Name: Conan Conducts A Staff Review With Writer Laurie Kilmartin | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend
Uploaded: 2026-03-19T16:28:29.000Z
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In the past, this slot has usually been a time when I would talk to fans around the world, but

I'm gonna talk to someone who's definitely not a fan of mine.

We've been doing this lately, and I'm really enjoying it.

Oscars are coming up soon as we tape this.

It's, I think it's about three weeks away, and we've been working very hard.

I'm working with an incredible team of writers, many of them I've worked with for a long time, and

I've been having them come upstairs and chat with me a little bit, and it's been really fun.

And that continues today with Laurie Kilmartin.

Laurie, you are an incredible stand up comedian, and

you've worked with me for a long time and always done an incredible job and worked with me on the Oscars last year.

And Laurie has a very special role, which is Laurie, because she's a great standup.

She's the one that has become my life coach when I go out into the world and try Oscar jokes out.

So Laurie's the one that says, we're gonna get you out there now, Conan.

And then you've been picking all these amazing spots.

Some of them I've been to before, some of them I haven't.

And it's really fun, but you are so dialed into these places.

you have great instincts about which ones work, which ones may need a tweak, which ones should probably go by their wayside.

But let's go back to the beginning, which is you come to my attention.

Well, I started on the TBS show, so I think that's.

I think I'd done a packet for the Tonight show and Late Night too.

Yeah, well, the Tonight show, there wasn't a lot of time there.

I don't know if you've gotten around to reading it.

Yeah, I was starting to open the envelope when that thing blew up.

And subsequently, when you first came to work for me, I had not seen your standup.

And then we toured together, and I got to see your standup every night, which is phenomenal.

I don't know, I look back, I'm like, oh, that bit was still.

But I'm glad you saw that is because you have that kind of mind.

You're never gonna say, oh, yeah, thanks.

And you have such a good eye and ear that you've been just a great help to me in terms of what stuff works.

How to tweak a joke when something isn't hitting the ear quite right.

And I'm just curious, when did you decide, okay, I'm gonna be a standup?

Because that's a leap that everyone comes to differently.

I dropped out of college and I had kind of a breakdown due to various things all colliding at once in my head, you know.

They were like low level Division one when I was there.

And then I had quit swimming and whatever.

So you go through this period of your life where things are rough.

I don't know, I went and saw some standup.

And I'm not the only one who's come to stand up this way where you see some great standup and you're like, oh, I could never do that.

And then you see someone who's not good and they're on the bill and you're like, wait a minute.

And so I started in San Francisco because I'm from the Bay Area, so that's where I come.