Tracee Ellis Ross & Conan Do ASMR | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

hi my name is Tracy Ellis Ross and I. feel. delighted about being Conan O'Brien's. friends it was very sweet it was I mean. look you put you put some extra on it. which could betray insincerity it could. but not in my book okay so you're. telling me that it was sincere that's. nice it was well you should I do another. take no no everyone I like to make. everyone so self-conscious they want. multiple takes you know what I love uh I. love when you this is your second time.

on the podcast yeah but now I get to be. in the padded room with you exactly this. is the nice room the really good room. that we hadn't built before but I'll. tell you something you uh you came in. here and such a ray of sunshine you're. weing seriously your. personality like whenever I'm around you. I feel like I'm having really good. expensive coffee like my heart starts to. beat faster you know an hour from now. I'll have to go to the bathroom oh come. on but in a good way you um my real.

middle name is Tracy Joy Tracy Joy. Silverstein is my name really yeah and. uh I cannot drink coffee or eat sugar I. do the sugar thing but I had a cup of. coffee once in high school took two sips. it was in exams we were in the gym and I. like 30 seconds later I was like what is. happening what is happening and I felt. like my entire soul went up to the. ceiling slapped itself up there velcroed. itself and I was like how will I do this.

exam I've never had coffee since so but. you the thing is you don't need it. because you came in here and first of. all I came in you came into the studio. first I'm following you and I just hear. a laughter and everyone's in a good mood. then I come in things quickly Settle. yeah everybody agrees everybody like. okay but it's out of respect yeah right. right. yeah but um no you've always you always. have terrific energy you really do like.

you emanate Tri and that was true all. your life I'm guessing I think so I'm. surprised it's happening now because I I. am not sleeping well and so but I seem. to have I'm I'm glad to hear that though. but for good reason too you got a call I. got the call I got a call morning that. you're in an Oscar nominated film yeah I. feel really jazzed about that American. Fiction American fiction I feel very. proud to be in this film and we got five. Oscar nominations today and my two the.

men who play my brothers in the movie. Sterling K Brown and Jeffrey Wright both. got nominated supporting a lead actor. and you know they say You're only as. good as your scene partner yes so it's. mine you ele those are your Oscars that. those are my nominations and I feel good. about. it about my work yes you should have you. seen the film uh I have not seen the. film yet I have not seen the film yet. but I've heard terrific things about it. proud to be in this film it's a really.

lovely hilarious and also like met as an. artist or anyone in the industry like. you'll be like oh this is good but it's. also a family comedy um at the core it's. a story about a family it's so now we. were talking about this because I am not. in this section of show business I don't. even know if I'm in any section of show. bus anymore is that the way they do it. they section it out well they did early. on they said you will never be Oscar. nominated I'm just F by the whole idea.

of you get a call yeah in the morning. and it's like Christmas or something you. know it is like Christmas I mean I uh. woke up it's happened before like when I. was nominated for an Emmy and things. like that like you turn your phone on. the best is if you cannot remember that. is the best so it's a surprise when you. remember it's like a nightmare you can't. sleep you're like it's like Christmas. morning like when in Christmas on. Christmas you would like wake up so. early and your parents are like go back. to bed it's dark outside they're like we.

haven't put the gifts out yet um but. this was a nice surprise I turned my. phone on and I was like what's happening. why are there so many texts that's nice. it's nice to kind of not know I like to. be surprised by good news whenever I. expect good news it doesn't come or it. just doesn't when it comes even if it's. good news it doesn't quite match up to. your imagination right and you're like a. that was nice but not what I wanted I. like you got really quiet there what do. they call this as as Mr R no that's so.

annoying yeah but it's very I like this. now really I like. this I like that people people uh does. it make you sleep no it just calms me. down like when people are cooking and. they're chopping really yeah I like that. people listening in their cars right now. are leaning over to turn up the volume. taking their eye off the road and it's. like no it's not you it's. us you're doing fine you're driving fine. your ears are fine don't go to the. doctor.

actually go to the doctor go to the. doctor and then and then maybe they'll. call you in the morning they'll text you. and they'll just say are you. alive and hopefully you'll answer yeah. so you had this is a good day for you. but I get the I get the feel you got a. lot of good days you know things are. things are coming along pretty well for. you you know what a friend of mine said. she said you know you're a human having. a pretty pleasurable experience and I. said you know what that is very true.

it's a nice way to kind of frame it it's. a mixed bag some days have a lot of you. know mixed things in them mhm but um. mostly I can't complain I've really. liked getting older you like getting. older I do like getting older you know. what I'm going to agree with you on that. I do too it's I it's much better I. wouldn't go back to my 20s if you paid. me I can see why there are people who. are amazing athletes and they feel sad. about the loss of their athleticism I. got them beat cuz I was never a good.

athlete and also I you know I look at. pictures of me when I was young and I I. wasn't hideous but also I didn't stop. traffic so. nothing people weren't like I gotta I. gotta ride that. horse is no nuh pick a different phrase. know no I I right that's no so that's so. I was waiting for some woman to say that. to me and they never did because it's. not an expression well try it in ASMR. though I got to ride I got to ride that.

horse no it doesn't make it better she. said in full voice I disagree yeah no no. one ever said I got to break me off a. chunk of Conan oh God he's now using kid. Kat commercials I don't. know by the way are we all of the age. that we knew the Peppermint Patty. commercials Kat bar that was the best. when he went skiing when he broke up in. The Peppermint Patty oh oh and then yes. mhm we all watch the same TV cuz there. were did then because there were three.

channels now we're I don't want to young. people listening like enough already old. man but there were three stations and. you had to wake up before you went to. bed and it snowed so much it wasn't even. snow what does that mean the rain was. dry when you took a bath it was the. shower that's I said to someone the.

other day I said if you don't know when. the '90s were they were. before I did have a thing where I told. my kids the other day that once there. were so few there were only three. channels or something and then there was. one like UHF station there was literally. nothing on but be and and sometimes but. yeah and and and sometimes there was a. channel that you couldn't get so the. only thing that came in that we could. get was a Catholic mass we sat we sat. there like watching just cuz it came in.

just cuz it came in something you. couldn't drag us to we were like well. maybe when he eats that wa for something. will happen just sitting there in. silence yeah oh that's kind of a cool. chalice wonder if anything's going to. happen to that CH it's sort of like. Raiders of the Lost Dart but there was. just nothing on you know and then that. back to you know what would happen then. you would turn on the TV and it would. snow it was snow yes justn just get snow. yeah and you were lucky if you got lines.

yeah the lines meant something might. come in there might be a show coming in. and if you move the antenna round yeah. put some tin foil on there.