Alex Edelman

26:14Because I assume that most people watching my show are aware that it's not amazing to be a neo-Nazi. So instead of being like, what does a version of this look like where instead of being like an early, like the Daily Show in that, like when I was in high school and college to this tremendous job of being sort of like gotcha comedy with like exposing the hypocrisy of, you know, like powerful figures. Yeah, exactly. And folks and even regular people who were supporting the folks sycophantically. And I was watching some of those clips and I was in while they really lost their zing because we know it now.

26:49Like we know there's no surprise me like, oh, a Trump supporter has double standards on morality. Hell's shock. You know, like it's really. And so I wanted to ask more interesting questions with that, like, you know, that unique opportunity. and also want to reckon with the difficult truths there, which is that I am in some ways like some of those people or share a point of view on one or two of the things that they're saying or think that, and so I thought that would be a more interesting show and a more humane show, especially given the rancorous presence that we live in. I think it's also, that kind of comedy to me is more durable.

27:25That's, I always think, is the prize to be shooting for. so I thought this was really nicely done there was a bunch of things that I noticed which is your physicality on stage you have a lot of energy and you're uh running around and you have sort of a comedic way of moving around the stage that uh was really making me laugh do you know what I mean do you know what I'm talking about it's kind of this I mean I don't even know what uh it's called ADHD Conan is that it but uh but yeah you know there it is yeah but you know the funny thing is that i realized um i some of that's a bad hat some of that's intentional and some of that's a bad habit and i don't know any other way to to bring this up but adam brace who is who was who and i know it's coming because he he he helped you bring this to life yeah he's my director and and and uh and like i said my closest pal we worked together on three solo shows and he passed away right before we started on broadway and so you know um and so that sucked yeah and he passed away very suddenly it was a shock yeah it was very surprising and um i think actually very inconsiderate of him given he had work to do but uh that's okay really not commensurate with his theatrical responsibilities but uh but brace he told me when it was okay to move and when it was okay not to move like there are moments in the show that are very that are very anchored and still and then there are moments where you run around and it's good because it puts a contrast on the moments where you're still because they're like oh wow that guy sure moves a lot and they're like oh wait he's really standing still for this i guess i guess this part's important but like i've always had help from other people and i've always like wanted also that's the other thing the show was socialized with like a million comedians like every comedian who came i would i would interrogate them for notes like seinfeld came and i was like give me a note all of these was seinfeld's note bass notes in between scenes.

29:19Yeah, yeah, yeah. A-dum, a-dum, a-dum, a-dum, a-dum. Because I found that to be off-putting. Yeah. Yeah, the Michael Richards cameo doesn't really fit, but... We did have to cut around it. And I realized they were all anti-Semites. Yeah. A-boing, ba-doing, doing, doing. They're all anti-Semites. Yeah.

29:44Although, I remember when Seinfeld came, I remember thinking, how did anyone ever kill Abe Lincoln? Because the whole time the crowd wasn't watching me, they're watching Seinfeld. And I was like, wasn't there like most of the people at the play were like, is Lincoln enjoying the show? Yeah. What does Lincoln think of our American cousin? Oh no, but look out.

30:08The weird thing is most of them would have known John Wilkes Booth. So they would have just been like, I think about that all the time. They would have literally thought like, oh, there's the president. and, you know, there's George Clooney behind him. Hey, what did George Clooney just do? That's genuinely, I think about it constantly, but the thing is, it's like, it's his brother. It was like, his brother was Edwin Booth. Yeah, he was a huge star. And there's a theater on Broadway still named after Edwin Booth, which is like, how talented does that guy have to be? It's like, you know, welcome to the Mark Bin Laden theater.

30:41Yeah, yeah, yeah. And afterwards we'll all hit Oswald's for a steak.

30:57Damn, I hate what his brother did, but this is fantastic. And so funny you say that about physicality because like other people, Morgan, the person who came with me to Conan said, are you worried that if you move around on stage, cone and we'll see that you're just doing him that's a different friendship i have with morgan i was like stood right there because like i also think you are your influences you're like i'm a little bit like brian reagan i'm a little bit like not to give a little bit like you a little bit like gary gullman who's another great comic like i i have stolen from the diffuse it's that but the thing is it's like i i just think it's uh you know i grew up watching um bob newhart and johnny carson and both of them were so good at this kind of deadpan comedy and they got it directly from um jack benny and they were like oh no it was jack what we're doing is jack benny jack benny was doing someone that he saw when you know his when he was a kid probably on the vaudeville circuit he saw someone else do that and that person saw someone do it in the civil war yeah so we're all riffing off of each other and we even think we're doing that person but we're not because i keep saying it's her failure to be our idols that makes us come up with our own thing you know tom lerner yeah it's like tom lerner is 90 please if you're listening to this don't drop in on tom lerner but he lives in boston and like a couple of months ago i was in boston i guess a year ago now i was in boston and i drove by his house and i was like you know what i'll knock on tom lerner's door and he's do you know who he is?

32:31no but it's such a do you know him? no okay and he's in his 90s did you have a weapon? come with me Tom he was like it's the 1920s and you're insane and we're allowed to use butterfly nets to take people away he was Kennedy's favorite comedian it's like I knocked on his door he didn't answer and I came back a couple days later that's when you gotta really lean into it with your shoulder give it a kick if the door won't go Hey, listen, if Tom Lehrer's door won't give right away, just really give it a kick. Got him in a cage in the back. I'm 92. Next to the last mother's brother. You know, just like, Tom, you will write for me.

33:15But yeah, I mean, like, eventually he was at home and he's a curmudgeon, but he's nice in his way. And we sat and talked. And next time I was in town, it was like, email if you feel like coming by. And, uh... He's saying prior notice. Yeah, prior notice is key. He thought it was the mailman, which is why he opened the door. It is really... Of course, the mailman outfit you were wearing. Yeah. Helped with that illusion. Special door. I know how to get in. Package for you, Lara. It's chloroform. You need to smell it to make sure it's yours. Go to sleep, Tom Lara. Ugh, sleep. I mean, what's more irritating than just like some millennial being like, hi, I've got some questions about your songs about Vernon Von Braun.

34:03But like, but it was really, but he, but like, also comedy is such a young art form. Like, and it's so amazing when you think about it. Yeah. Carol Burnett knew Lucille Ball. Lucille Ball knew Mark Twain. Like, it's fucking crazy. They all knew each other. It's like if all of painting's history was in, it was in a hundred years. It's like if you showed up at the studio and someone's like, Van Gogh wants to try some new pieces. Is that okay? van gogh's gonna try some new pieces and you're like wait do you know picasso like no no but i worked a couple months ago with this guy he knows picasso he does he did he did he used to paint my picasso back in the back in the 70s of the improv and now like it's crazy it's really cool they're all still around or they're in the case of of like bob newhart who i never met but always revered like they just passed away we get to breathe the same yeah bob was uh bob was everything you would want him to be times 10 every like literally just uh you'd want someone that brilliant and that thoughtful and disciplined about comedy to be an amazing person.

35:02And he was that a thousand times over. It's so cool to still. I wonder what the right balance of fan and professional is, but now I try not to pathologize it anymore. I'm not asking for autographs and stuff like that, but I'd be lying if I said it's like, I met Elaine May. Elaine May is still, Elaine May, didn't just perform for Candy. She and Mike Nichols went on before Marilyn Monroe at his birthday party. Yeah, where she sang Happy Birthday, Mr. President. Yeah. They were on before that in Madison Square Garden. Yes. By the way, I didn't realize that was at Madison Square. I thought that was like in private and like got out as a rumor.

35:37I didn't realize it was on national TV. No, she sang that in front of JFK and JFK's wife and JFK the entire time was like, no, dude, please. She's, she's, she's right. She's sitting right. Tone it down. She's right. Tone it down. Maybe a little less with the cleavage. We could tone it down. She was actually not there. That ruins the joke. Is that true? Yeah, she wasn't there. What? I was always convinced that that was the thing. No, no, she was not there. Was it a special for NBC, though? Wasn't it a special? I don't know that if it was a special. I mean, I've seen the footage a million times, but it was actually a tour.

36:14A million times? It's Marilyn Monroe in a tight dress going, Happy birthday. Starting when I was 13 and ending when I was 17. I saw it a million times. No, not ending when I was 17. By the way, can you imagine the organizers? I orgasmed it out this morning. Well, I'm sorry. It does seem very on brand for you though. It does, you would, you would. That is my porn. Yes, yeah, yeah. Well, time to watch Marilyn again, sing happy birthday to the president. Poster of Hedy Lamarr behind me.

36:48I have a question, which is, you've done this show, this was years in the making, huge stage success. Then you bring it to television and it's nominated for an Emmy. And then there's got to be this feeling of, well, I'm saying goodbye to this now because I'm moving on. It's such a titanic piece of work. Do you have an idea of what the next thing is? Do you know what it is? I mean, I'm doing it and it's touring. It's not got a title yet you know the funny thing is that i sort of decided that it was going to end because 11 months after adam died that's when i that because that's all you sit shiva in judaism and also it was the weirdest thing because it's the best thing that's ever happened to me but it was braided with the saddest thing that's ever happened to me yep because like i can't stress how close i was with this guy he was the my only significant collaborator for a decade and uh and he understood me it was like um very personal relationship and so the funny thing is like i just couldn't do it anymore but now i'm in this weird position of i'm doing my i'm doing this new show i'm doing an hour and a half new hour and a half of stand-up and i feel his loss even more keenly because this is the part of the creative process where he'd be involved every single day listening to sets giving notes offering provocations.

38:09And so I don't really have that anymore. So the short answer to your question is, I'm doing the new show. So it's got to do with Israel and Palestine. Very easy topic. And I also like hard comedy. You've sold out. Now you're just going for big laughs. Yeah, absolutely. I told my agent, he's like, are you really going to do that Israel-Palestine thing? Keep threatening. He used the phrase threatening. He's like, keep threatening to do the show. Are you going to do it? I was like, oh yeah, I'm doing it. He's like, great. Do you want to call it like career suicide? He's like, that's a really good title.

38:38This could be at the risk of sounding whatever, not superficial, but Pollyanna. There's one way to look at it, which is that Adam Brace is going to be with you. I think he was such a part of your collaboration. It sounds to me like he's going to be part of everything you do in the way that all these other people are as well. But I don't know if that's true. Like, I hope that's true. And I think about that all the time. because like he's not ai like the thing the thing that made him special to me beyond the fact that he was deep but you know we were in sync in in our in our sort of uh performance morals and um had lots of different but beyond the thing the particulars that made us such good friends and collaborators he surprised me constantly and so and so anything that um that comes now from adam even if i have it will be entirely within the realm of my own understanding but also you're you know it is comforting i think that that i but i also wish i'd listened more i wish i'd paid close i never thought it was running out of time he was 42 it's like if two people made an album together and then the album went one of them died and the album went bananas and the person who's left over kept kept having to do it and it was changing their life completely like what a weird crazed experience to have and um someone called me like three days after he died and was like are you looking for a new director no it's like oh it's like buddy and he was like i'd love to throw my hat in the ring and it was so it was such a nice it was such a nice thing to feel i said you're so wrong for it i said it'd be like hiring a pig to fly an airplane like you can't do it.

40:23Like, there's no way. This was Seinfeld. Yeah. Yeah, Jerry was like, we gotta put the bass in.

40:36Newman. Here I wanted to ask you, yeah, Newman shows up halfway through. Newman shows up as one of the white supremacists. Newman. Yeah. I did want to ask you about, you say it in the special, and I believe you actually do it which is you say in the special i'm available to talk to everybody in the lobby after the show yeah and no one does that and the reason i brought it up why it struck me is that it seemed like an impulse i would have which is i would want to talk to everybody afterwards i don't know where my thing comes from where does yours come from i think it comes from you no i'm serious i think it comes from the comics that i love it felt like there was a person-to-person an aspect to it the comics that the comedy voices that i um there was a sort of mystique in their utter accessibility as if sort of getting to where their consciousness lay was a collective responsibility where like everyone's job is to figure out what's wrong with me and so like i i always like that and also by the way i this show is truly something i believe like i really believe that we need to have less rancorous conversations.

41:50I do think that we live in this really toxic time where people with profound and fundamental differences have like, aren't speaking to each other. Like there are members of my family who will not talk to me over Israel and Palestine. Like they just won't. Like it's a really, and I think that like, there is something to being able to have a conversation with anyone, no matter what they believe. And like, I thought that, well, if I believe that, then I should talk to anyone in the crowd who, when I started doing the show, it was actually very charged. Like people were fascinated with the, with one of the questions at the center of the show, which is whether or not Jews are white.

42:29People have very strong opinions about it. Jews have strong opinions about it. Non-Jews have strong opinions about it. White people have strong opinions about it. People of color have strong opinions about it. And for a while, people wanted to talk to me about it afterwards or confront me until, by the way, figured out things in the show where i totally explained myself and that and those questions died down somewhat but like i made myself available to like you know stand by or argue with you know anything that like and also it was it was informing things in the show which is so crazy which is such a gift that you don't get in like narrative usually it's like if you're watching titanic and like at some point like leonardo di caprio looks into the camera and it's like people get really sad here where we hit the iceberg you know when we hit the iceberg people are like oh my god or he looks and he's like look i know the door is big enough yeah but i know i know you think the door is big enough but this is more powerful yeah this is more powerful yeah but so like getting that live feedback is really good what are you laughing at specifically the door is big I think part of him knew this relationship, we hit a high.

43:38It's not, we're gonna move into a walk up in New York. And she's gonna - He wanted to die. I just think he knew, get out on a high note. That's a high take. I don't know about that. I don't know about that. We just did it in an antique car. Rose, Rose, where are my shoes Rose? Yeah. Where are my shoes? I gotta go to the office. You're right, but you'll last them. Oh, I should have stayed the same. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. I could have lived a life of luxury. Yeah. You could have held onto the necklace too.

44:15His drawings aren't selling. You want to go, hey, there's an empty car. We could go in the back and we could, nah, nah. I don't want to. She made him give up the art to go into insurance.

44:30I could have been Picasso. Picasso, my ass. We live in New Rochelle. Yeah, yeah. Oh, man. But it was an amazing thing. And also, you know, I had never done anything where people were coming up to me afterwards. And after a while, it got a little intense where people were like, they really want to talk about this thing that I couldn't find people to talk about with. Like, talk about identity and the vicissitudes of whiteness and what is what is identity look like if you take victimhood completely out of the equation and so like people would have really good conversations with me and they would factor into the show and by the way people said to me they were upset about something I always found negative feedback really helpful too because I'm like well I'm not quite connecting something there I need to explain it a little bit and Adam and I would have these big discussions huge discussions about what goes into the show what doesn't go on the show and like it was a really um i i thought the although the q a sometimes i would do q a's if people asked and they were insane like people would especially after october 7th yeah yeah we were on tour when october 7th happened and my next shows were in san francisco like october 25th and people were just crazy on the internet after that and so like someone was like i'm gonna uh someone sent me an instagram DM or I left a comment that was like, I'm going to come to San Francisco on October 26th and behead you in front of your Zionist buddies.

45:54And I was like, I was like, well, we have shows on the 25th and the 27th. And so like, I'm not going to show up just for the beheading, you know, like it was like a teenager in Tunisia, like fucking not going to get his freaking fire miles together and come and do it. Yeah, sure. But it was just, and by the way, that's not a real threat, but like the, I'm just saying the volume was so high. Yes. And then it was a little bit cathartic to do that show. It was a little bit cathartic to do a show about the requirement for, you know, the need for empathy in like a, although it didn't make me shut down comments on that specific post.

46:31But the need for empathy in that time. I'm doing stand-up now, but I don't know if it's a solo show yet because I don't know if there's like a thing that I feel this like desperate need to say that is both timely and timeless. Like I've been doing this over five years. Everyone's always like, what a timely show. I'm like, oh, I guess, you know, I guess like how we speak to each other is something that we're always going to be concerned with. And like it really, and sorry, the point of like, I don't know, I feel like it would be nice to figure out another way to talk about how we speak to each other and how we like listen to each other without being like very po-faced and like idealistic in a way that's not pragmatic.

47:09So like, it's a really, um, also, uh, as we think we use this for before this term self-righteous that I think that's the part is when, is when in our anger, especially, and I see it a lot in comedy, people are like, I inhabit the right, I don't mean politically right. I inhabit the true vision. I see it. And, uh, if you don't then damn you. And I think now that's not, that's not what we're here to do. It also is boring. Like, I think we're there. Yeah. like politically i think we're there where no one um we're like things that are brave and things that are right might not be the same thing which is interesting right like i have this joke that i've been working on about uh and the joke's nowhere near ready and but it's about sort of how like the only brave people left in new york city are republicans because so easy to be liberal we're correct yeah so like it takes no like balls to say like you know all the stuff that a normal person would say it takes balls is to look at like look at all the all the you know all the easy stuff to believe and be like no i hate homeless people let him die and you're like why taxes you know like it's a very right it's a really interesting um i know but i think that's a jewish upbringing by the way it's like a love of great areas a love of you know a love of nuance past the point where it's useful and dialogue and yeah dialogue you talk about this too arguing arguing yeah my bench calls it productive overlapping like i brought a girlfriend home once and she was like oh my god are you guys gonna be okay after that fight i was like what that was dinner and she was like but wait do you are you guys still on are you got do you need to like apologize i was like no i was like that's how we figure out how we feel like we scream at each other and someone make a good point we're like good point you know like it's a really well that's where you and i part because in my house no one ever openly disagreed with someone else you swallow it and you turn it into a cancer inside your body yeah yeah that's Irish Catholicism right there and then you eat a lot of ham and the ham neutralizes the cancer that's the yeah that's the icing stuff so that's what we did I think we got our we got to call this one because we've been oh my god I'm so sorry we've been talking about that's what you're here for it's called a podcast this is great no I yeah you're you're being an insane person this has been a fantastic conversation and I've said it before but Just For Us is really special, and it's on - Max.

49:34It's on Max, which I should - You're familiar with Max. Oh, I'm familiar with Max. Just For Us is really a must-see, and it's on Max, and best of luck at the Emmys. And this is all the gravy part, like the Emmys, those award shows, they work out, they don't work out, but you did the work, and it's really brilliant. and then and then the next you know i i 1000 confident you'll find the next thing and you'll figure that out because uh good lord you have the goods and it's really been a pleasure getting to know you a little better can i say one thing which is that the first time i got to do stand-up on television was your show and it was it still is like one of the best moments of my in you know entire life and it was such a it was such a confidence boost in a time when i really needed it and you were so nice about it it was um and this this is really uh this was really even though i'm apprehensive about being your friend i really do this is really cool for me and that was uh that was i've got i've got a cue card framed i like it it just it meant the world to me i'd like that back no no we don't give those away no it's mine guys thanks so much for having me hey uh Alex, a real pleasure and best of luck to you.

51:01Hey, we haven't done Review the Reviewers in quite some time. This is where I comb through the Apple Podcast reviews and we comment on the comments that they've made about this show. Yeah, it's payback time. Right. Is that what you're saying? And by the way, you have to rate five stars for us to even consider these things. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? I think that's a very good way to keep me in my bubble so that I think it's only five stars. It is. It's only five stars. As far as you know, it's only five stars. Out of 100. Okay. This one, I just feel like we need to discuss. It's submitted by...

51:41BMK-L-H-K-D-N-L-D-G. I think a cat walked across the keyboard. The subject is yippee. And the body of the comment is simply this. Yo, get moist on. Yeah. Fuck to us. What does it mean? That was my initial reaction. They're saying like this is something to get moist to. This is background music for fucking. Is that? The thing. We do fucking stuff. What is happening with you? I feel like someone just hit you with nine Novocaine blow darts.

52:19You're saying that... Get moist on. Moist is sexual. I think that we are a prophylactic. I think that the birth rate drops when my voice is heard. I don't know. I go back and forth. I think it goes up when my voice is heard. You think so, huh? Yeah. People are out there. They're fucking. Fucking to your voice. Yeah. They're cutting you two out. So what happens is they start going at it and then I cut in and go, well, another thing. And they go, and they stop immediately. It's constantly getting erect and getting flaccid during the conversation. Well, you do that fast enough. That's pleasurable for certain people.

52:57The way you acted it out with your finger acts like the penis goes out and then retracts. Yeah, you also, what's with the red rum? Bling, bling, bling, bling. Shining boy. This is, you know, the penis. It comes out and then it goes back inside. Another day of winter. Okay. I'm done. Well, okay, so that was the comment. That's all. That's all we got from that. What a horrible country we live in. I can give you another one if you like. Yeah, give me another one because that person's perverted. That comment is not a comment to get moist on. No. Okay. This is from KER San Fran. The subject is peeing is in my future.

53:32Oh, boy. Thanks, Conan and team for being too funny. So much so that sometimes I'm laughing so hard I pee a little. This is your fault. It was never something that happened before and only is an issue when listening to your pod. I hope it happens to you all someday soon. Great show, by the way. That's really nice. First of all, I don't think it's our fault. This person may have a problem with their urethra. And it's important that whoever you are, you get checked out because our show, I think, is funny, but it's not pee-your-pants funny. So I want to say right now, if you've peed your pants while listening to this podcast, you need to see a urologist immediately.

54:09What if you've peed your pants while recording this podcast? Well, that is something maybe you and I should talk about a little more. I just think that's... Do you think he's a woman or she's a girl? Because if she's a woman, then maybe it's her pelvic floor. Oh, a weak pelvic floor. Can a man have a weak pelvic floor? I don't know enough about men's stuff. Well, all the better, then hold forth. Keep talking. I love it when most of the media is people talking who have no idea what they're talking about. All I know is from a woman's, I don't know what you, do you know? I don't, I don't. I know about the pelvic floor when it comes to a woman's stuff.

54:46I think for a man, it's the prostate or the bladder, and it's nothing to do with floors or ceilings. But you know, when people say this was pee your pants funny, I've laughed very hard in my life never come close to that so I always thought it was just a phrase but not something anyone could actually do I think it can be done it can happen definitely almost peed and sometimes even peed a little when I laughed and that would be around me because I'm the funniest person you know no she's marking her territory as like stay away I don't think I've ever even come close to peeing with you around so you've laughed really hard hard enough to pee but not around me yeah probably oh come on i'm i'm like in the history books of funny and you're talking what made you laugh so you probably watch i actually think i remember a time when i've peed and i've i've obviously i was a little high and then my it was years and years ago this was before i even had kids we were my friend uh christina and i were watching something and we did a deep we were playing with the dvd player and i pressed eject and then the dvd player thing ejected and then i walked up and the whole time I was like, why is there even an eject button on the remote?

55:55And we laugh so hard. I peed my pants. Wait a minute. That's what made you laugh so hard? Oh my God. So she's saying you're not as funny as that. So I've never risen to that level. I've never risen to why isn't there an eject button on the remote? Why is there an eject button? You have to get up and go to the machine anyway. What's the point of the eject button? But that's not funny, that's more just a question of like, huh, I wonder. I think you're confusing humor with, how does the moon affect tides? I'm just curious. Oh no, I peed myself. Maybe it was the tide. Yeah. But why is there an eject button?

56:38It's just, you have to go to the machine. It's like, what's the point? Please don't ask one more kind of interesting question because I might shit myself.

56:48How can, do you think science will ever be able to maybe register when a tectonic plate shift is gonna happen? Oh no! I just filled my jeans. That wasn't comedy. Those are questions. No, you don't have to be there. You know what I would love? If she was one of Socrates' students. Socrates used to just ask questions. You know, what is it? Is the soul given to us at birth or is it, Socrates, I gotta leave. Why is that, Theodolus? I just filled my toga. Stop asking questions. You know what? That's insane. What a great garment to pee in, though. A toga? You can't fill a toga. No, it's out there. It's like everywhere's a toilet.

57:37You wring it out and then you just shift it around a little bit. Come on. You do. So that the wet spot moves up the back. That's what I'd do. I'm not saying anything that's... Listen, what I just said is probably what a lot of Romans and Greeks were thinking. Oh, were they... And probably doing. I think they were changing. Just had a little accident. Ring, ring. Slide, slide. Ew. Hey, your shoulder looks moist. Yeah. Couldn't have been pee. What are we talking about? I don't know. Here's the thing. Here's the thing. Don't enable this. Why are we talking about this? I know. It's beneath us. No, it's not.

58:14Although if you move the toga, it won't be beneath you. Oh, boo! Yay! Oh, what's that say? Oh, it says rap. Sometimes I rap for time, sometimes I rap for content. I can't believe that German Oompa Pop Band just came in and played to celebrate my great quip about urine-soaked toga shifting. Okay, let's get into it. No, this is a segment where it just ended. oh there is no getting into it we're ending the episode you know someone recently asked me they say I really love the podcast they said I really love the podcast and they're telling me how much they like it and they said one question are you really that confused all the time stop I'm gonna pee well god bless you all there that's the ending we were all waiting for a peace out Tupac good good good Conan O 'Brien Needs a Friend with Conan O 'Brien, Sonam Avsessian and Matt Gourley Produced by me, Matt Gourley Executive produced by Adam Sachs, Jeff Ross and Nick Liao Theme song by The White Stripes Incidental music by Jimmy Vivino Take it away, Jimmy

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