Conan Explains What Happened To His Body After “Hot Ones” | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

hey there and welcome to con O'Brien

needs a friend and uh got my two Chums

with me right here hi oh sorry let me

put my glasses on oh Matt you're here

too gosh no uh Matt gorley of course

here and Sonam of sessan yeah how are

you I'm doing great how are you I'm

doing great are you I am okay A lot of

people are asking me how do I feel cuz

you you ate a you ate a lot of spicy

food on hot ones yes I went on the show

hot ones uh and and um I did not I was

aware of the show obviously it's a very

successful show I hadn't really uh can't

say I was an expert on the show I went

in thinking uh well whatever happens I

just have to eat all the wings and and

just go for it and make a fool of myself

and so that's I kind of had that plan in

mind but didn't know much beyond that

the host very good excellent I like that

guy a lot he's very good interviewer is

he's a really good interviewer and um

and they do a really good job on that

show so Sean's asking me questions and I

was just determined to just keep

stuffing These Wings in no matter what

and then of course me being me I start

drinking the sauce yeah and rubbing it

around on my face and my chest and

everything and um the whole and I so

when I walk around now because a lot of

people have seen this people keep asking

me if I'm okay I wonder the same thing

well I also just watched Conan mus go

which is fantastic by the way and in

Thailand you get pretty floored albeit

comedy Yeah comedically by some sauce so

I thought you're going to go down when I

see hot ones yeah uh no well we played

that up for comedy and then uh and and

and you're allowed to in the in a sketch

world or comedy world you can fake

things a little bit I'm aware of yes is

that how Comedy Works coms really I

really when I look at you two I think an

explanation might be in

order so what's the deal do you not have

taste buds or something how how did you

do that I have never seen you eat spicy

food I don't eat spicy food that's I you

know there's people who like put Tabasco

or Tapo on stuff I've I've had so many

meals with you and I've never seen you

eat spicy food I have a theory is that

the only thing worse than that amount of

thermal spice would be you not somehow

getting the attention that eating all of

that would give you yes and all joking

aside and also I've had a bunch of

people pause it that uh I have the

redhaired Jean which is um there's a

you know when I go to the dentist and

they give me Nova cane they then go to

drill and it's like I haven't had Nova

cane and I'm always saying I I feel

everything right now and they would and

they always say oh yeah you're a redhead

I don't know if that's but I've had many

dentists say that to me and they keep

they give me a lot more and they say the

redhe heads have uh whatever higher pain

threshold or something I don't know what

it is meaning you feel less pain you

feel more pain I you don't well you

don't feel I don't know I don't know

exactly how it works and I'm just

freewheeling here I just know what I've

been told by people I don't think it's

it I think you have it Matt which is

I've always been if I think something

will be funny I'll do it and deal with

it later and did you yeah I did deal

with it later I I was dealt with later

how did it manifest itself um I be I

spot welded I an iron I spot welded I'm

thinking the same thing I spot welded I

went to I went I wanted it to be useful

and how much did you how much did

your butt

hurt here's what I decided to do and do

you have butt taste buds here's what I

decided to do I decided that I wanted

after I ingested all that I wanted it to

be useful so I found a construction site

where they were doing spot

welding and I went there and I said

gentlemen if you want I can weld these

GDs for you in about I'm guessing about

15 minutes you'll need to avert your

eyes cuz I'll be uh dropping my

pants and um they said uh okay and I

said I will need someone to stay behind

and light it and then uh we'll be all

set to go so there's a building in the

Mid Wilshire District that's going up

and I um I think I did about 65 rivets

in the

building and people were driving by

saying con

O'Brien's pants are around his ankles

and I think fire is shooting out of his

ass and he's welding a building and

here's the biggest

problem I had to join the

union but that way everybody wins

there's a building and trust me that

section of the building will never fall

that's that's the best and they've had

an engineer say whoever did this these

are heat temperatures we've never

seen uh so every time you're going to

weld something you just have to eat a

lot of hot wings yes I'm in the union

now and all I have to do is I've got all

the sauces from hot ones you are the

saddest X-Men ever

yeah meet the X-Men really he's on the

X-Men what do we do with him his name's

asswell what's this super and I just and

you know what it is I I have a Bandelier

and instead of instead of uh ammunition

it's just

sauces and they're like what are we

going to do how are we going to get out

of this thing the bad guys have sealed

Us in this led

lead safe hold on a

second just to pull your pants down you

have to pull your pants down does your

uniform have a compartment oh yeah the

uniform has and like a union suit the

little thing little flap you well it's

actually it's a very tiny flap that's

the exact circumference of an anus oh

it's a tiny Circle that unfl flaps and

then just a beam of the whitest light

you've ever scene comes out phosphorus

of phosphorus yeah and um and everyone

has to put on welding goggles oh God but

uh but no I did well if you've known

like there are many times where I've

done I would do sketches and they would

if I think it's funny to get thrown out

of a window yes even at my age I will

say no no no I want to do it Jeff Ross

always goes oh oh come on come on don't

get on I'm like no no I want to do it

you're the Tom Cruz of Comedy where he

does Action that way you will do comedy

that way but he does it

well he does cool things but I he does

cool things but I love to still because

I don't know I was in a a a lot of

brothers and I like to be tossed around

I like to smash through things I'm very

happy to do it and then if I hear if I

feel something give I'll just keep doing

it if if I think people are laughing and

we used to have years on the show it

would always come out in animal segments

because people would come and they would

bring I don't love I I you know I get

creeped out around snakes and I get

creeped out around insects and spiders

they would bring them and I would I

would say oh no no just put it on my

forehead and I would do it because

audiences really liked it and I knew oh

in a single this is

funny but in in real life if there's no

one there to laugh at it I would be

horrified and never do it so what was

the immediate the immediate response to

the being on

was um I I think my eyes were incredibly

runny and my mouth really hurt the thing

that was the most interesting is that I

my wedding ring some sauce cuz I was

rubbing my hands around in the sauce

yeah you rubbed it on your nipples and

um some got TR cuz I you washed your

hands right afterwards but some of the

sauce got underneath my wedding ring and

my wedding ring was I was uh David

hopping was driving me home and he was

like are you are you okay and I'm like

I'm fine but I noticed that my wedding

ring was burning Sy and it has well it

hasn't burned like that since they put

it on me at the

altar take that liiza

um uh but um it it it was burning and

burning and then I I took it off and I

saw like oh right there's acid oh my God

underneath it so uh but my thanks to um

the craziest thing about that is that

the hot ones generated all these nice

things that people were saying on line

and retrospective about oh I really like

the thing Conan did in 98 I like the

thing he did in 2004 which is all very

sweet but I had a bunch of friends who

saw my name all over Twitter and the

first assumption is he's dead so I had I

did have people say oh my God I thought

finally we can all talk now Liza

immediately got into another

relationship immediately immed she has a

guy on deck for sure oh yeah sorry can I

also say uh Jose was so funny as the

doctor I mean he really made me laugh a

lot this is the story of that Jose aroyo

is extremely talented uh comedy writer

and Jose's been a writer for me for

years and he's worked on travel shows

and the show and he's just he's

brilliant Jose is brilliant and I love

him to death Jose many times whenever we

did a sketch where someone had to be in

a white coat and be an authority figure

like a scientist or a doctor Jose would

uh play that and so I the day before or

maybe two days before hot ones I thought

I don't think anyone's done this but I

want to show up with my physician Dr

aroyo so I call Jose and I said Jose I'm

going to go on this show hot ones he's

like yeah I know hot ones and I said and

I love Jose because he's just knows

exactly I went and so I want to bring

you on he's like yeah yeah you're doctor

uhuh and I said and I said you know

we're not even doing a show you know

Jose's not working for me technically

right now I said uh do you have a lab

coat and he went uh yeah I have a

medical coat yeah and um he's not a

doctor oh my God and he's like and he's

got a stethoscope because he knows and

if anyone wants to see him one of the

reasons I really wanted him to do that

was because Jose uh um we shot a segment

when we did a travel show in Australia

and we're on Bondi Beach which is and

there's that iconic shot um there's that

famous lifeguard show that's from Bondi

Beach there and so I wanted to train to

be a lifeguard there so we got an iconic

shot of me running on the beach in slow

motion and then you widen out and I'm

running with my

dermatologist in slow motion who's

running alongside me and it was Jose in

full uh Dr a royal regalia so if you

want to see uh a very funny clip look up

I this must be out there somewhere the

funniest line he had on the hot ones was

so many you go like what did you study

and he goes in the '90s in the '90s yeah

where did you

yeah where'd you go to school in the

'90s no yeah in 1998 when he text your

pulse and he just chokes you he says

it's it's God no he is he is so funny

and eternal thanks uh to Jose aroyo and

also just another he is brilliant across

the board he's a great writer but he's

also a really funny cartoonist he's had

cartoons in the New Yorkers a couple I

think one one time I gave him an idea

for a cartoon and he drew it up and uh

submitted it under both our initials and

got in and I was like I was delighted

Jose is a uh a force so I just wanted to

quickly ask a lot of fans were wondering

uh two things first of all did you know

what you were getting yourself into and

and was there kind of any prep

beforehand and also no was there a

moment at which you were like this is a

bad idea while you were doing it no I I

didn't I just I don't know I got through

a bunch of the Wings and I thought I can

I can do this and also even if I can't

do it I'm going to do it does that make

sense like yeah you're in the zone

you're because because early on I'm I'm

I'm taunting sea oh baby think you know

and so once you do that there's only one

way you can go you can't stop after the

fourth wing and then start talking about

you I'm really excited about my new

project did I have to smash everything

probably not did I have to rant and have

milk come out my mouth not sure yeah but

those are things that you do so that

your children never look you in the eye

again