Andy Richter Volunteered To Administer Conan’s Anesthetic | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

okay true story uh the other day I walk. into our wonderful Offices here in. Larchmont Los Angeles and I stroll in. and I I hear that uh our talent. coordinator Maddie Ogden is chatting. away she's terrific by the way she is. she is great she has this amazing sense. of style uh she's very funny comic in. her owner she's a very funny uh stand up. comedian and she also greets all the. guests when they come in she makes them. feel right at home she puts these. baskets of food I encourage you if you. haven't been a guest on the show be a.

guest just to meet Maddie and get the. snacks yeah okay you do not have to be. famous uh trust me that's the new. culture anyway. Maddie was talking and she apparently. had had some dental surgery and sort of. they excavate the tooth a little bit and. then uh if you clean it out too much you. get something called dry socket that's. where literally some of the nerves and. then this is going to freak some people. out but some of the nerves in the jaw. get exposed and it's temporary it goes.

away. but what you have to do is you have to. put a little bit of a medication in. there that numbs the pain okay so you. have to literally drop this medication. down into this little hole in your tooth. and it numbs the pain and then you're. fine okay this brought back a memory a. repressed memory that I have okay okay. and it's a story about what an amazing. man Andy Richter is. that's here's how it goes. a number of years ago when I'm doing the. Late Night show back in the old days in. New York and Rockefeller Center I had to.

have this work done in my tooth and they. said we're going to finish this up later. but you should be fine you're going to. have some pain. um so here's what you do. get someone on your staff. to here's a little vial of liquid and. aesthetic get some of your staff to take. these little balls of. um of cotton tiny and dip and soak them. in this liquid anesthetic and then reach. back with tweezers and here are the. tweezers we're giving them to you and.

drop them into this part of your tooth. so I go thinking how big is the hole. it's like a little hole in your tooth. not that big in the tooth yeah so I'm. getting to it so I I think oh this will. be easy and so I I I get to work and I. think wait a minute who do I ask to do. this and I'm I'm I'm kind of looking. around I'm thinking you can't ask an. intern and I'm not going to ask my. assistant this is just weird I don't. know who to ask. what am I gonna do maybe I could yell at.

a writer no these writers they all have. you know they're all addicts and stuff. their hands Shake that's not going to. work so you know I'm telling the problem. to somebody and I'm saying uh yeah it's. starting to hurt now and Andy Richter. God bless his soul my on-air sidekick. says I'll do it. what's the big deal so anyway for about. two weeks before the show he's dressed. up he's in makeup I'm dressed up I'm in. makeup the band's playing. I don't know why they did that song.

um and I'm in my dressing room and Andy. would come and go like it's you know. 4 30 time to go and he would take out. the stuff and he would like an expert he. would dip the little cotton ball in. there and then go open wide and I'd open. wide and um I don't know why he's. Roseanne yeah and then he'd reached way. back there and like with this seriously. with the skill of an eye surgeon he. would drop this little pellet into the.

hole this was pretty small and it would. go down and land perfectly and go all. right let's go to the show oh my God you. know did Regis ever do this for Kathy. Lee did Ed McMahon ever do this for. Johnny Carson special this is special. that's nice and I just thought I it just. gave me this reminder that like I think. I I blocked all of that out you know. whether you're on a cross-country drive. or on your daily commute time in the car. is perfect for listening to podcasts. like I don't know this one.

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get like your car breaks down and you're. just there sitting there like a chump. yeah with no coverage yeah not this guy. I've got T-Mobile got 5G if you find out. more at t-mobile.com see why that's. s-e-e-w-h-y what'd you do for Andy. um I remember trying to push a five. dollar bill into his hand when it was. all over five yeah he could have gotten. him a nice gift I thought I said hey. buddy go out in the town tonight me and.

it was a five dollar bill five in New. York City I know I didn't do anything I. don't know I was a child of the. depression so I thought he can he can no. I mean I was very depressed oh right but. I thought he could go out on the town. my mother used to do that she would send. us to the store there's like six kids. and she she'd give us you know a quarter. and say Well if you get sodas. until Franklin Roosevelt I said hi all. right but we used to go like Mom you.

can't get we can't all get Cokes for a. quarter well I think you can. uh but anyway I was just I had this. sense because Maddie brought it up I. thought that's unusual that's that's the. kind of I was lucky lucky have a real. friend like that turn the favor to her. and put her little pellets in her mouth. no I think in today's climate that would. be creepy yeah yeah you did you did. officiate his wedding recently so that's. nice no and to be serious to be honest I. didn't press a five dollar bill into his.

hand no no it was seven dollars oh. crinkly old up ones most of which. were taped together. but anyway I just had a this is a memory. of something that I remember very. clearly and and also what an unusual you. know we had a you know a TV show that. was on a network and it's kind of a big. deal and we have this big studio and big. guests and no one would ever believe. that if I told them that it's literally. minutes before we go out there and do. this show and Andy's saying ah.

countenance have a seat you're right. Andy it's time open your mouth dip dip. dip dip squirt Scorch bombs away I'm. surprised you guys actually didn't do. this on the show I know we should have. done it on the show but uh no I think. it's okay. I will say this whenever that stuff used. to wear off oh man that would uh you'd. feel you'd you'd feel that I would feel. that so yeah get it but anyway. um Andy Richter a great man and an.

incredible Dental technician oh he's. he's not well he's yeah I think he's. actually being schooled right now he. learned he said I was like oh this is. fantastic. he's one of the best in Beverly Hills. it's a side it's a side hustle for him. he makes millions of dollars a year and. that's all he does is drop little. anesthetics down tiny holes I wish I. hadn't said tiny homes.