(clapping)
We're gonna be talking about puppy Conan.
Yeah
So we're gonna watch-- Can you move over here,
Yeah. I want to be seen
next to a woman.
(laughing)
It doesn't make you look more masculine.
(laughing)
Sure it does.
(upbeat music)
Okay, Conan O'Brien here.
Andy is still on his phone.
Oh I'm sorry.
That's how relaxed these sessions are.
I know, I know, I know.
No, I see myself on my phone and I'm like Jesus Christ,
Andy, put the phone away.
Oh, okay.
Well I think me saying, put the phone away
probably also is a bit of a clue.
(laughing)
You know.
I say it to me, you don't say it,
you're you know, too kind to say it.
Yeah
Well, I'm glad you put the fucking phone away.
Anyway,
Conan O'Brien here joined by
the very distracted Andy Richter.
For another
(laughing)
quick Behind the Nonsense.
Are those reindeer boots.
(laughing)
This is where we just talk about
some of our favorite pieces over the years.
Sitting here with the brilliant, hilarious,
Laurie Kilmartin, thank you for,
Hey for joining us
on this version of whatever it is we're doing.
(laughing)
You did this piece,
I think we're gonna roll it right now,
but why don't you give us a little setup
as to how this came about?
I guess we had a tiny version of the set for some reason,
I forget why, maybe some advertising thing.
I don't know what it was, but for some--
We did, no we did, didn't we do like a show
with a tiny set and like
Shaq was on and we were sitting on a tiny set.
No that-- I think,
no, no, no. Came later
I think the set was built for some specific purpose
that maybe wasn't even gonna be used
Yeah for the show.
It was something very specific it had to I think
do with TBS and advertising
and then there was this thought
that we could do something with it.
Yeah, just a version of the Puppy Bowl,
which was an alternative to the Super Bowl
Right. for people that
didn't want to watch football.
So we thought we'd have puppy Conan
for people that didn't want to watch Conan.
And.
(laughing)
It turns out there's a lot of them,
(laughing)
It was very popular A lot of them.
I'm related to a bunch of them.
(laughing)
All right, why don't we roll this
Yeah. and then we can
talk about it.
Let's take a look.
(percussive music)
Tonight's installment of puppy Conan
(audience cheering)
(dogs barking)
Puppy Conan is,
there's puppy Conan!
Puppy Conan is inspecting,
there's puppy Andy.
(audience laughing)
Puppy Andy, puppy Conan inspecting the set, just as I do.
(audience laughing)
Help them out there Andy.
All right
Andy often does the same thing
Hold on me! during the show, yeah.
There you go.
Oh, you saved him.
That's nice.
(audience laughing)
(audience cheering)
I got off.
I got to take my wig off.
Yeah take his wig off,
then take your wig off Andy.
(audience laughing)
Tonight is a special treat,
we also have added puppy Lubambo
let's see puppy Lubambo ladies and gentlemen.
Puppy Lubambo where is he?
(audience cheering)
(audience laughing)
Why is his?
Why?
Why is his mustache on top of his nose?
(audience laughing)
Okay. Help him out there Andy.
There he goes he got it off he's good.
And of course the special guest on tonight's puppy Conan,
puppy Lady Gaga.
Welcome puppy Lady Gaga.
(audience cheering)
We have a fantastic show for you tonight
and why a mustache on top of his nose?
That makes no sense.
'Cause he'd probably eat I otherwise,
just like the real Lubambo.
Okay.
(audience laughing)
(audience cheering)
So many things I enjoy about that.
Well, I mean, obviously
you have puppies
Yeah. and--
You can't lose.
You can't lose and they don't know they're on television.
Right.
And that's one of the joyous things about animals.
I can't watch a movie that,
the minute a horse comes into a scene,
no matter how powerful the acting is,
I look at the horse and I know that this horse doesn't know
Yeah.
that it's an Oscar nominee.
No.
The horse is just the horse.
I will say it always drove me crazy
'cause you guys both have, you're, too kind to animals,
you would immediately go rescue the puppies.
And I'm like, just let them,
let them hang out there. I know, but I just
cannot stand there Yeah.
and watch a puppy struggle for more than 10 seconds.
And then I'm like, okay, you get the fucking idea
(laughing)
the puppy's got a wig on, now let that thing go.
Yeah. You know.
So your tolerance was the lowest.
Yeah.
Mine was next.
And then you had
infinite patience Let them go.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, they're fine
for a puppy struggling.
Now I will go out of my way to say
the puppies were cared for,
taken care of in every way.
They were never in any danger.
They were probably humiliated,
but they didn't feel any physical pain.
Yeah.
They went back to their puppy lives
Yeah.
with a terrible reputation.
Mocked by fellow puppies
Fun fact is that
puppy Andy was adopted by,
was it our head writer first?
Yeah Matt, Matt O'Brien.
Matt are you here?
Matt why don't you to come on out
and he always likes to be in the limelight.
Matt why don't you just stand--
Sit over here, sit over here,
or stay there whatever.
You know
All right here.
Yeah, here is fine. Yeah, yeah here's good
No, now you're away from both microphones,
right there.
He takes direction well.
(laughing)
We're talking bout puppy Andy?
Yeah, so you adopted puppy Andy, is that correct?
We adopted puppy Andy after my wife saw him on the show.
And then--
Quick question,
(laughing)
the puppies are all identical.
Your wife saw puppy Andy, and then saw a puppy Conan,
but didn't want the puppy Conan.
Puppy Andy was her choice.
She wanted the most problematic one.
(laughing)
That's just, that's weird to me, but anyway, go ahead.
So we brought puppy Andy home,
we named a Moose and our dog Cali tried to eat him.
(laughing)
within about a week.
Then Andres Du Bouchet,
one of the other writers on the show adopted him
and still kept the name Moose.
And now they are kindred spirits.
Wow.
If you're still watching after that,
(laughing)
you really like a deep dive.
(laughing)
So puppy Andy became Moose
and went from Matt,
who you don't know You were the one
that pulled me into this. To Andres you don't know.
You pulled me in, I was comfortable--
What a tale!
Oh, somewhere in heaven
Melville is jealous.
(laughing)
he didn't think of this whale of a tale!
(laughing)
That's a little insight.
(laughing)
in how insane we on Conan can be.
Oh boy, hey, thanks for being here Matt.
Yeah, great to be here. You're a good guy.
Thanks, I'm glad I stepped in.
(laughing)
Yeah, thanks.
(upbeat music)
I loved that we got
some of that insane me is on it's own.
(laughing)
Come in here and tell us
well, that's what happened.
Well!
(laughing)
How dare you.
(laughing)
Waste our time
by doing exactly what I asked.
Oh, that made me happy.