Jim Gaffigan Bombed At A Corporate Stand-Up Gig | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

I'm just always trying to figure out. especially comedic Minds I really admire. I want to get into a little bit of the. workings of where they're from I know. you went to an insanely small High. School in Indiana like how small are we. talking there were 105 kids in the. entire school but there were 25 in my. graduating class there were five. girls oh my God and 20 guys Jesus and uh. but uh Chief Justice John Roberts went. there oh really yeah so now I think it's.

150 students it's just blown up seven. girls now it's now it's six girls but it. was a great experience and you know I. kind of there you know there was a. delusion in those smaller schools where. you're like you know what yeah and so. like I didn't have that John Hugh's. experience where there were the potheads. and the jocks and the beautiful people.

it's like everyone was everything so I. think that kind of had an impact where. when I got to college I wasn't swayed by. I shouldn't I should only hang around. football players or I should only do. this or that somewhere you got this. ability there are a lot of comedians I. admire but I know well they can kill in. front of this crowd but they should. probably stay away from that kind kind. of crowd or vice versa they have their. their areas I feel like I can't imagine.

a crowd that you wouldn't kill in front. of I you do feel like a someone who. talks to everybody oh well thanks yeah. no it is it is weird because having done. corporates you've done corporates I've. done some corporate but really not not. much i' I've I I I sometimes the. assignment is just like so you know make. sure you mention and and and you know. whatever the CEO you make sure you. mention you know really good him and I. something just I don't know get and.

they're like don't do. that but I used to hear a real. my go-to line and they'd be. like hey we thought you had a joke or. something yeah they're well sometimes. that they're they're like you can make. fun of make fun of you know Mindy she's. in charge of marketing go after her and. then you look at Mindy I don't do that. stuff anyway but then you look at Mindy. and she's like what are you doing it I'm. just in charge marketing it was just.

that. one person's bad idea do you know what I. mean and so but the corporate setting is. such a like there is part of me that. because I feel like I can work in those. corporate settings where I that means. that it might be all over cuz like I. would do a corporate show I would bomb. and then you get off and they were like. you were great we no one laughed they're. like we're too rich to laugh yeah well. we were golfing all day so but much.

better than the guy before who made fun. of Mindy yeah you this was. one as I say I I've tried to I've tried. to not do it too much because but there. was one it was I think an. integration maybe with the Turner show I. can't say the name of the company but it. was a telecommunications company and we. had to do this they said hey Conan. they're they're buying time on the show. and they really want you to go so I. remember I you took like got on a plane. and flew some where and they say they're.

they're in there it's all it's it's the. top it wasn't and and I come out I had I. wrote jokes because you can't do. standard stuff it's got to be for them. yeah and it's got to be about this. company and stuff like that so a lot of. work went into it I walked out there I. want to say it was about maybe 12 I. think all guys and they were in big. leather chairs that reclined slightly.

and I looked out the W there was a big. window behind them and they had. projected the famous logo of the company. onto a mountain that you could see in. the night through the window so I walked. out there and it was these and I started. doing my and I thought oh this is I've. never felt more like a pathetic you know. bring the clown in yeah bring the clown. we're ready for the clown and and I. could see not challenge the king too. much yeah and I could see.

they weren't really laughing but they. had R smiles and occasionally I could. see one of them adjust his recliner a. little more yeah and um I started to. make fun of the fact that the logo was. projected onto a mountain yeah out like. this all felt evil and I'm sort of sure. to go off on that and they one of them. dained to Crane his neck to see oh yes. it is isn't it what is wrong with that. that's as it should be as it always is. and I I just left shivering and I and I.

I was it was I I don't know it was a. terrible experience yeah now there's. some pretty crazy ones yeah I did one. where it was I think the top 12 um. dealerships of Saab or some car. dealership thing that was very weird. people just sitting at a table nobody. wanted to see the standup I've done have. you done a birthday party that's pretty. weird I did a very famous person's. birthday party for no money oh really I.

did it uh as a favor must have went well. there was no money that means it's pure. death it was was it for the birthday. person themselves or one of their. children or no it was for the person it. was a famous person who and uh and and. it was a personal favor because they had. they had done the show a bunch of times. and they one of their their management. said hey Conan would you stop by and. just. do and I remember it again feeling like. bring him in yeah you know it was just. uh yeah let's see if he amuses us.