Susie Essman: Larry David Loves To Be Yelled At | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

not long ago I'm in New York City and I. sit. down uh and I'm in an outdoor Cafe I. think on the upper west side no it was. East Side East Side Upper East Side um. I'm no longer allowed on the upper west. until the charges are dropped but uh. what no it's a long story Sona please Z. Bars has banned. him I stolen everything. bagel and they don't mind if you steal. an onion Bagel but when you steal an. everything bagel that's like.

there's a lot of stuff I I uh I was. sitting there and we ran into each other. and we this was my visceral response was. God I love Susie esman she's so she's. such a real person you are a real person. you haven't some people in the business. kind of calcify a little bit you are so. emotionally available you were so nice. and so we part company and I immediately. text Paul Davis who you were hanging out.

with beforehand and I said we have to. get Susie esman on the podcast and of. course she texts right back I love Susie. asmen um but that is the effect I think. you have on people you you nice you are. but it's so funny that you've what most. people know you from even you've you've. been success successful and you've been. in comedy and Ian you did Carson in 1989. I it was it was not good by the way it. didn't go well no it didn't go what.

happened tell me about it I was on a a a. series on NBC called Baby Boom it was a. takeoff of the movie that had been with. Diane Keaton only Kate Jackson was. playing the the main character I was her. secretary so they had me on as like the. young NBC. anenu and I I was a comic and he didn't. know I was a comic and I think I I was a. little bit too blue for him or too I. looked in his eye and I grew up on. Carson I mean you know I'm older than. all of you combined I think maybe not.

Aaron. but that's true that's very. true Aaron Blair so young how old are. you David 32 32 well he grew up on. Carson Carson Daly Carson D yeah I mean. but this is you know like when I was a. kid I used to set the alarm to wake up. because we didn't have VHS or DVR or any. of that crap um and just you know I. would set the alarm if it was Jonathan. Winters or Rickles or you know that was. it was so to be on the show and yet he.

was nothing like I looked at his eyes. and it was just ice cold and it I had no. rapport with him and David Steinberg was. the guest that night next to me who then. became my friend because he directed so. many curbs but he was incredibly kind. and gracious to me but it was I was. never so scared in my life I remember. going on there was no moisture in my. life in my in my life in my mouth and uh. it was just really scary and it didn't. go well I've always heard heard that he.

was and uh got to meet him a couple of. times that that he was quite different. from what you saw on on television and. some people are very good at projecting. warmth and then they're they're quite. shy you know off camera and and then. I've talked about this before because. you can go through Show Business and say. it's almost like there are two types of. comedian there's you know Steve Martin. when you meet Steve Martin uh I love him. and I become very friendly with him but.

when I first met him when I was a writer. at SNL I was expecting the Steve Martin. that I idolized when I was uh in grade. scho high school he's quiet he's guarded. he's very serious um and you know he's. like a surgeon who's going to get ready. to do a very big operation and then you. meet Marty Short and Marty Short will do. 45 minutes right right and so I very. quickly realized oh I'm the Marty Short.

type yeah later on in my career I. sometimes meet people that have since. become well- known but they knew. me uh when I was hosting the Late Night. show and they were uh the receptionist. like an Architecture Firm and I came in. with my wife because we were going to do. some work on our apartment and then. later on they went on to become very. well-known uh actors actresses. Comedians and I would say okay was I. nice and they were like oh you know you.

were very nice and you did bits for like. 20 minutes to the point where I had to. like I had to excuse. myself and it's that always really makes. you were so. needy still. is but also I will say in my defense I. am yes needy is one word and it is Con. O'Brien needs a friend but also I really. enjoy it and sometimes what's better. than making people laugh I love it yeah. yeah and I'll leave I I my sometimes.

I'll leave and I'll I'll say to my wife. Liza I'll say man I I really killed in. there and she'll say it was a it was a. room full of third. graders you were there to read a book. that's all you had to do was read them a. book but you had to do a whole thing. does your wife laugh at you she does yes. thank God because I think there are. times where definitely I she's looking. at me and I think she knows California. is a 50-50 State she knows she she knows. she's finally set we remind her all the.

time yeah they're always reminding her. but then I'll say something and she'll. laugh and I'll think okay I think we're. good for another day is she funny yes. she's very funny and very she can be. very funny on her own but but also very. dry and and kind of like uhhuh that's. great yeah that's really funny let's. wrap it up let's go and uh I. saw uh Bob newart and Jenny his wife. came to our house once she's since. passed but she was so funny on her own.

but also so great with Bob newart and. then Bob was telling a story and it was. getting late and then she just said all. right newart let's wrap it up and I. thought wow she's like Liza I love this. this is what we need we need Partners. who who know how to control you control. us trees shut it down what about what. about uh your Jimmy yeah Jimmy Jimmy um. has great sense of humor and can make me.

laugh but he's not funny he's funny in a. different way yeah like like what you. were saying right but and you know I. mean I never understand these two comic. couples oh God no oh please I never. dated a comic to me that would be a. nightmare no no it would be uh I mean. I've seen them they exist they're out. there they are out there does it work. have you seen a couple a comedy couple. where not that I stay away from them cuz. they scare me I'm not that.

like the other. like and but people will say to my. husband all the time is she funny at. home or they'll ask does she scream and. yell at you was what what kind of stupid. question is that like I walk around. acting like Susie Green and dressed like. her and and and screaming at him and. kicking him the out of the house. what kind of marriage would that be it's. fiction you know what I love I I love. you yelling at Larry but I think. because um I came up with Jeff Garland.

and we shared an apartment back in. Chicago in the day that that whole. concept we've known each other forever. so I took particular Joy when you would. go after Jeff you fat you and I was. I would just be I would be crying. laughing but you know Larry um Larry. kind of saved me as the seasons went on. he would save me more and more for him. right less and less for Jeff right you. would like you know relish that the man. loves to be yelled and screamed at I. mean loves it he like lives for it well.

also he knows there's this great secret. I mean who did it better than we're. going way back there but I talk about. this sometimes Jack Benny uh and even. and Carson did it so well but I learned. a long time ago you can you can get big. laughs by just re right reacting and. looking a little sad and. downtrodden uh when it's appropriate and. so Larry's so good at when he's being a. viscer. at um his you know that the way his face.

Falls yeah and um the way he just tested. and and I I think also Jeff garland. would just look oh God I'm just I just. have to take it because I just got. downtrodden I got busted Suzie knows. well they did such stupid too you. know it's like people would ask me. question is it hard to get that angry no. he's Ste he's stealing my kids's doll's. head he's stealing my kids dog he's.

getting her drunk he's getting us kicked. out of a country club he's stealing a. salad dressing re it's not that it's not. like a big method acting thing I got to. do you just have to be in the scene and. it's like look what these. are doing now.