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[@DungusTheFungus]

I love how unapologetically esoteric and weird Werner Herzog is, he will never give a straight answer. He's a weird genious with a strange talent

[@Machinedead]

he should totally work with Jeff Goldblum and Joaquin Phoenix on a project, they are all made for eachother

[@lewiscranston881]

Machinedead On the subject of Joaquin Phoenix, Herzog actually saved his life once.

[@h.plovecat4307]

@@lewiscranston881 :o...

[@stephanclemens2348]

@@lewiscranston881 And as usual it's one hell of a story

[@beastmodesalvia]

@@Machinedead he has dwelt amongst the humans...

[@TweedSuit]

"I'm clinically sane." He directed Klaus Kinski in six films and lived. What more evidence do you need?

[@skeletonbuyingpealts7134]

Also tried to burn him alive

[@aaron4820]

"It was not a significant bullet."

[@TheMikenanners]

No it WAS not

[@greenghost2008]

"I'm clinically sane." Always weird to hear someone say.

[@brdynali]

its one of his most famous lines, from a documentary he made. it was a joke.

[@julioverne579]

"Im clinically sane" - says the guy Klaus Kinski thought of as utterly mad. Klaus Kinsky said that about Herzog in the 80s

[@Ganiscol]

It only counts when you have it stamped on your forehead anyway.

[@Freakazoid12345]

I have naive schizophrenia, so that's not so hweird.

[@MBBurchette]

Says the guy that hauled a 300 ton riverboat over a mountain in the Amazon jungle.

[@UndeadSon]

I wonder what goes on in the minds of those viewers who have no idea who Werner Herzog is and never saw his movies or interivews. This man is so funny in such a bizarre way.

[@Mazurka1001]

..and that's @bout 98% of North America. heck, I have met plenty of, mostly younger, new Germans, who never heard of dear old Wernah.

[@ftwi1]

Mazurka1001 snow flake generation who only watches avengers

[@marianneotott3071]

He is really the best! 🤗

[@vaahtobileet]

@@ftwi1 Unlike you genius who watches talk show clips on KZbin.

[@ftwi1]

@@vaahtobileet Thank God I’m genius thanks man 🙏🙏

[@deusignis7582]

Herzog would be the best ASMR artist.

[@marcelbork92]

Rather an LGBT artist. LOL

[@vaahtobileet]

@@marcelbork92 Can you explain the joke, Marcel?

[@krisj827]

Conan + Herzog = comedy gold

[@brianr6651]

Paul F Tompkins has really stepped up his impression

[@ninetendopesaitama2107]

Herzog heard his impression and liked it. "Very funny written but the german accent could be better." ☮️

[@viktorpuchinger9741]

I love the way he tells stories

[@danielguinan6643]

Werner is a phenomenon! What a first class filmmaker is all about!

[@Machinedead]

that movie where Werner Herzog plays Werner Herzog trying to hunt down the Loch Ness monster is hilariously mezmerizing

[@jamesb5764]

“Incident at Loch Ness”. Incredible in its weirdness and meta-ness. And, of course, it’s Loch Ness.

[@Kroko84]

​@@jamesb5764 I'm a little late to the party, but I like what you did there.

[@njnjhjh8918]

I hadn't heard of that one, thanks!

[@TheStockwell]

At 2:43 the music is the opening vorspiel/prelude to Wagner's "Das Rheingold." Herzog used the music forty years earlier in his 1979 remake of F.W. Murnau's "Nosferatu." You're welcome.

[@maniak1768]

It gives the birth-of-the-internet idea this nice feeling of mysticism. Very good music choice indeed. On the other hand, you could make a Taco Bell commercial or literally anything seem awesome and grandiose if you'd just accompany it with a Wagner piece.

[@iosonoguerra]

"Does the internet dream of himself?" Never thought about it...

[@mysticfellow9843]

@ThatOneAsianBroChick That's what I thought lol

[@donnerschwein]

@ThatOneAsianBroChick he clearly took inspiration from that title. But when you think about it ... when you interpret "dreaming" with "computing algorithms" and think about the future I'm leaning towards "yes" to answer the rhetoric question. 🧐

[@kiddbrothers]

My brother and I played music in the documentary "Lo and Behold." It's an interesting film. It was cool to meet Director Herzog.

[@bodenlosedosenhose1590]

Do androids dream of electric sheep?

[@FerdinandCesarano]

Herzog has heard Paul F. Tompkins's impression, and has offered his congratulations.

[@DelightLovesMovies]

Werner Herzog is such a brilliant and interesting man, I love him and his films.

[@maniak1768]

I love that the scene of that guy explaining the ugly machine is accompanied with Wagner's Rheingold prelude for some reason.

[@jazminratzlaff5357]

Love it when Conan and Werner get together, comedy gold and phenomenal storytelling/ antidotes. Hilarious and Werner has that serious sarcasm. 😍🥰😘😆🤣😂❤️ 👏🏻

[@kevingibson2519]

This man has such a cool voice. It's perfect for Documentaries about Tech

[@NomeCultJoe]

how was this hall of fame director's interview second to cobie smulders?

[@kotkaconforza]

She´s hot

[@NomeCultJoe]

Daniel 1 1st interview = longer interview

[@Francophone974]

In show business they say "legend for last"...

[@ireneadler4925]

actually, not in this case. check out the full episode.

[@Machinedead]

more time to stare at those.... uh.. earrings

[@rr7firefly]

I remember when Brother Theodore would sit across from David Letterman, scowling crazily and sometimes going into a rage by something David said. Those were the days.

[@newsungsails3651]

Check out Heart of Glass. The cast perform under hypnosis, it is based on a Bavarian folktale, and it features glass blowing, yodeling, and a fight with an invisible grizzly bear. What more could you want? Also features dystopian prophecy.

[@amalgamaxx]

I wish more people were as smart as werner

[@Daniel_Zalman]

He is on twitter. He's lying. It's Werner Twertzog on twitter.

[@Vank4o]

2:15 It's called Shitter, but only Eric Cartman and Alec Baldwin are on it.

[@HumanCapybara]

Why is Paul F Thompkins on Conan dressed as an old man??

[@UnknownUPO]

He's getting really Method here

[@MrDukeSilverr]

Tompkins sounds nothing like Herzog

[@Tubomiro]

2:44 Das Rheingold! Wie GEIL!!

[@beeftwinkie2198]

Paul F Tompkins does the best impersonation of Werner

[@Freakazoid12345]

Looking it up now! Thanks.

[@PiedrasdeSopa76]

"Does Internet dream of itself?"

[@Armentitron]

I read that once Joaquin Phoenix was in a bad car wreck and he was rescued and pulled from the car by someone who later turned out to be Werner Herzog. Herzog apparently tried to downplay his part in the rescue and vamoosed.

[@LouisEmery]

I think an intellectual should interview Werner Herzog. These talk show hosts try to turn it into comedy because they think the audience would not understand anything else. Just when I think something will turn interesting, the host stops it short and tries to make it funny. Johnny Carson would had done a good job.

[@ViperRob]

He had a great interview on WTF w/ Marc Maron recently, look it up :D

[@GiantSandles]

I don't know much about Herzog other than he's a filmmaker and he saved Joaquin Phoenix's life once apparently, so thanks for that

[@bladerunner_77]

So creative. Totally nuts!

[@Bokaj1026]

Bounty hunting is a complicated profession

[@metalandhorror]

Wtf is Werner doing on conan, he's finally getting some acknowledgement i guess.

[@emeertz]

He's been on the late night circuit since the 80s.

[@TheJeanean]

Lol that “well …”

[@ballconei4879]

Should have asked him if he's ever seen a ghost.

[@radicaladz]

I used to break up and scrap computers like that for a living. Tend to get very dusty, and they're so damn heavy.

[@ZombryaTheDark]

I really liked him on the boondocks

[@999titu]

Those who have watched his work, know that he is a genius

[@crocopontifex4034]

Wearing a Bavarian Trachten Jacket, niiiice ;)

[@Taleton]

Herzog… a great Human!

[@zombi3907]

This is great source material for Paul F Tompkins.

[@JXEditor]

Does the internet dream of electric sheep

[@ignominoussidereus4103]

That good lo' bastard engaged Popol Vuh and let them make the best music

[@obscureentertainment8303]

+KourganFTW The shot of Jonathan Harker walking along a deserted country road with mountains in the distance is what inspired me to pursue filmaking.

[@andrewroberts8139]

Sure, but check out his Yelp reviews :)

[@egraseidannogew]

Internet self awareness. Sounds like Jane from post Ender's Game (1985): Speaker for the Dead (1986), Xenocide (1990), and Children of the Mind (1994).

[@xIPatchy]

Tweeting thoughts is already a thing. It's called Shitter, and Alec Baldwin is the spokesman.

[@aert88]

yeah, I thought the same thing, he had his entire fist up the ass of some lady

[@1panna49]

The 3rd annual "Tweet Like Werner Herzog Day" is September 5, 2016. @WernerTwertzog on Twitter

[@adamlytle2615]

The idea of the internet becoming conscious is explored in the excellent Wake, Watch, Wonder trilogy by Robert J. Sawyer.

[@jwspitz35]

He sounds like Christoph Waltz's dad

[@kazuhirala]

Werner needs to do a film as a bad ass General

[@Machinedead]

well he did play a creepy crimelord in Jack Reacher

[@smkh2890]

Some random feedback and glitches could be seen as the cpu dreaming. If its down-time function is house-keeping, that could be hived off to a subnet meanwhile the cpu might boot up some old programs and start playing them!

[@marinaraman8238]

This man amazing

[@misterpopeofficial.]

It's 2019. "will the internet develop a conscienceness?" He was right.

[@marcuscrassus5034]

Is that music from the documentary from Morrowind?

[@Mmxxaamm]

South Park already tought of the Twitter toughts

[@carrrexx7190]

Love that man.

[@sebbo85]

werner loves to hear himself talking it's even worse in german cause he can talk without thinking:-)

[@kingjellybean9795]

God damn i love this man

[@TheSkyrimNinja]

conan just removed the other video O_o

[@TheSkyrimNinja]

and now it is back,why conan why...

[@TripleX205]

Why he do dis ? :(

[@nicolobird1397]

Get us a Serious JJ!!

[@Gunnumn]

I want herzog to say "My Name is Giovanni Giorgio..."

[@gregh5061]

lmaooo

[@likwideffect]

he's his very own brand of crazy

[@vincentknight27]

Does the Internet dream of sheep? That's basically what this doc is about, am I right?

[@i_dont_live_here]

Werner Herzog for world leader.

[@Losrandir]

I thought a naked zombie Klaus Kinski was going to jump out of there

[@50ShadesOfEndo]

That's not Paul F. Tompkins??

[@minwoohan4826]

Documentary-making is a complicated profession...

[@henryulric]

Are they going to lock the full interview forever? :P

[@chrismuzyka8952]

The european Christopher Walken

[@donsemo4804]

unpaired stooges. It's Arnold

[@Okey-McDokey]

It's TOTALLY true. Google Noetic Institute - thought frequency.

[@F3ND1MUS]

F3ND1MUS WAS HERE!

[@mr.wallace4193]

Dee MRI Will allow me too Tweet thoughts without the interceptive restriction of typing on a Comb - Puter 💻

[@BdR76]

The history of the internet is fascinating and whatnot, but let's not get carried away by this AI nonsense.

[@jasperfisch8652]

the internet us not even a thing. its a network

[@levelhaha]

that not nonsense at all, we had a small taste of that in early 2016, google Tay Tweets.

[@RolandMcGruner]

wasn't that more like a piece of software that read and did fancy work with the content generated by the internet (us)?

[@saintmaster22]

yeah. the internet dreaming has a pretty clear answer. it doesnt

[@sst710]

+Franklin Bluth That's what the net part of the internet means. Inter + network = internet.

[@donsemo4804]

And Master Class

[@jonledbetter4649]

Tweet thoughts directly? Sounds like something a certain somebody may already be practicing...

[@fidorover]

With that German accent, I kept wanting him to say, "It's not a toomah!"

[@kaylapreciousprincessarmst785]

.Arnold S. is Austrian, not German. The dialects are similar, but not the same.

[@guileniam]

we already do though with emoticons. Doing with thoughts isnt tht far fetched

[@rorysimpson8716]

Nobody know why stooges happen, some theorize that they began as the incestuous product of the original 3 from early television. Others cast their thoughts even further back into the darkness of prehistory from which stoogedom may have emerged, slope browed and making a mockery of the creations of an idiot god. They are an integral part of the tapestry that is the failure of all human endeavor.

[@ploidz]

I wonder how Tay bot feels about this.

[@African.empress]

I'm also clinically sane... So to say.

[@skellzzed8255]

Twitta haha!

[@kaatskillserenade]

Letterman was better with Herzog. Conan seems a little impatient and anxious with Herzog’s pace

[@ireneadler4925]

this interview was a tad awkward. I would love to see an hour-long serious jibber jabber tho :)

[@thett2368]

The creepy guy from Jack Reacher

[@gpjk4172]

And one of the greatest directors to ever live.

[@androidforce6591]

no mans sky for president...

[@jordankjallberg5720]

Doesn't he sound like Arnold schwarzenegger a little bit??

[@bertie13100]

Shrimply Pibbles?

[@andreyka64]

It's fascinating how many people think 'The Internet' is a singular thing.

[@Derek_Smallshorts]

Herzog maybe clinically sane (so to speak) but the internet ain't.

[@Machinedead]

the internet was never ready for Herzog...

[@miclazy-5m]

learn how to pronounce german names please,

[@quentinchristensen3793]

Hello, I'm Alec Baldwin, and I present you Shitter. ;)

[@CattleDekappa]

He looks like my nan

[@StridingMan]

+1 for that janker

[@msfair3625]

I know that smell.

[@RolandMcGruner]

werner and i have a very different fundamental idea of what the internet is..