Name: Conan Conducts A Staff Review With Writer Todd Levin | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend
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Hey, welcome to a Thursday episode of Conan o' Brien needs a friend.

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Usually these are fan episodes, but we've been mixing it up a little bit recently.

And I have my a elite writing staff downstairs in the building working hard on concepts, riddles, quizzes, recipes for the Oscars.

I work with the best writers in the world and one of them, I want to come up and hang with them.

We did this with Brian Kiely a couple days ago and now we're going to do it with Mr.

About as sharp a writer as you will find you really are.

You're crazily talented and I'm so glad that you're helping me with the Oscars.

Did you say it was 2009 was when you came on board 2009, just as you were wrapping up Late Night in New York?

I was wrapping up Late Night and I was headed to the, to take over the Tonight show for a 30 year run.

And you said, you know, tonight's show hosts last forever.

And you started spending money like crazy.

Most of it was spent before I even got to California.

He showed up and the first day he got, he said, I'm buying a Bentley.

And he got a license plate that said tonight show for life.

It was way too many characters for a license plate.

It was actually tonight's show for Life 3 because two other people had gotten the same bag.

So you were with me for the end of late night Tonight show, then the TBS thing and now Oscars and.

So you will be my writer for life, whether you want to be or not.

So, and just let's get into this a little bit because there are different types of writers.

There are the kinds that chatter constantly.

Doing bitch in the room and dancing around like a chimp.

That I call you, you're like a ninja, an assassin.

You're quiet, you're taking things in, and

then you'll say something that's really hilarious and you'll write something that's really great.

But there's not a lot of, you know, babbling and hey, look at me.

It's not demonstrative because I believe in my work.

And I'm also a bad musician, but I'm a bad magician trying to distract you.

Cause I'm afraid someone will really look and see.

But I think it's also just because I've never been uncomfortable with that part of, like, performing stuff.

Even when I was doing standup, I was the guy who just hugged the microphone.

Well, tell me about your journey a little bit because this happens so often.

I work with these really talented people and I get to know them.

And I think, hey, I don't really know your origin story, but when did you know?

I mean, I think I always knew it as a kid, but I didn't know.

I think you probably hear this a lot and I think a lot of people who are in comedy say this, but

You know, I didn't grow up in that kind of environment.

You know, my parents were both state workers in Albany, New York, and I.

And my dad was really instrumental in that because my dad had.

My parents had a terrible record collection.

They had like a couple John Denver's, a couple Barbra Streisands.

But then my dad also had David saying, what's wrong with that?

But my dad had Bob Newhart records as well, so he was my introduction to comedy.

So I would listen to his records all the time.

But those were also a huge influence on me.

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