Fanhausen Revisited

**Conan O'Brien** (0:06)
Well, we have come up on a very nice anniversary. Hard to believe, but five years ago, this month, we did our very first fan episode. And it's been five years. And I really love these segments. And the very first one featured a fan of mine named Danhausen. Now, Danhausen is a wrestler, and he explained to me, when we did this very first fan episode, that he had loosely based his character, his wrestling character, on me if I was an interdimensional demon, which seems redundant to me. And Danhausen and I had a great conversation. We talked about comedy, performance, the love of entertaining people. And what struck me, and still I remember this to this day, Danhausen told me that he had been grinding away for the past eight years, driving 12 hours every weekend just to be able to get up in front of people and wrestle. And this is a guy who just applied an incredible work ethic to his passion. And I was so impressed with this fellow. Well now it's five years later. And I am thrilled to report that Danhausen has recently made his WWE debut to rave reviews. And this is proof again that if you can marry hard work to your passion, you can go places. So on behalf of myself and all of us here at Team Coco, massive congratulations and mad respect to Danhausen. And I'm so proud of you, happy for you. And I just should mention because your character is based on me, I'm getting 20%.

**Sona Movsesian** (1:43)
Oh, are you getting 20%?

**Conan O'Brien** (1:45)
Well, I will once I unleash my interdimensional demons, Rick Rosen from William Morris Endeavor and the blackest, blackest heart of all, Gavin Pallone.
I mean, when they're done with Danhausen, he's just going to be some flesh clinging to a battered vertebrae. Anyway, I'm just, I'm just stroking for him. So here, this is unusual for us. We're going to revisit my chat from five years ago with the one, the only Danhausen. Enjoy.

**Sona Movsesian** (2:22)
Conan O'Brien needs a fan. Want to talk to Conan? Visit teamcoco.com/callconan. Okay, let's get started.

**Conan O'Brien** (2:31)
Hey everybody, Conan O'Brien here. And we're going to try something a little different. In the short time that I've been doing, Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend. I've just been delighted. I'm having an absolute blast and it's working. I'm actually making some nice bonds and friendships with a lot of different people. But what occurred to me is all these people have one thing in common, they're celebrities. And I thought it might be nice to try making friends with average folk, people out there in the world, civilians, not celebrities. Just talk to the people who make this great country we call the United States of America, or even people from other countries. It doesn't matter. Let's just talk to some regular folk and then hope, hope desperately that they become celebrities.

**Danhausen** (3:23)
Oh my God.

**Conan O'Brien** (3:24)
That's the concept. What do you guys think?

**Sona Movsesian** (3:26)
Horrible.

**Conan O'Brien** (3:27)
Yeah, I'm all in. Why is that horrible? It's very important to me that eventually they become celebrities.

**Matt Gourley** (3:33)
So you don't have time for anybody that would live their whole life as a regular Joe.

**Sona Movsesian** (3:38)
As a folk.

**Conan O'Brien** (3:40)
Who would do that? What kind of monster would choose that life? No, seriously, I really do want to, and especially I have to say a lot of this comes out of this last year. Let's get outside this bubble, this celebrity bubble that we're trapped in.

**Sona Movsesian** (3:57)
I'm not trapped in a celebrity bubble.

**Matt Gourley** (3:59)
No, I'm not even adjacent to it.

**Conan O'Brien** (4:00)
Oh God, no, I didn't mean either of you. Oh God, no. Oh, no, no, no. Oh, please. Oh, how embarrassing. Oh, I'm covering my mouth. I'm laughing.

**Matt Gourley** (4:10)
Cause I mean, we don't even do a podcast with a celebrity. So how would we do it?

**Sona Movsesian** (4:13)
Oh snap, snapity dappity, ouchy wouchy.

**Conan O'Brien** (4:19)
I'm looking it up. I'm looking it up. I am looking it up. Yes, I am a celebrity. I just looked it up.

**Sona Movsesian** (4:26)
You Googled it?

**Conan O'Brien** (4:27)
Yeah, I am a B-lister, but I am a celebrity. So, okay.
I am a solid B. I'm a solid B-list celebrity and I'm proud of it. And if Love Boat were still on the air, I could potentially be a guest. Not the first guest, but like the third guest, who's the Comic Relief guest who stowed away.

**Matt Gourley** (4:49)