Ed Sheeran & Conan Were Both Bullied For Having Red Hair | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

little piece of business to do first. then we get going sorry the seat's wet. we'll tell you about that. later it's a shitty show you're on right. now well I sort of wanted to normalize. the word wank in America because it's. like not used that much so hi my name is. Ed Sharon and I feel wank about being. on oh about being Conan O'Brien's friend. you uh it's it can get used in lots of. situations yeah I think that could go so. many different ways none of them good I. think there's nothing good about you. feeling wank about being my friend I. will say I was thinking about this you.

came on my show uh two times and the. first time you came on the show am I. right that you were Barefoot when you. performed. no I feel like I look like a hobbit but. I don't like I don't practice Hobbit. isms I'm pretty sure you were Barefoot I. took a lot of pills that night I don't. remember what happened no I do do. Barefoot I remember I uh I went Barefoot. for like a summer when I was recording. and I was making a song with Bruno miles. and I remember him just being like just. put some shoes on man Jesus.

was it helping you was was writing and. recording Barefoot giving you some kind. of special energy like connecting you to. the earth oh really no just like it was. hot I gave you such an out for doing. something so cool connecting to the. vital powers of the earth and you just. said no it was hot um Ed we have a lot. to talk about because we have some. things in common I know that you are. from England but you uh have a lot of. Irish heritage do you yeah my dad's. Irish yeah and I feel like red the red. head is head ISM um but did you get a.

tough time at school for being a red. head well yeah it wasn't just because my. hair was red uh let's just say there. were other problems too my personality. were you that tall in school though no I. got tall later on I um got tall very. late it was like later in high school so. I was very average height I had bright. orange hair my mother insisted on. cutting our hair for us cuz she didn't. want to pay for us to go to a barber. shop so she would cut it straight across.

definely uh in a bowl cut my two front. teeth were dead so I had gray teeth up. front um I was I could keep. going but it was a train. rack and uh then the red hair and then. my name is Conan so you put all those. things together and it was a terrible. time what's it like is there anti-red. head bias in England you think at the. time that you were growing up yeah I. think I think it's I think it's just. School cuz actually as soon as I got out.

of school like no one cared it wasn't. like I mean my it gets referred to. whenever whenever there's a review of my. album or there's like it's always flame. hair or like red head or like whatever. but I guess that's just a way of. describing someone but yeah it's uh. anything that makes you different I. think later becomes an advantage oh 100%. but when you're a kid I just wanted to. look like everybody else I did not want. to look different when I.

not stand out and then I looked like. Pata that had been very assembled and uh. but I think it helps like especially. going into show business like I had a. tiny tiny guitar and I would gig around. London and everyone would know me as the. fat ginger kid with the small guitar so. no no no but it was good cuz I was. remembered people were like oh it's that. it's that it wasn't like oh that tall. good looking bloke with the big guitar. it was always like the fat ginger kid. with the guitar and people knew who I. was did you play a tiny guitar on.

purpose or it just it was more like I'd. won a battle of the bands when I was 17. and they gave me a voucher to a music. store and I remember going in the music. store and seeing this small guitar and. being like that would be perfect for. like traveling CU I took chains and. tubes everywhere so I was like that. would be perfect just to have on my. backpack and I'll have all my CDs and. pedals and everything in the bag rather. than like lugging around the big guitar. so it actually was more out of ease and. then it became my thing and now that's. what I use on stage so that's why people. think think you're 65 ft tall it's just.

all they using their frame of reference. is completely off I went to go and watch. uh uh Barbie with with uh some friends. and there were these guys in the queue. in front of me and they look around and. they went is that Sharon and one of them. went nah n shar's much taller than. that I have had many people and this is. not a joke just cuz you said that I've. had many people say to me you look like. Conor O'Brien if he were tall right cuz. I'm sort of on a 6' four spect and.

people that just knew me for almost 30. years on television think of me as a. very just compact person that can fit in. their television and when this big. monster is looming in front of them you. know one of those balloons that's in. front of a car dealership they uh they. don't know they just think well he can't. be. him.