Name: Conan's Full Q&A At The Oxford Union
Uploaded: 2020-03-23T06:20:24.000Z
Duration: 59 min 56 s
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Thank you so much for joining us here today and for accepting our invitation.

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Before I came to your fine school came to this wonderful place, Oxford.

I received a lovely invitation to come here to these hallowed halls and speak to all of you.

Then about two days later, I got the following email and I hope it's okay to share it with you right now.

It's from another college, a college known in Cambridge.

This is the email that went right to my people two days after accepted your kind invitation.

I'm also aware that Cone is currently scheduled to visit Oxford for a similar event.

It would be incredible if we can also feature in Conan's busy calendar.

The Cambridge Union is older than the Oxford Union by eight years.

Are of the opinion that students here in Cambridge are This is all word for word are more engaged, attentive, on more prone to asking insightful questions as compared to their Oxford peers and would love the chance to prove it.

I just want you to know I got that email and I just immediately thought, Who writes crap like this?

I thought you were very nice to invite me and you invited me first.

That's you know, that's that's I mean that.

I mean, I didn't say that just because I'm here and I want to suck up to you people.

Well, we never say that people were trying to get from Cambridge that we're better card.

You don't tell anybody you're the best way.

There's something actually wrong and secure about those Cambridge people.

They frighten me, and I will not go there unless I'm paid.

I have a microphone, but there's something about this hall in this institution that makes do you want to say I demand freedom and freedom way.

You could literally say anything in here, and it sounds more majestic than it really is.

I think Starbucks burns their coffee and I die saying it.

This isn't going to be a real conversation.

I'm gonna act like a jackass the entire time, and there's nothing you can do about it.

I had just said we were gonna free all of the peoples of the world and get rid of Starbucks coffee.

There's no there's no easy ramp from one to the other, but let's get into it.

You talk a lot about the journey of becoming a professional comedian.

One was it that you realized that that was what you wanted to do.

Well, when I was a, uh, man, when I was a kid, I loved making I come from a big Irish Catholic family.

Uh, you'd meet a new one occasion in the bathroom, but, uh, and I was packed in the middle and I used to make my brothers and sisters laugh And then I made other kids at school laugh, but I never thought it was a profession.

I grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts, right outside Boston.

Don't pretend, And and I thought, um, you can't be in show business.

He's Ah ah, microbiologist, infectious disease scientists.

And my mother is a brilliant woman and was a lawyer for a big law firm.

And I just thought my job was to buckle down and be serious.

So I was always fighting this nature and thinking, You can't do that for living.

So I worked hard and, uh, again, I just thought comedy was something you did for your friends.

And then my life changed when I went to what we consider an old university.

Uh, it's so hilarious that we're so proud of the fact that Harvard's like 16 38 and then you come here and it's they have McDonald's.

And now I live in Los Angeles, where sometimes people will come to look at your house.

You know, they'll come and fix because something's wrong with the basement and they'll say they're here to fix it in the Oh, man, you got one of these old houses when I They built this during Obama's first term, huh?

I went toe Harvard and I had worked really hard, and I was a serious student.

And the second I got there, a friend of mine said, I'm off to the lampoon on and I said, What's that?

And he said, It's the college humor magazine and I said, Well, I'll tag along and I got addicted.

I mean, it was very evocative of this place.

Many famous writers and cartoonists have come there.

Now, of course, a lot of the TV shows you watch or have seen have been written or produced.

It's really a wonderful, amazing place, and I'm not saying this because of your connection there, but it really did feel like my Hogwarts experience.

When I went there, it was it was ah, they I worked very hard.

I was 18 years old and I just said, Whatever this is, I'm throwing in my lot with these people.

And that would've been 1981 Ah, when I was accepted.

And since that day, I've been thinking and breathing comedy pretty much 24 7 since then.

Even if I don't make money doing this, I have to do this.

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