Bill Hader Recalls “Perfect” Fart Prank From “Collateral Damage” Set | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

Hi, my name is Bill her and I. feel grateful about being Conan. O'Brien's friends. That's so sweet. That's really nice. You just were. telling me just before the we started. rolling. Is it rolling? Recording. Rolling. Rolling. Okay. I don't know the. lingo. I'm new in the business. You said that you heard someone walked. up to you. What? On the street? Yeah. And said, "Why are you and Conan? Would. you guys uh you're on his podcast? All. you guys do is just laugh and.

giggle, but there's no talking. It's. like one guy talks and the other guy's. laughing over that guy. And. uh and I just wish there was more of a. discourse. Well, I was like, I just want to I just. want to with that guy now. We. should just howl the whole time and say. nothing. It's like this just so hard. to to figure that. Yeah, the Can septum.

fixed. Yeah, that's what I would say to. him. First of all, Septum Sam. Yeah, he I I was the guy uh. many women very interested in me. uh have a long line of. suited but those are always the people. that would come up to you that would. have an issue in New York especially you. would come up and go I didn't really.

like the show like like no one comes up. like I couldn't believe the show was so. bad like it was. it was always like the when I first. started SNL it was always guys walking. up and going they should use you more. that's nice which was very Sweet. That's. Lauren. These guys said I should use you. more. Who? Who are they? No. Show me. Wait. Wait. Where are they? Oh. god.

There's I was just remembering we were. and this is all going to be random. thoughts that come into my head because. that's what happens when I talk to you. But I was just remembering when I worked. at SNL all those years ago, Leslie. Nielsson was the guest and he famously. had this he had this thing made that. would make a farting noise and he he. went to like a craftsman. I mean you. could this thing was not something he. bought in a novelty shop. Leslie. Nielsen, this was his sense of humor. He. want this thing was beautifully made. was made of, you know, some sort of.

teak, some sort of polished wood and it. had brass fittings and everything. And. he would make these farting noise and I. remembered uh you'd be talking to him. like, "Okay, so anyway, Leslie, the idea. of this bit." Yeah. And he'd be doing it. and you'd be like, "Oh, okay." But then. he kept doing it to Lauren and you. realize it would nothing, you know, because of the 50th anniversary. There's. all these documentaries now, Lauren and. Lauren. Lauren always keeps his dignity. in any situation. And I'll never forget. Leslie Nielson. Lauren would be like, "So, I think we're going to.

do and" and Leslie Nielson would always. do kind of a take like to the side, like, "Who was that?" You know, an. innocent hazy innocent Leslie Nielson. face take. And you could see that big. chunks of Lauren's organs were dying. Just d like the fellow Canadian. Yeah. Fellow Canadian. He's having he's. hosting the show. Such a solid. Yeah. He comes in with this device. Yeah, he. comes in with this device and uh it's.

just Lauren's least favorite kind of. comedy and uh I was I just was. fascinated and there was nothing. I was. a PA on this uh I've talked about a. couple times the Arnold Schwarzenegger. movie Collateral Damage and this guy's. uh uh Bill Hardy actually was his name. and uh and uh Jason Altieri they had a. fart machine at their miss and they put. it on the boom guy Earl Samson they put. it on his belt without him knowing it.

Right. So he was in an. elevator with Schwarzenegger and. uh this uh Francesca Neri was the. actress and they're having this really. intense scene like we got to get out of. here and we need and it was very Yeah. Yeah. And they somehow could do it where. it wasn't just like it was like. realistic. And so we were all kind of like at the. monitor listening. So it's him going to.

do the. [Music]. vis if we can get the antidote everybody. will. know that you are going to be all right. and we were like I can't hear it can you. hear it or get and whatever and then we. knew it was working cuz then the clapper. came in and the guy was laughing it was. shaking he was like ticking tick ring. and it came out we were like oh good and. yeah the Sparl Samson the boom guy was. like where is that coming from and it. was on his belt Oh, I just need you to.

get get out of here. Does Does Arnold ever call it out and. say, "What's happening?" No, I think I. think after I think somebody came in and. was like, "Get that off like took it off. his belt and like came over and like and. we all and we all acted like stupid like. what? Wait, what happened? Who did that? That was 25 years ago. Sorry Jason, Bill, I just outed you guys." But yeah, we were all like, "Wait, what's going. on?".

But it was so perfect. It was too big a. fart, so it wouldn't have worked. It had. to be No, if it had been the uh you. Leslie Nielsen type variety, it's too. much. Lauren would have liked this. He. would have been like, "It's not wet.