Reggie Watts’ Childhood Musical Heroes | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

at what point do you. realize must have been early but music. cuz music is you know it's so. interesting if I'm talking if anyone's. listening to this interview and they're. thinking I've heard of Reggie Watts but. I don't know his his whole thing of. course and you're well known as band. leader for Cordon for all those years. and Comedy Bang Bang but but it's my. highest compliment I can pay to you is. that you are impossible to categorize. because you're he's like he's a musician. yeah he's a band leader well but he's.

also he's a comedian yeah but he's also. an artist but he's also a perform but. he's also a prankster it's like which I. think is is great you're it's like you. you refuse to be categorized but music. must have come to you very early I would. think music I think music is the secret. weapon I think I think for me growing up. I I loved music my parents loved music. they listened to it my dad was a huge. Jazz head um and my mom and he like. shared their love of jazz but also. specifically like U more funk like like.

James Brown and things things of that. nature and my mom loved folk music like. you know Nana musuri and those those. types of Eddie PF and those types of. singers um Julio glacius and so I was. around so much music Ray Charles was. someone I gravitated to as a kid I love. watching the way that he moved when he. played piano and then um and weird for. some weird reason Elvis Presley it was. like a huge my first record was an Elvis. Presley record I I just I was impressed. with the Press but um he was uh you can.

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what did. you um no I mean but discovering music. like my parents saw me like on my I. would I would be like bedside pretending. to be Ray Charles I was a mimic as far. back as I can remember and they saw me. doing that and they got me this toy. piano and I was playing on the toy piano. a lot and then as soon as we moved to. Montana I think at age like five and a. half or something like that I went into. um uh classical piano training and took. to it pretty well and I loved but I.

social so for me it was like oh I get to. be with all these kids and like I'll. learn music but what about all these. kids you know the music was fascinating. but um really I think that's what. creates that adaptability because for me. the one thing I always tell all my. artist friends where they're like you. know I'm doing this one thing but I'm. not sure I thinking about maybe doing. painting I'm like those are just. extensions of yourself it's like if you. imagine yourself as like a person. sitting on a on a floor and you're. surrounded by all these different medium. tools you can rotate to any position and.

pick one it's like this the core is. always the same you're the Creator pick. different tools but you've got the most. important part which is like I have an. idea of something I want to do and so. for me I think music enabled that. because I would be on the playground it. would save me if you know people would. be like I be hostile towards me and I. would start singing like Olivia Newton. John or something Let's get physical and. they'd be like oh I tried that and I was. again savagely be were you the right. song Let's get physical. physical I know I know how to stop these.

Hooligans sure thing O'Brien how about. this for physical yeah hey O'Brian we're. going to beat the out of you no I. don't think so sir for I'm about to sing. a classic tune by Olivia Newton John. what the oh you'll see Let's get. physical. physical no my god when I awoke in the. ICU God there's not one Unbroken bone in.

his. body true though true that bully was. Olivia Newton. John I'm just imagining she doing at the. playground just imagining the bullies. going like is that all of them it's like. I don't know actually no I think this. for this pinky it's like okay one done. get out of here Masterpiece. yeah these are bullies that really took. their job seriously and if they found. out later on there there was an unbroken. pinky they were like you know you got to. respect your crap it's a warranty.

did the teachers just watch this happen. too are they joining in oh they would. sell seats oh my God yeah obrien left. uppercut obrien watch out there's. another beating of O'Brien everyone to. the north side of the parking. lot R you that we're suspending all. lessons for the. day the SAT has been cancelled the PSAT. has been. cancelled no one's going to. college Good year blimp passes it's. already got like messaging about me the.

Conan. beating you know what else can take a. beating a goodye tire. totally.