(audience cheering) Thank you.
(audience hollering)
Thank you.
(audience cheering)
(Conan laughing)
Thank you so much.
You know what?
It's great you're beloved,
(George laughing)
but at the same time,
I know that it must get, it must be hard for you.
It's a curse to be beloved.
(George laughing) (Conan laughing)
And you go into a men's room,
you're trying to use the urinal,
guy next to you, "Norm."
(George laughing) (audience laughing)
Yeah, that's a tough one.
(Conan laughing) (George laughing)
Listen, first of all, happy holidays.
Thank you, same to you.
Thank you for doing this.
And I don't think people at home realize
that when you're doing one of these shows,
a lot of guests won't make the time in the holiday season.
They won't because-- Oh, no,
I always have time for you.
Oh, isn't that sweet?
And you know what--
Oh.
(audience clapping)
Who wouldn't?
But especially, on top of that it's not like,
you're not doing anything.
It's not like, you're not busy.
You're doing this Broadway show "Art,"
right now. Right.
And you gotta be very busy with that.
Yeah, and you know, my whole family has come in
to join me, to watch me, I guess, do "Art"
to make my Broadway debut.
That's cool.
Are they here in New York City?
Yeah, actually, I had to bring them here tonight,
because you know, I mean, we were all supposed
to be having dinner together,
(audience chuckling)
but I thought I'd make time for your show instead.
But if you don't mind, if we could do the both together.
Could my whole family have their holiday dinner?
My mom brought a bunch of turkey and stuff.
Would that be okay?
Conan, could you just do the whole thing
over here? (audience cheering)
Sure.
Can we? (audience cheering)
Well, why don't we bring them out here first and meet 'em?
Do want to meet 'em first?
Yeah, yeah, sure, sure.
Let's meet your family.
Who's here?
Is this like?
Okay, that's my wife, Bernadette.
(audience cheering) (upbeat music)
And my mom, and my sister Kathy, and Loretta, and Marti,
and Nancy, and--
Hold on, hold on, wait a minute.
I don't know who this guy is.
I don't know. (audience laughing)
Who, who?
Who the hell is that?
I love Norm from "Cheers."
(audience laughing)
Oh, okay, good enough, fine.
That's great, okay.
That's works.
Okay, all right, well he's welcome.
All right, there's Karen, and Lindsay, and Jason,
and Kristin.
Come on, everybody, all out.
All out, all out. (audience cheering)
I just can't believe it. (Conan clapping)
Oh come on, everybody.
Come on through.
(Conan laughing)
It's a big group. Wait a minute.
George, how many people did you bring?
I brought like 30, I think, 30.
(Conan laughing) You bring 30 with you.
There's some more at home,
but these are the ones who made it, yeah.
That's nice.
My God, I can't believe you know all their names.
That's amazing. No, come one now.
30.
Let's go over and have some turkey.
Come on.
We're gonna do it over here?
Yeah, yeah, we're gonna do the whole thing over here.
All right, well, we'll do the interview over here
while your family has turkey.
This'll be nice, folks.
Great. (audience chuckles)
Okay. (audience clapping)
Hi, everybody.
Hey.
Hey. (audience cheering)
I'll get in here first, how are you?
In you go, sure, sure, sure.
Nice to see you, hi. Hi.
In you go,
make some room there. Hi, how are you?
Hi, how are you? Hi.
Nice to see you.
Hi, how are you? Hi, how are you?
Hi everybody.
Hi, good to see you.
How you doing?
Wait, wait, wait, Andy.
Andy, over there at the kids' table, please.
(audience laughs)
Andy, thank you. (audience laughing)
Okay. He's a good sport
to do that, all right.
He is, he is.
All right, this is great.
Yeah.
All right, thank you.
This is great. Okay.
All right, well, hold on.
(glass dinging)
Hold on.
I'd like to start this off, but I'm Conan,
hi, good to see you.
Hi.
I thought what we're gonna do is the interview right here
while you're all having your holiday meal.
We can kill two birds with one stone.
Is that okay?
(family murmuring) Sure, yeah.
Good. Okay, this is cool.
You're good.
All right, so tell us, you're doing this show "Art."
Is that right?
Is it going well?
(family chattering)
Yeah, Judd Hirsch and Joe Morton are doing it with me,
and they are just so awesome.
The two of-- (family chattering)
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
Can we please just, you know, keep it down?
We're trying to do the interview.
Thank you.
Okay.
Yeah, it's for TV, so.
Yeah. (laughs)
That's right.
All right, now this has been a dream of yours,
always to do Broadway?
Yeah, well, who wouldn't want to do Broadway?
It's sort of the pinnacle of the whole
show business experience. (drill whizzing)
Hey, Jason.
Jason, J,J,J,J,J!
Come on, relax will you?
Can you find a regular knife so we can do the interview?
Oh, okay.
Television's affable bar fly, Norm.
I'll just sit down and shut up.
(imitates balloon whooshing)
Hey, hey, don't get--
(audience laughing)
Jason.
You know, maybe this isn't the best idea.
It seems like there's some tension.
No, no, no, it's fine.
It's fine.
Everything's cool, relax.
We'll just, go ahead.
All right, so you like doing the stage?
It's like part of a tradition for you?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, because you know what frankly,
I've been drummed off of television.
(family chattering) (kids laughing)
(audience laughing)
So, I might as well be doing theater.
You know, it is kind of fun.
All right, hey, hey, hey, hey.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
Andy, have a little respect, will you?
They started it.
(audience laughing)
(family murmuring)
He gets excitable around.
I have an idea, everybody.
What if you showed a clip?
Do you have a clip or something?
No, see, that's the thing with theater, you know,
it's the magic of the live experience.
Actually, Conan, I do have a clip with George.
Lis, honey, do you want to roll that?
Clip?
(audience laughing)
Oh, Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore.
(audience laughing)
No, and Cowardly Lion, don't worry,
I won't let the Wicked Witch get you,
or you, Scare Crow, or you, Tin Man.
Please Auntie Em, Auntie Em.
Busted.
Jason.
Jason, come here (beep) damn it, (beep).
(audience laughing)
(audience clapping)
Give me that (beep).
Give it, I'll kill you. (audience cheering)
Jason, I told you to destroy that tape.
George.
I can't believe you brought that tape
on national television.
George.
George, please don't start in on Jason again, please.
So what?
I don't care if he's sensitive.
What about that horrible fight?
He is, George, please. Sensitive, shmensitive.
Shut up, will you?
You shut up.
You wait a minute.
Shut up.
You shut up. Shut up.
Everybody can just shut--
Don't talk to (indistinct) with that.
Hannah?
Please, please, please,
please, please, stop it. (glass dinging)
Would all of you just settle down.
And please, Mrs. Wendt, you have got to shut up.
(audience laughing)
Hey, hey, hey, hey. Wait a minute.
(audience laughing) (family yelling)
Wait everybody, I have an announcement.
I think I may be gay.
(audience clapping) (audience laughing)
Who cares?
That's all right.
We don't care.
I'm leaving.
Wait, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Everybody.
Hey, everyone.
Oh, for crying out loud.
No, you're wrecking the whole.
I could weep. (whimpers) (audience chuckling)
I don't believe this. (audience chuckling)
I'm sorry, Conan.
I'm really sorry.
No, I--
Family issues.
You know what, I'm worried about you, I mean,
this was kind of a disaster.
Are you all right?
I'm okay, I guess, but I mean,
I can't believe that they just, everyone gets so intense
about the holidays.
I know, I know.
It's terrible.
I just wish there was a place, you know,
where we could all just relax, all,
just chill out a place.
Right.
Somewhere you could go where everybody knew your name.
(bright piano music)
And they were always glad you came.
You know, I think I know what you're talking about.
(audience laughing)
You're talking about a place like "Cheers."
You know, the "Cheers" bar.
No, Conan, I'm referring to the Land of Oz.
♪ Somewhere over the rainbow ♪
♪ Sky up high ♪
(audience cheering)
♪ There's a land that I heard of ♪
♪ Once in a lullaby ♪
All right, I don't know what the hell's going on.
(audience laughing) We're gonna
take a little break.
♪ Somewhere ♪
George Wendt, everybody. (audience cheering)
We'll be right back.