Actual Items #2 on Conan (1996-12-26)

Conan and Andy look at some actual items found in newspapers around the country. From Late Night, December 26th, 1996.

[@bono1083]

In a perfect world we would get an official 3 disc "Best of Late Night" collection

[@hgb0005]

late night is coming Fall 2018

[@robertdavis4192]

hgb0005, wait are you serious?

[@hgb0005]

the specifics arent known.....but late night with conan o'brien will be available in digital form online in some way.......kind of mentioned in passing in the news of the coming format change the 'Conan' next year

[@hgb0005]

'Additionally, as O'Brien celebrates 25 years on late-night TV (with eight of them at TBS), Team Coco will partner with NBC and TBS to put the host's entire Late Night With Conan O'Brien and Conan catalog online.'

[@robertdavis4192]

i just read about the format change, i really don't know what to think, if they focus on the comedy and get rid of the old celeb interview stuff, I think that's actually a really good idea.

[@elroyblackbean]

Max's son Jay Weinberg was 6 years old when this aired. Now he's drumming for Slipknot.

[@johndeaux3703]

No, I think you're mistaken. He's drumming for the Slipnutz.

[@andybaldman]

Well played, Deaux. Well played.

[@jimmycorper]

He sadly passed away from an allergic reaction to peanuts this year. zichrono livracha!

[@tontoepstein6860]

​@@jimmycorper Is that why he was fired, peanut allergies? I thought it might have been something like that.

[@LakeFX]

Not anymore 😞

[@natalie8212]

0:20 Max snapped the end of his drumstick off.

[@RUSTY4.7]

nkotb 82 I knew I wasn't just imagining it. He played it off well.

[@underpressure7661]

Just about to put this up!

[@brianstevens1249]

nkotb 82 I saw that

[@cjhs2006]

Badass

[@bdre5555]

Another wonderful Conan clip from a better time

[@thefly869]

These were the years I got into the show, big time. At first I didn’t care for him because I loved Letterman so much but he grew on me .

[@Genious.]

I was the same way - and now, with him retiring from talk shows, late night is officially dead to me. There's nothing left but pandering bullshit.

[@SteveBrandon]

Does the #2 just mean that this is the second "Actual Items" clip you have? I know that they did a bunch of "Actual Items" segments in the early years starting with the first night in September 1993, and all the early "Actual Items" segment mentioned [the bad man with the mustache from World War Two] in one of the fake newspaper clippings/ads as a running gag.

[@dondee5439]

The ACTUAL ITEMS start at the 2:40 mark.

[@LinkRocks]

You must have the attention span of a gnat.

[@MarcIverson]

Which is the one which featured "the same vacuum cleaner mentioned in Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream'" speech? That one has had me laughing for like 30 years.

[@mediocreman2]

Love these. That fire exit joke was hilarious.

[@chim-choo-ree]

When I was growing up, my brother wet the bed. We had bunk beds, and one night (pretty near when this originally aired), I got a surprise urine shower in my sleep. We still laugh about that.

[@annepascoe3029]

Was always my fav part of the show

[@LeoMaraschino]

The amount of applause for a snowblower that can rip apart a cat…. Did they film this in NYC?

[@seaoftranquility7228]

I worry when I see Andy in the days before smartphones. How did he cope?

[@anactualmotherbear]

A whole audience of golden shower enthusiasts.

[@andybaldman]

Ahh, the 90’s!

[@jimbeamknowles9537]

Love conan

[@mediocreman2]

What song in the beginning?

[@daiq9]

The bunk bed urine joke is killer!!!

[@RUSTY4.7]

Wow Andy was thin

[@isaiahsanchevy9252]

God. I was three months old...

[@jesspace4069]

Rofl really ?? wow. i was 7 lol

[@matthewdaub]

​@@jesspace4069 I was negative 5

[@murrethmedia]

3:48 They should have cut to max looking disappointed there.

[@AS-qy1zl]

The part I notice is just how cheap everything was lol

[@luiggitello8546]

You really cant made these up

[@harrodsongs]

That's why they're so fun.

[@AndrewsOpinion15]

funny actual items #2 on conan christopher brien show - on december 26- 1996 !!!!

[@scottwells8064]

POCKET SAND.

[@cjhs2006]

I Wish Conan Would Bring This Back,he Could Just Get Fans to Send Him Screenshots of Weird Shit They Find Online Like Fallon Does

[@ashleyworden1887]

Andy is a hottie! And Max kinda is too.

[@franlopez724]

That fire exit joke was AWFUL. I feel bad for the writer.

[@braddockakalatis2]

+Francisco Lopez It gave M. Night Shyamalan an idea, by George.

[@anthonycruz91]

i heard the writer was Louie CK lol

[@andybaldman]

Louie wrote from 93-94 according to Wikipedia.

[@djm5687]

Actual Items are not written. They're real. A crack research team (not a research team on crack) discovers these.

[@toyman9642]

These are fake.

[@brianstevens1249]

Rob Tro DUH

[@Genious.]

How could they be fake when he's holding the ACTUAL publications they are from - and mentioning them by name. Next thing you'll try to tell us that the Paul/Mayweather match wasn't legitimate. I refuse to believe such hogwash.

[@mediocreman2]

They're as real as your ability to detect humor is good.

[@djm5687]

No they not, they're real. That's what makes "Actual Items" so funny. A crack research team (not a research team on crack) discovers these. 📰

[@duckhive]

this would be funnier in 1986

[@chim-choo-ree]

"1986, Conan?"

[@LinkRocks]

As opposed as you not being funny ever.

[@DaniTheNachoPirate]

This is so fake... Jay Leno's headlines is way better. Even the fake ones there seem way more genuine

[@shuriKen469]

as much as i enjoy Conan, headlines (mondays iirc) were the only segment Jay did well.

[@Oogidahboogidah]

That’s the joke?

[@ryanthompson1244]

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