Martin Short Thinks Conan Looks Like A “Freeze-Dried Prince Harry” | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

gentlemen it's a rare honor to have you both here ah thank you Conan in the same room I'll tell you one thing it's rare to be here it is I left out the word honor but that's just an oversight just before we started recording um Marty who you verbally assaulted me no no no no I I said it with love that to me when I see you you look like someone freeze-dried Prince Harry that's all I said I uh it's um you know my staff looks forward to any time that Marty pardon me I have a staff wow it's very lucrative it gets smaller every year yeah but um no fans of my show and yes there are fans of the work that I've done in the past let's not have any mock surprise about that but they um they have put together a uh mashup of uh of Marty coming on the show and ripping me apart uh and it is wildly popular oh really oh yes it is it is wildly popular and it Delights uh my writers to the point where the last time when we were wrapping up the Late Night show a epic 28 year run thank you uh I'm driving to uh one of the last episodes that Marty's gonna do uh and he did an extremely funny bid on it and I'm driving to the theater and I looked down and I realized I'm doing something I rarely do which is wear shorts [Laughter] immediately I thought I'm driving towards the Largo theater and I thought Marty who's on today Marty's on today and I knew that he would destroy me and sure enough you come in and hello hello everybody and then I see those two eyes Dart over and they see my freckled legs there and it began and it began and it was it was quite a sun it was absolutely a terrifying sight and you couldn't because normally you can't see where the stilts are attached you could that day the shorts revealed way too much oh and they were short shorts 1970s yeah Joey Heatherton like you were entertaining the troops but uh the writers were so so happy and then of course your the line that just you said it on late night and it uh it's lived forever which is well you'll do it better than I but it was Conan uh whatever you're doing to your face I say 20 more and then stop which is mean in nine years it's a love letter I love it's also done with care yes you're worried about me yeah a little more about 20 more now I feel like I have to put you down and I've got nothing no no you don't you don't because you're Steve oh help line uh well I don't want to embarrass either of you so I won't mention that uh you are just two of my uh Absolute Comedy Heroes I'm sure you hear that kind of thing all the time and it bores you but one of the pleasures of my life and I'm not kidding was when you asked me to do a cameo in your show your live show at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas and I I was outside my body getting to be be on stage with you guys it made me so happy so legitimately sincerely happy you kill I remember you did Kill I mean you we learned a lesson because you showed up with writers one writer I can't afford two I showed up with my well you're a writer yeah oh that's true yeah that's true well I suppose I am um no I I end uh Matt he's Matt O'Brien no relation but I only hire O'Brien's and uh he um idolizes you both as well and he was just in heaven and then there was but I thought yeah come along with me and and help me tweak a few things since I really wanted it to be better than what I could it was it was inspiring and we've had people show up with with nothing no writers and they did way better by the way and then I heard you guys later bumped into Letterman and he was like Conan brought a writer no no because Dave did it as well right yeah what was the line you were sitting off stage with Dave and he looked what was it you were sitting off stage waiting for me to come on they look kind of morose this sounds like Dave so far they edit by the way he had okay no no no no he didn't oh not at all no an editor costs money as well everything is in uh no but um it was fantastic it was uh but I remember you were saying that Dave was sort of he had been off the air for just a little bit and then of course he always does the thing where he's horrified that he if I go on stage it'll just be awful yeah and I'm like you're David Letterman what are you you know but he's done it and of course the place goes nuts yes and then and then afterwards he still has a negative feeling about it even though he's killed yeah he but he had only been off a few I think this was like in June and he'd left six weeks before right exactly exactly but he is his personality is always you know he came by and which meant a lot to me did a cameo on late night which was his old studio and he came by and of course his attitude was well they're just gonna hate me well there's a you know there's a there's an event how will they know who I am will you say my name before I come out there's a self-defense mechanism in being overly paranoid and then when you get a little cheer when you come out and you go oh I was wrong yes yes I'm familiar with it with Marty yeah I think with me yes I think and it would I think it's kept me out of the big money not having that attitude I'm just kind of going oh you don't like me well you know I don't like you either but good night yeah it is a little he does have that attitude I'm this insecure shaking one and he says I don't give a right they're going to love me well if they don't guess what if I had dinner with them I'd be bored that's all exactly oh yeah well often that was your opening line though it was and I didn't know why I didn't play who are you people no one's bathed Obviously good night where's my big money why didn't I get the big money why don't they like me they don't ever me again I was um so I got to see your show uh and I was so impressed with how you guys worked it out and even though you both knew the show so well you had a rehearsal and you were still uh working so hard to make sure that it went perfectly at rehearsal and I thought this is there are no accidents like people that are good in my opinion there yes there is talented but there was talent but then there's just this just mad desire to get it perfectly right and it never goes away well I always think that that by the way I'm here too go ahead oh did you just sneak into this chair no but I'm always amazed I feel like I should I start raising my hand okay well go ahead you say something no I don't have it I had something I say I I think we prepare I prepare out of fear yep and also love because when we get a new joke I've I'm energized the whole show I cannot it's true wait to get to this joke and often they don't work in fact here's an example because I thought let me just say when they don't work uh I am like either on stage or in the wings I go hysterical yes because he's been so excited all day about this go ahead I had a joke the other night I thought when I introduced Marty I thought oh this this is really going to work right and then we're going to analyze why it didn't work afterwards yes but I said and this man he's he's done live television he's been in film and he's done Broadway and truly he is a master of the toxic workplace environment and it was just sort of like yeah and uh I realized later it's had too many words in it yeah you know it needed to be more of like a casual throwaway in the middle of our inside toxic you had to have just read the story about uh that um no no I don't think everyone is following you know variety everybody memorized about a toxic workplace environment obviously because you've got nothing yeah remember that part I mean Conan shorts represent a toxic workplace absolutely for the crew oh we settled out of court

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