Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend - Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson turn the mic on Conan!

Episode Date: June 26, 2024

Conan recently joined Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson on their brand new Team Coco podcast, “Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (Sometimes).” He had so much fun that he wanted to share this clip with you in which Ted and Woody ask him for podcasting advice. After you listen, be sure and head over to Ted and Woody’s podcast to hear the whole episode, which is out now!

Hey guys, Conan here to tell you about a brand new Team Coco podcast. It's called Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson Sometimes. Woody's not always there, but he's there a lot. It's a really fun time where Ted and Woody are reunited more than 30 years after their first time together on Cheers. You'll hear some great guests on the show like Will Arnett, Jane Fonda, Here's some great guests on the show like Will Arnett, Jane Fonda, Chef Jose Andres, Kristen Bell, even me. Yes, that's right. I got to join the guys for an episode,

which we recorded on the rooftop of the Team Coco office. The full episode is out now. Here's a short clip. Let me pick your brain about podcasts. Yeah. You know, Woody and I being new at this. Do you sit there and think, wait, I don't want my kids to hear me be this way or tell this story.

Do you, or my mom and my dad, do you censor yourself? Not really. I don't, and I'll tell you, and this is gonna sound like a joke, but it's not. My children have no interest in listening to my podcast. And I take that as a healthy sign. So they will never hear this because they care about themselves and their lives.

And they, I am a figure, you know, like a sitcom dad is always a figure of ridicule. I am a sitcom dad when I go home. They're not interested. I'll say something and there's a lot of eye rolling and yeah, dad, that's what it's called, a GIF. No, it's GIF, you know, whatever. I'm the idiot.

There's a laugh track. And my parents don't, they don't consume podcasts at their age. And so I don't say much. So you can say what you want. Yeah. I mean, unless it's sense much. So you can say what you want. Yeah. I mean, unless it's about spelling, but you can.

No, you don't want to, Bonnie and Sol, yeah. No, I feel badly about that. He made some good shows and then some other shows, but whatever, he was a good man and we might've say things. What do you do when you have a guest that's like pulling teeth? Because this has been a real challenge today for me and Will to be honest.

I know. This is the most taxing challenge. I am withholding. Holy God. What do you do with people though? Seriously. I just start. It's so funny because we would, I learned this from years and years of doing the late night show. But it hasn't really happened on the podcast because on the podcast,

you don't make as many. The real challenge was do a late night show and I did end up doing whatever it is, 4,000 hours of broadcasting, three guests a night or sometimes not even music, sometimes three talk guests a night and you do the math and you realize there were so many times I was out there with the seventh lead on a WB show that you've never heard of that lasted three months named Saz Bickler and I'm like here he is and he's 19 he's had no life experience and he plays Chiz so here and you all know he's Chiz on you better not So here, you all know us, he's Chiz on You Better Not, Saz Bickler, and he would come out.

And he's just, six weeks ago, was working at whatever, polishing trays at Chipotle, and now he's sitting there. And yeah, sometimes lightning strikes, and this kid has an amazing things to say, but there's a lot of times where they've got absolutely nothing to say. And so I would just start talking.

And fortunately, a sidekick, Andy Rector, is really funny. And Andy would be sitting on the other side. And I'd be like, you know, Saz, it's funny, because it says you worked at Chipotle. Now, I was in Chipotle once. And I have to say, and then Andy would go like, oh, don't get me started on Chipotle. And we would go, and Saz would be laughing.

And then the whole thing would be over, and I'd say, Saz, fantastic. You know, oh, no, you better not. Check it out on the WB. And everyone applaud. And then my producer afterwards would say, you know, you were worried about him. I thought Saz did pretty well. And I'd say, Saz didn't say a fucking thing.

He didn't say a fucking thing. Look at the fucking tape! It's me and Andy talking about... Hey, if you like that, head over to where everybody knows your name to listen to the rest of my conversation with Ted and Woody now. And be sure to subscribe and follow wherever you get your podcasts. These guys are really fun. Check it out.