Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

My daughter had a book on her head I noticed that, there was a large book Like an Encyclopedia Britannica Was resting on, I'm not kidding

And then fiction, Toni Morrison. I remember reading Song of Solomon, which is still one of my favorite novels. And I thought, you know, if in a nonfiction way, I could write that way.

Did you know that he has to sleep in his native soil? I did. Bram Stoker wrote that book in journals, in the form of journals.

He was doing Mark Twain, like he was putting together the very first Mark Twain, which he did in North Dakota, Bismarck, North Dakota.

His, Mark Twain was insanely good, but he was just like, oh, I'm gonna just do a bunch of this material, see what's hitting, what's not.

Still amazing and fun to see it. It was really fun to see how his creative process worked, to see how he kind of boiled it down over the years.

But Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, History of the World Part One are hugely important to my comedy development.

He'd like to do it with you and me and Ike Barinholtz and Dave Stass and his writing partner and Wanda Sykes and then an incredible group of writers and performers are doing a series for Hulu based off of, you know, using the movie as a template, which is like historical sketch.

When you go back and watch Mel's stuff, he's doing that so well.

He now has a fantastic new novel entitled Harold, available on May 16th.

it's really funny and touching, it's beautifully written

it's all from the mind of an eight year old

you poured into that funnel everything I think about being alive you know religion war and authority the universe is there a God

it's great that you like it so much I love it

And like a shot at To Kill a Mockingbird.

Then I see this Tom Clancy spy novel. I'm like, huh, I never buy those. Then I see another one. Then I see all these different spy novels. Oh, I'm listening. Who else was in there? James Patterson.

I wrote a book about Billy. I want you to read it.

It wasn't like what I paid. It wasn't like a book, like a Pema Chodron book. It was like, she wrote a book about her celebrity husband. Like, why do I need to read that?

Oh, there's a book I bought on Teddy Roosevelt. Oh, there's another book I bought on Teddy Roosevelt.

I've read Jack London. I've read Call of the Wild. He never talks about his Spotify playlist.

Now he stars in the hilarious new movie, Bros, which he also co-wrote and produced.

Bros, which is the rom-com I have coming out, produced by Judd Apatow...

But the first thing I said to Nick is even before I knew what the story of the movie would be, I said it has to be authentic, right?

You can't just make When Harry Met Sally and think you can just swap in two gay guys and have the story play out the same way because it wouldn't.

And it's just a different experience. And I think a lot of the LGBTQ characters we've seen and we're seeing way more, obviously, than we used to, especially in streaming and in indie films and on the Internet, of course. And that's fantastic.

Do you know any of Hamlet? No!

And I mean, when you published your version of King Lear, it was fantastic.

the book that ... turned out to be his bestselling book called The Innocents Abroad.

Someone introduced me to David Foster, a famous producer and arranger, and he asked me to do this thing at the Grammys. I sang a song from Phantom of the opera. It was like the biggest day of my life.

He was George Clooney would be like the, the perfect comparison today. ... Little House on the Prairie.

I was starting to like, you know, I'd done a couple of years of commercials and stuff like that. ... Little House on the Prairie.

It was a Sonia Sanchez book called Under a Soprano Sky and with Sun Tzu's The Art of War.

Of those two books, I read Sonia Sanchez's book a hundred times and I never really, I never finished reading the art of war.