Conan Explains What Happened To His Body After “Hot Ones” | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

hey there and welcome to con O'Brien. needs a friend and uh got my two Chums. with me right here hi oh sorry let me. put my glasses on oh Matt you're here. too gosh no uh Matt gorley of course. here and Sonam of sessan yeah how are. you I'm doing great how are you I'm. doing great are you I am okay A lot of. people are asking me how do I feel cuz. you you ate a you ate a lot of spicy. food on hot ones yes I went on the show. hot ones uh and and um I did not I was.

aware of the show obviously it's a very. successful show I hadn't really uh can't. say I was an expert on the show I went. in thinking uh well whatever happens I. just have to eat all the wings and and. just go for it and make a fool of myself. and so that's I kind of had that plan in. mind but didn't know much beyond that. the host very good excellent I like that. guy a lot he's very good interviewer is. he's a really good interviewer and um.

and they do a really good job on that. show so Sean's asking me questions and I. was just determined to just keep. stuffing These Wings in no matter what. and then of course me being me I start. drinking the sauce yeah and rubbing it. around on my face and my chest and. everything and um the whole and I so. when I walk around now because a lot of. people have seen this people keep asking. me if I'm okay I wonder the same thing. well I also just watched Conan mus go. which is fantastic by the way and in. Thailand you get pretty floored albeit.

comedy Yeah comedically by some sauce so. I thought you're going to go down when I. see hot ones yeah uh no well we played. that up for comedy and then uh and and. and you're allowed to in the in a sketch. world or comedy world you can fake. things a little bit I'm aware of yes is. that how Comedy Works coms really I. really when I look at you two I think an. explanation might be in. order so what's the deal do you not have. taste buds or something how how did you. do that I have never seen you eat spicy.

food I don't eat spicy food that's I you. know there's people who like put Tabasco. or Tapo on stuff I've I've had so many. meals with you and I've never seen you. eat spicy food I have a theory is that. the only thing worse than that amount of. thermal spice would be you not somehow. getting the attention that eating all of. that would give you yes and all joking. aside and also I've had a bunch of. people pause it that uh I have the. redhaired Jean which is um there's a.

you know when I go to the dentist and. they give me Nova cane they then go to. drill and it's like I haven't had Nova. cane and I'm always saying I I feel. everything right now and they would and. they always say oh yeah you're a redhead. I don't know if that's but I've had many. dentists say that to me and they keep. they give me a lot more and they say the. redhe heads have uh whatever higher pain. threshold or something I don't know what. it is meaning you feel less pain you. feel more pain I you don't well you. don't feel I don't know I don't know. exactly how it works and I'm just. freewheeling here I just know what I've.

been told by people I don't think it's. it I think you have it Matt which is. I've always been if I think something. will be funny I'll do it and deal with. it later and did you yeah I did deal. with it later I I was dealt with later. how did it manifest itself um I be I. spot welded I an iron I spot welded I'm. thinking the same thing I spot welded I. went to I went I wanted it to be useful. and how much did you how much did.

your butt. hurt here's what I decided to do and do. you have butt taste buds here's what I. decided to do I decided that I wanted. after I ingested all that I wanted it to. be useful so I found a construction site. where they were doing spot. welding and I went there and I said. gentlemen if you want I can weld these. GDs for you in about I'm guessing about. 15 minutes you'll need to avert your. eyes cuz I'll be uh dropping my.

pants and um they said uh okay and I. said I will need someone to stay behind. and light it and then uh we'll be all. set to go so there's a building in the. Mid Wilshire District that's going up. and I um I think I did about 65 rivets. in the. building and people were driving by. saying con. O'Brien's pants are around his ankles. and I think fire is shooting out of his.

ass and he's welding a building and. here's the biggest. problem I had to join the. union but that way everybody wins. there's a building and trust me that. section of the building will never fall. that's that's the best and they've had. an engineer say whoever did this these. are heat temperatures we've never. seen uh so every time you're going to. weld something you just have to eat a. lot of hot wings yes I'm in the union. now and all I have to do is I've got all.

the sauces from hot ones you are the. saddest X-Men ever. yeah meet the X-Men really he's on the. X-Men what do we do with him his name's. asswell what's this super and I just and. you know what it is I I have a Bandelier. and instead of instead of uh ammunition. it's just. sauces and they're like what are we. going to do how are we going to get out. of this thing the bad guys have sealed. Us in this led.

lead safe hold on a. second just to pull your pants down you. have to pull your pants down does your. uniform have a compartment oh yeah the. uniform has and like a union suit the. little thing little flap you well it's. actually it's a very tiny flap that's. the exact circumference of an anus oh. it's a tiny Circle that unfl flaps and. then just a beam of the whitest light. you've ever scene comes out phosphorus.

of phosphorus yeah and um and everyone. has to put on welding goggles oh God but. uh but no I did well if you've known. like there are many times where I've. done I would do sketches and they would. if I think it's funny to get thrown out. of a window yes even at my age I will. say no no no I want to do it Jeff Ross. always goes oh oh come on come on don't. get on I'm like no no I want to do it. you're the Tom Cruz of Comedy where he. does Action that way you will do comedy. that way but he does it.

well he does cool things but I he does. cool things but I love to still because. I don't know I was in a a a lot of. brothers and I like to be tossed around. I like to smash through things I'm very. happy to do it and then if I hear if I. feel something give I'll just keep doing. it if if I think people are laughing and. we used to have years on the show it. would always come out in animal segments. because people would come and they would. bring I don't love I I you know I get. creeped out around snakes and I get.

creeped out around insects and spiders. they would bring them and I would I. would say oh no no just put it on my. forehead and I would do it because. audiences really liked it and I knew oh. in a single this is. funny but in in real life if there's no. one there to laugh at it I would be. horrified and never do it so what was. the immediate the immediate response to. the being on. was um I I think my eyes were incredibly.

runny and my mouth really hurt the thing. that was the most interesting is that I. my wedding ring some sauce cuz I was. rubbing my hands around in the sauce. yeah you rubbed it on your nipples and. um some got TR cuz I you washed your. hands right afterwards but some of the. sauce got underneath my wedding ring and. my wedding ring was I was uh David. hopping was driving me home and he was. like are you are you okay and I'm like. I'm fine but I noticed that my wedding.

ring was burning Sy and it has well it. hasn't burned like that since they put. it on me at the. altar take that liiza. um uh but um it it it was burning and. burning and then I I took it off and I. saw like oh right there's acid oh my God. underneath it so uh but my thanks to um. the craziest thing about that is that. the hot ones generated all these nice. things that people were saying on line. and retrospective about oh I really like.

the thing Conan did in 98 I like the. thing he did in 2004 which is all very. sweet but I had a bunch of friends who. saw my name all over Twitter and the. first assumption is he's dead so I had I. did have people say oh my God I thought. finally we can all talk now Liza. immediately got into another. relationship immediately immed she has a. guy on deck for sure oh yeah sorry can I.

also say uh Jose was so funny as the. doctor I mean he really made me laugh a. lot this is the story of that Jose aroyo. is extremely talented uh comedy writer. and Jose's been a writer for me for. years and he's worked on travel shows. and the show and he's just he's. brilliant Jose is brilliant and I love. him to death Jose many times whenever we. did a sketch where someone had to be in. a white coat and be an authority figure. like a scientist or a doctor Jose would.

uh play that and so I the day before or. maybe two days before hot ones I thought. I don't think anyone's done this but I. want to show up with my physician Dr. aroyo so I call Jose and I said Jose I'm. going to go on this show hot ones he's. like yeah I know hot ones and I said and. I love Jose because he's just knows. exactly I went and so I want to bring. you on he's like yeah yeah you're doctor. uhuh and I said and I said you know. we're not even doing a show you know. Jose's not working for me technically.

right now I said uh do you have a lab. coat and he went uh yeah I have a. medical coat yeah and um he's not a. doctor oh my God and he's like and he's. got a stethoscope because he knows and. if anyone wants to see him one of the. reasons I really wanted him to do that. was because Jose uh um we shot a segment. when we did a travel show in Australia. and we're on Bondi Beach which is and. there's that iconic shot um there's that. famous lifeguard show that's from Bondi. Beach there and so I wanted to train to. be a lifeguard there so we got an iconic.

shot of me running on the beach in slow. motion and then you widen out and I'm. running with my. dermatologist in slow motion who's. running alongside me and it was Jose in. full uh Dr a royal regalia so if you. want to see uh a very funny clip look up. I this must be out there somewhere the. funniest line he had on the hot ones was. so many you go like what did you study. and he goes in the '90s in the '90s yeah. where did you.

yeah where'd you go to school in the. '90s no yeah in 1998 when he text your. pulse and he just chokes you he says. it's it's God no he is he is so funny. and eternal thanks uh to Jose aroyo and. also just another he is brilliant across. the board he's a great writer but he's. also a really funny cartoonist he's had. cartoons in the New Yorkers a couple I. think one one time I gave him an idea. for a cartoon and he drew it up and uh. submitted it under both our initials and. got in and I was like I was delighted.

Jose is a uh a force so I just wanted to. quickly ask a lot of fans were wondering. uh two things first of all did you know. what you were getting yourself into and. and was there kind of any prep. beforehand and also no was there a. moment at which you were like this is a. bad idea while you were doing it no I I. didn't I just I don't know I got through. a bunch of the Wings and I thought I can. I can do this and also even if I can't. do it I'm going to do it does that make. sense like yeah you're in the zone.

you're because because early on I'm I'm. I'm taunting sea oh baby think you know. and so once you do that there's only one. way you can go you can't stop after the. fourth wing and then start talking about. you I'm really excited about my new. project did I have to smash everything. probably not did I have to rant and have. milk come out my mouth not sure yeah but. those are things that you do so that. your children never look you in the eye. again.