Name: Jeff Goldblum's Undercover Childhood Christmases - "Late Night With Conan O'Brien"
Uploaded: 2020-12-23T19:00:04.000Z
Duration: 8 min 8 s
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I tell you what I have always wanted My whole life I've wanted toe have the guest come out.

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We almost did it there and we start dancing.

Have you ever been to a four star restaurant?

Especially in this enchanted time of year.

I mean, on TV, they may not look like much, but in person you can tell that they're spun gold, spun gold, spectacular, gorgeous.

Now talk about your personal life, your ethnicity or your life, your religious beliefs.

You were raised in a Jewish family, so I'm guessing.

My people, Uh But so I'm guessing no Christmas tree for you as a child.

My dad was a doctor and we served the non Jewish neighborhood.

We grew up in Pittsburgh, mostly Hungarian and Polish and Slovak steelworkers.

I was the only Jewish fellow in my school.

I think that my sister and in our neighborhood, in fact, what we had at Christmas, You know, we kind of did both.

We were, you know, I went to Hebrew school, and it was that, in fact, unorthodox the place where I went.

But then at home, we were kind of split, you know, at home.

You were secretive about celebrating Christmas.

You went down to the What did you have in the basement?

You must have shown anybody that we bring.

We didn't have any lights, like everybody else Did you know?

Hey, we're celebrating Christmas or anything in the window of the living room.

Nor did we have a menorah in the window of the living room.

But in the basement, we had the most elaborate Christmas display and deck and alter and decoration that I've seen in any of my friends houses.

I remember we went through a whole ritual getting the tree and decorating it very elaborately and had lots of presents from Santa Claus.

Supposedly you even you Even I bought that.

Those those Lionel trains that were great.

I was all this happening in the basement.

This is the strangest thing I've ever heard.

It was a little bit undercover, but yes, I believe in Santa Claus.

I was just remembering recently that they you know, I believed in it.

And I was kind of enchanted by it, because I remember the day I vaguely remember the day when we were in the breakfast room.

We were talking about my sister, my younger sister, two years younger, with my two older brothers and my mom G.

Do you think this is the year to break it to her?

Hey said, Well, you know that there's no scent And I said, Wow, I think I was crushed in a way.

And then I said, But really, they said, Ah ha ha Jeff doesn't know I said G then does that mean okay?

And so you just got the presence and you wrap the presents and stuff.

And I said, Does that mean the Easter Bunny?

And she nobody believes in the tooth fairy.

I mean, people by Santa and they in the rabbits a little stressed, like, there's a 9 ft rabbit that's gonna break into our house on throw eggs around.

But I don't even even when I was like three, I was like, There's no being tooth fairy la la la You know, I didn't I didn't know I was a boy of special imagination.

I suppose I needed my I needed my myth and I was telling something.

I was dreaming in a half sleep last night because I knew I was gonna talk to you.

I thought, you know, it's true that I may not have the Santa Claus myth, but if somebody would have told somebody before television or airplanes had been invented that I was gonna fly over the clouds once or twice a year and see a tall redheaded man in New York City and we would have a conversation full of laughs and beverages and there'd be a machine to send it at the same time all over the country and people, if you could listen, would be laughing all over the country.

And then you fly back over the clouds, right?

That's equally as powerful and delightful.

I really believe that may sound a little deluded there, but I do think that I should be the new basis for the Christian religion.

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