Carol Leifer
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Who is Carol Leifer and what is her connection to Conan O'Brien?
Hi, my name is Carol Leifer. And I feel fresh about being Conan O'Brien's friend. Fresh? It's new, it's fresh.
It's new, it's fresh.
Yes.
Fall is here, hear the yell Back to school, ring the bell Brand new shoes, walkin' loose Climb the fence, books and pens I can tell that we are gonna be friends I can tell that we are gonna be friends.
How does Conan describe his current solo life and eating habits?
Hey there, welcome to Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend. And joined by two of my friends, my good friends, contractually. Sonam of Session and Matt Gourley. No, it's in the contracts. True. And I'm going through a little bit of an unusual moment right now, which is... My wife is out of town, and my kids are away. They're in school. I am living alone in the house with my two dogs and my daughter's cat, or our two dogs and my daughter's cat. And it's just becoming clear to me that I don't know very basic things, like how to feed myself. And I don't cook. Yeah. And, you know, you can't use like a delivery app. Well, you know what? In the past, I used to like call my son and say, can you get me a hamburger? And he would do it.
I am using a delivery app, but I won't mention which one it is unless they give us some money.
Yeah.
But anyway.
I know which one because I get the email confirmation. You get the email confirmation. I do.
Do you know what he's eating?
So I try not to check. I want to give you some privacy. But then I do anyway. What do you mean? That's so weird that you know what I'm eating. I know.
But have you noticed that lately, so I'm at home alone. Robbers, I'm at home alone.
Was Liza protecting you? She was.
Liza's a badass ninja. But I'm realizing, like, Liza is so, I mean, amazing in a lot of ways. But when you, I don't even notice it, but I come in the door and she just, she's cooking. There's food. Or if we are ordering, she's ordered it. You know what I mean?
Yeah.
And I've become I've reverted back to when I was a comedy writer in the 1980s and I was just on my own and I would be coming. I just ate fast food. This is before delivery. Sometimes I wouldn't eat for a long time because I mean, I'm I'm stupid. I'm to it. I'm a 19-year-old boy in a lot of ways. Oh, no. Yeah, I am. And so my wife is away for the time being, and I'm stunned that I'll, and I'm not joking, I, last night, I was just hanging around the house. I had fed the, I can feed the dogs because they have dogs. Okay, that's good. That's good. So I fed the dogs, took care of the cat. No, the cat can fend for itself. The cat has its own app. Um, no, I, you know, I took care of the cat, the cat, uh, everything's fine with them. I can take care of them. And then I opened the refrigerator and because of the fires, all of we're starting fresh with all our food. Like, you know, we, we weren't in our house for a long time and a lot of the food had to be thrown out.
So there's very little in the refrigerator and I opened the refrigerator and there's like two of like chocolate milk, energy drinks.
Uh,
And I just had one of those and then tried to pretend that was dinner. And that was at like four o'clock in the afternoon. And I was like, well, that should do it. And then a couple hours later, I'm like, huh, I don't think that does it. And then I took some almond butter and I put it on a piece of bread. And I thought, I think jelly goes with this, doesn't it? This is stuff five-year-olds know. And then I had that, but it wasn't even a sandwich. I just rolled one piece of bread into a taco and ate that standing up. I mean, it's just, I'm over 60 years old. I've had some accomplishments in my life. And then I went back and then I'm going through the app. Like I do know, I'm looking at the app and there's just so many, so many choices. I don't know what to do.
And then I start to think, well, there's one more of those energy drinks.
The one I had before. I get it.
And I had that again. So I had two energy drinks.
Can you cook anything?
No.
Really? There's nothing? No, you know what I can do?
I can do breakfast.
Okay, so when you wake up, you don't do breakfast?
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
Who is Carol Leifer and what is her connection to Conan O'Brien?
0:02–0:37
2
How does Conan describe his current solo life and eating habits?
0:37–10:03
3
What is Carol Leifer's background in stand-up comedy during the 1970s?
10:03–23:52
4
How did Carol Leifer get her start in television writing, including SNL?
23:52–29:25
5
What was Carol Leifer's experience working on Seinfeld and writing the Marble Rye episode?
29:25–34:53
6
What insights does Carol share about casting and production on Seinfeld?
34:53–46:18
7
How did Carol Leifer get the opportunity to open for Frank Sinatra?
46:18–1:01:13