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Molly Shannon Returns

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

July 20, 2026

Actress Molly Shannon feels proud and cool to be Conan O’Brien’s friend.   Molly sits down with Conan once more to discuss her rule-breaking youth, creative ways to calm the brain, and her longtime friendship with Will Ferrell leading all the way up to their new Netflix series The Hawk.
Speakers: Conan O'Brien, Sona Movsesian, Molly Shannon, Blake Henderson, Matt Gourley, David Hopping, Eduardo Perez
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**Molly Shannon** (1:16)
Hi, my name is Molly Shannon and I feel proud and cool to be Conan O'Brien's friend.

**Conan O'Brien** (1:25)
Okay, no, you're not. I don't think I generate a cool vibe, but-

**Molly Shannon** (1:31)
Yes, you do.

**Conan O'Brien** (1:32)
Really?

**Molly Shannon** (1:32)
Oh, yeah.

**Conan O'Brien** (1:33)
Of course.

**Molly Shannon** (1:33)
Of course. Are you kidding? The coolest.

**Conan O'Brien** (1:57)
Hey there. Welcome to Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend. I've joined by Sona Movsesian.
And of course, Mr. Gourley, how are you, sir?

**Sona Movsesian** (2:05)
I'm well, how are you?

**Conan O'Brien** (2:06)
I'm really good. Although we did discover recently that the chair I'm in makes noises.

**Sona Movsesian** (2:11)
Yeah, it does.

**Conan O'Brien** (2:12)
Are we going to oil this chair? What's going on?

**Sona Movsesian** (2:14)
I am not the person.

**Conan O'Brien** (2:15)
Did we find out what's wrong with this chair?

**Blake Henderson** (2:16)
I'm actually, I will say, Jason Chalemi and I are ahead of the game. We already switched that chair out for you. So this is a new chair that doesn't make noise.

**Conan O'Brien** (2:24)
But I just interviewed a very famous celebrity.

**Blake Henderson** (2:26)
Yes.

**Conan O'Brien** (2:27)
And while I was talking to him, I heard, Ah, ah, ah.

**Blake Henderson** (2:32)
We all thought it was a phone.

**Conan O'Brien** (2:33)
It sounded like a very old Jimmy Stewart at an auction. Oh, God.
But what was going on? Who would allow a chair like that to even be in this room? Well, we're not excited.

**Blake Henderson** (2:45)
We don't test the chairs every day beforehand.

**Conan O'Brien** (2:48)
This is why you didn't get that job at NASA.
Well, we don't test the rockets. That's why. We didn't test them.

**Blake Henderson** (2:53)
I mean, we kind of operate in this studio, we kind of operate on a, oh, when it breaks, then we fix it versus being ahead of the game. We kind of wait for something bad to happen.

**Conan O'Brien** (3:03)
I don't know. You just looped Eduardo into your failure. Oh, no.
And that's not- No, no.

**Blake Henderson** (3:09)
I go by that. Yeah.

**Conan O'Brien** (3:10)
Let's just make sure we have the proper equipment.

**Blake Henderson** (3:13)
Everyone looked at the clock to see how much more time we have during this segment when I started speaking, by the way. Yeah. Well, I do it to just mark when to wrap.

**Matt Gourley** (3:20)
I wasn't making a judgment call. Well, I like you and I appreciate it.

**Sona Movsesian** (3:24)
I didn't look at it.

**Conan O'Brien** (3:24)
I don't look at the clock. I just look for something that I can hurt myself with.

**Sona Movsesian** (3:28)
You just made it so awkward.
Like we want you to just stop talking. But we tell you that. But everybody just looked at the clock.

**Blake Henderson** (3:36)
Literally, you all look, as soon as I started speaking, everyone looked at the clock to see.

**Conan O'Brien** (3:40)
I didn't look at the clock.

**Blake Henderson** (3:41)
You did.

**Matt Gourley** (3:42)
You all looked over there.

**SPEAKER_9** (3:43)
No, I didn't.

**Matt Gourley** (3:43)
This is on video.

**SPEAKER_9** (3:44)
We keep our facts.

**Blake Henderson** (3:44)
I'm the keeper of the time.

**Matt Gourley** (3:45)
That's my job.

**Blake Henderson** (3:46)
It's nothing personal. Okay. I'm sorry. Now you've talked a lot and I am gonna look at the clock.

**Molly Shannon** (3:50)
Now I'm looking at the clock a lot.

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