Conan Tests His Voice Against A Professional Opera Singer | Conan O’Brien Needs a Fan

Well, this is somewhat instructive and I'm, I'm, I feel a little more confident now about my singing because, and what can I do to help my speaking voice? Do you think my speaking voice could be pitched differently? Is there any exercise I could do? No, I wouldn't change a thing. In fact, um whenever you, whenever I consider people who talk for a living, um. Now, the extreme would be someone like an NBA coach. Who's screaming at screaming at the players on, on court and a huge, a tremendously loud environment. And you know, you hear like Tom Tibideau,

who's like at a press conference. He's like, ah, players, yeah. he's lost his voice completely. He's blown it out. Yeah. Yeah. And so anyone who uses their voice professionally, if they, and as you've shown in three decades of doing this, your voice has never, I mean, has it ever gone out? Have you ever had to cancel a show? I've had problems with my voice um in the past, just from screaming at assistants and interns. (laughing). Um. Only and never at anyone who's at my level. I always punch down, you know?

So, I just like, I like to lose it at people who. um have no control over me. There's no way they can. Right, right David? Yeah, no that's very accurate. David, does this sound familiar to you? (yelling) Where's my green tea? Where's my green tea? It happened 10 minutes before we got on here. Can I have my green tea, or I'll kill you. Yeah. That's it. Well, you don't have to worry about causing him to have. early labor, like Sona, perhaps. That's true. (laughing). Yeah, no I've had, when I've played larger venues, I've had issues with my throat if I get over tired,

but then I have, I've learned, you've got to do exercises and you've got to drink, you know, special broths. Well you've done work. So I wouldn't change a thing, honestly. Kyle, Is it bad for him to ask an. opera singer like yourself to. sing opera for us? (laughter). Can you give us a demonstration? I anticipated this. How about you do, you do something and then I'll do something. Okay. Oh, that's smart. So I'm gonna take off my headphones. so I can hear myself better. And I'm going to guess on the pitch. of a very popular song.

You might know it's from Carmen. And I've done, I've performed the role of. Escamillo, the bullfighter, in maybe. 175 performances of that. Oh God. Um, so let's see. Um. (singing Votre Toast from Carmen in French).

Oh my God. Wow! That was fantastic. Hey that was, Kyle, that was um fantastic. Thank you. And now I'm going to show the contrast. between a real opera star. who knows what he's doing and a jackass. And it goes something like this. (singing in French).

Wow. That's not bad. The pitch is pretty good. I mean, the words make it sound like. you're having a stroke, but the pitch is pretty good. That was me and I don't know what I just said um. I think there's a couple of real words. in there accidentally. I think I sang about a futon.