Conan O'Brien

Let's do it.

No one's, I don't know, that's a really funny idea, but I'm not going to laugh because, and that's, so SNL definitely much more competitive.

Might not be.

Yeah.

And that feeling of when you put a sketch in, if it's not working at read-through, you can see everybody flipping to see how many pages this is.

One of my favorite writers of all time, yeah.

Yes.

He worked with us back in the 90s, and I knew him through Andy Richter.

From Chicago, probably.

From Chicago.

For a while, Tommy didn't say anything and he was super quiet.

I just thought, well, I wonder if this guy's going to work out.

I don't know.

Then he revealed himself in the writer's room and on paper to be the funniest guy.

I gave him a shout out on Stern once because I was on Stern and Stern was kind of talking to me about, so you must just hire like Harvard Lampoon guys.

Yeah.

I said, one of the funniest guys I've ever, one of the funniest writers I've ever known, I don't think went to college.

And I was talking about Tommy and he said, who is that?

And I said, Tommy Blacha.

Um, so he, uh,