You have a standup special.
Mm-hmm.
That you've done, which is a new turn for you.
Mm-hmm.
I mean, so often I see you submerged
in characters and voices and you're so good at it,
and then to sort of be yourself up there talking
is quite, I imagine, a different experience.
Yeah, it was.
I've always, sort of, done standup as a
sort of a side thing.
Like, I always had like, oh,
I always had a little bit of 15, 20 minutes of material.
But it was always...
And I did a special years and years ago,
but even that special was sort of
half characters and half standup.
And then I just burped, and I tried to talk through it.
(all laughing)
Let's play that again.
Can we hear that back?
And there it is.
Okay and we can go on YouTube and check that out later?
(Conan laughing)
Enhance it too.
Yeah, yeah. Really get in there, dig it out.
So it was, it always felt like a thing I did on the side.
And then it was like, and I realized part of that
was out of fear, I think, 'cause it's, you know,
even like going and doing like seventies eat on your shows,
like, oh that feels like more,
versus me sort of getting up there
and telling some story from my life.
It was like, oh this feels like more fun and different.
So ultimately I wanted to do it
and sort of be like, I can be be
a real like standup comedian on stage for an hour
and do this, which was a pretty low bar. (laughs)
(Conan laughing)
As I say it out loud, I'm like,
I really just wanted to be on stage for an hour as myself
and see if I could physically do that.
(Conan laughing)
But I did it.
I did a special where I ate 75 eggs for Netflix
in 40 minutes and it's coming out.
Is it?
Yeah. Conan Han Luke?
(Conan laughing)
Anyway, so I did that and then it was great.
It took a long time.
I started before the pandemic and toured for a while
and then the pandemic happened
and if you guys haven't checked that out,
you guys should check out the...
(Sona laughing)
The pandemic.
(Conan laughing)
The pandemic is on tomorrow?
Yeah, the pandemic's on tomorrow.
Yeah. Yeah.
Well, the COVID variants are coming on later in the week,
but the original is on tomorrow.
The original's on tomorrow.
Who's very bitter about the variants, by the way.
(laughs) Yes.
For real, they're like, "Hey, what the fuck?
I was here, I'm the one that locked it all down
and now there's fucking variants!"
(Sona laughing)
What did they come up with?
COVID is a New York Italian?
Yes. Yeah, yeah.
Well, we all knew that, I think.
We all, I think.
Hello.
We were all pretty clear about that.
And then so I, and then, you know, life sort of,
the fun of doing standup and the tricky thing is
sort of allowing people in to being like, "Here's who I am
or here's the narrative I want to tell you."
And so the lockdown happened and then I got married
and had a child and that sort of began
to affect the material and ultimately,
so I shot it like almost two years
after I thought I was going to, and now it's done.
Feel good about it.
That's right, and congratulations on a boy.
Yes. A masculine child.
May he be a masculine child.
And a little over a year old, right?
Yeah.
A year and a couple months.
Almost two, which is a little over a year.
Well, which is it? A little over a year or almost two?
Let's call it almost two.
Okay, I don't think this child exists.
You seem very vague on the facts.
Yeah, he's, I guess like, I guess he's sort of,
people ask how tall he is, he's like sort of purple.
Does that make sense? (Conan laughing)
It's clear you've had no child
and you're just trying to use this.
No, it's got hair. For information.
It's got hair and all the parts.
Uh-huh, yeah.
All of the parts?
Yeah.
Wow.
The TV in the middle of the stomach.
No, you didn't have a child.
You got a Telly Tubby, buddy.
Yeah, you got a Telly Tubby.
You got a Telly Tubby. In fact, you got the gay one.
Oh!
(Conan laughing)
May he be a masculine gay child.
And with a television screen in his stomach.
Oh, over-compensating.
But he's a good thing. Whatever it is is wonderful.
You know what I'd like to do?
I would like to do a standup special
where I'm really opening up, but everything is a lie.
Do you know what I mean?
But I'm talking about being a grandfather for the first time
and I'm talking about it and I'm really opening up
and I'm talking about my divorce, but I'm not divorced,
I don't have grandchildren.
Yeah.
There's nothing.
Well, it gets real emotional.
Like I'd love the real, like the one-man show.
Yes.
Conan one-man show.
Yeah and then I talk about...
Where lessons are learned.
Yeah, and then the part where people really get mad
is when I start talking about how I was in Nam
and people are like, "Okay, fuck you.
You were not in Vietnam."
And I'm like, "No, no, no. I visited in 2006."
It was a good trip.
I stayed at five star hotel.
Yeah, yeah.
(Conan laughing)