Name: Conan Went To Red Sox-Yankees Game w/ Jack Nicholson (ft. Matt Damon) | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend
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This is a very name droppy story, but it was that iconic.

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It's 2004, and the red Sox are playing the Yankees, and the Red Sox are way down.

And Lauren invited me to a Yankee game, and

he said, we're gonna pick up a friend on the way, and he didn't tell me who.

And I'm sitting in the front of an suv' cause he wanted me to make room for the friend.

And we pull up, and leaning against a street lamp is Jack Nicholson.

To this day, if I ran into Jack Nielsen, I can't be cool about it.

Jack Nielsen gets in the back, and he just like, jack, you're near Conan.

And I'm up in front in that awkward like.

There's a little slit of headrests, and I'm like, hiya, Jack.

what I remember is sitting with him and Lauren at this game, and

Lauren had told me beforehand, don't wear a Red Sox cap, because Lauren had these amazing seats.

And he pretty much put all this pressure on me.

And I got a hat that had, like, the Swiss fl.

I had to get a neutral cap because I thought, it's Lauren's seats.

If I'm wearing a Red Sox cap next to them, this is rude.

It was this very hard thing to do, so I just wore a neutral cap.

it's a game that the Red Sox lost just before they had this amazing comeback and ended up winning the World Series and breaking the curse.

And Jack Nicholson was taunting Pedro Martinez, and

he was shouting at him because it was getting a little later in the game.

When we got home and got out of the car, he got out, and

I got out, too, to just say, it was really nice hanging with you, Jack, tonight.

I guess his son was a big fan of the show.

I didn't think Jack knew nothing about what I was doing, but he went.

He was like, Son's crazy about you, Conan.

He said, I said, nice to meet you, James.

I, like got back in the car and I sat back with Lorne.

I didn't get in the front seat this time.

I'm like, I'm back here where Jack Nicholson's at.

I love to go back to the guy in the crappy used car that I bought for literally a couple hundred bucks at the airport from a rent a wreck and put on counter makeup and then think about the things I get to do now or the things I've been able to do or had the good fortune to do.

And I just love time traveling back and forth to visit that guy and go, isn't this crazy?

You who's a teenager and really into acting and said, this is what's gonna happen.

also to have kind of feel like you won the lottery, but your best friend won it too.

So for, like we've talked about that, Ben and I, you know, and

It didn't seem weird to us in the 1980s that we were 14 and 16 years old and 15 and 16 and going to New York by ourselves, you know, to audition for things like.

Yeah, until we had kids, I think, that were that age, and

we were like, can you fucking believe that we would just go, would you just let this kid go to San Francisco for the day by themselves?

You know, but it seemed totally normal to us.

You know, we didn't have families that were in the business, you know, Boston, there's nobody in the entertainment business up there.

I think your parents were not in the business.

My parent, my dad was a microbiologist and my mom's an estate lawyer.

And Zoom had kid actors in it, and it was made in Boston.

And at the end they'd say, made at the studio in Boston.

And I just couldn't believe someone was making something for television that was in Boston.

And so those Zoom kids were like the Beatles to me.

And then Robert Urich made Spencer for hire, which Took place in Boston.

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