Chapter 1: What does Will Arnett think about being Conan O'Brien's friend?
Hi, my name is Will Arnett. And I feel just fine about being Conan O'Brien's friend.
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
Chapter 2: How does comedy serve as a healing tool for Will Arnett?
Hey there, and welcome to Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, joined by Matt Gourley. How are you, Matt? Good, thanks. And Sona Movsesian. And Sona, of course, famously my assistant for many years.
Yeah.
And then things started to change a bit. I had babies. You had babies. Yeah. You stepped back from that role, and you've risen to great fame on this podcast and in your own right. And you're an author now, a lecturer.
Mm-hmm.
You're a phenomenon.
I am a lecturer and an author.
Yeah. You're like Cher now, I think.
Oh, I wish.
Another Armenian star.
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Chapter 3: What challenges did Will face while developing his stand-up act?
And he's my day-to-day assistant.
Yeah.
He's gone right now. He's gone to the Midwest for a wedding, I believe. And you stepped back into my role today as my assistant. Yeah. So you texted me this morning, you know, asking me, we need to do these things today. Here's what's happening. And I thought, Sona's back. We're back in the New York groove.
You know, it's funny. We just had an interview and I had ordered you lunch before the interview. And in my head, I was like, I hope Conan's lunch is here. Is it here? Should someone go and take it and like maybe put it in the fridge? Like I started to just go back into assistant mode. Yes. It's weird. How easily does it come back? Yeah.
Chapter 4: How does Will Arnett reflect on his geographical placement?
Yeah. Is it like riding a bike or? Yeah, it's really it's really not hard. Although today I had to get on my phone for something and I was driving. So I had to you know, I was really nervous about doing whatever I needed to do on time. And I had to pull off the freeway and then park and like do whatever I needed to do. I got nervous.
We immediately got into the thing where you're my assistant and you have to take care of things. And I start riffing and being a fool. So this morning, you knew that I have this medical appointment later on just to go to an eye doctor, get my eyes checked. And because I'm just wondering, do I need a new glasses prescription or whatever? So I'm just going to go see this doctor.
He's going to give me those drops that dilate your eyes. And I know that. And so Sona this morning said, you can't drive. So I'll drive you the appointment. So she told me, don't take your car to work today because I'll be driving you. And then you'll get a whatever. You'll give me a lift home. So all of that's going to happen. So I need a way to get to work. And Sona said, I'll call you an Uber.
Let me know. And then I might even have it here.
It was intense.
This is what happens.
It's also I was like, I got it. I got to order him an Uber. I got to do it quick. I can't let him waiting forever.
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Chapter 5: What insights does Will share about his new movie 'Is This Thing On?'
Here we go. She says, let me know when you're ready and I'll order an Uber for you. And I was done with the meeting I had at the house. And I said, OK, you can order it now. And she says, OK, hold, please. And I immediately respond. Hurry! Exclamation point. What's happening? Exclamation mark, question mark. Hello? Question mark, question mark. I'm scared. Three exclamation points.
And Sona, that's like immediately, immediately. And she says, I'm doing it. I have to connect my corporate card. Don't poop yourself. And then she writes back, two minutes, double exclamation point. Let me know if you need more time and I'll tell the driver to wait.
Chapter 6: How does Will compare his past roles to his current work?
Your name is Sona, because she's ordering it for me. It's in her name. Yeah. And I write all caps, that's too long to wait. She writes back, you've changed. I write, ah! This is all happening instantly. She says, actually, no, you haven't. And I said, I just died from waiting. I'm a ghost. And then I sent an emoji of a ghost.
She writes, who's going to interview Rachel Sennett, who we're recording for today? Who's going to record today's guest? Not it, she says. And then I write her, hello, I am a policeman. I just found this cell phone next to a skeleton of someone waiting for an Uber.
Wow.
Sona immediately writes back, does he have any cash on him, police officer? We can split it. I write, deal.
Chapter 7: What role does friendship play in Will's life and career?
She says, thank you for your service. Yes.
How are you even ordering an Uber and texting all this at the same time? Like, how are you even doing your job? Your job is you just have to riff with Conan. It's riffing with Conan. It's doing it and then riffing with him. That's what I remember the job is.
Yeah. And Sona knows that the riff is more important than the Uber showing up. That's true. So she's immediately all in on the riff. And then she immediately goes into, oh, hello, officer. When I lay out that I'm a skeleton.
I prioritize.
It's prioritizing.
So the riff takes priority over him coming to work.
And the best thing that would happen if there was a screw up, this is where it gets tricky. If there was a screw up and the Uber didn't come, Oh, that's I don't care if I'm late.
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Chapter 8: How does Will Arnett view the impact of celebrity culture?
I don't care if there's, you know, major problems in our company because I'm late. I'm more interested in, oh, my God, this is great. The Uber didn't come. Yeah. Now I get to have that. Yeah. As you know, as new improv fun. Oh, yeah. And then we can I can make that work for two days. There can be two days riffs of me wandering the streets of L.A.
Two years. OK, there's no way. In two years, you'd be like, hey, remember when you didn't get that Uber for me? You would say it.
Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum. And you know what? When I have something like that on somebody, it's a tasty, oh, it's a sweet gummy treat. It's an everlasting gobstopper. It's an everlasting Willy Wonka gobstopper. It never stops giving. Yeah. Make a mistake around me and I'm delighted. Oh, he loves it. Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum.
He loves the mistakes more than you actually doing your job.
Of course.
He's hoping, he's rooting, you're rooting against me.
I root against you because it's the most delicious thing in the world. Must be a fulfilling job to have.
It sure is, girls.
Well, welcome back.
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