So, you know, this is actually interesting.
This is very timely because The West Wing
is always on tonight.
Big hit show for NBC.
Right.
Tonight's a big show for Josh, my character.
Right.
It's a big part for you.
And then they say that the Gore concession speech
is going to happen at nine.
So they're saying that your show is going to be knocked off
and this is your big role.
This is my big thing.
[Conan] It's knocked off the air tonight.
At a time like this
when the country is going through something like this
I think we have to look at our priorities, you know?
[Conan] Yeah.
Right.
And I don't know why they can't wait one more day.
Five weeks, so that my mom can see the show.
That'd be great if they moved it just for The West Wing.
I think it's worth it.
What are they showing instead?
'Cause the concession speech won't be that long.
I heard they were going to put Dateline in there.
Is that true?
Oh, man.
Yeah, I don't know.
Dateline is--
A wonderful NBC show by the way.
I'm sorry.
Yes, a wonderful show that spreads like a virus.
Yeah.
You know the amazing thing about that show.
I can't believe that we're living at a time,
we're all here on the planet together.
I can't believe we're not having a parade
and a holiday just celebrating the fact
that there is a guy named Stone
who looks like that.
Stone Phillips, people don't comment on that.
First of all, he looks like a guy whose name would be Stone.
You know? [Bradley] But it's too much.
He just had this big square jaw.
If I was writing on a soap opera
and I said, okay, get this guy.
He's like, you know, 6"2', just this really handsome guy
and we're going to call him Stone.
You'd be laughed out of the room.
People would say no one would buy it.
Absolutely.
Do you have any personal animosity towards Stone Phillips
or no, it's just his name?
I don't know.
I gotta think about that.
Yeah, think about it.
Now, a lot of people have been saying about your show
The West Wing, they've been saying
during this whole election crisis
that the president everybody would really want
would be Martin Sheen
because he just comes across as such a great guy
on the show that people have been running around,
there are actually polls that say people
like Martin Sheen's president and that they
would actually vote for him.
Do you think, you know Martin Sheen,
would he make a good president?
I know Martin Sheen.
I love Martin Sheen.
I've worked with Martin Sheen.
I do not want him to be president.
I don't know.
I was watching Apocalypse Now the other night.
[Bradley] Yeah.
And Martin Sheen is wearing bikini underwear
and dancing in front of a mirror, high on something
and I thought, that's a great president.
Yeah.
That's a guy you could get behind.
Well, if you wanna break the gridlock--
Maybe we had that.
I don't know.
We had a version of that.
We don't know what Clinton was doing.
We don't know.
I swear to God, I'm not even making a joke.
We don't know what that man was.
He probably was dancing in front of a mirror
for hours at a time.
He doesn't seem like a bikini type of guy.
No.
Let's end on something happy.
I understand you do impressions.
You do actually unusual impressions.
I do an impression and it's actually
from when I was a kid, I used to imitate a gorilla.
So I will do that, but I need to make a little entrance.
So can I come around there?
Imitate a gorilla?
Yeah. Okay, why not.
Let's see this.
If you have an object, you can throw it.
Okay.
It's a little unusual.
Very dignified.
[Conan] Okay, this is nice.
I didn't think this would be happening.
(laughing and applauding)
That is really very good.
That's very nice.
Man.
It's dignified stuff.
Yeah, that was excellent.
Will we be seeing that on The West Wing at any point?
Absolutely.
Won't be seeing Pender's instrument on The West Wing.
The West Wing is on Wednesday nights at nine on NBC.
Not tonight, I guess.
So, thank you very much.
Bradley Whitford.
Thank you very much. Very nice.
Congratulations, too.
Thank you.