Zach Woods Calls Conan The “Medici” Of The New York Comedy Scene | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

I know I saw you I think for the first. time I remembered seeing you on the. office and then I have to say a show. that my son and I really bonded over was. Silicon Valley which as you know I've. talked you about it but I adored Silicon. Valley absolutely adored it and your car. character Jared was so funny and so. delightful and my so I told my son today. oh I'm going to that I'd be seeing you. and he was he doesn't respect me at all. but I saw respect in his.

eyes so it was very it was very cool so. happy I mean okay I don't know how much. earnestness this can accommodate but I. do want to you can cut it out right you. edit this okay wa I don't think we have. the money to edit oh really it's tough. times over here no no no we we're making. a ton of cash is coming in but it's. going out rapidly because well I don't. want to say it specifically it's not. just my nose but but he actually just. snorts money yeah God I shred it and. then I snort it you can't see this but. he has a terribly deviated septo like.

just like little pieces of Ben. Franklin's face it's really horrible. yeah but I was going to say this one of. the first times I ever saw you because I. don't know if people know this when in. early days of Upright Citizens Brigade. in New York before it became this kind. of factory for people who would then go. on to populate all kinds of comedy shows. no one made any money no one had you. know people couldn't support themselves. and everyone was a weirdo and not. getting cast in whatever TV shows were. being made so show was how so many.

people kept themselves afloat and the. first time I ever filmed anything for. for television I was cast on your show. to play a uh leprechaun with Marfan. syndrome uh that's my. comedy which was then cut and then I. also did a bit where I had to make out. with somebody while um Chris Matthews. narrated it and then I think that also. got cut but the point is I got like I. got a paycheck.

huge and it was you really sort of were. like the medich of like Freakazoid New. York comedians where you're keeping us. you know our apartments that makes. me really happy I've heard that from. other people it was not it was not a. selfless act because you know we needed. all these really talented performers to. do incredibly bizarre things so it. worked out so nicely that at that time. there was just this incredible wealth I. mean Amy polar used to play Andy RoR.

sister on the show and she wasn't on SNL. and uh I we we tried to use her like. once a week and she played his sister. who wore a giant headgear and um we'd. give her a script that I'd like to think. was a a solid B and I watched her every. time take it to an A++ I mean she was. just you could see even then she was so. amazing and she would her thing was that. she had a crush on me as as we wrote it.

and uh and um and then she would start. out being all sweet and she had made. things that look like me and then Andy. would remind her that I'm you know I'm. married or whatever or I have a. girlfriend and then uh and then she. would go into these incredibly ornate. speeches where she'd be like invoking. like Norse gods nor gods and screaming. and um but she was so amazing but I and. later I was saying to reminding Amy like. I didn't do that to be nice.

you you know we were lucky to have you. we were lucky to have you we were lucky. to have all these incredibly talented uh. people um but what what's interesting to. me is there's a couple of people that I. see in comedy that sort of had my a. similar build to me when I was coming up. and I always want to bond with them. because the other is I think of like you. Steph Merchant there's a couple of us. praying mantis men out there that get. into comedy and white white men that's. that's what you're drawn to that's what.

you're saying yes strong white men I'm. trying to strong I'm sorry that's the. part that's objectionable not the. flagrant racism that I'm assigning to. you but just the self- description is. strong that's the I think you know it's. about time white men caught a break I've. said this many times no but can I say I. I also again respectfully descent. because I'm. very you you have been supportive of me.

in ways that it's not like we're hanging. out going fishing on the weekends like. you've just extended your platform your. support your praise in a way that is. completely benefit you know I made a. short film that you promoted that is how. it got any audience at all you've been. you brought me on your show before. anyone wanted me on any talk shows and I. don't think this is unique to me I think. you're someone who has uh a a real kind.

of uh comedy Robin Hood vibe in this way. oh that's nice I I have to say it just. comes from I like I I when people really. make me laugh I want selfish I just want. to be around them I want to have I I I. want them to do well and then I want. them to cast me and their Works um sorry. that's the long con is there something. specific that you like I know someday. you're going to make a movie and there's. going to be a part that I'm not right. for at all and I'm going to guilt you. into giving to me and it's going to. really hurt the.

movie and you and. me can I ask you this is something now. I'm being selfish and again I but no no. this is the idea idea we talk we talk I. know okay to be fair though if I had. known you were going to praise him this. much I wouldn't have come in it's gross. yeah he hates it not what you're doing I. just don't want him to get that he. doesn't want me to get anything uh good. out of this I was talking to a Brit a. woman writes on a succession and she. said British people don't like award. shows because they uh they don't like. getting Awards and and they don't like. seeing other people get Awards hilarious.

interesting I love the honesty of that. too that was my experience it's like. people have an allergy to having any. kind of an interior life and also to. having a body it's like people in the UK. I mean I I love a lot of the people I. met and worked with in the UK but the. feeling is kind of like you can't cop to. having ambition or aggression or any of. that stuff because it's so unseemly but. in the process of trying to kind of.

obfuscate what you're actually feeling. inside it can get kind of weird it can. it can feel sort of cunning in a way and. I when I would come back from from. England to La where everyone is so just. unabashedly self-promotional I found it. to be a relief because it's like okay at. least you're like telling me what a hero. you are to my face instead of hiding. whatever self-regard you feel behind. this kind of you know I I like people. who are like I have a friend who talks a. lot about all the famous people he knows. cuz he's delighted to know so many.

famous people and it's relaxing to me. cuz I'm like oh yeah I know where you. stand it's like can you believe can you. believe it Sarah. Paulson loves. me like I can you're a nice guy I mean. she just called me to ask if I wanted to. come to uh art basil and you're like. great I don't know look at that look at. this list of numbers on my phone yeah it. it is uh it's funny because I find that.

I will I do this a lot even around here. I'll apologize like nine times before I. say the name you know it's kind of cool. that I bumped in I was in a restaurant. and I saw you know okay this is kind of. lame but I did see and then you say. famous person's name and you think well. no I'm living in I work in this industry. why am I apologizing 10 times uh because. it almost then starts to feel like. that's its own kind of I don't know it's. like a de you know how like air. fresheners can make smells worse yes yes. it's kind of like the social version of.

that where there's like an air freshener. that doesn't quite cover up what you're. doing so then it feels like this kind of. like if you feel like you have to okay. money I think is a really interesting. one like where people don't want to talk. about money because it's so. uncomfortable but sometimes when I'm. around people who have lots and lots of. money and they kind of try to spare me. from from a the acknowledgement that. they're rich it that's one of the only. times I'm like oh do you feel like your. money makes you better than me because. you're protecting me from the fact that. have money but I'm glad you have money.

that's great yeah it's like I'm I'm not. threatened by it unless the Imp. implication is like oh I don't want him. to know because he'll feel like such a. little gutter snipe you. know and then I'm like wait a second the. uh I I think one of my th things that. I've been doing for a while well you've. experienced this Sona is I go way the. other way as a bit and so Sona I. remembered when she got you you moved in. and it was with you and Carrie got me.

and Carri got like a small apartment in. it was very nice in Santa Monica but. small apartment that my assistant and. her someone else who worked on the show. produc on the show got and I remember it. coming in and I was like this is. beautiful is it okay if I go upstairs. and she and and son was like Conan you. know there's no upstairs and I would act. like oh come on seriously uh but anyway. at least let me see this at least let me. see the screening room and she' be like. you're a dick and I say I just want to. check it out where's the gym where's. your gym. I just want to see the gym for a second.

and she'd be like all right you and. I'd say and then I'd say like okay if. you don't want me to see it is it okay. if I just go and check out the indoor. pool and uh but it was the. only and it's when you sometimes you'll. like get your wallet and you'll just. sneeze and God that's the hardest the. hardest I've ever. seen Adam Sach who's in the room with us. right now and Adam Sachs is a very. gential fellow uh and um. and I I was once he he didn't know you.

didn't know me that long Adam Adam. hadn't known me that long and what I had. done is I was talking about I was. talking to him and I was being I Was. preparing but he didn't know but I was. just saying like look I don't know I. think I'm I just feel like I'm anyone. else here and I don't really feel like. I'm any different than I was in high. school I went to a public high school my. parents didn't have you know much money. and we just grew up in a middle class. house and I just I don't think and I. just think I haven't. changed and then I sneezed very. convincingly and loudly and what I had. done is I had had a money clip filled.

with money and I had rolled it up and. hidden in my hand I went and this wad of. giant wad of money came out my nose and. shot onto the floor and I was like well. damn it like every time I sneeze a lot. of money comes out and. Adam covered his what were you what you. tell you say oh my God I'm crying now. just remembering it and and I've. remember many times I fell my I was.

yelling covering my face it was and we. had only known each other maybe for a. couple months at that point yeah yeah. you had really didn't know me and it's. and so sometimes like my comfort zone is. something that's that's so insanely over. the top Warner Brothers cartoony wrong. that it's okay that does that make sense. yeah also it's funny that you said that. he snorts money because that makes clear. now that I do. yeah and.