Conan - Actual Items and Star Wars Product Placement (1997-01-31)

Conan and Andy watch a restored scene from the Star Wars Special Edition re-release involving product placement and then present some Actual Items. Originally broadcast on January 31st, 1997.

[@nextabe1]

How crazy is it that these are actual items! Imagine being on the research team and poring over newspapers, magazines, and other periodicals in the hope that there would be some absurd text in an ad. It must be so boring but when you find one, wowee, that makes it all worth it.

[@LinkRocks]

Yep all real my friend. All real.

[@IanK369]

You can't make this stuff up.

[@harrodsongs]

@@IanK369 Why would you?

[@kevhead1525]

That would be a waste of everyone's time.

[@bdre5555]

Lord I forgot how funny these actual items were. It's been a long time since the late 90s when I was watching this show

[@drummerflex]

Seeing the band back then is great! Pender still was holding on to a little hair, and the Vivino brothers and La Bamba had a lot of hair. Just seeing La Bamba without his hat is strange!

[@Onlymusical]

Louis CK concocted the "Actual Items" for Conan's show when he was a writer there back in the '90s.

[@larryjohnny]

So why does Conan always just credit Leno for this bit.. Perhaps, Do you mean Louis CK made up the funny lines? I love the one with the Persian rug ad..

[@canaisyoung3601]

@@larryjohnny He doesn't credit Leno for it. He just says this is like Leno's "Headlines" bit.

[@dionysusNME]

Did he whip out his penis then too?

[@a.calder8217]

And to think this predated the whole "The Force is with Cerveza Cristal" memes.

[@awkwardboy]

5:00 This is absolutely Ralph Wiggumy.

[@jeffeastwood15]

Unfertilized eggs don't have any sperm in the lol

[@avinotion]

That's a hen, not a rooster

[@OleanderSmoothie]

7:44 "If I weren't impotent I'd be very proud..." LOL 8:10 "Hold on to that" XD

[@windyrockbell3814]

Oh if only Conan had known about Cerveza Cristal

[@ihavesoul4real]

Andy is so peeved and cheesed off in this segment.

[@ethangoodman7086]

this is driving me nuts, what song is the weinberg 7 playing?

[@ihavesoul4real]

Ethan Goodman I need to know this as well. They really shredded that number.

[@coolethan2772]

John Short it sounds like they have a didgeridoo

[@lucastaylor5626]

Ethan Goodman Join together by the who

[@ethangoodman7086]

lucas Taylor hey thanks!

[@captainkev10]

"I Kissed a Girl" - Katy Perry

[@ScumOfCaligula]

That is a nice hat.

[@ttacking_you]

They REALLY wanted to keep that hat in Warsaw

[@ambrosiaplatypus]

Great cover of Join Together by The Who at the beginning

[@sacrilegiousboi]

louis ck is so funny

[@greg55666]

haha the Hitler joke was Louis, right? That was I thought when I heard it.

[@RichV20]

Didnt Louis also write a joke for Commemorative Quarters with one pressing saying "Coins so old you can still buy slaves with them" and it bombed? Then he cried in front of Conan afterwards.

[@justayoutuber1906]

Roosters have no effect on hens laying eggs. Hens lay the eggs we eat with no rooster involvement (unfertilized eggs).

[@LinkRocks]

*WHOOSH*

[@MaximumCarne]

Boi-oi-oing!

[@cjhs2006]

How do They Get Away With This Kinda Stuff

[@zoesmybaby]

It was the 90s, no one had the internet yet.

[@naturesinterface6663]

@@zoesmybaby - The internet is from the early eighties. www.livescience.com/20727-internet-history.html

[@thewiseoldherper7047]

Because just a few years ago people didn’t get offended by EVERYTHING! Comedy is dead today.

[@Jason_Van_Stone]

@naturesinterface you know damn well the internet didn't surface in most homes until early/mid 90's.

[@Psychocobrabilly]

Cause it aired at 12:35 in the morning.

[@DDog52]

0:34 - Now he’d be sent home and forced to stay there for two weeks. Everybody else in the studio would be quarantined too. Oh, and they’d all have masks on, like morons.

[@BobPagani]

Yup, people have to be total morons to want to avoid infection during a pandemic.

[@LinkRocks]

Imagine being an adult and acting like a bratty child over wearing a mask. I bet you're afraid of needles too. He should have been home, going to work sick isn't some sort of badge of honor, it's how viruses are spread.

[@dionysusNME]

God I love hearing intelligent people not give a shit about Star Wars