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What was 11-year-old John Mulaney's favorite Conan bit?

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00:00Conan, I'm going to talk at you for one second.

00:03OK.

00:04Congratulations on the Mark Twain prize.

00:06Oh, thank you so much.

00:07I was very honored to be a part of that night.

00:13You came, and I mean, everyone was hilarious.

00:16The funniest thing is they led with you,

00:19and you completely destroyed.

00:20And I saw everyone, every other comic there,

00:24just basically shit their pants.

00:26I did go first, and it was an amazing crowd.

00:28You know, Washington, D.C. is just a fun place.

00:31And so.

00:32Especially now, yeah.

00:32Especially now.

00:33No, but it was such a nice night.

00:35And I did the show, and then I came back here to my weird show,

00:39which I will tell you is enormously indebted to yours.

00:41Now, that may embarrass you.

00:44But I was 11 when Late Night with Conan O'Brien came out.

00:49And it was a huge moment for me.

00:52And there was one runner you did where you guys were trying

00:56to locate the actor who played Grady on Sanford and Son.

01:00Sanford and Son, yeah.

01:01And the actor's name was Whitman Mayo,

01:03and you were trying to locate him for a week's worth of shows.

01:05And on that Friday, you located Grady,

01:07and you brought him out.

01:08And I was sleeping over at a friend's house.

01:10I was 11.

01:11And I realized my friend wasn't going to watch Conan.

01:14So I raced home in the night to my house

01:17to watch a 70-year-old character actor come out on your stage

01:21while Whoops, There It Is played.

01:22Yes, yeah.

01:23And that moment is on YouTube,

01:25and I'm proud to say it has over 900 views.

01:27Oh!

01:35It's really sweet to think about that

01:36because this is all pre-internet.

01:38This is the 90s.

01:40And so we were doing these weird things

01:42and mostly just getting scorn from the network,

01:46which didn't like it.

01:47We had no visible proof that anyone was watching.

01:50And if anyone had told us

01:51there's an 11-year-old John Mulaney

01:53that approves of what we're doing,

01:55I would have been so delighted.

01:56But we didn't know.

01:57We had no idea.

01:58A couple weeks before your show premiered,

02:01I went for my 11th birthday

02:05to see Frank Sinatra, per my request,

02:08with my dad at the Aurora Riverboat and Casino.

02:12Frank was 77.

02:14I was 11.

02:15We were both double numbers.

02:17And if NBC had known that your key demo was boys

02:22who go to see Frank Sinatra,

02:23I don't think it would have helped.

02:24No, that would not have helped us.

02:26You're a weird little kid.

02:27Yeah.

02:28I picture an 11-year-old with a fedora watching television.

02:31I couldn't pull off fedoras, but I had a Newsy cap.

02:34Oh, there you go.

02:45There you go.

02:46Yeah.

02:47You're a weird little kid.

02:47I just ran the brush and I know what to do.

02:51I want a leaf and I could look for it.

02:52I'm a weird little kid.

02:53I just ran the brush and I can wash me off.

02:55You're a weird little kid.

02:56So I was like, yeah.

02:57Yeah.

02:58Okay.

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