Well, we had a lot to do tonight,
we got great casts, we have a very fun show,
but before we go any further,
there was something I'd like to address.
You know, I walk around town a lot,
sort of to try and get noticed. And.
(crowd laughs)
People you've always come up to me
and they ask me what it's like to have my own show,
they have a lot of questions,
they wonder what it's like to work here.
They just are very curious about the whole process.
And more often than not, this is interesting,
I talked to them, their idea of what it's like
to host a Late Night Show is just wrong.
They're just way off
so I thought, what am I trying to take care of this?
I would like to clear up some of those misconceptions
about how these shows are run right now
in a piece we're gonna call Debunking the Myths
of Late Night.
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Debunking the myths.
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Possibly the worst title for comedy piece ever.
(crowd laughs)
It just rolls off the tongue.
Alright, now the first myth about the show concerns the size
of our studio.
A lot of you people probably mentioned
this when you come you know notice this
when you came here tonight.
People are always surprised when they walk in here
and they they've seen the show on TV,
but then they walk in here and they see the show in person
for the first time,
it's a completely different scale,
the studio is a completely different scale
than you might imagine.
Alan could you just turn the cameras around
and show the people at home
what the studio really looks like,
Just spin it around
and this is gonna give people kind of the right.
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Great crowd tonight by the way.
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Amazing. They're all from Bolivia.
(crowd laughs)
Big soccer fans apparently.
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Now this is kind of embarrassing to bring up,
but many people assume that I'm hilarious 24 hours a day,
you know, I mean 'cause people watch this show,
that's the impression they come away with,
that guy's just nonstop funny, alright.
I hate to burst your bubble, but that just couldn't be true,
It's not true. Watch this video, you'll see what I mean.
(crowd laughs)
I will take some pills away.
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Excuse me Mr. Brian.
Yeah hold on. Yeah Laurie, what's up?
It's time for your 10 seconds a day
of not being hilarious.
Oh.
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Okay time's up.
Time's up more like mime's cup.
(crowd laughs)
Mime is walking up, am a robot, I'm a robot.
(crowd laughs)
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Alright here's another (laughs)
Yep, that's funny,
Here's another misconception about this show.
A lot of people think that we do this program
from the sixth floor of 30 Rockefeller Center,
but that is just not true, okay.
As you can see from this diagram right here,
our studio is actually located 800 feet below,
Rockefeller Center near the Earth's molten core.
And oh you don't believe me, you clearly don't check
this out right here it's pretty fascinating.
Just incredible what's down there.
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It's a nice crowd that would applaud that special effect.
(crowd laughs)
Those Bolivian soccer fans are nice people.
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You know, another myth about our Late Night Show,
surrounds the great American actor Abe Vigoda.
There he is right there.
(crowd cheers)
okay we now people think that just
because Mr. Vigoda makes frequent appearances
on our late night show,
they think that just because he does
that he must be very easy for us to book on short notice
and not have better things to do.
Well that could not be further from the truth.
Here's an example of how hard it can be to get Abe
to do the show.
(phone rings)
Hello.
Hi it's Paula Davis at Late Night,
can you come in today for a quick pre tape?
I'll have to check my schedule.
Let me know, thanks.
I'll do it.
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He's fast
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Picky but fast,
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Here's a very common misconception about the show,
especially for anyone who hasn't seen our show in person,
he's just watched it on television.
People think that after I finished the monologue
and I throw to Max in the band and the band starts to play,
they think I just walk over to my desk and sit down.
That's not true, that would just be no,
that's not how it's done.
I'm gonna show people for the first time
what actually happens when I finished the monologue
and come over here.
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We gonna recreate this moment.
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Alright everybody we got a fantastic show,
and so take it away Max Weinberg, Max Weinberg 7.
[Speaker] Don't ask.
(jazz music)
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Every body we got a great show.
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Thanks fellas great job, very nice.
(crowd laughs)
Thanks for letting me borrow them La Bamba
(crowd laughs)
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Very generous. Now one of the most persistent myths
about it is a myth I hear all the time
about our band The Max Weinberg 7,
a lot of people think
that the band is named the Max Weinberg 7,
because there are seven band members,
but that's not true. Is it Max?
No, no no Conan, (crowd laughs)
I named the band after my Max Weinberg 7.
(crowd laughs)
You know what I mean?
Oh Max.
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Check it out ladies.
(crowd laughs)
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It's amazing, we're still on the air.
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Finally another commonly held belief about Late Night,
a lot of people think this, commonly held belief
about Late Night is that our guests get paid
to come on the show.
People think the guests are paid.
That is absolutely false.
Our guests don't get paid a cent.
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Come here.
Bad shit,
Bad shit.
(crowd cheers)
No no no,
one word O'Brien one word, no pay, no, Goldblum,
that's it, that's it.
(crowd cheers)
No no no
well first take that break, we'll be right back with.