The First Episode Of "Late Night With Conan O'Brien" | Late Night with Conan O’Brien

[Music] [Music] the question is will Conan O'Brien be as funny as David let's blood pressure on his gosh a lot of pressure he has the the network riding under shoulders well this is his birthday tonight oh yeah so they say lotta pressure I'll do my best [Music] hey yeah better mayor's got his Leatherman I'll give it a shot [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] hey Conan town broker I just want to be the first to welcome you to NBC thanks man and best of luck dude oh and Conan one more thing you better be as good as Letterman or else see you folks out there now or do I have a minute right now [Applause] from NBC Studios in New York in Late Night with Conan O'Brien [Music] tonight John Goodman Drew Barrymore and Tony Randall with the Max Weinberg 7 why can't we feed the honey wrong time now here's your host Conan O'Brien [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] something's wrong something's really wrong now I'm fine really I'm fine I'm fine [Applause] well I've been in show business now 45 seconds and this is the nicest reception I ever had okay so first show I got to admit that this is a little unusual I mean let's face it most guys that are in this spot they came up here a different way you know I mean a lot of guys they spend years and years in the club's working very hard struggling and finally they get here on TV my plan is to start on TV claw my way into the clubs but I do feel very good about this show we have a really we got a terrific show together and I've been giving this thing and giving it a lot of thought alright got a few months now first of all a lot of shows guest is out for how long six minutes seven minutes and then they're gone you never get to really know them you know so I thought on this show same guests every night you are really going to get to know John Goodman the other thing is uh all hosts I'm serious please I'm trying to run a show here I'm new come on a lot of hosts they they have their trademark gesture of course Carson had the famous golf swing and Arsenio has this thing I don't know what it's called but I call it the Arsenio anyway uh I thought you know I should have my own trademark gesture and I worked out some you know options if you want to see him do you all right this one's good you're watching America cuz you're gonna see a lot of this point all right I had one other one which is actually my favorite if you want to see it sounds like this all right you'll see it that's how show business works I can't bring something up and then not do it all right here's the other one hi America but in all sincerity I am very thrilled to be here this is long been a dream of mine and do this and and to do it well we'll see and and I remember when I was a kid I used to think about doing it actually in high school I used to say remember saying to my friends you know if there's any way that I could somebody be a talk show host I'm serious you people and you know kids are cruel and I remembered they they started laughing at me a lot of the time and they said to me Oh Brian the day you get your own talk show is the day there's peace in the Middle East all right we have a really great perso and I'm a complete unknown to everybody and these people were fantastic to come on its come on I'm torn O'Brien you better do my show John Goodman is here first thank and introduce the Max Weinberg seven and now I want to please welcome a friend of mine some might even say a sidekick Andy Richter oh great TV whatever Andy calm yourselves to be professional now act like guys that are too young to be on TV Andy you are of course you won we scouted hundreds of thousands of people and you were actually the winner of the sidekick competition yeah you actually weren't even entering what happened to you well I got on the backs of on the back of a box of doughnuts this scratch off and win thing right right Here I am alright thank God I love doughnuts [Applause] alright well Andy you know what it's time for are you gonna show us a scar never it's time for actual small town items this is the part of the show where we share items that we've found in small town newspapers that are weird or even kind of unusual well that's a that is a really innovative kind of groundbreaking I guess yes that's the kind of television I want to do I think we're gonna make a lot of waves with this one all right well let's let's get going here cuz this is you guys ready all right this one is from Watertown New York here's a road sign that might give a lot of people the wrong idea we get a shot of this actually an actual small town news I'd a real road sign that's right here is an advertisement taken out of the Wilmington crier of Wilmington North Carolina watch this is actual of course we don't want here it's an ad for a hair replacement Center and please look down at the bottom it says free order of french fries with every new set of Michelin tires now truth is so much stranger than fiction I'll say here's an advertisement from Newton Massachusetts it's for a miniature golf course I want you to take a look at this we found it here our staff the ad reads bob's mini golf course we are a really bad miniature golf course you shouldn't come here now that that is so obviously real because you could not make that make that stuff up oh there's no way just no way here's another ad this is from the miners town which is tin miners town Pennsylvania and it's for the Morris Funeral Home and take a look at this it's unbelievable we will make the death of your loved one the most frightening and disturbing experience you've ever endured [Applause] you know something people there's nothing funnier than real items that weren't faked and doctored by a graphics department it's got to be real got to be real or it's not funny that's right all right now this is this is an article from the Lexington Daily Mirror of Lexington Kentucky I read this I just can't believe it okay a woman is in critical condition today after being hit by a bus at a downtown intersection the victim mrs. Louise hit by a bus was rushed to County Hospital where she was operated on by dr. help Louise mrs. hit by a bus his husband John hope she's okay spent the night sitting up with her tell me Andy it's amazing that was an amazing segment and I hope we can do it again soon I'd love to as soon as our research team can find another batch they're not easy to find they're doing God's work all right we will be right back with John Goodman our very first guest penny uh as you're well aware it's time to bring out our very first guest this is exciting yeah yes my first guest it is exciting [Applause] my first guest is one of America's most beloved actors you know I'm from Roseanne you can see him in the upcoming Flintstones movie please welcome our first guest ever John Goodman [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] yeah great a couple of years when I bought them out I can trade this in for a gallon a cheap scotch I'll need this thank you all right how's it go well thank you very much for coming on the show thanks for asking I wouldn't have been my first choice what the hey times are hard John so uh how's it going it's going good I just finished the this movie called The Flintstones what could you have Fred Flintstone it's about the Stone Age family and there are modern Stone Age family don't ruin it well we can we can stop tape okay no we can't no anyway and they're gonna have a whole line of chewables children's vitamins it's gonna be great but we had a lot of fun doing it Rick Moranis was Barney Elizabeth Perkins was um Wilma there would be Fred's wife right and Rosie O'Donnell's buddy and Elizabeth Taylor was my mother-in-law don't we gotten us some real was kind of a cross between Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and the honeymooners for a while it was the Great Gazoo gonna be in the movie oh that Gazoo no not in this one you give me the baby if the public likes that we'll have to do another one you do know who the Great Gazoo weighs quite a cheap gymnast oh that's a little space guy yeah the space creature yeah and some say ruin the series not in our movie pal all right now I want a little outer space pile on this show but the network says no I'm Olly Sunim to wardrobe we did gonna buy these myself so the Flintstones but you're done with it now uh yeah uh finish that I was doing in Roseanne and the phone so it's the same time so I came down with pneumonia excellent hi I'm just getting over it but uh you think this is a this is gonna have worldwide appeal this movie amazing fun I don't think so we had a bunch of foreign press come over just and it turns out that the Japanese don't know the Flintstones they've never seen the Flintstone I have the cartoon over there so I had to speak to a gentleman from a Japanese talk-show who asked me through a translator booyah huh and the translator said why do you find it necessary for a primitive man to wear a necktie well that's what we got to go for a second we'll have more with John Goodman when we come back I'm talking with John Goodman how's it going what oh right no oh I'm getting a signal right here we have to be right back after this special effects technician [Music] [Applause] we're back there's so much nonsense to get you on this show it's difficult sometimes John I have to ask you something yes sir if I named after yes I do I'm being paid you were you were considered one of the sexiest men by a lot of magazines on TV it's true magazine that was a US magazine or one of those reliable publications and they didn't say what country's television yeah I was it was a couple years ago it's kind of embarrassing now simultaneously another magazine also said that you were the star that most resembled mr. Potato Head we take a look at that who it was what was that there we go there's there you are of course and of course there's mr. Potato Head coming up area what was that that was play school I guess the people that make mr. Potato Head and they chose you yeah they know the children did they just a bunch of children and they said mr. Potato Head has a chubby face just like mr. Goodman and Michael Jordan came in second but I can't my daughter's three now and I can't let her get ahold of that information because while I'm sleeping she'll you know those things are real sharp excellent now I just want to be the celebrity that most resembles Raggedy Andy hang is TV for a while I think it's interesting that sexy and mr. Potato Head are somehow you know and in hand which explains a lot of confusion I experienced as a child in directo ladies and gentlemen yes we're gonna get a plastic shield built-in I'm gonna get things done the way I want them you uh but you're working on a lot of movies you're working on Roseanne simultaneously yeah what does John Goodman do to relax to unwind Oh little naked twister couple belts of cheap gin and like the leg Russell really yeah you know what like wrestling us now what - uh well he could be either sucks he likes side by side feet up this way head down this way and you bring your legs up and try to throw the other person over are you serious this is something you used to do it as a kid notice but the only thing I was good at and uh I've never been beaten I mean I quit for a while cuz I killed a guy doing it I mean you've never been beaten no one's ever beaten you on I bet Andy could take you John she's getting over pneumonia and I'm just getting over like three ruptured bursa why don't you really [Applause] [Music] isn't there somebody here is there somebody here who will rest leg wrestle John Goodman's line somebody anybody okay I'll do it yeah [Applause] I think I think we're finally going to settle this thing the grudge match between the burly lovable big guys a TV [Applause] enough it's the only thing I'm good at - darling you know they're all [Applause] [Laughter] all right now hold that hold it come on anyone settle down this is a this is a serious TV show we you know the rules of course gentlemen hold hands I will count you off to three and then begin leg wrestling all right all right one [Applause] in this half-hour we've got pee Barrymore and Tony Randall and we'll tell you who won the leg wrestling competition but first let's check out what's coming up on later with Bob Costas bob thanks Conan coming up on later something worth giving up that extra half hours sleep for as we take a loving look back at the classic film The Wizard of Oz I'll be talking with the two surviving cast members all right now you're 84 and you are 140 you have fond memories of Judy Garland sure sweet lady but did she have problems even then she drank she drank but no more than anyone else we were all professionals what was it like working with ray Bolger [Applause] Bert Lahr was really a coward right right back with Drew Barrymore are you doing great doing alright well thank you this thing zips up the back few to get in and out of you look terrific thank you now listen I don't want to start off on the wrong note I don't want to be one of those talk-show host who's always gushing but you of the three Amy Fisher's I think yours was by far the best right did you a lot of actors when they're preparing for a role like that with a killer or a murder where they actually go and meet the person in prison did you do that because I know well let me tell you a little something about Amy I didn't get to meet her actually because she was you know going through all their court things and being arraigned at the time of the shooting and it was very nerve-wracking to be portraying somebody who is living in the media as we were shooting and you know trying to pull off the accent and do the whole thing and like you know understand everything and sort of come to terms with why she did the things she did to have the sincerity to play her but it was I had to do it I had to live out that humor I felt for this girl right you didn't meet with her you didn't talk to her you just studied I just sir I would listen to her voice over and over and over again all right what was it very I'm saying it was a very funny portrayal to which a lot of people wouldn't wouldn't have gone that way oh well I had I tried to bring the humor into it you know I'm trying to write not always easy it isn't but it was fun it was a we had a really good time wait a really good time doing it I sort of went started to go a little crazy after a while being this girl but um the humor was what kept you alive but I've noticed I mean you've certainly departed a lot from the image that you had as a child I mean right now you're doing the the guest jeans and yes I am we actually have that photo if we could put it up let me see that there we go help me out here Andy Wow drew I'm I'm sorry but it's on the cue cards I have to do is I we don't lie on this show everything's written down for me the network is so scared [Music] like write everything down for that monkey but there's that one you wearing a tattoo I was looking through some of those earlier as part of my job what do you have on your ankle across a sort of fourth angled crosses across at each angle and it has Rose vines going through it and I put it on there about five years ago Wow how many tattoos do you have um I have five mm-hmm no I'm not gonna get but what kind are you have a cross and well um yes I have a cross on my ankle I have a blue moon on my toe what makes you think of that what makes you think of like I've got to have a moon well what made you think of it I don't know I I'm just saying what made you think okay I've got to have that pretty permanent decision actually a friend of mine that we were walking past a tattoo shop one day when let's get matching tattoos mm-hmm and that's how it happened and it's still there right so they're not those fake kind I get the fake kind of I have those two those are a lot of fun um and then I have um cherubs growing growing I hope they're not growing um along the base of my back all right what what are you doing now um right now I'm I flew in from Texas and I'm living in a town called Brackett Ville believe me none of you have heard of it and if you have I'm sorry we don't even have a mailman we have nothing and but it's great because you're very at one with nature and this is what are you filling in Texas this is Brackett Ville Texas Oh sounds like a charming I forgot to tell you why I was there I'm here because I'm shooting a Western uh-huh a female Western with them me and three other lovely ladies and a McDowell Mary Stuart Masterson Madeleine Stowe and I think it's gonna be really exciting yeah that sounds neat what is it a problem living in Brackett Ville Texas you're obviously used to all the amenities well I'm used to a big city in everything but like I said I mean it's beautiful you know they gave me this convertible to drive and you know it's very funny looking they gave you a convertible well the rental company did and that's why I get clear what did that like I want to go home have a big bow on it or anything okay this is this is what you get while you're here and you know I sort of cruise on the open roads and it's um it's amazingly beautiful and I'd like to live out in the country someday there's nothing you miss about 7-eleven I miss the 7-eleven all right don't we all don't we all all right well we're gonna have to go thanks very much for coming on my first show thank you for having me it was a real honor thank you and we will be right back with Tony Randall I just wanted to say before anything else that it's a real honor to be on your first show well thank you very much that's nice of you [Music] not so great an onerous to be the first guest [Applause] I'm sure I'm sure John will let you wear the medal is for five or ten minutes still I thought I ought to dress for it I did you look very nice thank you do I thought this was dressing up in my generation this is a nerd I'm dressing up for me this is dressing you're not amused by me at all yeah I'm certainly amused by your clothes no no this is what we call a Bar Mitzvah suit and I no no you look very very nice in it indeed thank you thank you very much no I'm going to a friend's wedding after the show no you should go to a friend's Bar Mitzvah I feel like I'm being taken to the woodshed the talkshow woodshed how you enjoying the show so far come on I'm Bob and I'm leaving I'm in there I'm trying huh well I I I thought the leg wrestling was clever I just said to myself as I'm sure everybody in America did if I had a talk show that's what I'd put on it amuses me that's all you have to do know that that's the highest form of art when you pander to your audience that's no good pandering no no not even a little you must stick by your conscience artistic conscience such as it is and do what amuses you so the leg wrestling's good I'd keep it in I'd have it every night yeah and then you could have very sort of variation on it nude like grass yeah write it down yeah nude there you go past me how do you like the set I like it I might be tidier right no no III think any set with a picture of Joe Franklin on it is real yeah I believe in that I believe in the things I believe there you're sticking by your guns yeah you're doing what you believe in and you're bound to succeed you think yeah I know it then let's all give me a big hand well [Music] our first show is over many viewers are probably turning in for the night now well I don't want to discourage people from watching later with Bob Costas I do realize that there are many people out there who are insomniac and would love some help getting to sleep but one of the things I can offer as a new host is my beautiful singing voice so for those who need it I'd like to offer this simple lullaby [Music] [Applause] blast of snow mega [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] No boom on below that's sorry [Applause] I also want to thank Andy Richter the next one good seven I have to laugh at time tonight I hope you'll come back and thank you very much [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you

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Length: 37min 59sec (2279 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 13 2018