Conan Remembers David Bowie | CONAN on TBS

obviously this is a very sad day everyone found out that David Bowie passed away yesterday incredibly sad news and he was he was on our show several times over the years and the man was always outstanding now today yeah but people were remembering today but people are remembering today what a phenomenal musician David Bowie was and of course that's was the case he was just mind-blowing ly talented but in my experience he was also an incredibly nice person he was fun he was always funny and we wanted to take a second here and just look back at a few of the fun moments I had with David Bowie over the years you got the coolest hair in rock and roll he doesn't think so the guy there no he thinks he can do a little better as Suzy has no hair we share the same birthday sorry all of us have the same birthday yeah we yeah we were drinking buddies right back haha I fly over to Memphis and we'd you know go out for the night on the rez a big Cadillac uh-huh is there any truth to any of this no I was told I had to ask I want to actually just just take a brief walk down memory lane but first of all just to look at some of the different characters that let's put these up because it's good to refresh everybody's memory of course there was the young David this is you early on then there was Iggy Stardust of course then there was the thin white duke of course my personal favorite and then there was a period there where you were trying different you were trying different personas don't do this to me no I don't know other people remember this we reviewed this once on the show but you were you were trying to be personas that I don't think quite had the commercial appeal there was the suave hunchback remember this at all [Music] yeah there was the buck-toothed wizard I remember he was and then this is strange here corn-on-the-cob period I found I don't know about your name yes it's a famous thing now that your name initially Davy Jones yes it was Davy Jones and in the 60s you had to change it because the monkeys came along and they were just getting popular when I was just starting my career so I very wisely changed it to Tom Jones true story true story I was Tom Jones for about a couple of weeks and just as I was doing the photo session he released his first record it's not unusual and so then I moved on then you were David Cassidy black tiger console you had a songwriting contest a while ago yeah tell us about that I didn't win you know I find out about this contest and I'm a bit of a songwriter and I thought maybe you'd perform it right here and we'd see who had the best song [Applause] [Music] you don't mind do you okay here we go it's in G like GEHA I love to read okay I'll live for G here we go oh yeah I'll get you the moon there are so many talk shows [Music] but he is clearly better than love he's a handsome man but I'm not lying it should be and and I'm not lying this wonderful name is Conan O'Brien that's the good part here here's the good part crowd control [Music] [Applause] [Music] you bust you g-string [Applause] no it is really weird cuz you'll just walk by a TV set here and it's called the feed and it's all the rehearsal and you know the channels are on the on the TV and there was Tom broke out right so in like over 500 accidents of happen this year anyway think about that Howard she's 20 22 months now yeah and she saw the moon we've got a kind of a Terrace thing and we've out the other day and it was still light but you could see like that Half Moon thing yeah and she looked up and saw it it's the first time she's seen the moon that it's registered right it's great when they're discovering things like that for the first time it's scary when they're like 20 you talking about your your daughter do you sing lullabies yeah a single mole of nursery rhymes nursery rhyme yeah do you do it in that David Bowie style or no but I could do couldn't I cool if you went into a room at night with a microphone and you were just doing your guru - guru do I see this one through a mouse ran up the clock the clock struck one the mouse ran down hickory [Laughter] [Applause] I love them [Applause]

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Views: 8,363,252

Rating: 4.9606619 out of 5

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Id: P4d8QrRJvsE

Length: 6min 41sec (401 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 11 2016

Reddit Comments

[u/[deleted]]

He's a really funny guy

[u/[deleted]]

It was always smile and laughter..

Until it faded back to Conan, and it hit again that he's gone. He will truly be missed.

[u/MulciberTenebras]

Conan closed out the show with a 1997 clip of Bowie playing Dead Man Walking

[u/smoothmedia]

Another great clip of Bowie on Conan. "Secrets" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9DmcxIZ_fA

[u/Brook420]

He really did have the best hair in Rock n' Roll.

[u/Pizzaboy2]

Man, it was so cool seeing the evolution of not only David Bowie's hairstyles but it was quite funny to see Conan's too

[u/shiner_man]

David Bowie on Extras. He is hilarious.

[u/Acid_Titties]

Conan is such a great dude.

[u/Elijahjacob28]

He will be missed