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  • you just released an album.

  • I'm a big fan of your work.

  • I love I love your I've listened actually too many of your hilarious monologues.

  • I've listened to them.

  • I've downloaded them and listened to them.

  • You've got a new album out.

  • It's called Four More Sweaters.

  • Monsters.

  • Take your questions.

  • Yes, I mean, what is the premise of this comedy album?

  • Well, I took a four of the characters that I dio and I did them on stage at the UCB Theater, and each have, like, a six or seven minute monologue.

  • And then I turned on the house lights and throw open the floor to questions as the character as a character.

  • Yeah, improvised the answers.

  • Now, which characters you doing on the album?

  • Are you doing a chip Gardner Chip Gardner is one.

  • Yes, Chip Gardner is like he's an old game show host from the eighties or so, whose face has been terribly disfigured in a botched suicide attempt.

  • And he's running for he's running for honorary mayor of Hollywood, a position which has been left vacant for nine years already.

  • And he's, uh, he's also in about Satan ists, and so one of his promises, if you vote for him is to bring Satan's kingdom to earth.

  • He really believes that Satan will rise from a lake of fire in rain, chaos and destruction upon the world.

  • And I'll be ruling at his side when that happens.

  • Okay, he says it all with this nice sort of announcer's voice.

  • He and and he wants to be the mayor of Hollywood.

  • Yes, the honorary mayor of Hollywood Position, appointed by the Chamber of Commerce.

  • Just write him a letter and let them know Chip gardeners, your man for honorary mayor of Hollywood, this Chip Gardner have any real talent?

  • Did your hearing it right here?

  • He's got pretty good enunciation, and, uh, that's about that's about it for talents.

  • Eso He's one of the characters.

  • Another character of yours is, uh, Don de Mello tell us about Don D'Mello.

  • Well, Don de Mello is a theatrical director.

  • He is the director of the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular, and he spends a lot of time working on the rockets.

  • That's the part of the show that young is very intimately involved with the rockets.

  • If you become if you get him hooked on heroin they'll do anything you tell them to dio.

  • You make sure they're all the exact same heights with the same smile, and they're kicking the legs up in a perfect time.

  • So he's an old creep who wants to work intimately with the rock cats.

  • Yes, that part of the show is just for Daddy.

  • Where did that character come from?

  • I saw the show that Radio City, you know, it's all for kids.

  • It's got Santa Claus.

  • It's fully a Children show.

  • And then all of a sudden, in the middle of it, outcomes this throwback to the Ziegfeld Follies leggy can can dancers And it just seems I liken odd combo.

  • I just thought, Yeah, that's I think that's in there for Daddy on.

  • There's gotta be a guy behind the scenes going faster, higher, more smiles s and the Rockets are saying, Why are we in this?

  • This is for like four and five year olds.

  • You'll do it.

  • You told Yeah, Uh, no more candy.

  • One of your very popular characters that you featured on our show several times is Dalton Wilcox, who's a cowboy.

  • He's a cowboy, but there's a twist, as there always is.

  • with your characters.

  • I'll put on my my cowboy hat to be don't Wilcox.

  • And I also feel like this character needs a mustache.

  • Oh, dear.

  • But I don't have, uh I don't have glue for it.

  • So if you don't mind, I'm just gonna hold this mustache in place.

  • We're all doing what we can during covitz, so it's a difficult time.

  • But, you know, a lot of cowboys will do this.

  • A lot of cowboys will just hold no cowboys walk around holding their mustache.

  • No, you're wrong about that code, and a lot of cowboys have to hold.

  • Their mustache is in place out there on the plains where the winds are whipping up.

  • It's hard to keep a mustache down.

  • Conan, the facts.

  • Are you saying, Mr Wilcox, that Sam Elliott, the famous with his famous mustache, has to be holding it on all the time?

  • Absolutely.

  • They say 3 to 1 take and he puts his fingers away.

  • But they called fingers back up there.

  • He's got a hold that mustache on.

  • It won't stay there, but for a few minutes.

  • Uh huh.

  • Yeah, well, I am adult Wilcox.

  • I am the poet laureate of the West.

  • And, uh, in addition, he's like, I'm a cowboy poet.

  • You understand?

  • A real cowboy.

  • Understand?

  • Riel?

  • American West.

  • Not that bullshit West you're living in out there in California.

  • I'm talking about the real West.

  • Really West Ridge, the rial American West.

  • And in addition to being our nation's foremost collector and chronicler of the wit, the wisdom of the West, I am also very, unfortunately, plagued by vampires.

  • Okay, this is the part I wanted to get to Dalton Wilcox.

  • Very great.

  • A poet of the High Plains.

  • Ah, wonderful cowboy character.

  • But he's obsessed with vampires, and he thinks that vampires air after him all the time.

  • Well, I'd say they're obsessed with May Cone and I can't go anywhere but the vampire doesn't come up and try and kill Mitt.

  • I'll give you an example.

  • Uh, just just the other day, I parked my truck in a parking meter and I put a couple of nickels in there and I went about my business.

  • And then when I came back, some fellow was putting the ticket on the windshield.

  • That happens, marks right up to that son of a gun.

  • And I says, Hey, are you a damn vampire?

  • And he basically said that He waas I knew it.

  • I knew the second I saw.

  • Did he say he was a vampire?

  • Well, he said, Vampire, what are you talking about?

  • And that's what they all say, Conan.

  • Chapter and verse.

  • That's what that's what a vampire always says when you ask him point blank.

  • If he's a vampire, he says, Oh, that's what a traffic cop says.

  • Who's giving tickets?

  • It was writing a ticket, if you ask him.

  • Are you a vampire?

  • He says, No, I'm not a vampire.

  • I've never run into a traffic cop Corn, and I'll just run into lots of vampires out there.

  • Tickets on my windshield.

  • Anyway, I got struck him in the heart with a stake of Wood Conan.

  • Okay, No, but he didn't have time to read the ticket.

  • Do I have to pay that ticket?

  • Do you know if I have to pay the ticket?

  • If I killed the man who wrote it?

  • Yes, you dio you have to still pay the ticket.

  • That that that ain't right.

  • Yeah.

  • Okay, let's move on.

  • I have a question for Andy daily.

  • If you still around Uh oh.

  • In there.

  • Andy.

  • I'm here.

  • Andy.

  • Um, I'm just curious grills.

  • When you look at this kid, you have no idea that all that sicknesses inside him.

  • Oh, did you know that he looks such like such a sweet kid and a tie aside, There's no sign of evil or problems.

  • I don't know.

  • I was going for Bono, Joshua Tree at the time.

  • And to this day, I still don't know how I went wrong.

you just released an album.

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