Julia Louis-Dreyfus & Conan Remember Their Favorite “Late Night” Bit | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

what are you learning then so far in the. podcast that's what is informing you. because you're talking to these amazing. women what are they are they teaching. you stuff that's inspiring you are they. telling you stuff that's making you. think okay first of all I think it'd be. great when you talk to a Jane fond and. she's 85 or a cal Burnett and she's 90. the fact that they're still here and. still interested. and that's inspiring in and of itself. yeah well you know Jane Fonda. particularly she talks about uh.

uh the different acts of life of the. first the second and the third act she's. she's in her own mind she's sort of. broken down the aging process into three. acts and so now she's in her third act. and. um and she's done she's done what she. calls A Life review and and in which she. really went back over her life and tried. to understand where it is she has been. right.

um which is an interesting thing to. consider personally you know and I'm in. my third act right and I'm starting to. think about wow it was it was mind. expanding to me talking to her and so. many other people Ruth Reichel for. example uh the the former editor of. gourmet magazine in the New York Times. food critic and she also she's like 75 I. think and she was talking about. you the how important it is to keep.

doing things that frighten you. and. which is an interesting thing to. consider. um and and basic things like really. honestly staying physically fit if. because it will inform this uh she. didn't say this this is very much Jane. and also Isabel Allende staying. physically fit and healthy is hugely. meaningful as you get older I mean it's.

so obvious but then when you really. start to consider it I think to a. certain extent uh you don't think about. getting I mean you do think about. getting older but it creeps up on you I. mean how old are you do you mind my. asking not at all uh and this is a. frequent topic of discussion much of the. Delight of my compatriots here yes. um this drop on April 17th on April 18th. I turn 60. and so everything you're. talking about is stuff I've been.

thinking about because there was so much. in my career where I was the youngest. guy in the room tell me about it and and. people would say. um I was in college like the young guy. that ran the magazine the comedy. magazine then you know I when I got a. late night show uh I was I just turned. 30. so you're this young whippers like. way too young you know people were like. what's no and um and green and then. there was just years and years and years. where well there's the hosts at 11 30.

and then there's the that kooky rooster. guy over there in late night and then. what happens is. suddenly it it felt to me like it. suddenly flipped to give us your wisdom. old man I'm like what are you talking. about but it happens it does happen and. now I interview a lot of younger people. in comedy and like well I grew up I know. watching you I was in diapers as you. were. hitting 50 and I'm like Jesus Christ. what happened but I'm I keep coming back.

to the same general feeling of of. gratitude and just happy to be here but. I will tell you I've been doing a lot of. inventorying I do I've been thinking of. it in 20-year Cycles like okay one to. twenty you know age one to twenty got me. to this point in my life yeah age 20 to. 40 got me to this other part and then 40. to 60 got me here and so that's how I'm. coming to thinking about it it's got me. keeping score adding it up and for the.

most part feeling content about which is. fantastic because I mean what else is. the point and and are you are you are. you pivoting in any way like as you move. into this next sort of. what do you want to call it your next 20. years I call it my dotage into your. dotage no but for real like are you. making adjustments are you thinking. about it like that in any way yeah no it. to be I mean there's all these jokes. that come to mind and I think no just.

yeah just tell just tell. um but first the jokes yeah yeah I'm. getting a lot of work done Shane yeah. I'm getting an eye job no uh the the. um the reality of it is I. love I mean we started talking about. this and I we addressed it already but. how this technology has changed. and there's a way now that I can be. practice my craft whatever you want to. call it not being high flute and.

try and get my personality across which. is in essence all I've been trying to do. since I was a kid. and then when I got into broadcasting. it's just trying to do that on a bigger. scale but this podcast has been a real. Revelation to me that I can. you know you came on The Late Night show. several times and we had some really. great moments and you did some you did. some great stuff one of my favorites is. uh when uh Tina Fey came on oh that was.

fun you wanted to steal Tina's Emmy and. you knew Tina was uh upstairs at. Saturday Night Live in the building. that's right and I and joined you to. come with me and we were gonna go steal. it ran up a Stairway we went up a. stairwell it was so much fun that bit. came out well yes and we did it live we. did it live. stole her Emmy came back down and. there's a great moment where we Contin. we go on with things and then she shows. up in the doorway yeah and so I guess. the the point I was making is there were.

things that you could do. um comedy bits and we could have a short. conversation. and I I loved that I mean I I adored. that and I'm glad that I got to do it. um but now. the fact that there's a way that I can. talk to you. in this way in this manner in a more. sort of genuine yeah genuine and it's. feels different to me and to me the.

whole key is just keep trying new things. and um that's the thing keep trying. don't just keep as much as there are. people that would say oh my God I just. wish Seinfeld had kept going no Seinfeld. needed to stop you know right and and. then you needed uh to do sitcoms and. then you needed to do yeah single camera. and then you needed to you know you just. like you you need to do movie work and. then you have to do you have to keep. trying things that you are.

challenged by and they're not in your. muscle memory so to me that's the thing. is I just want to. um keep putting myself out there in. different ways and and then be honest. about it if something doesn't work it. didn't work yeah well I mean something. will eventually not work but that's okay. I'm just uh no no everything you do is. perfect well that's the sub text yes yes. pardon me yes of course I'm stating the. obvious but. um never a stumble the Conan O'Brien.

story but I think but that is actually. never a stumble. um. but yeah I think that trying new things. keeping it uh sort of fresh that way is. is I think an uh well first of all it's. a great way to live life and also I. think it's a great way to uh to have. longevity.