"I SAID NEE-HA!"
The Late Night With Conan O'Brien Newsletter #03/22-057

Hi everyone!! Where have we been? I apologise for the lack of neeha’s over the past few weeks. I have been completely "distracted" and ultra busy here. I was planning my trip to NY to see the show… I’m going to the show this week!! I’m going to the show this week! I’m going to the show this week! I’m going to the show this week! Had enough yet? No, me neither. I’m, going to the show this week!!! Ok, I’ll stop it now. I’m just legally too excited.

Anyway, this week in neeha, features the third and final part of the Conan Interview. I hope everyone enjoys it, and again, I am sorry for keeping you waiting so long. That was never my intention. Enjoy!!

Over the next three weeks, neeha may, again, not make the "Sunday deadline" that I pretend to have. I’m going to be away from the computer. 3122 miles away to be exact, so I can’t promise to have neeha on time, but we shall see!

Have a conetastic week everyone and let's get it awn!

Late Night Linzi
Editor

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CONTENTS -
LATE NIGHT NEWS
THE NEE-HA!" CONAN INTERVIEW – PART 3
LATE NIGHT POLL
UPCOMING GUESTS – March 22 – April 2 1999
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LATE NIGHT NEWS

SESAME STREET – The episode that features Conan is tentatively scheduled to air on May 11.

WIN A TRIP TO SEE THE SHOW!! –NBC.COM has a competition on right now offering the chance of winning $10,000 or a trip to see Late Night (or the Tonight show)

CONAN BEATS DAVE IN THE RATINGS -- "Late Night" had a conetastic sweeps period, accomplishing a once-unthinkable feat: beating Letterman among adults 18-34 for the first time ever during a major ratings book.

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THE "NEE-HA!" CONAN O’BRIEN INTERVIEW:
17 FEBRUARY 1999
PART 3

CONAN: I’m not crazy about that. I think probably, I bought an expensive guitar. A 1950’s, it’s called a Gretch 6120, and you know the guitar that Brian Setzer of the Stray Cats plays? A big orange guitar, it’s kind of a famous type of guitar. I bought one of those and it wasn’t cheap, but I just felt like you gotta live a little. Probably just pure indulgence other than like my rent and my apartment.

CONAN: Well I guess it’s gotta be with my current girlfriend or else I’m in a lotta trouble. I think probably…we took a trip where we went to Ireland and then Italy. And it was probably in Italy. Italy is just a really romantic place you know. I’m Irish-Catholic so I’m not very good about talking about my romantic moments. I’m too uptight. You know how my people are we never discuss these things, but, probably just being in Italy and having too much to drink. [laughs] That’s when I’m at my most romantic.

CONAN: I think saying that I’ll do this show with no experience. Don’t you think that qualifies as pretty outrageous?

CONAN: That’s a tricky one, it’s hard to have just one best day… The day I saw "ET" for the first time.

CONAN: Never being able to see "ET" again.

CONAN: "ET"… How long can I get away with this?

CONAN: If I could change one thing about myself it would be that I worry too much. I’m a worrier. I get too self-critical and like "you better do a good job and hope this is a good show today". I think sometimes I’d have more fun in life if I didn’t. I struggle with it because part of my personality actually helps. I worry and so I work extra hard on the show, and I worry and I really prepare… And I think it helps make the show funny, but sometimes it just gets in the way, and it means I don’t have as much fun as I could have.

CONAN: People come up to me in the street and go "Hey it’s CoNan the Barbarian"…

CONAN: Yeah they still do it occasionally and you really want to say "Did you *just* come up with that?"

CONAN: Oh, I’m paying them respect. I must bow to Andy. I must bow to Max. That’s my way of showing respect. And it also loosens my lower back.

CONAN: Tomorry! I bet Tomorry comes back at some point. It’s just that we do things for a while and then we feel like "ok we did that enough let’s move on" You know, and that’s how we found the Shirtless Moron and PimpBot. You gotta keep moving, the show is like a shark, if it ever stops moving it dies.

CONAN: A bunch. I love Robot On The Toilet, I love Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, I love it when Don King comes on in the Clutch Cargo… but I’m just scratching the surface, there’s so many that I really like. Oh, I love Andy’s little sister, that’s one of my favorites.

CONAN: [laughs] I like it! It’s very flattering. I like that my fans wear giant retainers over their teeth.

I like doing the song improv... where I pick up the guitar... There are a lot of sketches that I really like. I used to love the sketches with Oldy in them and I was sad that he passed away coz I really loved the sketches with him. I love some of the Satellite TVs, you know, like Clive Clemmons, or the Bill Reilly Jim & Choke Channel. I like it when we use puppets. I love some of the things we do where puppets catch fire and things like that. Just love anything with puppets getting hurt.

CONAN: I think I have a pretty good sense.. I don’t want to really hurt people, I’m too thin-skinned myself to do that. I don’t really wanna hurt people’s feelings. But if something’s really funny, I just feel like it has to be put on the air somehow. I don’t think I’d ever stop something really funny from going on the air. You can just tell when something’s really funny.

CONAN: No, it really wasn’t because you can’t stand in the way of something like that. If the same thing like, say Andy got a part in a movie or something and he was going to have to be gone for a month, if he came to me and said "I’d really like to do this movie" I’m not gonna say "no you can’t", as long as they come back I think people should be allowed to do their side things. It’s healthier and it makes people feel happier about working here…

CONAN: We did once. No, it was Al Kooper, Jimmy played with him, but it was Al Kooper playing one of his songs off of his album. But yeah I think we could have the ReKooperators on. We could do that.

CONAN: That was reeeeeally great. That was one of the happiest times here at the show. The minute it was over I got really depressed.

CONAN: Yeah! Because I felt like "Oh boy what do we do now?" But I really was happy with how it came out. I really loved doing the show in the Saturday Night Live studio. That was so much fun. I just felt really great about it. I was happy when the show came out, couldn’t believe the fan response. It was really nice, I was thrilled.

CONAN: Oh it was fun. At the end I had to sing the Sesame Street Song with the puppets – that was the hard part. Coz you just keep thinking "what am I doing? What’s happened to me?" When you walk onto that set, it’s oh my God, I grew up looking at this street and here I am, I’m on it. **This show is scheduled to air on May 11**

CONAN: Probably Oscar The Grouch, because he’s so mean and I was always intrigued that they had the guts to put a really mean puppet on a kids show. He used to scare me when I was a kid.

CONAN: Oh I love Canada! Most of my favorite comedy comes from Canada. SCTV was a show that was on in the late ‘70’s early ‘80’s and it was the funniest, when I was growing up and coming of age that was my favorite TV show. And the Kids In The Hall. So many hysterical people come from Canada. One of the reasons I’ve always really liked Canada is that when my show first began people in the States… Americans, because they thought "who is this guy? – he’s no Letterman" they were really mean about the show and they weren’t very nice about it, but Canadians, from the very beginning, were very nice about the show. They appreciated the odd comedy and they were actually paying attention to the comedy that we were doing and they weren’t judging it negatively. In the beginning, in the early months of the show, you’d sometimes see really enthusiastic people in the crowd and invariably they were from Toronto. I’ve always really appreciated Canada, in a lotta ways they’re ahead of us in comedy. We’re playing catchup.

CONAN: Um.. I think just thinking of a new name for "The Year 2000". That’s what I’m going to do that night. Stay up really late with a couple of writers and we’ll think of another name for it.

CONAN: Yeah well I got a little misty eyed when I saw "Life Is Beautiful" the Roberto Benigni movie. Oh "Muriel’s Wedding" when the mother commits suicide in "Muriel’s Wedding" that really bothered me. I got really upset when that happened.

CONAN: I have feetie pyjamas, you know the pyjamas with the little feet on them that children wear? I have a pair of those, it has all the "Star Wars" characters on it. They’re very comfortable.

CONAN: [laughs] No I didn’t because my Dad, coz he works with germs and everything, so he was strict about us not playing. But also it smelled bad at his lab. Labs smell bad they just smell like chemicals and I just hated being in there.

CONAN: I hope so it’s just very expensive and the network tends to give a lot of the money to The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. I think we’re going to get to travel sometime this year though. I bet you in ’99 we get to go somewhere. Whether it’s somewhere really fun or somewhere really cheap I don’t know, but we’ll get to travel.

CONAN: As long as we took it on the road it could be fun. I used to say we should take the show someplace really odd, we should take it to Greenland or something that no one else would do, but the network probably wouldn’t give us the money to do that. Maybe we’ll get to do a week in Los Angeles or something like that, or a week in some other American city. I’d like to do a week in Cuba. And in the end film me and Andy being arrested by U.S. Customs people. But I don’t know if that’ll happen.

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LATE NIGHT POLL

THIS WEEK’S POLL QUESTION: What do you think of the reconstituted Max Weinberg 7? Are they missing Max? How do you rate Jimmy Vivino and James Wormworth?

Send your response before Friday to: LateNightPoll@hotmail.com

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OUR LAST POLL QUESTION: : Would you like to see Jimmy Vivino, and the rest of the band, take on the same role as Max did in comedy bits?

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Sure they should take part in the bits. it would be a little rude to not include them. - Cbosco3388

NO WAY!!!! He can temporarily replace Max on the show, but if he starts taking over for him then it will either suck or people will like him more. Both are bad, just let him drum. - Doster

Well max is Always naked in skits and I think that’s because he was part of a big rowdy band. and the sub drummer will simply have to be the butt of the jokes thats all there is too it. there should be an initiation beating and maybe a couple of creative max-esque skits. - Keegan

Defiantly not! No one could ever be as good as Max in the sketches, it just wouldn't be the same. They just wouldn't have the same quality that he had. - Sarah Jane Bodell

Yeah, I say the boys in the MW7 should be a part of the skits. I believe they can pull off those raunchy PSA's! - Claudia

I say they do the sketches with Jimmy, and say if max comes back to New York sometime during the tour, have max do a psa, and have jimmy walk in on him and have them fight over who's going to do the sketches.... - Terrinhay

Sure, I'd be curious to see the MW7 lads end up in a couple skits or such, but not take on Max's role. It wouldn't be the same I say! It just wouldn't be as sacred...- Pardon me while I wipe the single tear from my eye. - FISH

I don't think that MW7 should try and take the role of Mighty Max. They can never do anything as wild as a Max on Max video. Just coz Max is on a little break with The Boss doesn't mean we should be so quick to replace him! Although we will miss him for his PSAs, disgusting revealing secrets, happy-go-lucky way of playing the drums, funny replies, weird sex tapes and such, we musn't be gloomy. He'll be back in six months!!! Although that's really long...half a year...GEEZ!! Oh, sorry kinda got carried away there, but I'm tryin' to make you feel better. %:-)Miss_Krunk

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UPCOMING GUESTS – March 22 – April 2 1999

Monday March 22 (First aired on 1/9/98):
Minnie Driver,
Richard Belzer,
B.B. King

Tuesday March 23:
Jennifer Grey,
Dru Hill

Wednesday March 24:
Judge Mills Lane,
Michael Moschen

Thursday March 25:
Ben Savage,
Louie Anderson

Friday March 26:
Norm MacDonald,
Placebo

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Monday March 29 (First aired on 12/10/98):
Tom Hanks,
Roger Daltrey

Tuesday March 30:
The Neville Brothers

Wednesday March 31:
Dweezil and Ahmet Zappa

Thursday April 1:
Jackie Chan

Friday April 2:
Josh Charles,
Collective Soul

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UPCOMING MUSO GUESTS:
Susan Tedeschi (April 07)
The Latin Playboys (April 15)
Madness (May 04)

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FYI

"NEE-HA!" #57 was edited by Linzi Gallacher with thanks to Conan O’Brien, Marc, and Robin Banks.

"NEE-HA!" is on the web at:

http://www.angelfire.com/ny/lacob/conan.html

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"A teacher at the University of Ohio says the school is violating his constitutional rights because they wont let him wear a thong at the campus swimming pool. Apparently he’s talking about Article II, which guarantees Americans the right to bear ass." – CONOLOGUE JOKE

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