Dana Carvey watched Withnail and I while prepping Wayne’s World 2, got fixated on Ralph Brown’s spaced-out Danny, and wrote him into the movie.
They treated it like a spiritual reprise, recreating the flat from Withnail, right down to the wallpaper.
I am angry tonight.
Because today ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car.
ICE makes this city less safe.
We want them out. Now.
In 1993, Chris Farley took a camcorder to an L.A. mall to teach guys how to flirt with women and the results were perfect 😂 this is the type of history we must preserve
Hunter S. Thompson refused to come to the studio.
The only way Conan could get him on the show was to meet him on a farm in upstate New York. To shoot guns. And drink hard liquor.
They set up a full bar in a field. A bartender in a tuxedo handed Hunter a shotgun he’d never fired. Then an M60. They blew apart stuffed animals and a Bill Buckner target while Conan tried to look like this was a normal interview.
Hunter howled. Conan looked like he might not make it home.
This is still the least talk-show interview ever done on a talk show.
Genius making Conan come to him, or just the most dangerous booking in late-night history?
I have asked for a few autographs in my life:
Danny Manning
Jack Nicklaus (for my dad)
And the littlest cute guy from Hanson (for my daughter)
Only the littlest cute guy from Hanson said no