Al Franken Isn’t As Brave As Volodymyr Zelensky | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

now that you're doing stand up and I. love the name of your. tour and I I have it right here and I'm. gonna I'm gonna read it off this piece. of paper. because that's how I work I like to. include people in the process so they. can see behind the scenes what's. happening all right you're turning the. country and the name of the tour is the. only former U.S senator currently on. tour. I love that now I'm gonna say what it. was are you mostly talking are you. talking about current events a lot in.

your stand-up are you talking about your. years in the Senate it's sort of. biographical so how I became you know. like zielinski right is considered now. probably the bravest person and of. course comedian bravest profession yeah. I believe so yeah yeah podcaster maybe. third. um that sounds right as profession yeah. uh but of comedians Jewish comedians. the bravest. and uh then well the Irish of course.

Jewish comedians who go into politics. like zelenski the bravest yeah so so. then I talk about how I became one of. the basically the second bravest person. so it's biographical and then I get to. me and the Senate and they talk about. you know. those colleagues and. and then I go yeah and then I go into. some stuff that's happening now you know. zielinski famously uh Putin invades and.

the. United States reaches out and says we. can airlift you out of there right away. and he says I need guns not a ride such. a cool line. now perfect Al you in that same. situation I see you fleeing with a. suitcase. running running with a suitcase that. keeps flapping open.

and long underwear falls out and you've. got to stop and shove it back in and. then you keep running true or false. I've thought about this myself I mean it. was ballsy I mean he said I don't want. to ride I want an ammunition and that. was pretty I have to ask you either. you're you're married to a guy from. Russia but he's from Armenia which was. part of the Soviet Union oh yeah but he. I mean he speaks Russian and Tack has. children's toys that are from his youth.

yeah. yeah in the Soviet Union uh where you. little little children's toys do your. kids play with The Little Soviet toys. they love those Soviet toys they're cute. you pull the string and it says get in. line for bread. yeah we start a podcast about uh. American versus Soviet toys called. perestoica that's Paris. listen to that that's great well those.

would be French toys. okay. God goodbye hey wait thank you hey wait. a minute Al this is very rare but the. new low light has just gone off. he's standing he's still standing. standing wow this is the longest Ovation. amazing uh wow look just. taking in all the love. promise Paris toika.

it would be French toys. every time you came on my show in the. late night show years and years and. years you'd come on and at the end. you would do an insane dance up and down. the aisles running and running and. burning all these calories and the. audience loved it and then I think you. never ran it nine times out of ten if. not ten times out of 10 it got cut for. time oh that you've been you must have. you worked so hard on that ending and it. was fantastic I think it got in once I'm.

not sure it did now this was. um. uh The Comedy of energy. that's all it was right it's called what. they used to call it in Vaudeville was a. sweat Act. yes they would say it's a sweat out. there's just a lot of jumping around and. then of course Jack Benny or you know. there are other what was the theme. that's the end of the thing you can sing. the theme of the show.

oh here we go. you have to imagine a big stairway okay. and I would just. you're like. yeah. and it lasted for ever oh this. song would go and go and go and I think. the band didn't want to cut you off so. they'd keep it going your resting heart. rate when you were done was something.

like 265 and uh and then because the. show would end with me saying all right. you know tomorrow Lenny Kravitz and then. Bang. out completely out and there was all. this wasted energy yeah and there was. not seen by the American public it was. still worth it to entertain you and. entertain me and entertain the 185. people that were in that room that's. right that's right and that's all. so I can make just.

profit I don't know if you know he's a. community of Minnesota who's a great. writer said if I can make just one. person laugh. then I know it's a Tuesday night at The. Comedy Store. laughs.