Conan Still Gets Asked About “The Simpsons” (Feat. Zach Braff) | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

so a good person comes out in a couple. of days yes March 24th I mean I can't. imagine what went into making it uh just. like emotionally and also just a sheer. hard work it was really it was really. I'm but I'm really proud of it and I. hope people go check it out um it's a. struggle to get people to go to the. theaters these days so here's my my. blatant ask to go check it out in the. theaters um it's it's it's beautifully. shot by an amazing cinematographer and. and um and I really do believe they both. give pretty outstanding performances.

yeah they do you know that because you. saw it yeah I do know that and uh and. also if it helps I'm putting a brand new. microwave oven uh still in the box under. one of the seats. this thing retails for like 160 I didn't. say it was a good microwave so when. you're in the theater make sure to look. under your seat yeah just briefly but. don't you keep your eye on the screen. um and how are you right now are you and. now that this process is done. you're in a good place I am in a good.

place I'm I'm I have a lot of fun stuff. uh happening um I directed an episode of. Bill's new show shrinking which I'm. which I'm really proud of I think it's a. really good show. um and uh and releasing this movie which. is has been my baby for so long uh it. was it was ready to be released at the. end of last year but um Florence had two. other big movies come out and so we. decided to hold it for the spring. um so you know it's holding something. you're proud of that you want to share. with the world back for so long is now.

it's finally coming out so it's really. exciting yeah that's the thing that I. say I can't you know I'm in the we think. of it it's gone but what about the. Simpsons I mean there's oh that was. different you knew you'd written a funny. joke and you had to wait like how long. yes I know I know that was a different. experience but that was so long ago I. mean Simpsons fans will come up to me. and talk to me as if I just finished. working on the episode that I worked on. that they liked and I'll I have to. explain to them because they're so young. that I'm uh you know I think you wrote.

it like recently or else they don't. really they just they just think oh so. you know they're quoting lines from. things and I'll think I don't know what. you're talking about uh you know I it's. like telling a whenever a confederate. soldier who's like 98 remember that in. that first battle I'm like no I don't I. don't remember it was so long ago I. should have said Union I know I was. really confused about your choice of a. confederation. can I just say I just like the cap they. had that Cadet cap was a good cap yeah.

the union guys had those yeah no they. were blue I like a gray cat Okay a great. a blue cap is too strong it's like the. world where you're going and chatting up. old Confederate soldiers yeah I want to. see that podcast it sounds like a. podcast yeah let's do a much better. guess than me. um but uh they'll talk to me about this. thing but I do remember back then the. time between thinking of the idea for an. episode and seeing it could be a year.

more than a year because it was. animation yeah that's what's so crazy. about animation and it's it really is. analogous here because I've had to wait. so long we completed it and we had to. wait so long to finally share it it's. it's made me think of you in animation. like wow we're all so proud of that. episode it's gonna be a year for anyone. to see it you know my life has changed. so much Sona has it yeah let me tell you. how I can just get all this stuff. delivered right to my door I mean you. grew up when I did in the early 1920s. that was unheard of you know a kid in a.

cap you had to hey boy boy you know and. you'd have to say yes sir and you'd have. to say you know toss him a coin go get. me that goose in the window he'd say yes. sir Mr Scrooge but it was that was was. like back then yeah but now it's not so. much of our world digitized and. automated why stick to Old School. mailing and shipping if you mail or ship. often let stamps.com do the hard part. for you simply print Postage and. shipping labels right from your home or. office it's ready to go in minutes no.

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hero we make our podcast in Larchmont. and in La there are all these cafes and. I always see is people working on their. screenplay yeah that's what people came. out here to do is yeah write their. screenplay and I was sitting yesterday. with uh two of the guys I work with uh. Mike and that and they were just I think. there were four people around me working. on screenplays and I think it's just. it's such a gift to get something made. because so many things aren't made. yeah it's important it's the most insane. obstacle course to get anything made. yeah I mean uh it's even with Morgan.

Freeman and Florence Pugh uh starring. it's not like um you know everyone's. gonna make it I mean you have to find. the right person who wants to yeah you. also want to make someone you want to. find someone who's going to honor the. vision they're going to let you make it. how you want to make it exactly and not. say we have an idea they're buddy cops. yeah that is yeah not what I wrote yeah. I wrote a story about loss and you know. Crossing generations and how people do. in them nope.

there's another there's another great uh. thing I don't know if you've ever. watched uh there was a spoof of the. pilot making process called the TV set. with David Duchovny I think I did see. that. I highly recommend that too you'll love. that um but there's a funny moment in. that where the company plays the. showrunner and it's his idea and they're. they're finally making. this thing and uh Sigourney Weaver plays. the head of the studio and she she comes. to him she goes look we want to talk to. you about the the suicide uh thing with. your brother in the story.

and he goes that that's that was the. whole impetus for the script I mean the. reason the reason I wrote this script. was my brother's suicide and and uh that. started the whole story and it's kind of. the whole foundation on upon which this. is built and there's a long pause and. she goes. but what if it wasn't. [Laughter]. well Zach Braff congratulations on a. good person and on a uh an excellent.

career and uh and thank you for being so. supportive of me through all the years. you've always been a cheerleader of mine. and I really genuinely appreciate it. well you're I mean since the first time. I saw you I thought this guy's really. funny and you have such a great energy. and spirit and so and I'm glad I'm proud. of what you've I'm proud I always it's. so funny when I'm when I because I'm. older than so many of the people that I. interview and you know including Patrick. Stewart.

as they get younger I get older uh no. but um I do when young when super young. people come on my came on my late night. show and I liked them and then they go. on to challenge themselves and do cool. things I always take a little bit of. like oh good for you as if you were my. son well you can you can say that and. you can say proud because I you knew me. right when I was yeah wide-eyed in. beginning and uh and um I'm your. Orthodox father. this is the weirdest version of Star. Wars.

what a twist you didn't see that coming. Luke I'm your Orthodox father.