Conan O’Brien on Writing “Marge vs. the Monorail” for “The Simpsons”

when you look at your career are there bits that you wrote whether in at the Harvard Lampoon SNL your own late night show yeah they're bits that stand out that you wrote that you think are the greatest like my greatest hits are they think or do you just see it as one blur it's kind of a blur I think uh the thing I get maybe people ask me about the most is this episode of The Simpsons I wrote um the monorail episode and people um Simpsons fans really like that episode you wrote it yourself well here's how it works and you got to be clear about this I had the idea and you know I think drafted it all drafted a lot of like the major story points about how the first part of the show is a music man parody and the second part is an Irwin Allen parody and here's what happens but then you go into a room with the most amazing writers and I'd start to name them all but I'll forget someone and they'll hate me but just you know incredible VDS and Schwartz welders and Reese and Gene and you know George Meyer you go into this room Jeff Martin you go into a room and they they uh they all start throwing in great jokes and so everything ultimately uh at the no one can same can claim Soul credit for just about anything on The Simpsons so but that with the monorail episode that one I get I that's that's uh and what's really nice is when The Simpsons had a big anniversary show at the Hollywood Bowl James L Brooks asked me to come back and sing the song from the monorail episode with the Hollywood Gay Men's Choir and it was one of the highlights of my life it was just I mean Hollywood Bowl packed me coming out dressed as the music man singing this song that I wrote when I had a Ford Taurus and bad skin and I wrote it in a cramped little room on the fox lot and thought it might what's happening with Mike is where am I going to become am I ever going to get where I think I'm supposed to go and now here I am singing this in front of people in the at the Hollywood Bowl satisfying magical and I I do try to take those moments in you know

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Length: 2min 10sec (130 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 09 2022