Taylor Tomlinson & Conan Are Workaholics | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

when you say you're a workaholic let's. let's let's unpack that for a second I. didn't know we were gonna well I know. I'm just I'm just I wish I hadn't said. it no but I'm just curious sort of just. a light thing I said a light let's get. it but you really like to work yes and. uh and that is to me you could say. sometimes uh I don't know one of the one. of the hacks in Life or one of the. tricks is you take something about. yourself that could be a problem but if. you you can tame it and use it in just.

the right amount it's fantastic yeah and. so I like to work yeah and there's so. many different types of way to St in. entertainment so anytime you're like oh. I have time off you're like I can go. right over here in this place right like. it's that's what's so fun to me is like. I had uh last weekend off and I was like. oh hell yeah I finally have some time. off from the show I'm going to go write. standup for 4 hours at a coffee shop and. that felt like rest to me which it's not.

it's still wor I know sona's looking at. me like I'm crazy no no not it's just. that's not who I am yeah's like son's. like do they have. quasons the ones with. chocolate well like not being productive. isn't restful for me yeah I think is. what it is so you're like well why would. I why would I do nothing when I'm not. going to enjoy it fully like I got right. after I got the the after midnight job I. got mono and I was sick for like two.

months and I had to like film the. special in the first two weeks but then. once the special was filmed I had like a. few weeks where I was just doing nothing. and me and my writing partner like. finished a script in that time because I. was like I have I have three good hours. in the middle of the day and we can get. on Zoom so I'll wake up at noon and then. we can hop on from like 1: to 3:00 and. then I go back to bed at 4:00 and we got. a lot done and it was really yeah and. it's awesome and I felt great about it. but if IID just been laying there. healing.

sucks just got closer to death nothing. to show for it you just totally you just. totally insulted your own immune system. your immune system's like wait a minute. what whatever oh everybody's like you. know some people get over it in like 3. weeks I'm like yeah if they stay down I. guess but I had stuff to do yeah if you. drink. liquids I haven't had a liquid in six. six. months uh yeah I just I I I think I.

think it's really like I I know when I'm. having productive relaxation if I'm. traveling or if I'm doing something fun. and really enjoying myself or out to a. great dinner I know I'm not working but. I also know in some way this is feeding. me and then there's this myth of hey. chill yeah don't work chill and and I. don't know I've never been able to chill. I don't know how to chill I have. terrible news it's not a myth it works. for some people people does it really it.

really does I've I've seen it happen. some people you seen people actually. chill yeah I've seen people spend a. whole day reading and I'm like what with. the two chill chimps we're we're real. chill both of us I think you're chill. I'm sup ad suspicious of you Matt I. don't think I'm half and half I need to. work for a few hours to feel like I've. earned it but then once I've done that I. feel like oh I've earned this I could. chill I think the exception is Sona who. does not need to work. hard it's actually you know what you're. saying that in a way where you like I.

feel like you're trying to insult me no. I'm describing you to the police that's. description when when you say you do a. show all week and then you do standup it. just boggles my mind I mean it's amazing. stamina that is I mean doing Largo is. different than like traveling somewhere. you know like Largo's like oh this is so. nice and relaxing and a comedy oh my God. yeah I was talking to flan about you. actually because he was saying he's like. you never know what's going to happen. with the show he's like I bought this. place when I was 30 and I thought maybe.

I'd only do it for 5 years and here we. are 30 years later he's like Conan told. me he thought he was going to be out of. the business you know in a few years and. I was like okay he's like yeah so you. never know and we'll see and like yeah I. mean fenny has no right talking about me. that was rude I mean don't you think. that's sort of uh yeah no no is the guy. that runs know Conan flanny yeah he does. I don't know any. flanny flanny is this uh he runs Largo. which is really one of the best live.

venues in Los Angeles and I only say. that because this podcast goes out to. other other Realms but it is every. comedian's favorite room to be in. sometimes it can almost give you a. deceptive read yeah because you can go. to Largo and sometimes I feel like I you. know you can read out of the phone book. and you'll get some really solid laughs. and you'll think this phone book thing's. killer I'm taking this out on the road. and then you get killed yeah well that's. the problem with once people come to see.

you on purpose you're like is this do. you really like so you have to kind of. adjust your expectations see you on. purpose I love that yeah see you on oh I. was people were tricked into watching me. do standup for years they're like we. came for chicken fingers and a male. comedian we had no idea we were just. finishing a day at the. mall how dare you bamboozle us Funny. Bone there are so many times I said to. my wife let's go out for chicken fingers. and a male comedian.

and then you know yeah Lori kill Martin. would come out I'd go what the. what's a lady doing up. there and this doesn't taste like. chicken and I was like a child on top of. it so I look I saw the disappointment on. people's faces uh which is why getting. on your show was so huge because it you. know it helped me headline places and it. helped me to have a like solid clip like.

it wasn't like it is now where everyone. has a camera like getting a late night. clip was something that really made. people go oh you're a real comic and. people might come see you on the road. just because You' done Conan and like. all Conan ler on for five minutes we'll. see like that was that was the type of. person who was coming to see me for. years well you talk about these. different eras uh to sound like an old. man I came from an era where when I. debuted in 1993 there's no internet.

there's you know uh there's no streaming. there's maybe yeah there's four networks. there's no teleprompters yeah there's no. T no teleprompters they were steam. powered they weren't good they exploded. all the time someone on a bike behind. pedling it welcome to the show I have. speed it up there myON I'm trying. shoveling coal. into but when you talk about people. seeing you on purpose there is a solid I. don't know I want to say two three years.

there where it was on and there wasn't. much else to do at 12:30 at night so. today there's a billion things you can. watch and I was part of this era where. people would come up to me on the street. and say you know I didn't want to watch. you I'm they wouldn't say that exactly. but it was clear that was not the plan I. didn't want to do that but I can. developed this rash they gave me a. medication and the cream has to be.

applied and so I had to get up at 12:30. and reapply the cream I turn on the TV. and you're. there I didn't like it but after nine. days and nine cream applying I was like. you know what he's got something and I. thought oh my God I mean I literally so. many new moms with newborns would say to. me this is back in the early 90s you. know I'm a huge fan I would have to get. up and breastfeed and you were on you. know I watched it for four solid week. and you didn't I I didn't get it but now.

I love you and I would think that. wouldn't happen today you're not you're. not for I mean people America was forced. to put up with my for a number of. years they had no choice and then they. were like all right I guess the hair can. stay America was like this is the guy. yeah yeah.