Rob Riggle interview
Riggle returns to the Conan couch to promote his new web series, Coogan Auto. He also talks about his actual method in making his NFL picks and some of his predictions for the Superbowl. He also explains a controversial photo featuring himself seemingly ogling Jennifer Lawrence.
This was so unfair! So, she won for Best Action Actress, and she’s amazing. She came up on the stage and I don’t even think I shook hands, I just said “Congratulations” and then we had to back away. And so she stepped up to the microphone, we were squared up and as she turned to the microphone, we all backed away. And as we backed away, I was looking to see where we were going, and sha-boom. Right there.
Marion Cotillard interview
Cotillard guests on Conan and talks to O’Brien about her uniquely sexy magazine photo shoot, her love of comedy, and mild obsession Will Ferrell.
Civil War reenactment skit
During his show’s week-long residence in Atlanta, Georgia, O’Brien visits the city of Resaca to join the Civil War reenactment. He dresses up as a soldier named Pvt. Jedidiah Longtree of the 123rd N.Y. Infantry and tries to build rapport with the other reenactors.
Southern Charm School skit
During his show’s week-long run in Atlanta, Georgia, O’Brien enrolls in a southern charm school to learn some proper etiquette and manners. Under the guidance of expert Cindy Haygood, he learns the correct way of shaking hands, dressing up, dining, and making conversation.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau interview
Coster-Waldau visits Conan to talk about Game of Thrones and being able to attend events that recognize the show. He also discusses why his character, Jamie Lannister, has been unkempt lately and also shares an awkward encounter with George Clooney.
I was dying – I just had to go to the restroom. And finally, it’s over and I’m just running out there and it’s packed with people. And all the urinals are taken, but then I spot – there’s stall there, the door was open, and “I’m gonna go, I’m not gonna let anyone get there”, because I was dying. And then this guy is in there, and then I just go for it – I didn’t know he was in there – the door was open. And so I just go for it, he was standing, I’m pretty sure there was spillage, and I said sorry, and he said sorry, and I go “Oh my God, that’s George Clooney.”
Charlie Sheen interview
Charlie Sheen makes a military-style entrance on Conan, where he talks to O’Brien about a brand of pot named after him, the cause of his meltdown, and his desire to become friends with Justin Bieber.
Tig Notaro interview
Notaro returns to Conan as a guest to promote her audio stand up performance, Live and her upcoming national tour and. She also talks about her bout with cancer and the importance of living in the present.
I’m doing really well. I’m in remission. I went through a lot last year, and not to be totally intense, heavy, serious, but you know, I learned that it’s important to be present and live your life.
Amy Schumer interview
Schumer returns to Conan as a guest to promote her new sketch show, Inside Amy Schumer. She also talks about how much lying happens on her dates and her experience going out with a wrestler.
We were just very different sexually. Like he was very active in bed, and like moving around. And my style, I like… laying there.
Kesha second interview
Kesha returns to the Conan couch and presents him with custom underwear as a gift. She also talks shows her new lip tattoo and talks about her unique songwriting process, which involves her breasts. She shares the hidden meanings of some of her songs and tells O’Brien of her liking to men with full beards.
I take things too far sometimes. It was just really downhill from there, because then I started this Tumblr page and I just started putting every rogue beard I could find… just in my mouth.
Jesse Eisenberg interview
Eisenberg guests on Conan to promote his film Now You See Me. He also talks about his experience being flashed in Mardi Gras, brags about acting alongside Sir Michael Caine and shares his co-star, Woody Harrelson’s, hypnotism skills.
Yes, except the difference was he thought he was like doing really well. I think he might have doing well, but it was the kind of thing, he plays a hypnotist and trying to hypnotize everybody on the set. We’re trying to be polite because he is famous and a great actor. I don’t know how effective it was or how polite we were.
J.J. Abrams interview
Abrams returns as a guest on Conan to promote his film Star Trek Into Darkness. He also talks about a deleted scene featuring a showering Benedict Cumberbatch and promises O’Brien that he will include the expression “jub-jub” in the next Star Wars movie.
It’s like the “in” joke thing with people who I work, hiding, R2-D2 is hidden in the movie. A beverage called Slusho, all of these stupid little things, if you care to look for it, you’ll find them.
Lena Headey interview
Headey guests on Conan and talks about the controversial wedding scene on the show, Game of Thrones, and how she feels about the fate of some of the characters. She also discusses some of the fans’ reactions to her own character, Cersei Lannister.
Yes, but they’re not—I mean, I guess it’s a compliment when someone’s buying a table and someone goes, you’re the (beep) on—All people say “I love her”, and I kind of worry for them.
Gigolos mug skit
O’Brien investigates a stolen mug that belongs to his assistant, Sona. He interviews several members of his staff and eventually locates the mug and finds out that it was brought there by an intern of his show.
Chris Kluwe interview
Kluwe guests on Conan and talks about his controversial letter to Maryland state assembly delegate Emmett Burns regarding same-sex marriage and gay rights. He also reveals that he is an avid world of Warcraft and table top miniatures player and that NFL players can be smart, too.
That’s the thing is that a lot of people have this assumption of NFL players as knuckle dragging troglodytes because you only hear about bad players. Those are the guys that make the news. There are a lot of smart players in the locker room. But you don’t hear about them because they take care of business and they go home. Who wants to report on that?
Brent Morin interview
Morin guests on Conan to promote his upcoming television show, Undateable. He also talks about his experiences dating rich girls and his crush on Bradley Cooper.
I’m not gay, but if he committed a crime and I witnessed it and he fled the scene and the cops said, “Could you describe him?” I’d be like, “6’3”, built like a God”.
Brian Cox interview
Professor Cox guests on Conan to discuss myths about the Large Hadron Collider and possible life in outer space. He also reveals to O’Brien that teleportation has already been done on small particles.
We’ve already done teleportation on a very small scale. You missed it. We’ve teleported, it’s been a prediction of quantum theory for decades, and we’ve done it with small particles, single particles. So the question is, can you do it with bigger things? We don’t know is the answer.
Sharon Stone interview
Stone guests on Conan and talks to O’Brien about her early days working as a pie girl at Bob’s Big Boy. She also shares a photo of herself with an Israeli fan, and recreates her famous leg cross in Basic Instinct.
I made the pies. when you go to Bob’s Big Boy, they had all these kind of fruit pies, and when you start, that’s the first job you get. I guess I just have that pie-making look.
Splinter Cell: Blacklist review
O’Brien reviews the video game, Splinter Cell: Blacklist on his web segment, Clueless Gamer. He is joined by hip-hop artist, J. Cole, who serves as his guide in playing the game. O’Brien criticizes the characters’ eyesight and speculates on the main characters’ relationship status. They play together and fail to complete their mission. Cole gives the game a “Tupac – Me Against The World” rating, while O’Brien gives it a “Kay Kyser – Jingle, Jangle, Jingle” rating.
We’ve established that Cole is very good at this game, I, a little less so. My game may improve if we play together. I’d say I have your back but I’m not good at turning around.
Diane Kruger interview
Kruger guests on Conan to promote The Bridge. She also chats about her not-so-romantic first date with boyfriend Joshua Jackson, her dislike of guns, and her fondness for reality show, Honey Boo Boo.
I watch Honey Boo Boo. It’s like watching Star Wars. I’m not an American, so that part of America is so foreign to me. They’re actually happier than any of us. They love each other.
Lizzy Caplan interview
Caplan promotes Masters of Sex. She also talks about her family’s sex-inspired cookbook and the banality of watching sex scenes at work. On people’s unique sexual techniques:
What I’ve learned is that everybody masturbates really differently. It’s sort of beautiful. One would assume, hey, everybody just does it the way I do it. Not the case. People come up with crazy stuff. And you know they’re just doing it the way that they normally do.
