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Conan is an American late-night talk show hosted by Conan O’Brien. Co-hosted by Andy Richter, the hour-long show airs Monday through Thursday on cable network, TBS. It premiered in November, 2010 and has won a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Achievement in Interactive Media.

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17 Aug, 2017

McGregor: I’ll break Mayweather inside four rounds

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McGregor talks to O’Brien, with O’Brien referencing his appearance on the show two year’s before, where McGregor said he wanted to fight Mayweather for the first time.

COB: Conor, you first predicted this fight two years ago on this show. Let’s take a look…What if you were in the ring with Floyd Mayweather?

CMG: If your asking if I’d like to fight Floyd, who wouldn’t like to dance around the ring for $180 million? If we were to get it on, I would most certainly dismantle him.

In the present day:

CMG: There will be no dancing in there. I’m going to go straight forward, and put him away…inside four rounds!…

Responding to Mayweather saying he is going to go down on his face or his back:

I’m going down…down in the history books.

16 Apr, 2015

Rosario Dawson interview

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Dawson appears on Conan and talks about how her mom once trained her to use pepper spray by using it on her, and that New Yorkers aren’t as tough as they used to be.

Now people think it’s so safe in New York that they are walking around with ear-buds at four o’clock in the morning and I kind of feel like hitting them…I kind of feel like robbing them.

Rosario Dawson Wants To Mug New Yorkers | CONAN on TBS

19 Dec, 2014

Orlando Bloom interview

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Bloom appears as a guest on Conan to promote his latest film, The Hobbit. He also talks about having Sir Ian McKellen as a roommate, his experience stripping down in Zulu, and creating a porno film involving elves and Middle Earth.

The truth is there won’t be because J.R. Tolkien has the rights. The estate sold the rights for both The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, but nothing else. I was doing press with Evangeline Lilly and Lee Pace recently. We both play elves and we could do an elven spinoff. Get some iphones and some GoPros and annihilate middle earth, Tantric sex, down and dirty. Let’s go with a bit of elven love and violence.

Orlando Bloom Wants To Make A Porno Version Of "The Hobbit" | CONAN on TBS

12 Dec, 2014

Rosario Dawson interview

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Dawson returns as a guest on Conan to promote her latest film, Top Five. She also talks about making out with Jenny Slate in a New York Times video, and being inspired by James Franco to post “selfies” on social media.

I remember when they asked me to do it, I don’t know if that’s weird to say, but there was another actress they were talking about doing it with. Sure, that would be great. They changed and said it would be Jenny. Awesome, I have never met her before. She is hilarious and awesome and beautiful and cool and smart. So we got there, we said hello, nice to meet you like it was kind of great. It was kind of awesome.

Rosario Dawson's Sexy James Franco-Inspired Selfies | CONAN on TBS

11 Dec, 2014

Robert Patrick interview

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Patrick appears as a guest on Conan and talks about being in a motorcycle club, and not a “bike gang”. He also shares a near-death experience where he found himself in the middle of a desert after his rear tire blows out. He also talks about his audition for Terminator 2, in which he did an icy and piercing glare.

These are the things you think about when all of a sudden you realize you could have died. I’m out here and you feel like the desert is going to swallow you up and take you in. I take out my knife and starting to cut the tire off the rim. I realize I’m riding the rim right on in.

Robert Patrick Recreates His "T2" Look | CONAN on TBS

Rebecca Romjin interview

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Romjin returns as a guest on Conan to promote her latest television show, Skin Wars. She also talks about her experiences with body painting, and challenges O’Brien to try wearing only body paint on one of his shows.

It’s funny, once you’re painted, go with me on this, you don’t feel nude. You actually do feel very covered up. You can tell from people’s body language that they don’t feel naked.

Rebecca Romijn's Nude Body Paint-Off Challenge | CONAN on TBS

10 Dec, 2014

Sofia Vergara interview

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Vergara returns as a guest on Conan to promote her latest jewelry line. She gives O’Brien a bracelet from the collection, to give to his wife. She also talks about her holiday spending habits and watching her boyfriend, Joe Mangianello, prepare for his stripper role in Magic Mike.

It was fun to see him prepare for Magic Mike. It was, you know, a little bit like surprising because I didn’t know who — that he could dance like that. But it was a lot of fun. He did a lot of crazy things in the movie. I think he even had an accident.

Sofia Vergara: "It's Dangerous To Be A Stripper" | CONAN on TBS

9 Dec, 2014

Evangeline Lilly interview

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Lilly returns as a guest on Conan to promote her latest film, Ant-Man. She also expresses her admiration for Archie Comics’ Betty and Veronica’s breasts. She also talks about her fetish for ears and proceeds to touch O’Brien and Richter’s lobes.

I was obsessed with the shape of their breasts. I would draw them. I would try to trace them. I was fanatical about the perfection of their tear drop shape of their perfect breasts.

Evangeline Lilly's Ear Fetish | CONAN on TBS

Pete Holmes interview

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Holmes returns as a guest on Conan and talks about his Thanksgiving holiday with his parents in Boston. He also shares his experiences being a celebrity, including signing a Nickelback CD for a fan.

I’m a new vegan. I had to explain that to my working class Boston parents. They didn’t — they didn’t know what that meant. They didn’t even know how to say it. My father was like “Peter, you’re a vegan!” Why is that? Vegan, dad! Vegan, like an alien species. What does that mean? What does it mean? I go, it just means you don’t eat animal products. And he goes so what do you eat all day, frigging yogurt?

Pete Holmes' Nickelback Autograph | CONAN on TBS

5 Dec, 2014

Bill Burr interview

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Burr returns as a guest on Conan and shares his opinions about Thanksgiving and Black Friday. He also talks about his dislike for charity causes in sports and his penchant for Black and White stand-up comedy shows.

I like the holidays. Thanksgiving is my favorite because you get to eat in that type of thing. I don’t like black Friday type of stuff. Freaks me out. Makes me sad for Americans, watching them get trampled. Why would you do that to yourself? Why wouldn’t just admit you can’t afford it at regular prices.

Bill Burr Wants Charities Out Of Sports | CONAN on TBS

Jennifer Aniston interview

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Aniston returns as a guest on Conan to promote her latest film, Horrible Bosses 2. She also talks about a deleted sex scene on the film, as well as some of the sexy jewelry that she chose for her role.

It was an active choice. It was one of those things where they laid out the jewelry and I just gravitated towards that beautiful piece of jewelry. And I put it on. I was like “This is unique and cool.” So then I just kept trying on other bits of her wardrobe. I had kept it. And “great, you chose the [Bleep] ring!”

Jennifer Aniston's Risqué Necklace | CONAN on TBS

4 Dec, 2014

Joseph Gordon-Levitt interview

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Gordon-Levitt returns as a guest on Conan and talks about the “Best Performance with a Fake Nose” award he received from a website. He also tries out a bunch of fake noses with O’Brien and watches an old clip of his appearance in Jeopardy.

Again, trying to play a young Bruce Willis and look at yourself in the mirror doing lines, don’t know if I’m selling this. I don’t know if anyone will buy the “you grow up to be Bruce Willis”. Then once I put on that face and put in the contact lenses. It was a nose and lips, eyebrows, ears. All subtle but a lot of stuff and then I’m like “OK, yeah, this isn’t me anymore”.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Throwback "Jeopardy!" Appearance | CONAN on TBS

Billy Eichner interview

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Eichner returns as a guest on Conan and talks about his opinions on possible Oscar Award nominees. He also discusses his admiration for Taylor Swift and performs an original song inspired by Swift’s songwriting.

Are there no jokes in outer space? Not a single joke. I wanted a laugh. It’s three, four hours long. And people say, you can’t combine sci-fi and comedy. Five words — “Honey, I Shrunk The Kids.? OK?

Billy Eichner's Song For Taylor Swift | CONAN on TBS

24 Oct, 2014

Damian Lillard interview

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Lillard appears on Conan and talks about the growing up playing basketball without a hoop, his famous “Dame-face”, and why he chose the number 0 for his jersey. He also demonstrates his four-bar rapping skills.

Well, it started off on a tree. There was a tree in front of my grandmother’s house. I would shoot over the tree branch. That was my hoop. The grandfather cut down the tree so I ended up nailing a milk carton to a telephone pole. It’s round, you can’t shoot off the back bound. It helped me learn how to shoot over the rim better.

Damian Lillard's Freestyle Instagram Rapping | CONAN on TBS

23 Oct, 2014

Wyatt Cenac interview

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Cenac appears as a guest on Conan to promote his upcoming comedy tour. He also talks about having a show at the same time as Dave Chappelle’s show, and meeting O’Brien at a luxury car show.

You were like “hey, stranger, take a photo of me” and then you were like “let’s get a photo of the two of us together”. So we took a photo and we didn’t really know each other. Like “hey, look at this fancy car that neither of us own”.

Wyatt Cenac's Conan Rolls Royce Portrait | CONAN on TBS

Tenacious D interview

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Tenacious D appears as a guest on Conan to promote their upcoming music festival, Festival Supreme. They describe festival’s Halloween-inspired rides and show some of the costumed characters at the event.

Seriously, anyone who’s watching us right now in Tallahassee or Timbuktu, wherever you are, I urge you to get a plane ticket and come.

Conan Pays Jack Black To Do A Tiger Roll | CONAN on TBS

Neil Patrick Harris interview

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Harris appears as a guest on Conan to promote his latest film, Gone Girl and his book, Choose Your Own Autobiography. He also talks about his sex scenes on film and on stage, and shares some childhood memories, including kissing two girls at the same time.

It’s random stories of things I have done. I have these crazy chapters from Doogie Howser, to Doctor Horrible, to Barney Stinson to opening the Tony’s, to having babies, and making out with dudes.

Neil Patrick Harris Bares All About His Sex Scenes | CONAN on TBS

Kat Dennings interview

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Dennings returns as a guest on Conan to promote the latest season of 2 Broke Girls. She also talks about her idyllic childhood in the woods and being a somber goth as a child.

It kind of was if you want to break it down. We lived on top of a hill in a place called Bryn Mawr, which is now more built up. It was in the woods on a hill, there were deer. There were no other neighbors. There was weather.

Kat Dennings Was A Goth Kid | CONAN on TBS

22 Oct, 2014

Dana Carvey interview

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Carvey returns as a guest on Conan and gives a variety of celebrity impersonations, including Liam Neeson, as well as Presidents Bush, Clinton, and Obama. He also improvises a song about the flugelbone in Neil Young’s voice, and talks about being friends with President George W. Bush.

He’s my buddy. It’s very interesting going on — by the way, this is an ISIS-free zone. If you are ISIS, please exit. It’s interesting to think of the dichotomy. Because Obama clearly was rough on him when we had to go back. He just wasn’t very enthusiastic. He’s up there going, we’re going to — we’re going to head back with our strategic partners, coalition, forces.

Dana Carvey's Neil Young Sings The Flugelbone Song | CONAN on TBS

Cristin Milioti interview

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Milioti appears as a guest on Conan to promote her television show, A to Z. She also talks about almost getting run over by a bus with her face on it, and being bullied n school for her unique haircut and unusual retorts.

I had gone to a summer camp and the cool girl at summer camp had a buzz cut. Then I went home to New Jersey and I wanted one and my mom took me to a salon and they were like, she wants to what? And they did it. And I showed up to middle school like that. What’s up, guys? Ready to hang. And they were not nice.

Cristin Milioti's Middle School Buzz Cut | CONAN on TBS