Tonight, we're gonna have a good one.

No, that's the wrong sketch.

That's another mug based sketch I was involved in.

It's a glue this mug guys, I like mugs.

Hey Conan here with Andy, another edition of Behind the nonsense where we look at uh some of the sketches that seemed to come to mind after all these years.

This next sketch we're gonna talk about was written by our own dan Cronin.

Good to see you sir, good to see you cones.

And also by andre du bouchet, that's right, you two wrote this sketch?

I haven't seen it yet, I'm just remembering, this is an example of a sketch that the beauty is how far it goes.

I think that's probably fair to say like there's not long enough, perfect length, way too long, way, way too long, and then there's just going for it in a way that starts to redeem itself and become kind of magical.

This is the type of sketch at rehearsal where Andy who can sometimes very quickly just go nah, and that kills it.

This is one of those sketches.

This, this is one of those sketches where I gotta do my job.

Yeah, but this is one of those sketches where Andy goes to you, he looks to you and he goes, we got to do it.

Yeah.

And so quick note this uh features the performing talents of one of the greats of all time brian stack, brian stack was just a mainstay on the old late night show.

He was with us for a long time with the tonight show?

Not a long time at the tonight show.

He's with us tonight show and then he was with us a long time at TBS and then he and his family moved back to new york and he's working with Stephen Colbert where he's quite happy, brilliant writer.

But I just wanted to get that shoutout to brian stack who has always did such amazing work with us.

Let's take a look at the sketch and then we'll discuss, I notice that the Eisenhower mug that's been on my desk for 22 years just got broken somehow.

And so I'd like to get it fixed.

Can someone glue this can just take a second, can someone glue this mug handle?

Oh yeah, sure thing Mr O'Brien?

Okay, alright, here we go.

It's uh larry larry larry, That's right.

Larry, yeah.

Okay, do you mind doing that for me?

All right, thanks a lot.

I just appreciate it.

Thank you very much.

Larry.

Larry.

Larry larry larry.

Okay, I didn't really Okay, let's get to business.

There's this viral video going around that everyone's been talking.

Mm hmm.

Okay, well anyway, this viral videos going around that I wanted to show you guys because it's really larry larry, can you come out here?

Oh yeah, Mr O'brien.

Okay, what are you doing back there?

Well, I'm just gluing your mug back together, like Yes.

Well, that's that's cool.

But you're making a lot of noise so it's very noisy.

Sorry, I can make less noise if you want it less glued.

No.

Okay, just do what you gotta do.

But could you hurry it up if you can.

You got it mr O'brien.

And trust me, I know what I'm doing.

That's why they hired me.

Okay.

I glue mug handles.

Ok.

Seems unnecessary.

Okay.

Here's what?

Yeah, there's this viral video.

Thats what I want to talk about.

Here's your mug mr O'brien include just like you wanted.

Yeah.

Forget the mug.

What happened to Larry?

Larry's dead.

Oh my God, we told him to take his time.

That safety comes first.

But then Larry's exact words were screw safety.

Conan needs this mug.

Asap.

He was my son's godfather.

Okay, wait a minute.

How long did this guy work here?

Today was his first day.

Okay, what is it?

What is?

What is all this mr Richter.

We just want to thank you to you and your family for all the beautiful flowers and of course, the edible arrangements.

Well, you know, it's the least I could do for Larry.

He's one of the greatest mug blowers.

The industry has ever known without further ado, please welcome us Secretary of Education.

Helen Beaumont.

Mm hmm.

Thank you.

In addition to gluing Hollywood mugs for over 30 years.

Lawrence Jorgensen was a tireless advocate for musical education through his program.

Toots for tots.

Larry donated woodwind instruments to over 400,000 students across the United States today we welcome several Tooting Tots representing the Burbank school district playing an original composition entitled greatest mug guy ever.

Please note for most of these students, tonight is their first time picking up a musical instrument and it's all thanks to Larry, you know, I'm sorry those kids are kind of old to be called Tots and I think they should practice before you let them on television and you're right, this has gone on a little too long Mr O'brien, Please enjoy this brief tribute video, handsome Georgian soon.

What are the things going on?

That guy just died?

How did you have time to make that thing?

We're always thinking ahead mr Alright, okay, we're going to take a break.

I'm gonna figure out just what the hell just happened when we come back, keith Urban's here, there is so much to talk about, keith Urban, that's the funniest part, The funniest part.

Urban, well the funniest part is keith Urban had to sit through that, I have to say, I have to say that the purpose or almost the mission statement of the show from the very beginning was imagine people at home seeing this, this went into people's homes and they're watching it and my mug breaks and someone goes to help it and then this whole thing keeps unfolding until he's a Norse God in Iraq, I didn't know somewhere, I might have it.

There's footage of you at rehearsal when you come right out of it and you're grabbing your eyes and you're just you're trying to say something and kona goes what goes on So fucking log.

Oh my God, that's hilarious.

And the fact that that was beamed into people's homes and it was supported by these big companies with all this money.

I mean General Motors used to have the same feeling back at NBC which is we would take all this money that was generated by shows that were really popular like Friends and and right down the middle, you know.

Yeah.

And we would take all the money that was generated by that stuff and they would give us some of it and we would take it and go thanks a lot and then beam this stuff that nobody asked for.

Well that's what I mean.

So many of us watch started watching you because of that.

Because there there there were so many things that started off with mundane little things.

A person coming through and you don't know what's going to happen.

I used to always call it.

This is a schedule.

I have to be Mr Mooney because you do need in comedy, The Oliver hardy or Mr Mooney's the cranky banker in Lucille ball's I think second or third tv show and he was always like Lucille.

What are you doing Lucille?

And so I would go from a silly person to what it's called for guys?

What's Yeah, do we have to Shouldn't those Children?

They're not really, shouldn't they practice their Lucille, but I always thought it would be good to have a montage of you over the years.

Just going, who the hell are you?

Yeah, because so many of our sketches are, I would say 60% of our non topical, silly, pure, silly late at night sketches are me conducting business saying, well anyway, we've got a great, oh, excuse me, who are you?

My name's Mr please, I'm trying to do a show and then they would make an outrageous request.

Like, all I want to do is build my birdhouse, can you help me?

And I'd say, well, we've got mary Tyler moore coming up, but Okay, or keith Urban Urban.

Yeah, I will say one thing about Andre du bouchet who have written a lot of stuff with, he doesn't love to collaborate, that's not his thing.

He likes to write his own ship.

But when you sit down with him and you write something with him, he's the most fun, generous.

It's never gonna be hedged in by fear from a writer's perspective, to do a sketch like that, that's the you're using the meat of the entire building.

You have scott chronic getting you those norse outfits?

That little barge?

That stack was put on was actually a miniature.

So they built a little like a pool and we pushed that and then green screened them onto that.

We have all the props for the crew guys.

There's just so much basically money that could have put a deserving child through college.

I went to every bullshit reality.

One of those kids playing those recorders, that's probably 800 bucks a kid, you know, like just right there like that's you know, okay.

I didn't know that I was sitting down with the accounting department.

Well, what I want to say about a bit like that is that it represents I think something personal too us as the people that we are the kind of people that we are who end up being on tv making this kind of thing, which is we're weird and this is weird and this is going out and part of that that going out is like knowing there's a lot of people who are gonna go, what the fucky is that?

Why am I watching this?

What is going on here?

Perhaps there's an ounce of like, you know, that's what kind of makes it fun for us and for the people that really like it.

But it's us calling out to those other weirdos who know that they're different, you know, because that's like that sketch is the definition of not for everyone, you know what it is Exactly us.

That sketch is a is a very strange club with very odd food and really loud music.

Yeah.

Wait, so you wrote a sketch called fix this?

No, I did not.

That's not true.

That was suddenly, yes.

There's where's Cohn's mug is missing.

Yes.

There's a fix this mug and there's a glue this mug.

No, Yes, no.

Yes.

Welcome to the Nuremberg trial.

You seem very you seem very defensive through this mug and fix this mugger.

The same sketch.

No further questions your honor.

You can't say that I'm not a defendant.