Conan Nearly Crashed Into Eddie Murphy's Car (Feat. John Mulaney) | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

late night I mean you it's so funny CU. you did the same thing but at the. highest possible Stakes nightly and I. don't think now doing it a little I mean. meaning six episodes in one so just but. just having a taste of it I'm like there. is a thing where you just can't help but. do it differently because you know and I. got the sense those early years of late. night it was like you guys couldn't help. but make it as it's almost like for you. to do the best job possible you had to.

make it as U weird as it was yes like. that to you was doing a good job yes if. we thought of an idea and it wasn't just. anti-establishment no it was just really. ideas that delighted us but we knew that. anyone randomly tuning in would probably. be very confused except uh you know a. young John meany who might really like. it if only I had known you then that. would have I've said this to other. people would have given me great Solace. to know that you were out there as a kid.

rooting us on God but I think of the. things we do now and it's like watching. yourself uh if you had footage of. yourself skateboarding over sharks you. know uh doing some stunt that you did at. the time without thinking too much about. it and now I look at it and I'm. frightened for the younger me because we. would do a whole episode where Andy and. I got locked in a meat locker yeah and. we had flashbacks and it's insane. because we'd only been on the air for a.

couple of months and we were totally I. think uh it was all very suicidal and. nobody was happy we were making. ourselves happy um but what one of the. things I saw on your show that really. made me happy it's a great idea was you. got a bunch of people together who had. played Willie lman some of them uh from. Death of a Salesman some of them quite. like a bunch of very famous actors. Christopher Lloyd Anthony leagle Rob. Maro yeah and and you got them in there.

and you did a focus group with them as. as a bunch of Willie Lans and it just. was we live in this era where I think. people got intoxicated at some point. with comedy having a point and comedy. meaning something and comedy comedy. driving the conversation and comedy you. know whatever the conversation became a. term yeah ex I never used to hear about. the conversation no no and um I also you.

know I think it's a feedback loop. sometimes because the Press that's what. they cover name. names the Press likes to cover uh that. kind of stuff so if and by the way it's. it those shows are good and and those. people do good work and it's easier to. cover it's I wouldn't know what to write. covering comedy is also bizarre because. it's kind of an objective result like it. kind of worked or it didn't it's it's by. sorry it's intensely subjective but then. in terms of the show doing the piece it.

worked or it didn't but I think um I. just love when there's a really funny. idea that's very. creative uh I I enjoy it so much more. and I I swear to God I'll go to my grave. thinking it has uh a power that's hard. to understand but it's there so the wiie. lman thing was making me really laugh I. really love you throwing to commercials. that don't aren't are not commercial.

that don't need to exist but I know that. you grew up seeing people you know like. me or Letterman or whatever throwing to. Commercial and you know that it's part. of this right RIT this this this. religious right that you say we're going. to take a break but it's not I stole. Cavit that he always said we'll be back. after this message which I found was. like a weird way to refer to commercials. right like they're just there's a. statement a company wants to make a. statement.

we are no we in no way have no yeah we. in no way profit it's like doing TV it. feels like uh it feels like doing like. TV when TV were on TV when TV were on TV. I I don't think you should have a show. anymore yeah I know I think you this is. pre-recorded well that's the other thing. too that feels like doing broadcast TVs. yes well also you start the show uh at. what time do you start it in p.m.

Pacific we go live 10 p.m. New York. right but it was kind of exciting you. walked out and you said hello everybody. it is 9:01 um oh yeah I give time in. temp so 7:02 in Los Angeles the other. night it was 67 it was rainy there's. something about that where I thought a. lot of people if they're going to do. live TV they want to do something like. I'm going to put my head in a tiger's. mouth and that's going to make it. compelling you were giving um the exact. time and temperature and I found it. exciting yeah thank you I I appreciate.

that a lot thank you it's like. wow yeah I appreciate that great well I. could also look at my Apple watch but uh. I don't know it was it looks like you're. having fun too it's incredibly fun I. would say um doing those six episodes. was and then working on this new. Incarnation it can be tiring but it's. never hard it is a really it it just is. really fun I have to say I haven't had a. lot of experiences like that where.

there's kind of no other than wanting to. realize the things we want to do as best. we can there's no like uh I don't know. there's not there's no obstacle maybe. there should be some but there's no. obstacle right also uh I got a little. bit of nostalgia because you're coming. from Sunset G Studios which is where. Greg Daniels and I started that was my. first we got out of college uh summer. after college we're sending out you know.

trying to write for TV uh we got crazy. lucky and got a starting gig uh at a. show called not necessarily the news. that that taped at Sunset go Studios. nice that's still imprinted on my brain. I felt that we had gone to Saturn that's. how strange it was to go from Boston. Massachusetts and I had been on a plane. like twice and I'm suddenly in Los. Angeles expecting to see Eric Estrada. you.

sure just you just keep thinking where. are the celebrities there must this is. where the celebrities are and you're. walking around Hollywood and you're. mostly uh seeing sex workers um and this. the Walk of Fame Barbara. broccoli well I remember being stunned. at how cidi I. misunderstood and Greg my partner Greg. Daniels did too we confused Hollywood. with like Beverly Hills yeah so I. thought Hollywood was where all the.

stars lived and that's where the. Mansions were so we got a place like on. uh I don't know in like Korea Town and. then we were like let's get spiffed up. and go over to Hollywood and we were. walking around the Hollywood Walk of. Fame which of course is your dodging. vomit and uh it's it's Grim well you. could buy I mean you you could go buy a. sword or a bong or something I know Grim. you're right I I was too harsh I think.

it was just the disparity from what I. thought I was going to see Sunset Gower. is great because when you actually go to. bigger studios in Los Angeles they're so. there's such remote areas other than. Paramount there's such remote. overwhelming faceless just all consuming. areas once you drive on the lot Sunset. Gower is like next to the Gower Gulch. which is like a western themed R Aid and. the Arby's sign that's sort of famous. which is no longer even an Arby's right. and then like like a gate and you drive.

on and it's like a few build Sunset G is. just very lowkey Sunset G looks the way. a studio is supposed to look from like. the 19 Blazing Saddles type Studio of. everyone running in yeah yes and that. there'd be a bunch of people outside. with autograph books Waiting for a Star. to sign an autograph you know that Elvis. story with the Paramount lot which one. so when he first started making movies. he drived through those Melrose Gates. and he had to hide under all these coats. you know cuz the girls would be swarming. the gates and want to know which car was. in and he makes him goes to the Army.

movie movie movie movie movie he's deep. in like you know you know blue Tampa or. whatever the films were by the end right. girls girls girls yeah I think that was. even kind of a hit this is like the late. era later 60s and the colonel would. still tell him to hide under the coats. but there was no one waiting there yeah. we have to do that for Conan when he. comes yeah I have a sunset G story which. is I was once driving to work and I know. exactly when this would have been cuz.

you could look it up but I'm going down. Gower Street I take the right off Sunset. I'm going down Gower I see a parking. space and I turn around right near where. Paramount is sweet I I do a U-turn an. illegal uturn really quickly and a car. is just then pulling in to the gates and. I almost hit it and I sto fast in my. shitty car and the person looking out. the window at me is Eddie Murphy oh he's. not driving he's being driven he's in.

the passenger side and he's shooting The. Golden Child so I almost ended Eddie. Murphy's life as he was making the. Golden Child what what year would that. be that movie came out in 1986 okay. that's per same weekend is Three Amigos. oh oh is that true yeah and it it beat. Three Amigos at the box office and they. those guys those Three Amigos guys will. tell you that at the drop of a. hat but Three Amigos has aged better. exactly but you can't convince some of.

when when people feel attached to. something it's in a sweet way they're. very like well it didn't open Golden. Child won the week you know I I think. it's done okay since they never get over. it yeah a little bit yeah in a nice way. um it doesn't sound nice to me yeah I. know I'm just cushioning uh the story of. how Petty they. are I'm trying with some interjecting. positivity at the end no but it's nice. they're fixated on their own failures. it's narcissistic but it's sweet it's. nice it's nice but it's nice you can.

always just add it's nice Marty Marty. can't see the forest for the trees he's. completely blindsided by failure but. it's sweet he's a good guy it's nice and. it's fun and people like it and it's. nice it's good to always remember the. Tates and the Lanas were murdered within. two days but it's nice it's nice it's. nice that's it's Lo FAS why am I. laughing.