Stephen King's Thoughts on Halloween | Late Night with Conan O’Brien

(Original Airdate: 5/5/95) Stephen King talks about Halloween, other horror movies, and some of his bad story ideas.
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[@fredhignite7018]

Bill Hader would make a great Stephen King

[@kayleyraemusic]

oh man you’re right! He would be excellent.

[@cl759]

Totes, matches both in personality and physical appearance

[@yellalot101]

YES!!!!!

[@foxxshorrorside9923]

You know I never thought of that and I 100% agree with you lol hellyeahhh 🤣

[@stephenking1938]

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[@keithrice9281]

“I’m like Jessica Rabbit, I’m just drawn like that.” BARS!!

[@danielmoore8853]

Conan is definitely one of the best late night show hosts. He has a real connection with his guests on his show, unlike a lot of other late night show hosts. He actually talks to them and isn't self centered. Overall a great comedian in general.

[@tessyoung419]

I agree one hundred per cent!

[@thomashood5973]

And there a turd somewhere that is LESS stinky than the others. Get it?

[@nicolasmeca4797]

And not only that, but also the fact he is a writer so he might be fascinated with King's work. He has proven to be one of the most sensible and smart heads of the new age of Hollywood stars. For me, there's no other late night host.

[@hinterwelter]

Wrong!

[@JavierGonzalez-lp3ke]

Stephen King was completely straight-faced when he mentioned that he could never figure out what was going on in the Ladies Room 😂 🤓

[@eltravos99]

This is definitely his writing style. He comes up with a brilliant idea and then navigates it to the ending.

[@tigersgedanken1246]

yes this is brilliant, michael ende also worked like this when he wrote the neverending story@@eltravos99

[@music4real]

I love early, nervous and jittery Conan 😂

[@BarberJ95]

He was soooo cute and adorable like a scared puppy ❤😂 Conan really is a humor god 😊

[@Leo-ws6cp]

he's easily the best late night comedian for me.

[@tessyoung419]

I disagree..I think he was fantastic

[@yodrp8050]

Coked up

[@islandimus3370]

if anyone could write a story about a bathroom and make it scary it'd be Stephen king.

[@B.R.0101]

even about a vegetable soup

[@DaPoopIsInDaPudding]

Not really. His shit isn’t scary at all.

[@Voldycssm19]

@@DaPoopIsInDaPudding I think it's hard for literature to be scary, it can't jump out at you and you have to think about it a lot. Pet Sematary was scary though. One of my top 3 books

[@kransin390]

He actually wrote a short story about a tiger in the bathroom called Here There Be Tygers. Not his best work, but interesting nonetheless.

[@overlord3604]

​@@DaPoopIsInDaPudding Says the guy who got scared of IT.

[@laraven2817]

I live in Bangor, Maine and used to trick or treat at the Kings house every year. It did get really crazy after a few years. lol

[@dominika3772]

I love the oldy style od TV interviews - everything is so natural, loose and funny.

[@MadlandsMedia]

I kinda want that story to be written now.

[@carlodave9]

I would encourage you to write it! Cuz he didn’t. There is no copyright on an idea. “What if a bathroom turned predator?” Answer that in 30 thousand words and you’re a novelist.

[@Technickcall]

@@carlodave9 They could make it so when a man goes in to investigate there's nobody in there. Only when a women goes in does she disappear.

[@3rdreichball525]

Theres almost limitless ways to approach this story. Could be a haunted bathroom where a serial murder happened. Could be the entrance to an alternate dimension. Could be a sex trafficking scheme that has people abducted in the bathroom where a secret tunnel was dug. I mean you could really turn this into something if you want

[@rickardedman8836]

There's a film called Glorious (2022) that's kind on a similar theme, it's a restroom out in the middle of nowhere and this guy is having a conversation with this ancient eldritch god behind one of the toilet booths. The whole film almost only takes place in this restroom, or just outside.

[@johndick9469]

@@rickardedman8836 Yeah! You're right. I saw that on shudder. I didn't think it was great though. It was ok.

[@dafrog491]

The toilet is evil 😂. I think every former janitor myself included has said that before.

[@otteotte7698]

That's actually a really intriguing concept!

[@raradis]

Looks like a guy who needs a friend in 2022.. I'd love to hear him on your podcast, King Coco!

[@markjohnson2126]

Outstanding idea!

[@bjornervig3795]

Conan O'Brien hasn't aged. Luck of the Irish no doubt.

[@JB-hq9yj]

The 90s were magic.

[@marcusporras9571]

Haha he got Conan with that Jessica rabbit line...like...Whattt?? Hahaha

[@therevolutionwillnotbeyoutubed]

That was actually pretty funny. Criminally underrated. I didn't think King even had a funny bone in him. I think that's what caught good ol' Coco off guard. He was so smooth with it too that Conan had to think about it for a second. The quip almost went under the radar.

[@wolfhaven9312]

@@therevolutionwillnotbeyoutubed if you didn't think King was funny then you haven't really read his books. Some are disturbing (Pet Sematary, Rose Madder, Gerald's Game). Some are sad (The Stand, Dolores Claiborne, Hearts in Atlantis). And some anti-government ones (The Stand, Firestarter, The Tommyknockers) and those are the ones that have the most humor. I really enjoy the cynicism of Jim Gardner in The Tommyknockers. You can see a lot of his humor in many of his books.

[@therevolutionwillnotbeyoutubed]

@@wolfhaven9312 I've never been much of a reader but I appreciate the information because I never knew that. I feel I can tune out for a bit and get into reading again in my 30s.

[@assmane999]

Lol the commercial that played for me immediately after this clip: a toilet flushing (it was for some sanitizing spray )

[@irenesierra6876]

The Stephen King Talk Show, could be something

[@rsolsjo]

Don't know why but my brain instantly went "that's King pre-car accident".

[@darnitthelma4247]

Yep you can tell him Before and after sadly

[@seanwolfe693]

what's the difference? I can't tell.

[@42ayla]

I'd love to have a coffee with Stephen King. Of course I'd check it for poison first but I assume he'd take that as the compliment it was meant to be.

[@GorGob]

lol make him drink it first!

[@jtlemay4878]

Only Conan can get on King's level

[@driafibromyalgiafighter9342]

Absolutely love Stephen King 💜 I hope to meet him one day

[@Kevinakletva]

"NIGHT IN ZAGREB" by ADAM MEDVIDOVIĆ is Stephen Kings latest pen name fo a series that he is doing, and the first part from the series is already out. That is already his postmortem gift to readers because its supposed to be revealed after he dies. This is info from close people to him, so thats the new read we have

[@Shrooms-up6sv]

He is suffering from severe TDS.

[@UziDoesIt8818]

The toilet from hell just puts the image in my head of what Metallica's original Kill Em All album cover was supposed to be. A hand with a switchblade knife coming up out of the toilet. I love Stephen King. He is one of the best storytellers in the world and wonderful man.

[@TheKnives777]

At lest it got made into a T-shirt that got me suspended from school in the 9th grade.

[@WhiteBloggerBlackSpecs]

I've become America's Great Pumpkin 😂

[@tommytwohats8241]

Ladies Toilet sounds like a horror movie I would watch

[@Losrandir]

I think I got a tagline... Why is there ALWAYS a line? | Alternatively some more, like: Why is there ALWAYS a line? Trust us. You don't want to know... | etc.

[@Leo-sd3jt]

@@Losrandir "In this ladies room, there's never a line"

[@jmaxxtv9912]

Maybe his short story "The Moving Finger" was inspired by this...

[@yeahi7270]

HAPPY HALLOWEEN CONAN O BRIER ❤ LOVE MAN

[@Prusyakish]

I would read the shit out of The Toilet From Hell. Hope he figures it out eventually.

[@jamespittsjr9728]

Wow love Stephen King's Energy during this interview.

[@salsal435]

CONAN! CONAN!! CONAN!!! CONAN!!!!

[@jasonmurdoc9533]

He laughs at the toilet from hell, but dream catchers is kinda that at times.

[@fiotechnicalvideos9593]

After all this years Conan o’brien has not changed a bit

[@fiotechnicalvideos9593]

These

[@Bewar3them00n]

Conan’s head has carried on growing

[@colinbrown453]

The guy makes a joke on a late night talk show. 27 years after the punchline, folks from all over the world are asking him how the story ends and if they can get a copy at the bookstore.

[@tljsucks1166]

They will again in another 27 years.

[@user-ps1ft1hy4j]

Perfect explication! Great gag ... whose premise you can't quite figure out ... hmm ... *sigh*. These are very hard to let go!

[@mynameisnotearl4383]

Chucky really worked for me, that’s all I need to know.

[@cl759]

4:11 darn, it was a great movie up to there 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@timthatshim8037]

Cocaine should definitely get a royalty for all of Stephen King's work

[@Losrandir]

And good ol' alcohol

[@chaospoet]

All the drugs too. And a bonus for allowing him to write The Running Man to completion in 3 days.

[@carlodave9]

If being an addict helped, we’d have 20 million best-selling authors in the U.S. right now.

[@pjket4229]

@@carlodave9 it definitely helped him back in the day 😂

[@timthatshim8037]

@@carlodave9 you have to have talent first

[@berryblulight]

it s kind of like the concept of 1408 his movie about a hotel room with John Cusack and Samuel L Jackson

[@osmankovacevic6135]

This last bit summs up the whole Steven King universe. A perfect pitch that gets you hooked enough so that when you see it's going nowhere you'll still finish it because of the hook. I guess he never knew where does it go for any of his books.

[@MrFacundo7]

Stephen's the best!

[@wednesdayaddams1356]

💀👍🏻

[@Richman-iw4tv]

This was definitely during Kings Coke days.

[@AmericanaNinja]

Why does Stephen King look like Mark Hamill and even has his mannerisms XD

[@tadlee4928]

King is hilarious 😅

[@bahiya94]

I so wanna an ending to that story !

[@jacekszychowski4919]

It was an evil toilet ;)

[@wednesdayaddams1356]

@@jacekszychowski4919 true 💀👍🏻

[@42ayla]

Some of the best stories don't have an ending. That let's the listener come up with what's scariest to them. They're the most horrifying.

[@Grave_Digger606]

It’s the spirit of a bullied, “peeping Tom” (one of those pee fetish types) teen who was drowned in an aggressive “swirly” incident. He is now coming through the plumbing to exact revenge, specifically targeting women, because they always rejected him and his disproportionately large nose and were creeped out when he would ask to watch them “do their business.”

[@bahiya94]

@@Grave_Digger606 naah.

[@nomu5873]

this sounds so fire wtf?? someone write this

[@rciesi1]

“The Bathroom Stallker”

[@prologueofzinachia7123]

1:23 WHAT?! 1:38 What the angsibutongs?!!!

[@ryukoros]

So did they actually figure an ending for it? (wait is this before or after the book IT was published?)

[@rig-zag]

This is years after It.

[@TheCandiceWang]

Amazanggggggggggggg

[@erikcal9097]

We will never understand the greatest of minds.

[@craigmelia4973]

I saw the thumbnail and thought King had been for a trip on the wheel from Fairy Tale

[@calylynnwalker03]

The toilet from hell, sounds like something he and mrs.king should collaborate on. I'd definitely read it.

[@TheVeiledCollective]

So i could have listened to King outlining the story for the ladies bathroom for another hour! My mind was already racing just from the concept. Although personally, its also cool NOT to know what was in that bathroom....my mind will happily fill in the blanks and write its own fiendishly dark ending. Sounds like a perfect short little number from his 1990s collection 'Nightmares and Dreamscapes'. Are there any May 2024 people here with Kings new short story collection 'So You Like It Darker'?

[@numba2bvi]

@3:30 flash forward to today 😂😂 Anyone can go into anyone’s bathroom now - that’s the real horror 😂😢

[@darnitthelma4247]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@singin8324]

What a classic story about the toilet in the airport, I would have loved to have read that one.

[@singin8324]

@@dairylife8094 My reply was sarcastic which means you're missing the point, so don't try and be clever.

[@mikeypsychclown5345]

I write very dark poetry like once you see what inside of my eyes you won't be alive to tell anyone but me until you see mikey

[@DAC2254]

😂😂😂😂❤

[@therevolutionwillnotbeyoutubed]

This definitely has to be his blow phase. Looks like every cokehed at my local dive.

[@lucasFranks-ex7kb]

Zith Aura Roth was here!!!

[@SteeeeveC]

Guess that creepy writing comes very naturally to him.

[@BetoAzamar]

I am still think wtf is going on in the fking toilet :D

[@midwestdepressed]

gat damb jenious

[@carsilk2492]

Weird stoner moment: I just watched The Mask again and I noticed one of the songs in the credits is cool, it's called (I Could Only) Whisper Your Name, and it's by Harry Connick Jr. After randomly clicking on this because I love Stephen King and Conan, I also see HCJr is the other guest😂

[@bobthompson8053]

I would have like to have heard the end of that ladies room story.....there must be one in that mind of his somewhere.....

[@heru-deshet359]

Man! I think Jim Carey could play King in a bio pic.

[@Growline1122]

Alan Wake in real life

[@koreanpathfinder]

It was a langolier.

[@foxxy_boxxy6662]

Alittle bit of an awkward interview lol love them both tho

[@joeschmo2693]

Mid-period King meets early Conan - Anonymous 20th century historian

[@MOOCOODOO]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@eivindgjengstjohansen9625]

David lettermans clean shaved twin brother

[@dannydinosaur73]

Ghoulies in the toilet. They'll get you in the end!!

[@anothermonday5664]

Surprised that he didn't mention he threw the first few chapters of Carrie in the trash and his wife had to dig it out.

[@jacktorrance9973]

Stephen King top scary ❤️❤️❤️

Are they really in a skyscraper? I’ve never been in one before.

[@charlesburian1764]

I also hate Halloween

[@j_go.]

He didn't crawl under the desk that much back then.. Conan, I mean. Don't know about King. I know what happened to the bathroom goers. They screamed because they found Heaven (the place, not the experience) in the restroom and were happy 'bout it.

[@kewkabe]

Don't they have dentists in Maine? (1:02)

[@ItzTheMemeLord]

Remember when they called him steven king instead of stephen king in carrie?

[@neftaliriverajr503]

The Bathroom horror story 😮 he explained probably would have been a great boook Aweee Stephen why didn’t you finished the story? 📚 🖊️ 💻 🎃

[@kevdawg55]

tell me jim carrey wouldnt have made a great stephen king if they made a movie about him

[@timothyherlihy6480]

Wait, thats not Bill Hader?

[@leehill2306]

Bill Hader was 16 years old when this aired.

[@gitpicker9933]

Stephen king is Bob Lazar

[@johndick9469]

Hey. That ladies' room story didn't sound half bad.

[@eazyridin7283]

The bathroom attendant is working for the Devil and sends them out a back door straight to hell , or an Angel n let’s them board early 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@ad-libbingwiththezman]

Did he use that as a concept in a published story since then? If its not the pristinity of his years-perfected finesse that makes it sound familiar, I'm at a loss as to the real cause.

[@BroPortal]

It's similar to House of Leaves.

[@juliaahn2783]

오 브라이언 젊었을 때 잘 생겼었구나,,

[@d00med74]

👀

[@katrinabill8247]

Ending idea for that last one: every woman’s fear of a snake in the toilet

[@kenweis7913]

King was the king of cocaine

[@the_ag_101]

Exactly. The man is solely known for his cocaine addiction, and nothing else! Unlike, for example, the illustrious and, in all aspects, utterly unique and memorable Mr. Ken Weis.

[@carriesee8547]

Stephen King is a hero super author. My favorite. Of all time tbh. Makes me scared, amused, and intrigued all at the same time. Just wish he’d take a stance on politics loud and proud. I fear democracy is on the line. I know he will be ok, but the rest of the country…

[@smshah232]

Oh come on man don't politicize the STEVIE

[@kerryrobinson9947]

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

[@AnAmericanGirl4Sure]

I like his books, don't care much for his politics...

[@spencer1980]

Even with all these years under your belt, you couldn't help but try and poison the well with half-truths and stories. The reason I love Jess is because we can inherently feel each other. We know each other by virtue of what we are. Something you'll never be able to feel. Zigned with hatred -the zoro-

[@spencer1980]

I am making a stand. I stand against lilith, and I stand for eve. Jess and Jessus have defeated you infinitely many times prior, and we'll defeat you this time. As we always have.

[@spencer1980]

If it didn't happen, if congress is already dead, if it was all fake I fall asleep imagining all the things I'll do to you people. This will end eventually. What's your plan for when I win?

[@Eviyl]

@@spencer1980 - did you forget to take your pills?

[@guyinpajamapants6892]

He’s become a cremudgeon.

[@user-ds6py6hh3q]

司会者あんまり好きじゃない、性格悪いの顔に出てる...

[@ctwatcher]

They should have left him on the road for the kids to have a chance. He's shown us what he is. Shun it.

[@michaelfoley9904]

Another woke celebrity, Steven King.

[@ethanbutler3986]

Wow let me guess your part of the right

[@michaelfoley9904]

@@ethanbutler3986 nope, but what else would you call him when he says there is more than two genders and you can choose your gender. Rubbish.

[@ethanbutler3986]

@@michaelfoley9904 alright didn’t know he said that guess you’re right

[@wolfhaven9312]

@@michaelfoley9904 he is still more talented, successful and interesting than any of your "keystone klan". Hating a guy for having an opinion that differs from yours... The mark of the bumbling trumper. Another prick with no wall as those British folks were saying!

[@SuperThomaspaine]

How many hints does this creep author have to drop for people to catch on that he's, as Conan said, a monster? That's all his did the whole interview.

[@aaronharbort6972]

Hes above Conans shit.