Folks, I'm gonna get serious here for just a second.
You may not know this, but I have roots in this town.
I really do. (audience cheers)
I lived in Chicago once, back in the summer of 1988.
That's right, I was doing, (audience cheers)
It's all true, okay,
one guy's still cheering that year.
I was doing a stage show- (audience laughs)
He's gonna go home and listen to "Don't Worry, Be Happy".
(audience laughs)
I was doin' a stage show at the Victory Gardens Theater
called "Happy, Happy, Good Show".
I was just a young kid, (audience cheers and applauds)
I had big dreams starting out.
Here's a quick clip.
It's the only known footage we have of me
doing God knows what with the very talented Bob Odenkirk.
(audience cheers and applauds)
(Conan and Bob grunt) (audience laughs)
(grunts) Oh no, oh no, he's gettin' mad.
Ooh. (audience applauds, laughs)
I, I'm so mad(audience cheers and laughs)
(Bob mumbles through gritted teeth)
What? Oh (giggles)
(audience cheers and applauds)
It was after that, that I left comedy (chuckles)
(audience laughs)
never to return. All right.
Well that summer I lived in an apartment
half a block from Wrigley Field
(audience cheers and applauds)
and my roommate--
(some audience members boo)
wow, man!
All right, all right, alright
yeah you vote on your own time.
Anyway, my roommate was actor Jeff Garlin,
who you all know from "Curb Your Enthusiasm."
(audience cheers and applauds)
Very funny man, very talented man.
Well of course, it's now 18 years later
and I thought it might be fun if Jeff and I
went back to Wrigleyville and
dropped in on the old apartment.
We brought along a camera crew, here's what happened.
(audience cheers and applauds)
(dramatic music)
(speaker buzzes)
We used to live here, can we come up and look around?
(audience laughs)
(mumbling over speaker)
I suppose so, that's the great thing about Chicago.
In New York, if you just say
"You don't know who we are, we wanna come in."
They just fire a shotgun through the window, at your face.
(audience laughs)
[Conan] This'll be good.
Hey, how are you?
Conan O'Brien. Good to see you.
[Jeff] Hi, Jeff Garlin, pleasure man.
This is really weird.
It looks the same but nicer.
[Conan] Yeah, your name is?
Eric.
Eric. Do they tell you when you went
to rent the apartment that huge stars had lived here?
(audience laughs)
No, not at all.
Jeff Garlin. I lived here, uh--
Sandy Duncan
Sandy Duncan lived here for a while.
Ben Vereen.
Ben Vereen was here.
Charles Nelson Reilly.
Charles Nelson Reilly helped build the place actually.
(audience laughs)
[Jeff] The TV was right here,
and there's the cable outlet where we got free cable.
Anyone hit a home run, you'd see the ball roll
right down the street here.
I had this mirror put in 'cause I used to like to,
I'd wear a jacket and a shirt
but I'd take off my pants and my underwear
and I would stand-- (audience laughs)
look at myself naked.
[Jeff] You loved your butt, you were like obsessed
I still do.
Eric, can we ask you a question?
What is this? A Jagermeister machine?
[Eric] Yeah
(Audience cheers and applauds)
This is insane!
Who are you?
(sniffing)
That is just, you wanna just smell that?
Oh! Dear God, you actually drink that?
Yeah Are you outta your mind?
By the way, Jagermeister, a fine product.
(audience laughs)
Find the bucket right here,
straps on just-- (retching noise)
(audience laughs)
And then right back-- (audience laughs)
up on top.
[Conan] Oh yeah, this view is pretty incredible.
Yeah
Doesn't it look like this is where
the FBI shows up here later?
And they're like "Yeah he rested the rifle here,
and we found a cartridge here and a cartridge here."
I don't like to brag, but Jeff
and I had a bit of a reputation in Chicago. It's just--
Guys who didn't get laid.
(audience laughs) (Eric chuckles)
Yeah, guys who didn't get laid.
[Jeff] How are you?
[Conan] Hiya fellas! Good to see ya.
All right, see how exciting that was for them
to see us? (Jeff chuckles)
(audience laughs)
Those guys are right now, getting on the phone and saying
"Two gay guys just came onto us on the balcony."
(Jeff and audience laugh)
[Jeff] You live here?
Uh yeah, I live right here.
[Conan] We used to live here, I'm Conan and this is Jeff.
[Jeff] Hey, there's our old landlord.
[Conan] There's our old landlord right there.
(audience laughs)
[Conan] You wanna come up for some Jagermeister?
I'm on my way to work, I'd love to man.
[Conan] Come on, just one quick glass?
(man in blue shirt laughs)
(glass clinks)
(audience laughs)
(laughter drowns out talking)
Is this the only building you own in the neighborhood,
or do you own a few buildings?
No, I got one South of here on Roscoe.
That's where Desi and Lucy first lived.
That's right.
(audience laughs)
In the other place.
Yeah. And the original three stooges, all lived there.
The original three stooges.
They lived in three bunk beds.
I had some pretty famous people live there
as well as here. You know?
You had famous people living in your other apartment?
In the other building.
In the other building?
Well the Cubs physician's daughter and--
[Jeff And Conan] The Cub's physician's daughter?
Really, the Cub's physician's daughter?
How'd you work that out?
(audience laughs) did you have to hire out for security?
What other big stars have lived here?
You used to know.
Oh! You they had here, in this room
they had the table read for "The Poseidon Adventure."
Yeah, the movie "The Poseidon Adventure."
(audience laughs)
[Jeff] The original one, with Gene Hackman.
[Conan] They did, they all sat with scripts
and they, Gene Hackman and Shelley Winters,
they had to when they got to the part
where the boat flips upside down,
they flipped the table over for the table read.
(audience laughs) (landlord mumbles)
They were in here, yeah.
Ernie Banks used to, after he had--
[Landlord] Oh I remember Ernie Banks.
Yeah, after he would bat--
[Jeff] Mr. Cub
He refused to sit in the dugout with everyone else,
he thought he was too good for that--
[Jeff] They had a chair set up--
[Conan] He used to sit right in this kitchen!
[Jeff] Had a stool right here,
he'd run out when he took the field - [Conan] Yeah
[Landlord] Oh come on!
[Jeff] No Seriously--
The announcer would say "Ernie Banks
is running over to that apartment."
(audience laughs)
It was called that apartment.
Yeah. The horse Seabiscuit died in this room.
(audience laughs)
[Landlord] Nobody could get up those back stairs--
Seabiscuit, well that's interesting,
they used to have a bridge
that went from that apartment to this apartment.
It was built just for Seabiscuit, it was built in 1928.
(audience laughs) (landlord mumbles)
Seabiscuit wasn't even born another 15 years.
(audience laughs)
This place is rich with--
[Jeff] Sarah Lee baked her first cake in this kitchen.
Sarah Lee baked her cake in that oven!
(audience laughs)
[Jeff] It's true
[Conan] It's true!
Penicillin? Discovered in that bathroom.
Oh, come on! It was mold that they found,
that you insisted could be
used for medical purposes.
It was your idea.
Yeah, you're the one that said
"If you grow that mold, it might inhibit bacterial growth."
and everyone else said "What does that guy know?"
(audience laughs)
Nixon resigned in that living room.
(landlord scoffs)
You know the footage of Nixon
saying "I'm stepping down"?
Have you ever noticed that it's a really tight shot,
and you think it's the Oval Office but
that's you making an assumption.
If they widened out a little bit,
you'd see that he resigned in that front room right there.
(audience laughs)
Therefore-- (audience roars with laughter and applause)
I shall resign the Presidency, effective at noon tomorrow.
(audience cheers and applauds)
And then he stood up, and he went to a Cub's game.
I had some good people, you know--
From the sound of it. We just named 900 of them.
(dramatic music) (tapping)
(dramatic music)
(audience cheers and applauds)
Ladies and Gentlemen, Jeff Garlin!
Let's get him out here, Jeff!
(audience cheers and applauds)
Thank you! Oh wow.
(audience cheers and applauds)
Oh thank you.
Yes, thank you.
That's nice.
(audience claps)
Now Jeff, of course everybody knows
about "Curb Your Enthusiasm," (audience cheers)
but this is very exciting.
People love that show.
Thank you.
This is exciting, you made your directorial debut--
Yeah
It's just about to start with a movie,
what's the movie?
The movie is called "I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With."
and-- (Conan and audience laugh) it is!
Larry David--
That same old title rehashed again.
(Jeff and audience laugh)
Larry David actually hates the title.
"You can't end in a preposition.
What are you ending in a preposition for?"
(Conan and audience laugh)
"Makes no sense!"
That's him, yeah, that's him.
So, it's just had it's world premiere
at the Tribeca Film Festival, in New York City
a couple weeks ago.
[Conan] Very good, very good.
(audience cheers and applauds)
Thank you
[Conan] Very nice
(Conan claps)
All the shows sold out, everything sold out.
That's great
And the movie was filmed here in Chicago.
(audience cheers and applauds)
yeah, and I was actually--
it's the first movie that ever filmed at Millennium Park.
[Conan] Very nice
(audience cheers and applauds)
They know what that is, yeah.
So hopefully, it'll get a distributor
and be out later this year.
Very nice, well know what,
very nice of you to help me out.
Nice to see the old place too.
Nice to see the old place (laughter)
Thank you very much.
Jeff Garlin everybody!
(audience cheers and applauds)
And now, ladies and gentlemen, special treat--
Stay right here Jeff, you gotta see this.
(cheers and applause)
The Sears Tower dressed in Sears clothing will
bodysurf over the crowd as we go to commercial,
we'll be right back.
(upbeat music) (audience cheers and applauds)