1: being presented, and she came back with the idea of
Speaker 1: what if I did at reunion with all the women
Speaker 1: of the Office, and we were like yeah. Within like
Speaker 1: an hour, she had texted them all. She basically booked
Speaker 1: them all for us. Some folks are mad at Saturday
Speaker 1: Night Live for a sketch that didn't even air. Apparently,
Speaker 1: there was a Cut for Time sketch in which SNL
Speaker 1: sent up the BAFTA racial slur incident. Anyway. In the
Speaker 1: Cut for Time sketch titled Turet's, a host of celebrities
Speaker 1: including JK Rawling, Mel Gibson, Army Hammer, Louis c k
Speaker 1: and Bill Cosby claim they suffer from Tourette's, which would
Speaker 1: explain the problematic stuff they've been involved with. Tourette's Action
Speaker 1: CEO Emma McNally was not happy with this. She apparently
Speaker 1: sent an email to Deadline. This is not acceptable, she wrote.
Speaker 1: Mocking and disabilities never acceptable. It would not be tolerated
Speaker 1: for any other condition, and it should not be tolerated
Speaker 1: by people with tourets. In the sketch, host Connor's story
Speaker 1: played Army Hammer saying not many people know this, but
Speaker 1: one of the most common side effects of Tourett's cannibalism
Speaker 1: Ashley Pitty is JK. Ralling said that Tarrett's isn't just
Speaker 1: blurting out offensive word. It could be a year's long
Speaker 1: obsession with something like trans writes Keenan Thompson. As Bill
Speaker 1: Cosby claimed to suffer from drink. Turett's Kanye West, played
Speaker 1: by Cam Patterson, in a rare appearance, declared he has
Speaker 1: like three different types of Turetts. Even Michael Jay made
Speaker 1: an appearance saying Tourett's makes us do horrible things to
Speaker 1: the white guy we work with. The sketch was sponsored
Speaker 1: by the National Workforce of Rethinking Disabilities aka n WORD.
Speaker 1: Late Night reports that they had to scrap the original
Speaker 1: cold open. In the original version, it would have been
Speaker 1: The State of the Union, with James Austin Johnson's Donald
Speaker 1: Trump making jokes about deflecting from the Epstein Files and
Speaker 1: claiming that New York City Mayor zooron mom Donnie was
Speaker 1: thirsty for him. That all got scrapped and we got
Speaker 1: a pretty bad version of James Austin Johnson as Trump
Speaker 1: at two in the morning announcing the war. I used
Speaker 1: to really like James's impression. It is really drifting now,
Speaker 1: and I don't know what SNL's got to do with Trump.
Speaker 1: I don't know if James needs to just like sit
Speaker 1: home for a week and tweak it, but that impression
Speaker 1: is just really drifting. Let me just take a second
Speaker 1: here to just like thank so many of you. First
Speaker 1: of all, the feedback I got on the Pete Holmes interview,
Speaker 1: thank you. I got a lot of lovely notes. It
Speaker 1: seemed that people really dug it. First of all, thank
Speaker 1: you to Pete Holmes for doing it and the people
Speaker 1: at the eight hundter Bound Guerilla who made that happen.
Speaker 1: But thank you. You know, the notes on the side
Speaker 1: means something because otherwise I'm just a guy in the basement,
Speaker 1: you know, basically talking into the wall, and sometimes the
Speaker 1: dog stares at me while I do it, So thank
Speaker 1: you for that. Also, people have been sending in things.
Speaker 1: I'm sitting on a few things from a production standpoint.
Speaker 1: Jay Leno had talked about his Mount rushmoref comedy. I'm
Speaker 1: sitting on that. There's a great article about how Scrubs
Speaker 1: was able to recreate the hospital. I'll probably do that
Speaker 1: later in the week, but I'm still on Schrodinger's jury duty.
Speaker 1: I had a call again on Monday night. I have
Speaker 1: to call again Wednesday night, so like, I never know
Speaker 1: what my next day is going to be. So some
Speaker 1: of this stuff that I'm holding on to is just
Speaker 1: because I can't even judge my own production schedule right now.
Speaker 1: There is in the back end. There's an episode it's
Speaker 1: probably like four years old and definitely has the old
Speaker 1: theme music on it. Of like just me riffing on
Speaker 1: what at that time was somebody's list of the top
Speaker 1: fifteen comedians. That was like my what if I get
Speaker 1: COVID episode that I was just gonna play someday if
Speaker 1: I couldn't talk. I've never had to use it, but
Speaker 1: it's just sitting there knock on wood anyway, thank you
Speaker 1: for all the notes, and Richard sometimes sends me notes
Speaker 1: when I screw up the uploads. Richard appreciate that my
Speaker 1: email address is in the show. Not It's always great
Speaker 1: to hear from people. Don't forget Comedy Survivor roles are
Speaker 1: in oh wait, Actual Survivor. I'm still picking away at
Speaker 1: episode one of that first of all is up against
Speaker 1: Scrubs three hours of Survivor of like, Real Survivor is
Speaker 1: like way too much, guys, Just you can't hand it
Speaker 1: in a three hour episode, Like it's just my numbing.
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there and I'm like, there's still an hour
Speaker 1: left of this. I can't But Comedy Survivor is a
Speaker 1: lot of fun. Head to the Facebook group Daily comedy
Speaker 1: news podcast group Vote Someone Off. It's starting to get
Speaker 1: down to it now, and I've already started scribbling down.
Speaker 1: I've got this idea for Comedy Survivor, Heroes and Villains.
Speaker 1: I've got an idea for that. But when we get
Speaker 1: to the end of Comedy Survivor, I'm gonn I let
Speaker 1: it take a break. I don't want to, like endlessly
Speaker 1: do it. I think I think that kind of thing
Speaker 1: works best if like, we do it for a while,
Speaker 1: then we don't do it for a while, and then
Speaker 1: we bring it back again. But I'm kind of scribbling
Speaker 1: down a heroes and villain's idea for season two of
Speaker 1: Comedy Survivor. Take a look at the ratings. Scrubs did
Speaker 1: pretty well. The debut episode pulled in four point four
Speaker 1: to one million viewers, did a point six six rating
Speaker 1: in the eighteen to forty nine s. The second episode
Speaker 1: average three point five to two million viewers and a
Speaker 1: point five to five in the eighteen to forty nine
Speaker 1: So I did see sim people on the Reddit saying
Speaker 1: they didn't realize there was a second episode. After the
Speaker 1: second Scrubs was the premiere of Nate Brighetzi's The greatest
Speaker 1: average American that true two point three eight million viewers.
Speaker 1: So we had Scrubs with four forty one, then Second
Speaker 1: Scrubs three fifty two, and then Nate two thirty eight,
Speaker 1: which seems like a bad number. However, it did better
Speaker 1: than The Golden Bachelor did in the same spot last fall.
Speaker 1: And you know how much budgets there was on The
Speaker 1: Golden Bachelor and Nate's thing, you know, giving away sixty
Speaker 1: seven grand is probably dirt cheap to produce. That thing
Speaker 1: might run for fifteen years just because of the money
Speaker 1: of it all. Friend of the show, Jason Zinneman in
Speaker 1: The New York Times wrote an article five great specials
Speaker 1: to stream this winter. He writes, Taylor Thompson, Kevin Neal
Speaker 1: and Chris Spencer, Isabelle Hagen and Jackie Kashan deliver very
Speaker 1: different but very funny hours to get you through the cold.
Speaker 1: Let me go first, I watched a bunch of specials.
Speaker 1: Chris Flemings is the best of the year. It's hilarious.
Speaker 1: I totally get if you put this on and you're like,
Speaker 1: this is not for me, I get it, Okay, something
Speaker 1: a little more traditional, Pete Holmes. I think we all
Speaker 1: have a crush on Pete Holmes right now. All right,
Speaker 1: So Pete Holmes special was really good. Jackie Caation's special
Speaker 1: on YouTube was very, very funny. Enjoy that a lot.
Speaker 1: Cant Williams, I liked a lot. I have that probably
Speaker 1: at two, maybe Pete at three. Right now, it's early
Speaker 1: in the year. I'm not sure Kats was pound for
Speaker 1: pound funny, but he's an entertainer, and just the hour
Speaker 1: went by really quickly. I did not like Taylor Thomason's special.
Speaker 1: It just did not grab me. I just was not
Speaker 1: interested in at all. Jason Zinniman in The New York
Speaker 1: Times says Tominson makes her most deeply felt points through
Speaker 1: confessional jokes. Not takes a comic who favors concision. Sheakespan's
Speaker 1: her palate in this special, offering an elaborate theatrical spoof
Speaker 1: of a Christian comedian, but also digging deep into Bible stories,
Speaker 1: finding a fresh comic take on the absolute bleakness of
Speaker 1: Noah's Ark. Jason like Kevin Nila, and even though he's
Speaker 1: been a successful comic for four decades, I did not
Speaker 1: realize how funny Kevin Neilan was until I heard him
Speaker 1: on Conan's pod Neilan is a terrific joke writer, alert
Speaker 1: to paradox statements of the obvious and the silliness of language.
Speaker 1: Chris Spencer's goat adjacent on Hulu and you know my
Speaker 1: take on Hulu specials Zinneman writes. In the middle of
Speaker 1: this well made fifty minute special with the feel of
Speaker 1: a confidently hosted Hollywood dinner party, Chris Spencer interrupts a
Speaker 1: joke to look down at a man in the front
Speaker 1: row and offer a note that note, I'm gonna need
Speaker 1: you to laugh sometime today. That's pretty funny. Isabelle Hagen
Speaker 1: at the bitter end. That's on veeps. Isabelle tells dirty
Speaker 1: jokes in between playing the viola. She's a Juilliard trained
Speaker 1: artist who uses classical music to set up punchlines. Love
Speaker 1: it Once, she gets last from Mela Conolly, premises like
Speaker 1: a persuasive, defensive regret. Hagen is not the first comic
Speaker 1: to deliver deadpan one liners with resting sad face. As
Speaker 1: she puts it. At first, the viola music merely helps
Speaker 1: match the respectable with the raunchy. What becomes clear is
Speaker 1: that Hagen is something more ambitious in mind. She wants
Speaker 1: to introduce Bach to comedy fans, to build a place
Speaker 1: where she can play her instrument and have that stand
Speaker 1: by itself independently of jokes. Love it Jackie Kashan's altercation
Speaker 1: Cashen is the kind of comic who turns fury into
Speaker 1: eloquent goofiness. I thought that one was very good, and
Speaker 1: I'm going to leave you with this. I haven't talked
Speaker 1: about the war. I suspect on tomorrow's show there will
Speaker 1: be a lot of stuff about the war because we'll
Speaker 1: have cycled through the late night shows at least once,
Speaker 1: so tomorrow is likely going to be somewhat political. But
Speaker 1: there was a video that started circulating on Saturday and
Speaker 1: I have played it, I don't know fifteen times. It
Speaker 1: is a AI generated music video by a Flock of
Speaker 1: Eagles and a Flock of Eagles hit song Iran. I
Speaker 1: will play the audio for you here. I encourage you
Speaker 1: to seek out the video version of this on Twitter,
Speaker 1: where we see President Trump in a new wave flock
Speaker 1: of seagulls style hair singing the song Iran. It looks
Speaker 1: like an old style MTV video. It is just amazing.
Speaker 1: I've sent it to everybody I know, and I keep
Speaker 1: playing it. So that is your comedy news for today.
Speaker 1: And we'll pick up midstream here with Iran by a
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