I gotta talk to the people
of America for a second if it's all right.
All right. Because this is a pretty
interesting stuff. I wanna talk about here
at the top of the show. You folks may not know this but all throughout Europe there are late night talk shows which are by and large imitations
of American talk shows. This is a sprung up in
the last couple of years- Yeah, when I've been
on vacation over there It's amazing how close some of them are to talk shows here.
To talk shows here. Yeah.
Yeah, It's pretty cool. Well recently, I was invited
to fly to Cologne, Germany to appear on the Harald Schmidt Show. (audience laughing) This is honest to God. This is true. He is known as the David
Letterman of Germany and he borrows a lot of
stuff from David Letterman. And he borrowed some stuff from our show which is a high compliment. And anyway, I had heard about this show and when I got the invitation I was intrigued. So I decided to fly to
Germany appear on the show and see all the sights of Cologne 'cause I've never been there. And we of course brought a camera crew. We filmed the whole thing and we're gonna show it to you right now because it's pretty
interesting what happened. We hope you enjoy. (bright music) I've heard that my fans in Europe can be a little overzealous. So while I'm here and NBC
has assigned me a bodyguard. This is Barn and he's gonna
pretty much make sure that you know everyone keeps their distance. (audience laughing) (bright music) We're in the basement of a beer hall and this thing is pretty interesting. It's designed just for
people that need to vomit. There's a handle on either side and in here and there's a nice wide space to accommodate cone vomit. (mumbles) You vomit, you move away. These lights sensors flush the vomit and then you go upstairs to
drink some more, (mumbles) (audience laughing and clapping) Thank you. Thank you very much. It's bunch of Germans in the next car. I'm gonna guess that
their names are Frieda Chelsea, Ceaser and Lao Slimeslaw. By the way it's a matter of minutes before I'm beaten to death. This is the thing to do
if you're in Cologne. Is ride on the cable car. I think that's why most
teenagers here shoot themselves (audience laughing) around the age of 17. The city of Cologne is a medieval city. It's been around for a long time. The initial name for
the city wasn't Cologne, it was Afterashaven (audience laughing) But they changed it and they didn't think
it had a nice (mumbles). This is the Cologne Cathedral. It's the world's largest Gothic cathedral. It's 750 years old, and it
is absolutely breathtaking. Is this funny? [Man] No. Let's get the hell out of here then. Come on let's go. (bright music) Have you ever watched my show here? It's on-
Every night. You watch it every night? Yes, we tape it then we watch it till the next morning. And you enjoy it?
Absolutely. We've noticed that there are some comedy bits on this show that seems similar to
comedy bits on our show. Have you ever noticed that? Yeah.
You've have? Mmh.
Thanks for coming. Yeah, thanks for being here. (crowd clapping and cheering) So, hello there, Michael? Hey there Conan The King of Pop, hello Michael Jackson. (mumbles) hello Sir, I love you. Then you can have a lawyer
present if you want. There's no, no.. I believe I believe that.. No, no I believe that it's nice for people to exchange ideas, you know, happy that the desk drive we've
seen Harald drive the desk. No sometimes he-- And that was part of independently. The lips, the moving lips
probably independent, not a big deal. Listen, I want $600,000
before I leave here. I'm (mumbles) you understand? 600 mmh
Yeah. Yeah.
Could you talk to somebody. No. Hey, O'Brian, how are you? Hey, very nice to meet you. Pleased to meet you. Thanks thanks for having me. No, thanks for coming. But tell me, how was your first season? It wasn't horrible I read,
I mean, mine was hell. So ours went very smoothly. (people laughing) Why is everyone laughing and we have a good show tonight. I hope so, I have two wonderful guests Really and then coming on third? How does it work? (people laughing) (bright music) [Announcer] (mumbles) capital in Cologne Die Harald Schmidt Show. (mumbles) late nights
superstar Conan O'Brian. (bright music) (audience clapping and cheering) (upbeat music) [Conan] Here I was, walking out on to Germany's number one, top show. I felt great. Maybe it was the exact duplicate of the Letterman set that
made me feel so at home. (audience clapping and laughing) (mumbles) welcome to Cologne. Thank you very much. Okay, great. [Conan] This is fantastic. As I launched into some of
my oldest stairless routines, I began to wish I could
have just a little more fun in Germany before my trip was over. Then I remembered something
Harald had told me just before the show. You know, that Cologne is
the world's capital gay number one. Really?
Yes, absolutely. Well then I'm gay. I'll try that. I just wanna have a good time. I don't care who it's with. Yeah.
I just wanna enjoy myself. (upbeat music) (audience laughing and cheering) I had a good time (mumbles) Gay number one, Cologne
capital gay number one. That was a lot of fun though. They're writers are nice
people and everything we had. We had a good time over there. It's amazing though. You walk out on that set and I've done the
Letterman show a few times. It is the exact, they
have it down to a science. Really cool. Well that was good to know. Yeah.
Well now people know. I was hurt that they
weren't copying our set. (both laughing) The big pillow thing on the wall. The Germans would have none of it. No, no.
No, they were disgusted. All right. Wanna take a little break
ladies and gentlemen, and we've got an amazing
show lined up for you when we come back.
We really copied everything entertaining from America
Does anyone know which brewery is the one with the vomit thing?
I knew the concept was borrowed from US late shows at the time but I had no idea they plagiarized individual segments to the extent that they did. That bit with the German producer was just really embarrassing. “Fremdschämen“.
Alle haben Letterman kopiert, auch Conan. Wäre ich da gewesen, hätte sein Bodyguard mich nicht abgehalten, ihn um ein Autogramm oder eine Locke seines irischen Haars anzubetteln.