Louis C.K. & Conan Remember The Early Days Of "Late Night" | CONAN on TBS
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- Back when he wrote for "Late Night," Louis would fight with Conan. And by "fight," we mean cry like a girl.
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What I'm getting from this interview is that if you ever work for Conan, you will succeed in life.
+darkevilazn I used to be a big conan fan until he became a Trump hater.
lostintime86 Yeah I watched him up until a couple years ago. At some point I started to feel like he has a really sad outlook on life and isn't actually very funny.
+Jelly Donut Now that's sad.
Richard Miller Your statement is NOT true. Stop talking out of your ass.
lostintime86 Okay, so more than half of the country didn't vote for him. Even those that did, the people I know they don't like him. It was simply they hate Hillary more. I'm assuming we voted for who we least hate, and since most people who voted didn't vote for Trump it seems likely that most people don't like him. He lost the popular vote man. One of five times in our History that has happened.
thats why conan is my favorite. He has no ego and has the biggest heart.
Vaasu97 Conan has no ego...?
ConspiracyJuice well he may have ego, but he doesn't seem to let it control his life and relationships.
@Sly 19 He also has the biggest heart out of any human xD
There is no father in business dear.
1000th like
3:21 "You called me at home and you said, 'Listen, I'm glad you feel like you can express dissent. I want you to be able to say if you disagree and we're ok when we go back to work in the morning.' You're really cool, you're very nice."
Wow, for a young guy under pressure, I don't think I would have shown that maturity at his age.
+jessc1979 he had three or four writing jobs before that so he knew the feeling , he worked at snl , wilton report and the simpsons I guess
hakim amalou But I wonder if he ever lost his temper like Louis CK did.
I read an article about how he was when he did wliton report on FOX in the 80s , he was friendly with everybody and most things he wrote were meta and absurd , he's like the dark side of letterman's humour when dave started magnified 500 times
***** in comedy it is .. most guys strat in their mid 20s and need 10 to 15 years to actually make it properly , except if they were a special phenomenon like seinfeld or chris rock or chappelle
+ExplosionHurtedMe In addition to what +hakim amalou said, it's also young as far as late night talk show hosts on major networks go. Here's what I determined:
Johnny Carson: 37
David Letterman: 35
Jay Leno: 42
Jimmy Kimmel: 36
Craig Ferguson: 43
Bill Maher: 37
Jon Stewart: 38 (31 if you're counting the Jon Stewart show)
Stephen Colbert: 41 (Colbert Report)
Jimmy Fallon: 35
Seth Meyer: 41
Larry Wilmore: 54
Trevor Noah: 31
This is one of the best clips on Conan because we get a little insight on the real Conan.
+Maria Shutter Actually, if you want some insight on what a bully Conan can be then watch the documentary about him called Can't stop. Gives sociopathic warning signs.
marcanta
Ooh interesting, I'll try to get ahold of it.
Maria Shutter It's a great documentary so please do! :)
+Maria Shutter if you watch the serious jibber jabber clips too those give an insight into a different side of him. I really enjoy those segments.
+Maria Shutter for more insights, listen to Marc Maron's WTF podcast with Conan where they talked about Conan's past.
It's really cool to see people like Louis and Conan had to start at the bottom and work their way up like anybody else. Humbling.
I wouldn’t call that the bottom, in fairness.
@@kevinmcguinness6526 well they didn’t start with the show, they started as open mic’ers
What a random place to find ya
Conan started his showbiz career hosting a nationally broadcasted show lol wouldn't really call that the bottom
@@jjponderosa7096 Not quite. He started by writing for and eventually running The National Lampoon at Harvard. Graduated in 1985 then moved to Hollywood and wrote for HBO and did improv with The Groundlings. He then wrote for SNL and The Simpsons for several years. Finally, 1993, he gets a show.
omg, begging nbc for "two or three more days"... i can't even imagine the stress of those times. conan is a hero
So I guess he was used to it when The Tonight Show came along. I can't imagine being at what I thought was the pinnacle of my career, but I'm on the phone with my network trying to keep us from getting canceled like when I had started. Smh I'm glad he found a home with TBS.
@Steven Martin got a source on that?
@Steven Martin what are you talking about?
No wonder first 5 years of Conan were awesome. Look at that talent writing then.
Conan Was Also A Writer On The Simpsons :D
AlcaTraZ and SNL
+Martti Hänninen If you were fortunate enough to watch back then. It took about 5-10 years for Conan to REALLY get his footing.
+Martti Hänninen How old are you, Jesus...
The first 2 years was kinda rough tbh but that is one talented team
Conan, you need to do an entire show with your old writing staff as guests.
Yeah, kind of a reunion.
#SeriousJibberJabber
if he give us one chapter with the entire crew on the new show on hbo max..... that would be pure comedy gold
YES!!!!
This is the greatest idea
I actually remember the coin joke and the crowd just gasping and hearing a few boo’s and Conan being the comic genius that he is said “somebody is getting fired for that one” and had saved the joke
Wow
classic conan
clearly he should've fired louie
lol u americans are a fascinating people.
Why is "slavery" such a dangerous word in america.
Every country on earth perpetrated slavery in the past. Some are still doing it today.
And yet I've never seen this type of reaction to a joke about slaves anywhere except for america
@@rockyelvis Actually they should all be fired including the audience for being offended at a joke about something that the entire human race practiced.
That pic was the "Dream Team" of comedy.
+Daniel Landress Iunno, as good as the writers room on The Simpsons during seasons 3-4?
Fun fact - I know
I was a Simpsons nerd as a teenager and know way too much about the show.
Also funner fact, he was actually hired during season 4 when some of the other writers jumped ship. I think he left early season 5 after writing Homer Goes to College.
He was only on staff for about 6 months or so.
+TheTelepathicKid why did writers leave the show on Season 4? did it have to do with the direction the show was taking or what?
Daniel Landress Nah man, Dino Stanomatoplous was all set to do a show at one point that would've featured him, Stephen Colbert, Tina Fey, Robert Smigel, Scott Adsit, and Louis. It never happened
not to mention SNL started to boom at about that time. Alot of writers went there, even for a short while, then got their dream gigs.
No Wonder I was an INSTANT Conan/Late Night fan when I started watching in 93! What a cast of writers!
and winners!
Totally, wow.
yep
Damn skippy!
Conan is such a good person
Daya Subramanian ummmm... hi lol
Thanks.
I love Louis too!
"These coins are so old, you can buy slaves with them."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!
That line is hilarious!
Who said that ? I mean, CK tells the story but I don't get WHO said that originally...
thekingofthegame Conan.
Too soon
thekingofthegame Can you not just watch the damn video ? Not that hard
Conan looks like he just graduated from high school in that picture.
Jason Lee graduated? If he wasnt so damn tall that babyface could pass for a freshman!
@@fe5018 i"m ur 100th like 😈😈
@Steven Martin flashing brain isn't assault.
By the time Conan retires, he will be the greatest talk show host of all time.
he already is
He's really good, but then there's the demigod Jimmy "the laugh" Fallon
Yeah definitely the most complete, but in the old days there were legends as well. I mean based on just hitting it off with people, I think no one can match Craig Ferguson. But Conan is great in a lot of things so yeah I don't really have a point
Some say Jimmy,but Conan remains himself & it makes me laugh
@@chrissmeets1850 yep totally agree with you. Craig did a whole lot with the little he was given. Conan's definitely a great host. Both guys are genuinely funny.
Conan is such a nice guy. I envy that. I want to be like that, I want to be a better person. Nice and kind, and at the same time, a strong and resourceful leader.
It just seems so impossibly hard!
Have you tried just being nice to people? Its not that hard.
You'd think that. And yet people make it really difficult for you sometimes. :)
@@dougthemoleman i feel that
He's an orange person
Do you want to be an orange person?
Conan, Andy, and Louis CK on the same show. That's a recipe for hilarity!
+The Guardian minus Andy
+Dionys84 Andy's hilarious you trippin
@@Dmdm_dm and star burns.
And Robert Smigel.
0:52 the long-haired dude, is that Star Burns from Community?
Yes!
His name is Alex, dude.
T Will hahaha omg
Star Burns looks like a soyboy in that photo.
I came here looking for that
The team Conan had in the beginning was amazing. What amazes me more is how many people throughout Conans tenure have worked for him and then gone onto personal success. It's absolutely staggering. Also, Conan has so many big comedians of today's utmost respect. It's weird. Conan is one of a kind.
L-R: Bob Odenkirk, Dave Reynolds, Robert Smigel, Conan O’Brien, Andy Richter, Marsh McCall, Louis CK, Dino Stamatopoulos, and Michael Gordon.
dino stamatopoulos aka starburns
Louis's so sweet. He really wanted to tell that story about Conan. They clearly are good friends, and they are both great comedians. Love them
I hope that I gain as much maturity as Conan when I turn 30 what a gentleman
Man that slave joke definitely wouldn't go over well with the crowds but fuck that's hilarious.
👍👍
I remember that, or mayb ejust him talking about it one time. Lol
the humiliation was by far the funniest part
+bobwatters I've been reading comments like that on the internet for 18 years now. It's no truer now than it was back then.
bobwatters Spare me your canned histrionic overreaction. I heard this shit when Don Imus caught flack for his "nappy headed ho" thing. Imus bounced back a year later. Dr. Laura's still on XM radio despite the stupid shit she's said.
And if I cared a damn to prove it further I could probably give examples for everty two or three year period going back to the 90's, where I vaguely remember arguing on some primitive message board where one guy said that you couldn't make Blazing Saddles in 1997 because of all the racial epitaphs and I made the counterpoint that Pulp Fiction came out 3 years earlier and it had white and black people saying some variation of the word "nigga", like 40 times.
I think that guy who player Kramer on Seinfeld was the only guy who permanently destroyed his career by saying racist stuff.
Nobody's getting hung. People are getting called out for acting like assholes when they act like assholes and they usually rebound from it in 6 months. They're not some martyrs of free speech, they're dickwads that got treated like dickwads for their own dickwaddy actions.
Conan really is a wonderful person. I wish him the best!
Starburns wrote for Conan, that's crazy.
Who is starburns?
Michael Burke Dino Stamatopoulos, he writes on the show Community and often appeared on it as the character Starburns. In the picture Conan showed, Dino is the one standing behind Louis with his mouth wide open.
forlornspawn817
holy shit! that's what i thought.
Cool story. Even better name.
Starburns yells "Bring Conan back!" in the Season 1 finale, back when Leno came back around.
I remember being nine years old and sneaking out of bed to watch Conan during the first season and having to laugh into a couch cushion so as not to wake my parents. Crazy that I was laughing at the work of Odenkirk, Smigel and Louis CK two decades before I learned any of their names.
First 3 seasons were really bad, but still kinda neat to know.
Lol I knew that guy looked way too much like Starburns from Community.
Mikhail Kalashnikov I know, it was implied in the comment. (sorry if that sounded malicious, it wasn't my intention) I ended up looking up the actors name and Conan mentions his name later in the interview.
Bane391 now if everyone could be this polite on the internet
+Bane391 His name is Alex!
+Mikhail Kalashnikov +Bane391 and so a friendship was born...
+slothrop87 This would have WAY more likes if more people got it. Well done, sir!
Conan looks younger than Loius, I think Conan leads a more balanced life style, I'm assuming he's pretty happily married & seems pretty wise, he's like a sensei of comedy or a Jedi master of comedy, Louis is like an ewok of comedy ,fuzzy & feisty
checkurbrainfly maybe it's because he works out and has all his hair :)
I wonder if he eats dead fetus to stay in good shape hmmm
checkurbrainfly i heard he eats them alive, he can't absorb their youth if they're dead
deedou07 yeah that's what I thought alive is how you wanna get the youth juice ,eating them dead is just disgusting
Conan is pretty wise, he graduated from Harvard.
"Clearly I should have fired you", omg that killed me. ahahahahhahahha
These 3+ minutes brought me so much joy today in my cubicle cell. Great comedians and seemingly great guys.
"I watched you just bravely take a boo that belong to me" Conan is just such a great person.
This is really good to see. Conan worked with a lot of comedians and actors who are big or up and coming today. To name a few: Brent Morin, Louis CK, Bob Odenkirk, and although he's back there today Andy Richter as well. And after all this time and obviously a bit of tension in the work place Louis and Conan are friendly. Conan has a great relationship with Dave Letterman, who's show he took over. It seems the only one Conan doesn't see eye to eye with is Jay Leno. Hmmmm....I wonder who's fault that was. The history books will recognize that Conan is a good man. Can't say the same for Leno.
Leave Leno alone!
JmK Stahp it!
ahepperl ttt
Don’t forget the interns who were like almost half of the people in The Office. On the topic of writers, there was also this guy who is now like the co creator of Nathan for You and Kimmy Schmidt’s husband.
ahepperl the Tonight Show stuff was awful, both how Leno got it and left it, but still he seems by many accounts to treat people well otherwise. I dont like Leno but I have great respect for Lemmy Kilmister and he said that Leno was an absolute gent to performers in a way that other hosts, at this time namely Letterman, werent.
The coins' joke was hilarious though.
+Pilar Rodríguez
Coins, no apostrophe needed.
+Randall Kincaid-Shatto spelled apostrophe wrong
Indeed
+Randall Kincaid-Shatto That's a case of inflected descriptive genitive functioning as a prepositional complement ("the joke about coins"), so the apostrophe was in fact needed.
+Pilar Rodríguez false.
"Cried and ran out of the room like Jan Brady" LMAO
The comedy production of that writing staff is unbelievable. Smigel with Triumph and SNL. Moral Orel is brilliant. Mr. Show was brilliant. Louis CK obviously a legend. Pretty remarkable.
Awww... I feel all warm inside after watching this. :)
Wow, I don't know how Conan did it. Having a bad start on your late night show for almost 2 years with the constant pressure of having it taken away at any moment yet still remaining a humble boss and a positive person is something beyond me.
Conan was and still a great boss and he is the best talk show host ever. love this man
Conan: "Looking to a better future..."
Louis CK: Ahh...I don't think so.
that aged poorly
i guess we can all agree, Conan is such a sweetheart. Im so glad it turned out amazing from him. since the early days, nbc didn't trust him and David Letterman (bless him) came and gave support to Late Night. im so proud of conan, love him so goddamn much. #TEAMCOCO4EVERBABEYY
Look at all the legends in that pic......so cool...
you can tell that they are really good friends
In 15, 20 years I would like to see the best celebrity biography / comedy / drama ever made: "The Conan O'brien Project." His story and how he battled with his staff deserves to be told.
So many legends in that photo. Even Star Burns is there.
Those were the days my friend...
We'd sing and dance forever
there's one I'll never forget. It was an ad for a crab shack and the line was, "Isn't it time you had the good crabs?" it was so funny.
My two favorite gingers
Add billy burr and it's perfect
Holy shit, Conan's 50?!
gir489 And Louis C.K. is 4 years younger than him.
gir489 That's the point.
Conan is a great man.
I know... I really really like him!!!
the amount of talent that came thru the writing room at conan thru the years is breathtaking.
So Coco's a cool boss. I had an awesome cool boss like that before. Boss' like that are the boss! lol
*****
Wow. Sucks to hear a good boss is rare. Yeah we had a really amazing boss once. He put up with all kinds of nonsense, peeps walking out during the shift, etc. He was a good guy and kept us all happy and the place to the highest standards.
Yeah, because they dont act like bosses, they act as leaders.
I don't have words to explain how moving it is to hear how Conan treated his employees, or as he thought of them, friends. #ConanFanForever
It's really hard looking at this to believe Conan's older than Louis
I am glad Louis told this stories and now I respect Conan so much more.
It is great to know that Louis had a comedic spine even back then.
Sophia Bogard what he had were temper tantrums by the sound of it.
Conan is the best. Watching his show live is on my bucket list.
Wow! Smigel, Odenkirk and Louis on one writing staff.
Well, it's good that can look back on the rough times and just laugh and make fun of themselves. That's how you know you've grown
eyyy bob odenkirk
This was so incredibly insightful! I was barely born when Late Night started, and apparently crying and wimpering as much as CK. Haha.
Fuck there's Saul!
+nonnanevrotica What ????...
Saul Goodman. Not you
........ it's never me :-(
sorry dude, maybe next time ;)
I will never get over the fact that Bob Odenkirk came up with Chris Farley's famous Matt Foley skit on SNL.
I love it. Just 3 old friends reminiscing, but still doing a good job of relating and including the audience.
Conan is such a cool guy.
Right? Conan is right. Any other boss CK would of been fired.
God, in every old pic of Louie CK he is unrecognizable! Yet he looks so much better now!
Ok, so I recognize Conan, Andy, Louis, "Starburns", and Bob Odenkirk. No wonder this show became successful.
Aww man, when I had a TV in my room as a child, I'd stay up late just to catch your show. I dunno what business a 10yr old had watching Conan, but I thought (and still think) you're hilarious!
Hey look it's Star Burns!
Dino: My name is Alex!
I wish to have a life as fulfilling as these two guys one day
I would love to see a clip of that slave coin bit as it aired.
I remember early Conan. It was pretty obvious, at the time, that the network just needed anything for the time slot. I loved him then, and I love Conan now.
Aww....
Conan, and Louis; the two people that can always make me laugh.
I want that picture in a frame hung in my house.
29 years old. When I was 29, I was the #4 guy in a bagel 🥯 shop.
thumbs up if you want a Louis CK Serious Jibber Jabber episode
I mean there's a reason why Conan is who he is today and loved and respected all over the world... He truly deserves this!
Many years ago there was an interview interview clip between Louie and Conan back on Late Night that I've never be able to find again as much as I've searched. Louis described how he was in the lowest point of his life just after having the Dana Carvey show cancelled and feeling his career was officially over. In the interview there were jokes made but by the end of the story Louie matter-of-factually explained that he had made his mind up at the time that he was going to commit suicide. Without trying to be morbid or shocking, Louie explained that he was in the midst of making logistical decisions of how he would arrange ending his life. Then that week he got a call offering a job writing for the new NBC Late Night show with Conan. Louie explained the story and said that he just wanted to say "Thank you" because in a very literal sense, Conan saved his life. I watched that clip so many times just because Louie is such an inspirational representation of humanity to me. He's as real as it gets when it comes to the hardships and darkness that often follows someone trying to make their dream career in entertainment come true. I really wish that clip would be posted somewhere again and I always regret not saving the video when I had the chance.
This story doesn't make sense. Louie did the Dana Carvey Show (1996) AFTER his writing gig with Conan (1993).
May have been when he was released from his Letterman writing job then. I remember him being particularly distraught over the Dana Carvey show failure as well because he was the head writer and they went hard in primetime with an opening sketch that went extreme surreal which was Louie's style at the time, involving Dana playing as Bill Clinton breast feeding pigs with a six nipple chest prosthetic. Considering it was an 8pm slot it wasn't playing to an audience who would find that funny or appealing and I think the show ended after 6 episodes because of that.
@@termsofusepolice I'm not familiar with the interview he's talking about, but based on Louis's bio on Wikipedia, it could be Louis's failed audition for Saturday Night Live instead of the Dana Carvey Show. It also says, "C.K. has stated that Conan O'Brien kept C.K. in comedy by hiring him, as he planned to quit comedy the following day if he had not been hired for Late Night with Conan O'Brien."
But I'm only guessing, I don't actually know for sure.
If I am not mistaken, the story goes like this: Louie failed to find a job for a while, all of his friends were hired on SNL, and decided to leave NYC, but before he leaves he tells one of his friends. Days later, he got a call from Conan's show offering him a job. He speaks highly of Conan, but I never heard of this suicide story.
@@EtoCobra There used to be a clip of Louie talking with Conan (I can't remember if it was on "Conan" or on "Late Night") and at the very end of the interview, he recounted the story. I remember Louie specifically thanking Conan with the "You literally saved my life" and it wasn't said in a joking tone. Conan's reaction also seemed serious and genuine. It was such a powerful moment, I really wish it wasn't removed with the various Conan copyright clip takedowns. Every once in a while I would look it up again just because it was one of the many genuine and real moments given by Louie that I really enjoyed ):
0:51 The guy with his mouth open is Dino Stamatopoulos (A.K.A Star-Burns)
6 Seasons and a Movie!!!😁
1:24 “You’re looking towards a better future than the rest of us”
I jack it up to good fortune and a strong work ethic.
What a bunch of nerds. Rich, talented, amazing nerds.
Louis looks like young Robert de Niro in there. Incredible photo.
Why is Louie wearing a LeTigre shirt of the 1980s ?? It's so sad. Women evolve with their wardrobe. Men just keep wearing the shit they wore as kids like baseball t-shirts, sneakers, baseball caps, and pacifiers.
It's freaking awesome how you guys can talk about tension you've shared in the past. So awesome that people can have disputes, and still get along later!!
"Clearly I should've fired you."
Jesus, that's gotta be one of the best writer's rooms of all time right there. Platinum-grade talent from left to right.
And now mostly from the left.
Louis is the most original American stand-up since Carlin and Pryor. There have been some greats since then, but I don't think anyone has his talent.
I agree. I personally think Dave Chappelle is the greatest to ever do it, but Louie is right up there. There style of humor is very similar too.
GrapeDrank25 "There style of humor is very similar too." I've never thought about it until now, and you are completely correct.
Born in Mexico City
And THIS is one of the reasons Conan is my favorite late night host
" for like 2 years America was like, NO YOU CANT" lol
Oh wow, the first ever Conan show started five days after I was born!
Bob Odenkirk aka Saul from Breakin Bad all the way to the left :-)
Allen Beneli AKA the announcer for every Cinco product.
Super cool. Conan is such a badass and IMO the king of late night and the best interviewer
Legends.
I would watch 10 hours of this.
Anyone has the coin bit?
why possibly would anyone dislike this ?
Luis petting his arm-cat.
Have watched this over 20 times probably. And laugh just as hard every time.
Starburns!
My favourite inside joke in Community is at the end of season 1 when everybody is yelling things Starburns says "Bring Conan back!"
This guys worked their ass off to reach where they are now. From the beginning they knew they gonna put a dent in the world and yes sir they did.
legends af.
Wow these guys impacted a huge part of my life growing up with lots of laughter, and they still do!