Gary Gulman & Conan On Their Similar Upbringings | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

we have some similarities in that we. both uh well not just coming from. Massachusetts but I think we have. certain P similar. personalities um uh in in terms of kinds. of things that we find funny and oh yes. but old timey speak we love old timey. speak that was the big thing from the. from the abbreviating the state show. because that I used the word n do well. and I live in Harlem and I never thought. I would get recognized in Harlem because.

I'm one of the few white Jewish men who. live up there and and a saw me on the. street last month and this I mean that. thing came out seven or eight years ago. right and the man saw me and he yelled n. do. well isn't that great though it was the. greatest thing that ever I don't get. recognized very much in general but when. I do oh man does it feel good it's. probably irritating at your level but at. my level it's still like a oh I don't. ever I'm not irritated I great I like uh.

and and you say oh I'd be irritated by. questions I'm not I just like I I like. talking to people uh almost uh and and. Sona will is often with me when I'm out. in the world and and bla is too but. often people will start chatting with me. and I'll keep chatting with them and. then they say I have to go oh my. go I I'll go with you talk more about. comedy I do these meet and greets after. the after the show and sometimes I'll. I'll connect with the people and and.

it's like I have to go back to a hotel. room and be by. myself yeah it's like turning back into. Bill Bixby after being the incredible. hul that feeling you've talked about as. I can kind of relate to this you have. kind of an OCD about honesty oh and and. I I had this too growing up which is. there's a lot of um uh it was very. important to my mom that we all be. thought of well yeah and uh I love my. mom and she's just super she's superum.

person who who did so much when we were. growing up to keep this madness together. and uh and I idolize her at the same. time she she always wanted uh people. when people came over she would put on a. little bit of a well yes now come here. she' become because she wanted everyone. to think that that you know we're not. low class Irish we are we are lace. curtain Irish and it was a whole thing. but she would say things and we would.

all notice like what happened to. Mom and it was important and I. remembered it was always very important. to me and I think it's one of the. reasons I got into comedy I always had. to say nope that's not true oh my gosh. that's not and one of the things my. mother would give me the stare yeah I. get that too yeah and she would one of. the things I remembered is we'd all be. gathered around you know Christmas. Thanksgiving and we have company. over uh or anytime company was coming. and we got to sit in the in the in the. dining room and people are sitting.

around she'd say and now of course we. always say grace and I'd say we only do. this when company's here oh no and she. would say that's not true oh that's so. good but I mean I I just couldn't not I. had to always say that's not true yeah. that yeah the dishonesty part of it is. is I grew up always feeling God was. watching me all the time just because of. the the I just took everything everybody. told me seriously so that I would act up.

in the house I would stub my toe on on. the corner of a of a counter and and my. that doesn't make sense not a counter a. cabinet and and my mother would say see. God punished you oh and I was like oh my. gosh instead of thinking gosh what a. prick I I would I would think oh I. better not act think I used to think. doesn't God have other things to. do hey Gman just got out of line give. the Old ST.

hey what about that what about that. tsunami that just wiped out 3,000 people. in Indonesia oh I was dealing with. Gman and then I I went to Hebrew school. I don't know if you went to Catholic I. went to Hebrew school yeah I was. immediately asked to leave no I went to. Catholic instruction actually with Brian. Kylie oh that's so interesting I so I I. would go to Hebrew school and they would. say well this is a sin adultery and. coveting being jealous and and bearing. false witness and uh are there any.

others uh yes leaving the finger paints. out is that is that also a sin that God. that God will Smite you for um but. playing with clay without permission. that's that's another one that God. punished me. for yeah it it was just the the the. things I was learning in Hebrew school. were not matching up with with the. little I had learned at home is there am. I correct that there's probably really. not much difference between if you're a. kid Hebrew instruction and if you're a. kid Catholic instruction meaning they're.

both leaning on guilt beware watch out. someone's watching because that was my. experience and then uh the few times. that well actually I grew up in Brooklyn. um more of my friends were Jewish than. were Irish Catholics sure and I would. sense that wait a minute this is. supposed to be a completely alien. religion this is all sounding pretty. familiar to me totally and these people. are really funny yes so there's some. there's all this like transference yeah. and and and also the presentation is.

very similar the ornate the rituals the. the the just the the churches are. gorgeous and and many of these. synagogues especially the older ones are. are so so impressive in terms of. architecture and the stained glass and. everything like that it's very very. interesting but I always I went to a. Catholic College I went to Boston. College and I befriended some jzu. priests and they would say yeah there's. a lot of intersection in our in our um. in our liturgy not so much much the. words as much as the the ideas and the.

and the um where the stresses are which. is on a a very angry judgmental. God and but but but as a lot of fathers. do when they have a son late in life. they mellow and that and that and that's. where I see protestantism is sort of a. mellow of God not as yeah not as likely. to Smite after having. Jesus yeah the Protestants have a he's. it's a God that's like we're.

loafers and. Dockers and he's it's Pete Holmes yeah. it's Pete Holmes it's Pete Holmes's God. as opposed to like Bill Burr is the. Catholic God where I like I like. figuring out religion just using. standups oh my gosh specifically. specifically Northeastern standups you. know what I mean so I'm now I'm trying. to figure out who would be the Jewish. comedian God it would it wouldn't it. wouldn't be Crystal it wouldn't be.

no too light Lewis Black I just got it. it's LS black because he' be saying. things like do I get this straight let. me understand something you a post. office wants me to spend money on a. stamp and then I spend money on the St. you know that kind of thing wow that's. good you know what I used to do the. morens and the sodomites are having. you know what I used to. do I used to do a louw I like Lew us but.

I used to do a Louis black impression. where he's getting because his whole. thing was getting worked up over. something that's kind of small and I. used to do a Lewis Black impression. about things where it's where he's. worked up about something you should be. worked up about so i' be like have you. heard about this thing called. kidnapping someone takes a child they. take they take a child who is the only. son or daughter of these loving parents. and they they take them away and they.

say you'll only see them alive again if. we get. money and it would really make me laugh. cuz I'd be like uhhuh yeah just him. getting mad about stuff he should get. mad about it this Kylie used to always. tell me he would say you have no idea. how funny the meetings are in in Conan's. office and and initially I was skeptical. I I thought um you said Conan's not that. funny how no I said yeah everybody's. going to laugh at their.

right and and then I started listening. to the to the podcast but also he would. tell me the stories the the bits you. would do which was one of my favorites. was the dirty Brian Kylie the Kylie yeah. I would do Brian it's called Brian Kylie. at the. Apollo now Brian Kylie again as you know. yeah tells really clean jokes and he. wears creased chinos and a and a blue. and schless puts no nothing on it the. jokes are just I mean I'm they're.

perfect you could read them they're. beautiful but also his. character man but Kylie and he'd stand. up there and he's very Catholic and he. tells these wonderful jokes and he. always is doing this with his hands he. doesn't move his body really at all when. he's up on stage and so I started doing. Kylie at the Pao where he's up there and. he's like uh hi everybody uh good to see. you I'm Brian Kylie and uh the other day. I'm uh I'm going down on this uh going. down on this.

and I'm uh so I'm eating I'm. eating her. out and then and he's still the same. mannerism and then I uh I work my way. you know down to her uh to her. you know and I start uh start licking. out her oh God and then I'm like. you've got to wash your ass and. he's killing murdering but then he goes. backstage kills and he goes well that's.

my time thank you and then he goes. backstage and I would always have him. sit in a little iron chair and read a. Truman biography quietly and then. someone would come and go get out there. again they want more of you he'd be like. oh okay and he Clos it and he'd go back. out there and go uh the other day I'm uh. I'm whipping this guy with a like. whatever it's just F it's weird to hear. you even talk like that I know I know. but the thing is when I'm channeling. Kylie so in meetings I would just do.

these bits that had nothing to do what. was going to be nothing the whole rule. was none of this helps the show none of. this can be on the show none of it can. help the show we and I would do these. long and especially in the post show. meeting if a guest hadn't been good or. if a bit hadn't worked I could do 40. minutes destroying and and uh it was. really fun I I that's the thing I missed. the thing I missed the most he said were. there were four or five shows the day of.

the show I would do shows before the and. then the show was like oh we got to go. do that show huh the one that people see. well that's no fun I want to do Kylie at. the. Apollo you've got to wash your ass so F. and he's looking side to side and he's. got he's doing this with his because you. got to see Brian Brian KY is a great. comic but just the idea that he would do. any joke like this it's just right it's. just insane yes it's just funnier cuz I. know who Brian Kylie is and I I hope.

people go and like look at his comedy. online look at Brian kyli how much of a. just how different it is that what. you're saying I took a the other. day and you know when you take a. and then at the same. time you know and then it's just like it. gets like incredibly insane I would and. and and and when I would Channel this. stuff I would be saying stuff that I. don't even think about but suddenly it's. coming out because I'm doing Kylie at.

the Apollo which love it so much joy uh. oh BL what's the. matter I hate all of this why I mean. it's I I love it but imagining Kylie do. it it's it's just it's crazy because he. is the most I think he might be the most. straight laac person I've ever met in my. life and just now I have the mental. image of him doing also you know what I. always do I'd always add him driving. home in a very small sensible Square car. yeah and just you know and then going. home and pulling the blanket up to his.

chin to go to sleep and then the phone. rings with a night cap with a night cap. and then and then the phone rings and. it's the club going they're screaming. for you they want more and so he gets. out puts on his Blazer gets back in his. little car goes back there and then goes. out and becomes this other person yeah I. picture him with a pipe Carousel yeah. pipes and then and the other thing is. that I. he's the person who reads the most long. books like Robert Carol those LBJ books.

the person one of the people yeah he and. I have that same Affliction oh I didn't. realize that I was G to that was one of. the questions I was going to ask you. what is your are you a big reader yeah I. well I read a ton of history and uh and. Kylie was the same thing but we were. always both like Kylie and I are just. very similar and that we're these two I. see Irish Catholic guys from Boston who. if you see a picture of us on a beach. everyone else is in a thong and playing.

pickle ball we're the ones reading books. that weigh about 80 lbs and they have a. swastika on the cover cuz it's. about world the rise the rise and fall. of the the rise and fall of the Third. Reich yeah oh my gosh annotated. annotated yeah and we're like picking. out things that are wrong wow you just. went up in my book of people who read. books okay well good yeah um I'd like to. think did you like that Robert Kyro. documentary have you seen that that I'm.

in it oh yes you I'm sorry I got. I got confused because you were also in. the uh you thought that was Dennis you. thought that was Dennis liry going on. and on about Carol the Larry uh the Gary. Shandling documentary yeah these days. everyone's in every documentary yeah and. I I yeah I'm in documentaries I. shouldn't be in about like sex. trafficking in. Sweden and they just and con Brian you. should be in that one now I was.

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