Stephen King Hates Halloween | Late Night with Conan O’Brien

how are you I'm doing very well I just I I was thinking about something today thinking about you coming on the show it's almost Halloween a couple of weeks away from Halloween and I've got to think there's a lot of pressure on you around Halloween because when kids ring your bell and you answer the door it's Stephen King it's Halloween if you just give them a Clark bar and say have a nice evening it's somehow gone arrived you know what I mean is there pressure on you to do something kind of crazy or intense I hate Halloween for that reason that I just described or if if I could go to the gulag right on Halloween right probably would because it used to be we stayed home and thousands of people literally would converge on the house and we gave out I don't know how much and candy and everything else and we got to the point where we were actually thinking about bringing in fog machines and putting up fake gravestones and everything and I'm like hold on here a second I'm turning into the Halloween Santa Claus right right right it just became too much about let's all go to Stephen King's house on Halloween that's gonna be a really fun thing to do and I mean Santa Claus isn't real and I am sort of so Santa Claus might be real I'm still holding out hope what Santa Claus out there that could be yeah yeah hey I'm curious did you you give so many people nightmares what about you do you get nightmares and have you've had a really scary you know dream pass them on it's sort of like passing a gallstone right you know just pass them on to other people only so you begin give nightmares but you yourself sleep fine it's more blessed to give than receive conan and you know it's it's it's a good thing because obviously some of the stuff that I've done is fairly twisted right and it's the kind of thing like if you had these fantasies in real life as opposed to my life you'd go to a shrink right and you'd pay 60 70 $80 for an hour it's not even a full hour it's a 50-minute hour and I get paid for these things you know just it's a great life instead of going to a therapist you just write it down and people pay a lot of money to read it because sometimes they go to the movies even right well let's talk about what's up with that because you were one of the first people to have the idea that a clown could be a scary figure you actually in the in in it which became a movie you wrote about a you created a homicidal clown it's very effective did you find clowns scary when you were a kid well you know as a kid going to the circus it would be like 12 full-grown people that would all pile out of a little tiny car their faces were dead white their mouths were red as though they were full of blood they're all screaming their eyes are huge what's not to like why were your clowns screaming so I started to actually look at kids when I grew up a little bit and I said you know kids are all terrified of him and the parents are like aren't the clowns funny Johnny and then Johnny's like no get me the hell out of here we're all crazy because they are monstrous looking and children are really afraid of them they do have that sort of monstrous thing going for them did you ever have a personal interaction with a clown that scared you yeah well not exactly scared me but I was on a I was on a book tour my first big book tour and I was on my way home you do nine ten eleven cities in four days it's surreal anyway by the time you get done Cleveland was the last City and the plane started to pull away from the gate we're gonna go from Cleveland to Burlington to Portland where I was going to get off and drive home plane pulls away from the gate and then it pulls back in I'm sitting in first class and the door opens again and Ronald McDonald gets on the airplane he's fully dressed fully clothed oh yeah you know then sits down next to me because I attract weirdness you know I'm like a magnet and and I was so weirded out by that point after all these you know rubber chicken dinners and everything else that I wasn't even surprised here he is orange hair orange juice the whole nine yards he sits down next to me this is years ago plane takes off no smoking light goes off he pulls out a packet cants lights up lights up a cigarette yeah I can't any orders a gin and tonic from the stewardess he's sitting there drinking a gin and tonic smoking I can't and I I say the only thing I can think of where did you come from he says McDonald land [Laughter] [Applause] Yeah right so I say is this no really where'd you come from and he had come from McDonaldland which is a real place in Chicago and he was going to open a McDonald's in Burlington Vermont but you talk about surreal sure 40,000 feet with Ronald McDonald and you think what if this plane crashes I'm gonna die next to a cloud a drunken one too yeah I have to ask you this cuz it I'm from Boston I know that you're a been a lifelong Red Sox fan right and you always I remember you talking about this you were famous for saying that you were you were so convinced that they were never going to win the World Series you were actually going to put something that effect on your gravestone I was gonna have a gravestone that said not in my lifetime right but somebody sent me a t-shirt at the end the last year that said now I can die in peace that's very nice that was really nice and I'm gonna wear that t-shirt but hopefully I won't die for a long time and I can see that happen two or three more times it doesn't look that good this year right now but yeah well you never know I mean are you one of those people who's like happy now that it happened I you know I don't need it to happen again this year you don't need the Red Sox to do it this year you feel that way about your first sexual experience what the way it went down yes yeah then later on when I was in my 50s we uh the Colorado kid it's gonna be in stores on October 4th it's a little but it's powerful yeah what we were just talking about yeah it's getting dirty fast I'm going to commercial and this weekend Stephens going to be at The New Yorker festival right here in New York City real thrill thank you so much same here [Applause]

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Id: NJX9yl5r784

Length: 7min 11sec (431 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 30 2019