Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson turn the mic on Conan!

2024-06-26 00:04:23

After 25 years at the Late Night desk, Conan realized that the only people at his holiday party are the men and women who work for him. Over the years and despite thousands of interviews, Conan has never made a real and lasting friendship with any of his celebrity guests. So, he started a podcast to do just that. Deeper, unboundedly playful, and free from FCC regulations, Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend is a weekly opportunity for Conan to hang out with the people he enjoys most and perhaps find some real friendship along the way.

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Hey guys, Conan here to tell you about a brand new Team Coco podcast. It's called Where Everybody

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Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson sometimes. Woody's not always there,

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but he's there a lot. It's a really fun time where Ted and Woody are reunited more than 30 years

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after their first time together on Cheers. You'll hear some great guests on the show like Will

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Arnett, Jane Fonda, Chef Jose Andres, Kristen Bell, even me. Yes, that's right. I got to join

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the guys for an episode, which we recorded on the rooftop of the Team Coco office. The full episode

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is out now. Here's a short clip. Let me pick your brain about podcasts, right? You know, Woody and

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I being new at this. Do you sit there and think, wait, Mike, I don't want my kids to hear me be

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this way or tell this story. Do you, or my mom and my dad, do you censor yourself? Not really.

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I don't. And I'll tell you, and this is going to sound like a joke, but it's not. My children have

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no interest in listening to my podcast. And I take that as a healthy sign. So they will never hear

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this because they care about themselves and their lives. And they, I am a figure, you know, like a

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sitcom dad is always a figure of ridicule. I am a sitcom dad. When I go home, they're not interested.

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I'll say something and there's a lot of eye rolling and yeah, dad, that's what it's called.

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A GIF. No, it's GIF. You know, whatever. I'm the idiot. There's a laugh track. And my parents

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don't, they don't consume podcasts at their age. And so. So you can say what you want. Yeah. I mean,

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unless it's about spelling, but you don't want to insult him. No, I feel badly about that. He made

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some good shows and then some other shows, you know, but whatever. He was a good man. And who

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am I to say things? What do you do when you have a guest that's like pulling teeth? Because this

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has been a real challenge today for me and William to be honest. I know this is the most taxing

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challenge. I am withholding. Oh God. What do you do with people though? I just start. It's so funny

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because we would, I learned this from years and years of doing the late night show, but we would,

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it hasn't really happened on the podcast because on the podcast, you don't make as many, you know?

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Right. The real challenge was do a late night show. And I did ended up doing like whatever it

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is, 4,000 hours of broadcasting three guests a night or sometimes not even music. Sometimes three

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talk guests a night and you, you do the math and you realize there was so many times I was out there

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with the seventh lead on a WB show that you've never heard of that lasted three months

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named Saz Bickler. And I'm like, here he is. And he's 19. He's had no life experience and he plays

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Chiz. You all know us. He's Chiz on You Better Not.

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Saz Bickler. And he would come out and he's just, you know, six weeks ago was working at

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whatever polishing trays at Chipotle. And now he's sitting there and yeah, sometimes lightning

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strikes and this kid has an amazing things to say, but there's a lot of times where they're,

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they've got absolutely nothing to say. And so I would just start talking.

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And fortunately as sidekick, Andy Rector is really funny. And Andy would be sitting on

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the other side and I'd be like, you know, Saz, it's funny because it says you worked at Chipotle.

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Now I was in Chipotle once and I have to say, and then Andy would go like, oh, you got, don't get me

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started on Chipotle. And we would go and Saz would be laughing and then the whole thing would be over

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and I'd say, Saz, fantastic. You know, oh no, you better not check it out on the WB. And everyone

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would applaud. And then, uh, my producer afterwards would say, you know, you were worried

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about him. I thought Saz did pretty well. And I'd say, Saz didn't say a fucking thing. He didn't say

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a fucking thing. Look at the fucking tape. It's me and Andy talking about Chipotle.

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Hey, if you like that, head over to where everybody knows your name to listen to the rest of my

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conversation with Ted and Woody now, and be sure to subscribe and follow wherever you get your

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podcasts. These guys are really fun. Check it out.

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