Conan’s Uber Driver Didn’t Recognize Him | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

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Deeper, unboundedly playful, and free from FCC regulations, Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend is a weekly opportunity for Conan to hang out with the people he enjoys most and perhaps find some real friendship along the way. Watch highlights of Conan, Sona Movsesian and Matt Gourley chatting with celebrities and meeting fans, along with special segments like “Review the Reviewers” and “Big Dick History.”
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[@nathanalbers5700]

Conan deconstructing his own bit in a 2 minute improv tangent where he plays both characters is the most Conan thing ever

[@thath09]

It combines three characteristics of Conan’s comedic sensibilities when on a tear: silly, chaotic, and relentless

[@zzzzzz3708]

It's lame when someone comments what happened

[@blackhawk-qy2rh]

@@zzzzzz3708 even lamer when someone feels the need to comment on that comment 😁

[@alhucardmidnite7814]

I enjoy a nice relatable recap in the comments@@zzzzzz3708

[@joshjje]

Ya, he's a very funny dude.

[@jessed9145]

Coman literally did the whole segment to get Sonas laughs lol. He is like a hunter when the animal hes hunting is injured. He goes for the kill!

[@dlxmarks]

Their relationship really is like the one Howard Stern has with Robin Quivers: instant audience feedback to know they are on to something good.

[@ChaosZero.]

In the "Conan Can't Stop" documentary he did say that when he was doing the tv show he'd make 5 shows a week for Sona and 1 show a week for the audience.

[@allocater2]

@@ChaosZero. aww 🥺❤

[@emu_warrior]

I love Comam

[@theycallmethesoandso]

Mindhunter season 3 Coman strikes again

[@desisshadow314]

Sona laughing just encourages Conan to keep going. It's adorable.

[@Vendrix86]

I finally understand why Conan has kept sona all these years despite her job performance - she laugh at every single joke of his genuinely which he absolutely loves.

[@susannet.401]

Yes exactly

[@divisiona3974]

I think Sona actually killed it as his assistant. She's just good at prioritising...

[@Vendrix86]

@@divisiona3974 the many times both have said how bad she is at her job says otherwise but agree to disagree...

[@divisiona3974]

@@Vendrix86 it's just a shtic. I'm confident she would have been let go if she's indeed as bad as they let us believe. Wouldn't you agree? Would Conan really keep an underperforming employee for so many years!?

[@Vendrix86]

@@divisiona3974 just because they laugh when they say it doesn't mean it's just a shtic...learn how to read between the lines. You've never heard of a serious joke or half-jokes before? Nothing new... Sona always argues back to what Conan says if she disagrees with something but the fact that she has never corrected him on her work performance speaks volumes. This is the biggest indicator. I don't think she was bad enough to be atrocious but certainly not good enough to win any awards. The feeling you get when watching them is she is just ok or serviceable but not good or great. And yeah Conan would absolutely keep an underperforming (to a degree) employee if their other qualities made up for it in his mind.

[@eightysev]

he really is playing to an audience of one... Sona 😂😂 everyone else is just a bonus

[@sstills951]

No the podcast wouldn't be successful if it was just for Sona. Otherwise they wouldn't be recording it and putting it on youtube. The idea is to create a show for a broad audience.

[@justbonez2209]

@@sstills951you don’t get it lol

[@latrolettteeeeeee]

@@sstills951 PLEASE tell me you're joking.

[@MrSuperbear90]

@@justbonez2209 maybe hes doing imrpove. Lets play along lol

[@DRSpalding]

Sona's unbridled laughter still fresh even after all of the years with Conan is beautiful!

[@jwc1977]

She's f'n annoying as F.

[@medilyesoudhini7411]

It's usually Conan's cue to go full on on the improv or whatever he's doing

[@billysonlinesurveychannel8247]

Its over the top and fake. She does it so she can keep her paycheck. Shes always been a grifter begging for free cars and homes and now getting her paycheck for sitting there laughing at unfunny things

[@DRSpalding]

@@billysonlinesurveychannel8247 Then don't watch/listen.

[@christhomas9221]

@@billysonlinesurveychannel8247damn who hurt you lil bro

[@Charlesmcoburn]

Sona belly laughing is one of the most wonderful, heartwarming sounds ever. Conan knows this. When he saw what his bit was doing, he gave us exactly what we wanted!

[@carloszavala114]

Sona's laugh is the best therapy.

[@drzecelectric4302]

So true

[@dsnitely]

she's hilarious ❤

[@Kitty_Demonix]

Shes great at her job I'd rather see Jordan.

[@sstills951]

My brother recently broke his elbow. I will now tell him to stop going to the physical therapist and to just listen to Sona laughing. I suppose it's worth a shot.

[@jwc1977]

Sure, if you laugh at everything anything anyone ever says. Sure. She's annoying.

[@toooldforthisshte1681]

The spontaneity of Conan is unmatched.

[@sstills951]

Texan macaroni burnt over Afghan tire fires. How's that for spontaneity?

[@nyamheria]

indeed

[@headlight31]

When Conan gets Sona to laugh, he can't stop pumping the jokes and then Sona would just die of laughter. I love it.

[@Newnotle]

Sona's the biggest hypewoman, we all need a Sona in our lives

[@robmausser]

You can see Conan's reason for being funny on full display here. Clearly something amazing to come out for a desperate need for attention haha. As soon as even one person liked this bit he literally couldnt stop.

[@robertjusic9097]

For real though. I have a friend like sona. I always have the best time with her. She fills my life with laughter i fill her time with stupid made up stories

[@sstills951]

Don't tell me what I can see.

[@STEVENMULHALL]

THE SOLO NYC SIRIUS SHOWS ARE MISSING THIS 3 X ENERGY

[@jaydeepbose4501]

"desperate need for attention" not everything comes from some deep seethed issue bro, people can be just normally funny

[@eruption257]

@@jaydeepbose4501 to be fair, Conan would 100% say the exact same thing about himself

[@kumakhan22]

I love Sona's laughing fits. Such a great moment in the podcast when she lets go.

[@jwc1977]

Not. Conan the Barbarian and Sona the Annoying.

[@Mikeevanko967]

@@jwc1977hater

[@jordohuey]

No one on this planet makes me laugh as hard and as much as Conan does. This clip was nonstop giggles for me. 10/10

[@sstills951]

That's just because you haven't met me yet.

[@joshjje]

Ya, he's great for sure.

[@HighguyMcfly]

Conan's impression of a chef sounds like me when I'm depressed but still have to cook for people.

[@pjmlegrande]

Sona’s laughing is therapeutic.

[@THETRIVIALTHINGS]

Every bit that Conan does, I automatically imagine it as a Simpsons gag lol This ninja gag would fit in so perfectly in classic Simpsons.

[@crunchio]

Sona's laugh must be like cocaine to Conan

[@YurikRoss]

I noticed everytime Conan start a bit that makes Sona laugh a lot he just keep going and going because he seek her laugher.

[@MrCrammer]

The more Sona laughs, the more it fuels Conan to prolong his bits.

[@stealthcat100]

There’s a very deep desire and huge satisfaction for all comedians to bring a person or audience to complete laughter after a joke . Not just laughter but deep laughter . It’s a sweet spot and when it hits , the comedians need to keep it there , keep it going for as long as possible , is the most satisfying “zone” for a comedian to be in … that zone is usually fragile , hard to keep going and going . The satisfaction of Sona keeping Conan in this zone for such long periods of time would be absolute bliss for Conan. You can see his just wanting to hang on and stay in this zone and everything just hits with Sona and Conan goes again and again . Seinfeld talks about this zone , but you really see it here with Conan and Sona .

[@MaineManDezzo]

Bro I’m telling you, Conan is gonna kill Sona one day 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@benzaiten933]

I think he's trying to make her wet herself from laughing.

[@Tonyhouse1168]

He’ll never kill her. He feeds on her laugh like a vampire..ninja of some sort

[@flyingchong]

Not if she kills him first. She fully admitted she's been slowly poisoning him with his food.

[@TLguitar]

"I thought a very old butterfly had a stroke and then a cool wind blew it against my cheek". The genius.

[@jdeamaral]

I love, love, love,❤❤❤❤ Sona. She needs to star in her own sitcom. Conan could be in it, playing her assistant.

[@QuantumBraced]

I think the Uber driver who came up to Sona's apartment to "check out the sofa [she's] trying to get rid of" may have been looking for more than a sofa.

[@mehill00]

I hear ya. Probably a coffee table.

[@lachauntiswashington231]

Sona's laughing is the highlight of my day🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Taiwaneverything]

Amazing how Sona still finds Conan that funny after all those years 😂

[@curtreams5517]

Just when you think he has used up every ounce of the bit, he keeps it going... "Reading US magazine, oh, they broke up? They seemed like such a nice couple." He is the master of improv. I've heard this three times now and I still bust a gut laughing.

[@fransschreuders8488]

"Conan you're losing your peripheral vision?", "Yeah I was struck by lightning"

[@kristintripp967]

As long as Sona keeps laughing, Conan will keep the bit going, lol. He knew it had gone on long enough but she was still laughing so he just couldn’t quit. 🤣

[@anonymeister123]

I've recognized a famous guy at a bar once, a main actor in the CSI series. Threw back some shots with him, the entire time pretending to not know who he was. I feel like not everybody needs to act like a fanboy/fangirl. Just enjoy life lol

[@inappropriate_comments]

I'm with you, no need to act hysterical around celebs, they're just like us but with money and famous.

[@darnbricks]

I met a local celebrity once in a bar, and I'd recently seen him on a TV interview, in which he said that he didn't like when people acted like they didn't recognize him, so I was like: "Hey everybody, look who we have here! It's (celebrity's name)!!" I'm glad that he could take the joke, as I repeated it another three times over the following years - we happened to live in the same town. So yeah: careful what you wish for.

[@jlouis4407]

Yeah I would never fangirl someone

[@blackguysleepy]

Sonna, Her laugh is definitely contagious.

[@wolverineiscool7161]

and fake. Let's see her laugh this much if the same exact joke was told by Aaaron or someone else like the redheaded guy who played conan's successor

[@cschmitz100]

Conan’s impression of a chef is Steve Carell’s impression of Gru

[@philipschifano5876]

Only Conan can get up with this stuff lol. Sona absolutely makes the podcast!!

[@TigerGreene]

How is it possible for Conan to keep getting FUNNIER with age? Seriously, every year I laugh harder and harder. This is priceless!🤣

[@QuantumBraced]

The accent Conan did for the chef character was almost perfectly Triumph the Insult Comic Dog.

[@kidwave1]

This is Precisely why Conan was so AWESOME at late night TV, ....because his wit is so quick, razor sharp and funny AF! He can just go on & on & on being hilarious, and his humor runs the gamut from very intelligent to very silly.

[@weeniehutjunior]

I love Conan's mind. He is so hilarious!

[@coopermcdermott]

I like this idea of the ninjas getting a John Wick-like notification that Conan can't see them anymore.

[@Kdmud]

Why Conan can never let Sona go….🤣🤣🤣🤣 she’s got the laugh for the world!

[@dlxmarks]

Matt is going to upgrade his handwritten Wrap sign to a neon LED one with strobe lights. Which Conan will still ignore.

[@vincewest9023]

starting the day with these 3 is awesome especially Sona's laugh

[@ms0824]

Is it just me or is it kinda cool that he just casually takes Uber?

[@sstills951]

You don't know for sure that it was casual.

[@wolverineiscool7161]

@@sstills951so it's okay that he still took uber then but just not casual? He still took an uber when he's like a millionaire

[@fieonshakespearenut]

I think he takes Uber because he genuinely enjoys people. You can see it in his remotes. He enjoys meeting people. And a lot of Uber and Lyft drivers in So Cal are immigrants. I also enjoy hearing their stories and learning about new places to eat at locally that I wouldn't necessarily have found otherwise. My last driver was from Egypt and he was telling us that he really enjoyed So Cal but he really missed his family. He couldn't leave the country while his permanent residency ("green card") was being processed.

[@YerpDerp17]

Conan has said many times that he enjoyes interviewing celebs, but his favorite is just talking to a normal person, or a fan. He loves getting a glimpse of someone elses life, and that undying curiousity keeps it refreshing.

[@danielposavec7215]

Shoutout to Croatia! 🇭🇷

[@shumwab]

Conan's one of a kind. I love this podcast. That spontaneous chef struck by lightning bit ... 😂

[@steve_bal4]

I think it's important for every level of celebrity to have moments of not being recognized throughout their careers to keep them grounded and remind them that they truly are regular people to other regular people.

[@stevenschott169]

BECAUSE OF THE TOQUE!!

[@sinjin4563]

Only Conan can think of Ninjas reading US Weekly smoking E Cigarettes waiting for Conan’s peripheral vision to go lol

[@avazquez85]

I needed Sona’s laugh today

[@pattomwau]

RIP Sona Movsesian (1982 - 2023). Laughed herself to death.

[@SavannahSmiles-m8q]

Conan's riffing, Sonas laughter and Goleys tolerance of the insanity are absolute treasures, and must be protected at all costs.😂

[@benzaiten933]

Conan performs for an audience of one; Sona.

[@gilpinsteven]

The energy at the beginning is so wonderfully bizarre

[@Grigsy]

Sona's laugh will now be my ringtone.

[@enapavic3757]

Hello from Croatia! 👋🫶

[@DJDarthVader]

Biggest fan from Croatia here Conez. Don't worry...i know who you are.

[@domtom128]

Same 😁

[@pathfinder1295]

Conan now has a podcast that doesn't film/air at night but somehow is still the best late night talk show host.

[@samchen9951]

Holy crap this was one of the funniest ones yet, and I'm a Conan addict. Conan was on a full roll and couldn't be stopped!

[@jmaxxtv9912]

Watching and listening to this clip for the first time, I immediately rolled back the first 2 minutes and watched again. 😂

[@Toast4tw]

All those poor guys that thought "check out my sofa" meant something else :((

[@rickyd-lux9067]

8:17 Fortunately, ninja's usually attack one at a time.

[@josephnicholson2593]

It's because of the "Law of Conservation of Ninjitsu". There can only be so much ninjitsu in any situation, that's why when there's a bunch of ninjas they always lose because they have to share the ninjitsu

[@mojo_giorgio]

sona cracking up is so adorable every time

[@richardgutierrez3829]

Hearing Sona laughing is right up there with hearing birds chirping in the morning. It's beautiful to hear

[@PeterTeehan]

I'm an Uber Driver full time right now. I have driven on and off for 7 years with over 5 thousand trips. I have picked up people from all walks of life, from all different cultures. In all my years of driving - I have concluded that as different, we as humans try and have individualism - we all share the same story, just told in different ways. As hard as we try as a society to distance ourselves, we are not that different after all.

[@VideoNozoki]

★★★★"a very OLD WEAK butterfly punched me..." + "Ninjas cut a little hole so they can smoke e-cigarettes..." -- Conan was on fire with these tangents today. Had me laughing like Sona.

[@sofiesummerbradley]

It must nice to be sitting in that room..listening watching Conan go on with his endless bits😊

[@LincolnWorld]

Nothing says "Ninja-like stealth" quite like standing around, smoking cigs. LOL!

[@mathompson53187]

Definitely some Triumph influence coming from Conan on this one.

[@neaituppi7306]

Jack Nicholson actually is pretty approachable, or was over the years. I seen video someone made in the eighties while filming witches of eastwick, where for several days in a town, he walked around talking to local people, if they came up to him, like he was just one of them. But like the golf club incident, if he does punch someone, they probably will consider it like an autograph.

[@TheVoxbox13]

"Do I smell bubble gum? Oh look, Ninjas" It's like that bad movie meme "I did not hit her! Oh - Hi Mark."

[@Ilikerawfish]

I am here for the bits...so impressive!

[@TheTarrMan]

"Conan O'Brien needs an Uber driver." Sounds like a good sitcom.

[@emune1111]

As a line cook.. yes, basically every chef i worked with in many restaurants lol.. we just say Yes Chef!

[@germaines6344]

Just here for Sona's laughter.

[@sweiland75]

As a Canadian, I appreciate Conan knowing what a tuque is.

[@lance134679]

I don't know if I've ever heard an American use that word. 👍😄

[@humvee2800]

Canadians always want to be recognized by their betters

[@kstepko]

@@humvee2800And also, by Americans.

[@humvee2800]

@@kstepko Americans don’t need to think about Canadians while Canadians remain obsessed with Americans lol

[@sweiland75]

@@humvee2800 You wish.

[@suzmaca650]

Friggin Conan…so crazy 😂

[@Observer-11]

I love when Conan keep going when Sona laugh

[@johnnyeaton]

"I thought a very old butterfly had a stroke... but you hit me?" LOL

[@augusthavince8909]

It's not so much the loss of peripheral vision, but the exposing of the _old butterfly having a stroke and carried into the face of opponent_ isn't actually a rarefied martial arts move. They've heard of it all this time, in whispers, and thought for sure it was a deadly move that cannot be guarded against. But no, it was just self-deprecation.

[@AL__EX]

02:15 even Eduardo is like, keep it going, go for the kill!

[@sstills951]

Eduardo is kind of an ethnic name.

[@AL__EX]

@@sstills951 ??? that's his real name

[@Tizzo1982]

It’s “The Chef doesn’t have to like the people he works with” -Jordan Schlanski somewhere watching this

[@Shorkshire]

I have no idea wtf just happened but I loved every minute of it 🤣

[@bb8942]

How high is Sona RN 😂😂😂😂

[@studiolau]

Sona's laugh is so infectious😂

[@themanwhoknewtoomuch6667]

Imagine you pull up your Uber and the GOAT is standing....

[@swallysays]

This is just Triumphh the Insult Comic Dog as a chef

[@mattlamb1086]

Watching Conan is ALWAYS great! Thank you for all the laughs I know I'll be laughing every time I watch

[@steevelapointe7441]

Sona is such an atypical beauty. This woman is a bombshell. Funny, adorable, cute as hell. Her husband is a lucky man.

[@yvjohns]

So true!

[@anselmmartin1085]

Sona is funny 😂

[@mtrps_]

im blaming conan if i laugh when someone tells me they were once hit by lightning after this 😂

[@DrZedd169]

Ahhhhh thats why Sona was his assistant

[@brerg8r]

The auto-generated captions call her Sonam Obsessian 😂

[@neko_samurai]

I can’t tell if Conan’s chef is French, Canadian or Russian.

[@newtron1]

I ❤️ Sona!

[@rudesword2852]

I think Conan keeps sona around because shes his best audience and part of what keeps him grounded because she doesn't seem to give af that he's an actual rich big shot.

[@meltorresblue]

Conan never looked better than he does in this clip! 😍

[@Czechbound]

"That guy was from Croatia" .... Nope, that guy was Robert Shmeigel

[@kevinw712]

I was sort of randomly recently wound up formulating like a short list in my head of the figures in entertainment who, if something came out eventually showing they were yet another major player who'd been covering up really shitty, long time toxic behavior behind the scenes, would be the names who would TRULY just crush me and break my brain. As a gen x kid, Conan and Eddie Vedder were right near the top of that list. I mean I know we always need to keep ourselves in check to never put people who we don't even know personally on too much of a pedestal just because we like their art, and even the best of us are light years from perfect, but still. Part of what I love and admire so much about these few people is how self aware and open they are about their flaws, especially their self doubt. I'm to the point where I don't really even trust an artist that DOESN'T deal with some manner of imposter syndrome. But like, I find it extremely hard to imagine if there was something even close to like that about Conan it wouldn't have surfaced by now. though right after I posted that, I realize it would actually be kinda hilarious of it turned out that Sona somehow has had WAY more control over everything for years than we ever knew, and she's legitimately an absolute tyrant with conan. It's all been an incredibly elaborate con lol

[@yvjohns]

That is a fascinating comment, I would love to hear what other names you had on that list! As for Conan and Sona: Their interaction seems so absolutely genuine that I would consider anything truly toxic in their past downright impossible, but what about the following scenario: Conan went through a difficult time in his marriage, always had a little crush on Sona and then something (whatever it may have been) happened which they decided to never ever talk about? Not that I think that something of that kind actually happened, but I would not consider it downright impossible...

[@kevinw712]

@@yvjohns it actually kicked off with just Eddie Vedder. I was out taking a walk a couple weeks ago listening to Pearl Jam when I started to consider how much he's meant to my adulthood (TEN came out right as I started my HS sophomore year) and how hard some terrible revelation would be to hear at this point. and besides Conan, other names I'd say the likes of Henry Winkler or Mark Hamill. and well, of course I'd say probably Tom Hanks would be a really weird one to discover for most anybody. I even made a joke a few years ago that Hanks should start sleeping with one eye open anymore because Bill Hader was clearly coming to kill him and take over his long held mantel of "guy who's work you love and yes actually DOES seem to be impossibly nice and wholesome" in the business lol And while I've never been an especially big or regular SNL viewer, I do feel sort of a special affinity for Hader, because we're the same age and as I learned way after the fact, it seems we were working in many of the same production assistant circles at the same time in LA for awhile. We even both worked with Schwarzenneger on different things, though Hader did so in a closer and bit longer capacity (mine was just a few days commercial shoot). But I'm fairly certain we never worked on the same crew. While of course I don't objectively remember every other PA I ever worked with, I have a good enough memory with faces that I'm confident I would've recognized him when he got famous. and yeah I agree the Sona scenario that you posit is certainly possible, but I'd never bother to bet on the chance.

[@SynthiaVan]

Gorley carving WRAP into his forehead the whole time

[@Cursethedawn]

Wow, this went off the rails.

[@trusarmor4957]

...Waiting around smoking cigarettes, Playing Mahjong ... and reading US magazine... ' 🤣 Conan is a Mad person😆😆😆