Alex Winter Didn't Know "Bill & Ted" Would Be A Hit | Late Night with Conan O’Brien

(Original airdate: 10/15/93) Alex Winter talks about the unexpected success of "Bill & Ted," fan encounters, and directing "Freaked."
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[@poshko41]

Obviously this was recommended to everyone so we can hear more about Freaked.

[@Conqueror441]

BWHAHHAHAHHAHHAHA of course lmao thats why Im here, NOOOOOTT

[@robertcop3736]

Freaked is underrated tho

[@brianmetcalf2440]

Freaked is great

[@whitestoneandy797]

😂👏👏

[@Venture8234]

I know what that is.

[@jacobrengen]

Conan O’Brian is the most triumphant of late night host

[@shiestysean]

True story

[@unscenegamers]

I thought Triumph was the dog.

[@billyleporc2796]

But Craig Kilborn war funnier

[@EveryCrazyDay]

What does that even mean? Like he triumphed over other late night host??

[@jacobrengen]

EveryCrazyDay it’s a reference to Bill and Ted

[@LycanLink]

It's so fun to see interviews with actors that are known for playing goobers in movies. They're so much more charismatic and intellectual than you expect, and it's very interesting. :)

[@dylanashcroft890]

So was there a point in Hollywood where everyone was on cocaine? Lol!

[@AConquerorsVendetta]

Yes it was called the 80s

[@DarkShroom]

also the 70s, and 90, 00s and 10s

[@MrOvlov02]

no

[@juankusoff]

Dylan Ashcroft Yes. The point between Hollywood’s inception, until now 😅

[@campinatorxbox1610]

Yeah I thought it was kind of strange that he kept sniffing. I'm glad I'm not the only one that noticed that LOL.

[@donniedoesjokes]

Excellent! 🔥 “Bill and Ted” is CLASSIC! 🔥

[@unclejemima83]

The other movie he mentions towards the end, Freaked, has been uploaded to KZbin (unofficially/free) and worth watching at least once.

[@usedtowels]

Thanks homie

[@kyllew420]

Freaked us awesome I have it on dvd

[@wassup287]

Looks like Bill had a few too many nose beers

[@camthedestroyer1490]

I can’t wait for this “Freaked” movie to come out!

[@Nope2479]

I really like that movie

[@TravisEaly]

He said it's out right now. Just go to the theater and watch it.

[@specterkev]

Freaked is highly underrated

[@johnholmeswebb8162]

These are two of the guys who shaped who I am. Outlook on life, music taste, what I find funny. I watched Conan at this time, this is my childhood.

[@rumpelstillkills8036]

Conan at 14 years old.

[@SniffHeinkel]

Wow. Conan's hair almost looks normal. Imagine that.

[@brownguychuy]

I discovered bill & ted through the promotion at pizza hut when I was younger.

[@niclennox2555]

$2.99 for Bill and Teds Bogus Journey DVD....I remember.

[@JonnyUnderrated]

I was amazed when I saw my first Circle K, as a Canadian. Now theyre everywhere.

[@JonnyUnderrated]

@Vinson most awesome

[@License2Bust]

Hell yeah dude I still have my copy. Pizza Hut Edition!

[@brownguychuy]

@@License2Bust my man!

[@tinytanks]

I just went and watched Freaked... and good LORD it was not just a demented masterpiece, but also a repressed memory of mine that I didn't know I had forgotten.

[@jameshardy8429]

Twelve. Just in case anyone was wondering how many times he fidgeted with his nose and upper lip in that 4 minute segment :’)

[@neoconker2k8]

cocaine is a hell of a drug.

[@jameshardy8429]

Joe Mcclure *chuckles in Rick James*

[@JonnyUnderrated]

2:35 "Its the skull juice man"

[@Synathidy]

Don't be petty. I didn't notice any unusual fidgeting. Seemed chill.

[@JonnyUnderrated]

@@Synathidy youre also somewhat fidegety as it were...how suspicious... Are you COVERING FOR HIM BECAUSE YOU ARE ALSO SOMEWHAT FIDEGEDY you fidget spinner you!!!!

[@zoperxplex]

It is great to hear they are making another sequel.

[@oledevo]

Made. I just watched it. It's good.

[@comichaul]

It's funny seeing how uncomfortable Conan's interviews were in his early days. He's come a LONG way since then. That first question was really awkward, as was the wrap up.

[@ColeHomeVideo]

Freaked is a severely underrated and very funny comedy.

[@scottbaylo]

“I can’t even wipe my own ass”

[@nicknoelte2274]

Just because a guy doesn't like macaroons...

[@PAXBISONICA]

This guy was also in The Lost Boys. I believe he had one line in the whole movie. "Goodnight Michael ".

[@phaedrus7971]

Best line in the movie

[@DrewKruck]

He was also great as the singer of Alice in Chains

[@KAISER-OUTDOORS]

lmao!

[@olivergarden5282]

Hours till I witness Bill & Ted Face the Music.

[@kryptonitespider-bitedynam7305]

Conan O'Brien is most triumphant

[@boardbrakazientertainment343]

"Cocaine is a hell of a drug" Rick James Ya nose... is it o.k?

[@JonnyUnderrated]

Its the skull juice , man

[@patrick5729]

Pop culture back in the nineties was more interesting.

[@convolution223]

Freaked is so good! If you're a fan of Bill and Ted definitely check it out

[@Scribe13013]

Bill S. Preston esq.

[@aliyenyoka9487]

Freaked is amazing

[@__-tz6xx]

I am excited to watch Bill & Ted 3!

[@gabriellefagan1014]

River Phoenix had 2 weeks to live when this was originally shown.

[@seanhart9706]

Where do you see river Phoenix in this clip? I may be blind

[@canadiantraveller281]

And the Twin Towers behind him....wow, looks weird.

[@KAISER-OUTDOORS]

it’s too bad bill and ted can’t go back in time for real and kill the hijackers.

[@scottyb8392]

Freaked is a most underrated and absurd classic

[@c.o.n.collectingofnostalgi889]

1993 FREAKED is a awesome underated cult classic I reckon.

[@AndreasW-p4r]

I feel so old watching this interview

[@FreakieFan]

He's giving me major 'coked out of his mind' vibes here.

[@mrjeff4832]

I’m glad I’m not the only one who noticed.

[@wlaisback]

Maybe he's just nervous (from all the coke he's done).

[@MrOvlov02]

no

[@timberwolf27]

Dude what? He seems straight, guy interupting him is more that way if anything

[@pillar81]

W L Nah, it’s just Stuttering John being his awkward self.

[@leightnite3056]

He's a class act that Alex Winter!

[@JonnyUnderrated]

Its not winter its summer! Alex summer

[@Funktaro5]

Man, it's shocking how rough around the edges Conan use to be. This is only a month after he first started, but still he seems more uncomfortable doing this than any other talkshow host I've ever seen. Amazing how he's grown. He was already the best at it a few years later.

[@a.hollins8691]

Yeah, it took him a few decades to get comfortable behind the desk.

[@Funktaro5]

​@@a.hollins8691 I wouldn't go that far. He owned late night in the late 90s and 2000s. There's a reason he was given the Tonight Show, even though that didn't work out. But it did seem to take him a few years to really grow into his own.

[@henkieblomkuul158]

I realy wanna know more about the skull juice

[@BostonEmpath]

A most triumphant upload.

[@JosephDillman]

You guys know Alex Winter makes all those tech documentaries cuz it's getting harder to hide the fact he's one of the Engineers from Prometheus.

[@lawrencerinehart5747]

If you want to get to know Alex Winter, watch his short films, The Idiot Box and the upcoming Zappa. Freaked a.k.a. Hideous Mutant Freekz is a Cult film of surreal proportions.

[@Abell_lledA]

Narrative of Self is the result of a feedback loop between “Separate Self” & Cosmos.✌️.Non-Duality

[@ayudewanti]

Alex Winter could play as Paul Mescal's uncle/much older cousin.

[@psideresider8308]

Poor Marko:(

[@ArchEnemy969]

I love you Alex

[@takineko]

Bill was my first crush lmao

[@mickeyrube6623]

Alex, quit touching your face! Man, times really have change...

[@Michellesinfuego]

He gives me the “coked out” vibes

[@stevecosmolove1045]

Michellesinfuego bruh I got the same vibe. Pretty sure it’s coke but if it’s not he is on some kind of stimulant for sure

[@DanielThureskog]

@@Michellesinfuego Alex is the Coked Up Werewolf in human form.

[@justinl909]

Michellesinfuego you idiots must of never done coke before. If he was on coke he would not be able to hold a sentence together.

[@mickeyrube6623]

@@justinl909 dude you've never done coke before, obviously. I did cocaine for 20 years, and you can hold a sentence together, and a whole lot more. I used to sell it to a guy on a high school football team, and he did it while playing. I was on it while working, talking to family, friends, cops, the whole works. There are celebrities that have admitted to being on talk shows while on coke. Not only that, I seen people talk better on it, like it cures their stuttering, makes them less nervous, etc. Broad meeting, job interviews, both giving and receiving. You don't know much about drugs do you?

[@EliasWolf77]

I honestly had no idea he did stuff outside of Bill and Ted

[@petermoore7796]

yeah he did coke apparent

[@madmadhatter]

God damn it I LOVE Freaked...

[@deputyvanhalen6386]

Woah...Suede?!...Excellent!🎸🎵🎶🎵🎶🎸

[@michellee.4877]

Conan 💕

[@the_realJAMES]

Can’t wait for 8/28/20!

[@demonicsweaters]

Freaked is a classic, haha

[@jeffyjoebob8300]

YOU KILLED MARCO

[@vioisme]

I’m too high for this!!!

[@NickRanger]

0:18 , 0:21 , 0:31, 0:56 , 1:08 , 1:16 , 1:59 , 2:12 , 2:22 , 2:31

[@tonyelliott5000]

Freaked is a classic

[@Chicomite]

Holy crap, I never knew Stuttering John was on Conan! There has to be a Howard Stern radio episode where they're goofing on his interview, gotta find that.

[@1997residente]

I swear Alex Winter and Barry Pepper are the same person...

[@Talkinglife]

Good one

[@SevenDeMagnus]

So cool.

[@REfan001]

Freaked is an insane movie

[@marcbaker3947]

Little uh, twitchy there Bill...

[@Disney65Fan]

Had no idea he is a Londoner

[@BrianKishreviews]

Freaked was so good

[@M1dniter]

🎶 She don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie, cocaine... 🎶

[@RockNRolla1212]

Who was the other guy between stuttering John and Andy?

[@charlesmarlowstanfield]

Took me forever to put it together, but I think it's Peter Gallagher.

[@ewatfred]

@@charlesmarlowstanfield he looks like Chris Pontius there

[@Televinq]

Yes, as stated above - it’s Gallagher. IMDb link to the episode: www.imdb.com/title/tt3453590/

[@kylesanders8276]

...I thought it was Keanu. Oops

[@stevemoloney4709]

Looks like a young Casey Neistat

[@baron7755]

How was this show not cancelled?

[@HarPlayer]

😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄!!!!!!!!! That's BILL😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄 0:48

[@Microfoot]

Freaked is great.

[@JonnyUnderrated]

The 90's were so GEEKY. Like good old fashioned GEEKS and NERDS. No wannabes or tryhards or "fake" geeks. Shit was pure back then. Pure geek.

[@wassgood906]

No lmao

[@JonnyUnderrated]

@@wassgood906 Yeah. You may have thought you were hot but in fact no you were not hot.

[@wassgood906]

JonnyUnderrated uhhh ok

[@Shaunks86]

They missed the kitty.

[@jeanettetackett5119]

I love you Alex Winter but I don't understand why actors make fun of people who want to become part of the show. Isn't it wonderful that you helped build a world that people want to be part of?

[@sydbarrett5]

Are you talking about the kids that came up to him and Keanu and talked to them as though they were Bill and Ted?

[@jeanettetackett5119]

@@sydbarrett5 Yes, a lot of actors make fun of people who come up and talk to them like they're really the character. And yeah, probably some of them are delusional, but some of them probably just want to enjoy pretending like that wonderful fictional world is real. The actor gets paid to do it, but pretending is fun, even if you don't get paid.

[@Chris_L034]

kids, dont do drugs.

[@JonnyUnderrated]

Drugs, dont do kids , more like it.

[@infinidominion]

Hopefully at some point in time he actually played Julius Caesar cuz I'm pretty sure that's him reincarnated 😅

[@Jayhazy23]

Yeah I noticed the cocaine symptoms, but where has all of Conan's freckles disappeared to?

[@StabStabStabStabby]

Age

[@Synathidy]

What specific symptoms? I didn't notice anything.

[@iliyano567]

He reminds me of jay z in a weird way.

[@DavidSmith-rv2hw]

you've been drinking the bong water again?

[@shiestysean]

Bill & Ted was the shit when I was young. It was the shit. Rest in paradise Rufus bka George Carlin

[@doranamatto4204]

His nose seems really itchy......

[@phillyflash43]

Alex & Keanu just made another Bill & Ted sequel, "Bill & Ted Face The Music" to be released tomorrow, 8/28/20! trailer: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z5izeJh3jtRmr7c

[@scottbaylo]

Someone is coked up here

[@csgrinds]

Kerryman.

[@EchoBravo370]

Who else is on the couch?

[@EchoBravo370]

I think the third guy down is Peter Gallagher

[@grandwaha]

Long hair was Stuttering John Melendez from the Howard Stern show.

[@DavidSmith-rv2hw]

@@grandwaha jay leno's announcer

[@littlejonathorn6860]

He looks like Casey Neistat

[@MrOvlov02]

no

[@lenat2112]

No

[@Tntpker]

Didnt know Tfue was famous back then too.

[@mjdub1013]

He's not famous now

[@Dylantomasi]

Freaks is a really good movie if you like to hear more about it and the behind-the-scenes kzbin.info/www/bejne/h5rbaJpujLSamqs

[@taylorthomas9059]

Did anyone notice Conan didn't like this guest? I've seen Conan work. He hates when outsiders come into Hollywood an try to pick on the structures hypocrisy. He believes in showmanship and protecting even the lies. It's so odd because he seems so perfect an great. But everyone has a dark side

[@taylorthomas9059]

@Not Aaron Paul I have no idea what he meant by smells like cerebellum. But you can tell it was a clever way of after a off camera argument saying if I wanted to I could damage the Hollywood image, but I'm not so be cool. To plug his own film his own film he might of had people trying to stop him an he might of threatened them into negotiating a small plug.

[@jimitristan3570]

stallone?

[@robertaraki1941]

marco

[@MasterChris666]

wow

[@chegorilla1468]

Look how young and full of life Conan appears to be... What happened?

[@Alexed.w]

Well this is awkward.

[@BattlefieldFan35]

Stuttering John

[@jasonhinman3765]

He is coked up! Never seen someone touch their face more.

[@jvlog2880]

His nose must be super itchy

[@ambrospike2]

Hey kids drugs are bad! Unless it's cocaine then it's great

[@arcstatic8950]

Cocaine? Excellent!!

[@1asotspla]

Conan in a bad mood

[@LPChipi]

Does the Team Coco KZbin channel manager watch RedLetterMedia? The timing is suspiciously close.

[@subterraneanhomesickalien666]

It's more like suspiciously close to the release date of the 3rd Bill and Ted movie.

[@Paulafan5]

Yeah, they watch small youtube channels and release content based on that.

[@LPChipi]

@@Paulafan5 It's well known that Hollywood watches RedLetterMedia. And I'm not saying they're constantly expecting for them to upload to upload something themselves, but maybe they saw it, saw Winter's reply on Twitter and were like "hey, we got this clip, let's upload it"

[@netkaizenacero3662]

YOUNG CASEY NEISTAT😂😂👍👍