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Greta Lee

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

August 10, 2026

Actress and writer Greta Lee feels excited about being Conan O’Brien’s friend.
Speakers: Greta Lee, Sona Movsesian, Matt Gourley, Conan O'Brien, Eduardo Perez

Topics: Comedy

**Greta Lee** (0:08)
And I feel... Excited...

**Sona Movsesian** (0:22)
Oh, my God!

**Greta Lee** (0:24)
about being Conan O'Brien's friend.

**Matt Gourley** (0:27)
Greta, you just set the record. That wasn't the longest...

**Conan O'Brien** (0:29)
That was the longest...
It wouldn't be the longest intro. That's Jeff Goldblum. Because that record is held by Jeff Goldblum, who went, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, for maybe 45 minutes. But there was just silence.

**Greta Lee** (0:42)
I just died a little bit.

**Conan O'Brien** (0:44)
I saw.

**Greta Lee** (0:44)
And then came back to life.

**Conan O'Brien** (1:08)
Hey there, welcome to Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend. I am Conan O'Brien, of course, joined by my two chums, pals, amigos. They're my ride-along buddies, that's right, Sona Moisesian.

**Sona Movsesian** (1:19)
What's up?

**Conan O'Brien** (1:20)
What? And, okay, I don't think you really want to know what's up with me, I think you just said that.

**Sona Movsesian** (1:25)
I do, I didn't, I don't want to know.

**Conan O'Brien** (1:26)
And Matt Groley, how are you, Matt?

**Matt Gourley** (1:27)
I'm good, did you kind of mean ride or die? Because ride along feels like you're a cop and we're like your kids.

**Conan O'Brien** (1:33)
I think comedically, I'm an expert, and you two are researching the role of being funny, and you're riding along with me. But then we stop and we're involved in a shootout.

**Matt Gourley** (1:43)
So we also don't have a choice to who we get to ride along with to learn how to be funny? Exactly.

**Conan O'Brien** (1:47)
You want it to be, hey, I want to ride along with Bill Hader. No, that's not going to work out. You're with Conan O'Brien. What's our shootout?

**Sona Movsesian** (1:55)
Sometimes you do get phrases wrong.

**Conan O'Brien** (1:57)
I do, yeah.

**Sona Movsesian** (1:58)
Yeah, and it makes me laugh. Like you said, cute me the other day when we were recording and it's me cute.

**Conan O'Brien** (2:03)
Yeah, but you know what? You can flip those around whatever you want. I play with language like James Joyce.
I'm constantly, no, no, I'm very creative with it.

**SPEAKER_6** (2:11)
You're like, the rule is to say it this way.

**Sona Movsesian** (2:14)
Well, you're just saying it incorrectly. Cute me is not the right way to say it. Right along makes no sense.

**Matt Gourley** (2:19)
What I'm doing implies like they didn't have a meat cute, but they just saw each other and went, hey, you kind of got cute meat.

**Sona Movsesian** (2:26)
Like your meat is cute? Yeah.

**Conan O'Brien** (2:29)
You guys are terrific. And by the way, I want you out of my comedy cop car.

**Eduardo Perez** (2:35)
We can't, these doors are open from the inside.

**Conan O'Brien** (2:40)
I don't follow the rules. I don't, you want to color inside the lines and do a good job with your talking. I'm all over the map.
And I think that it's the way to go.

**Sona Movsesian** (2:51)
I think it's just important. Like you remind me sometimes of my mom and she is not a native English speaker. So the two of you have the same sort of grasp on a lot of like new...

**Matt Gourley** (3:03)
Does she say cathartic like he does?

**Sona Movsesian** (3:07)
Do you say cathartic?

**Conan O'Brien** (3:09)
I like to throw a C in there. It makes it gives it an arctic chill.

**Matt Gourley** (3:14)
I didn't realize it was on purpose.

**Conan O'Brien** (3:15)
Yeah.

**Matt Gourley** (3:16)
Wow.

**Conan O'Brien** (3:16)
I'm telling you, there's a lot that I do that. And you're thinking, of course, you're the guy that if you got in a time machine, would go back to look at Picasso and go, no, no, no, not two eyes on one side of the head. This will never work. Make cats with big eyes.
And that's why your time travel adventures are always just terrible. But what I do is I play with the forms. I'm very elastic and creative.

**Sona Movsesian** (3:47)
It's all on purpose.

**Conan O'Brien** (3:48)
Of course it is.

**Sona Movsesian** (3:49)
Yeah.

**Conan O'Brien** (3:50)
What are you talking about?

**Sona Movsesian** (3:50)
You say Saturday Night Live weird too, which we've tossed it.

**Conan O'Brien** (3:53)
Well, that was years ago.

**Sona Movsesian** (3:54)
No, it was Saturday Night Live.

**Matt Gourley** (3:55)
Yeah, you did it. No, I did that.

**Conan O'Brien** (3:57)
Well, I told you what happened. Lorne is from the deep south.

**Matt Gourley** (4:00)
Okay. And then he invented this whole thing. No, we're not doing this again.

**Conan O'Brien** (4:02)
No, he invented this whole thing about being from Toronto, but when I first met him, he was like, hello, Conan. Welcome to Saturday Night Live. He was drinking a mint julep and he was fanning himself. He was sitting on a big porch, big spread down there in Alabama. Anyway, sure. Okay. I will try to conform to your more legalistic ways of speaking.

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