I can't believe that you never interned for me because.
I turned it down a lot.
No.
(people laughing)
I know how bad you guys wanted me.
Why didn't you wanna work for free?
We need that intern. Why?
No, but.
They say that he's so good.
The list list of people from The Office.
I know it's crazy.
Who are from Massachusetts.
I didn't know that was an option.
When they were talking about it on set
I felt so left out.
I was like why did my mom never tell me
about this. Your mom had to tell you.
I don't know.
No, but it's like, you know,
like all those kids go to the summer camp
and you're like, wait, I didn't know you could do that.
But when I was a kid, like kids went to concerts.
I'm like, how did you go to a,
like your mom drove you to the Worcester Centrum
and waited in the car.
Oh my God,
the Worcester Centrum, yes. I didn't get it.
Yeah, I didn't get it.
Yeah. These kids have gone
to Nirvana
when I was like in eighth grade, I was like, you can go?
And so, yeah, I was like, no one told me
you could intern at Conan.
Yeah
and when you think about it
I think half the cast of The Office
Yes. Interned
for me. Carell interned
at The Office,
at Conan.
(people laughing)
It still works. He also had to intern
The Office when he first got Yes, he did.
That's how low down he was.
He worked his way up. Yeah, so many.
(people laughing)
All right, you can.
Fast. You can play Michael,
but you also have to intern
for the first year. Yeah.
You have to get Dwight coffee.
(people laughing)
So, so weird and it worked against the character prep too.
It was not the right dynamic, yeah.
So, but you must have,
I mean, I know you're friends with a lot of the people
that interned for us,
what's the list of people that interned for us.
Angela Kinsey, Mindy Kaling.
It's crazy.
John Krasinski.
Right.
Ellie Kemper.
Yeah. Yeah.
Who all, I mean, I, am I leaving anyone off?
I think that's it.
There might be. No.
Yeah.
I think some are gonna end up interning for us.
Yeah, yeah. Still.
There's a long road ahead. On the podcast.
I think Krasinski, when he gets his comeuppance
will be here
getting me coffee again. Yup.
Yup.
I loved that the last time I saw Krasinski
I think he had a bodyguard
and I'm thinking you used to get me coffee
and now there's someone here to protect you from me.
That's funny.
(Conan laughing)
I don't blame him.
I don't blame him either, I'm a very violent man.
Yeah. Yeah.
He has a lot of enemies.
I've always heard that Mindy Kaling does this thing
that I want to ask you about,
which is something that is near and dear to my heart making.
I'll confirm any rumor. Making up lies that
don't really exist for any reason.
Just making up a very random lie.
Yeah.
And it's kind of a way of pranking people,
but it's something
that's always fascinated me. Yeah.
I love that as well.
And I'm a big believer in that,
but can you give me examples?
Is it true first of all that she loves to do that?
Yeah, well she now and then,
she hasn't done it in a while I hope, but.
She told me she really needed money.
Yup.
And I gave her a hundred thousand dollars.
That's how she's so rich. She started giggling.
Yeah.
She told that to Warner Brothers
and they're like all right, sure whatever you need.
She once on The Office told me that
there was a female director that
had done an episode of one of my scripts
and I didn't especially like how the direction went,
not a huge deal.
But Mindy said that she had used to date Greg.
That the director
used to date. The director
used to date Greg and also we're at like 24,
so everyone looked like a grown up me.
This woman was way like 20 years older than Greg.
I was like, oh, okay, all right.
And so then Greg was like
what'd you think of her as a director?
And I was like, yeah, she was good.
And so we hired her back,
but I should have said like not my favorite director.
And then later I told him, like you used to date her, right?
And he was like, what are you talking about?
She's like sixty, no.
How would I have, anyway.
When someone lies
and the lie doesn't have a point.
Yes.
And then they act like they gotcha.
She never acted like she got me.
It was just a private joke, which is even more pure.
Anyway. I have to admire
the comedian that doesn't need an audience,
just her and God.
Okay, I don't know what you're talking about.
Comedian doesn't have an audience.
You've gotta score.
That feels like a Fellini movie.
Yeah.
I've been around people sometimes who say,
yeah on my way in today a pebble,
you know, shot up from the road and cracked my windshield.
I gotta get it fixed.
And I'll be like, huh, that's too bad.
And they'll be like, no, it didn't.
But that's not. Fuck you.
Wait a minute.
That's pathological. I missed out here.
Well, Sona, you've done that to me plenty of times,
always with a pebble.
I'm sorry, but I love the pebble bit.
You fall for it
every single time. It's a good bit I guess.
You fall for it every single time.
I mean the key to it,
the pro and con is that it's so mundane,
but there's also no payoff.
And people think there who would lie about such a thing?
Right.
But.
Huge waste of time.
Yeah.
So she, that's something, see I like that about Mindy.
I like that she's willing to take you down that way.
She cares about comedy, yeah.
And she's an amazing hard joke writer too.
Yeah. Yeah.
I think those two go hand in hand.
I think so too. Yeah.