Zoolander’s Gas Fight Is One Of The Funniest Things Conan's Ever Seen | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

Ben Stiller reveals that he found an original, more shocking, cut of the “Zoolander” gasoline fight.
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[@jokatal]

I love when he says they died in a "freak gasoline fight accident" later in the movie.

[@toronado455]

Yes, during the Ugoogley 😂 It's an awesome line. My favorite thing in that movie is the DJ at the Funeral so that when Hansel makes his entrance, he plays his "Hansel" theme.

[@Salsa_Shark]

@@toronado455 Hansel, so hot right now.

[@mtvesguerra]

Hahaha I read this in Zoolander’s voice 😅

[@rideonemgxr]

Zoolander is so quotable. " Sting would be another person who's a hero. The music he's created over the years, I don't really listen to it, but the fact that he's making it, I respect that"

[@Chalepastel]

but WHY male models?

[@toronado455]

😂 one of the best lines!

[@ArchibaldClumpy]

I can imagine the current president saying that word for word, funny enough he's in Zoolander

[@Chalepastel]

@@ArchibaldClumpy read it in the voice, it tracks "Sting... what a guy... what a great guy..."

[@clicheguevara5282]

I'm a musician and I quote that all the time when I'm talking about genres of music that I respect but don't personally like.

[@thedarkknight2221]

Ever since I first saw this movie when I was 13 years old, I still cannot hear “Wake Me Up Before You Go Go” without thinking about the gasoline fight.🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@chpalen]

Jitterbug!

[@rickj.392]

they were killed in a freak gasoline fight accident...

[@jkap34]

Specifically "ORANGE MOCHA FRAPPUCHINO!"

[@elizabethschuler8890]

Same. I’m 41 now.

[@007NowOnline]

Same 😂

[@chafida]

I also loved the fact that they got David Duchovny fresh from the X-Files to do a 3 minute cameo as a conspiracy theorist/hand model

[@brennanbuglioni2821]

But why male models?

[@xerxes9929]

Always my favorite part of the movie for some reason😂 David Duchovny is just so awesome, and when you see him in that role for the first time it makes you like him even more. Cracks me up so much😂

[@BoomSlang001]

It's the perfect straight man character at the perfect time in the movie. It kills me and is still quotable today.

[@VanderbiltMr]

He thinks differently than the face and body boys.

[@Teeveepicksures]

when it first came out you hadnt seen him in awhile so it made it even better

[@ApesAmongUs]

As funny as the gasoline fight is, it will never amuse me as much as the memorial statue of the gasoline fight at the end.

[@desisshadow314]

When I first watched the movie I came in right AFTER the gasoline fight.. so the end statue confused the hell out of me.. so my first FULL watch, absolutely killed me.

[@Tonyhouse1168]

“HOW DO YOU EXPECT KIDS TO LEARN TO READ GOOD IF THEY CAN’T EVEN FIT INSIDE THE BUILDING!?!?!?!?!!!”

[@brendanmcgovern988]

“What is this, A CENTER FOR ANTS?!”

[@kolesteele4242]

@@brendanmcgovern988lmfao my favourite line…..

[@Eschubable]

He’s absolutely right! 🤷🏼

[@MatthewEdessa]

Mugatu is hands down the best character in the movie

[@livinginvancouverbc2247]

@@MatthewEdessa Mugatu, is hands down in Zoolander 2. 😃

[@dolphy1978]

The coal mining family scenes are the real gold of that movie.

[@JasonOfStrat]

*Cough Cough* "I think I'm getting the black lung"

[@TheSkyHive]

As someone born and raised in West Virginia....both sides of my family are/were coal miners....I couldn't agree with you anymore. That weakling little dry cough leading him to believe he had black lung 😅

[@dolphy1978]

The expression on Jon Voight’s face as he’s watching his son’s “Moisture is the essence of wetness” commercial is the single funniest moment in the film.

[@Zer0Fall3n]

I always think MERMAN! Lmao this movie is burned in my mind 😂

[@andreww5278]

Who’s winning the match? … state

[@Chalepastel]

ORANGE MOCHA FRAPUCCINOOOO!!!

[@don0612]

When you realize they’re just reading the whole menu as one item and ordering that lol

[@cdbsk76]

Jitterbug!

[@finks1]

People forget that not only is Zoolander a hilarious movie, but the reason I believe it did so incredibly well was because it was the first comedy to come out after 9/11 and the country really needed to find something to laugh about. I’ll always appreciate Zoolander and Ben for that.

[@Starburst514]

Full agree 😂 it was so hilariously outrageous, I didn't even like that kind of humor as a kid but I was laughing hysterically when my dad took us to watch it

[@thelobsterdome]

A masterclass in "this way is funny, this way is not", yet Conan is bellowing with laughter at the idea of the original cut.

[@noelv1976]

Because it's a complete opposite of the original. It's funny to think they shot a version of his friends dancing while being burned alive.

[@Salsa_Shark]

A freak gasoline fight accident.

[@ruggedmeetsrefined5345]

One of my favorite things to watch is Ben Stiller’s late father, Jerry Stiller’s Seinfeld outtakes/bloopers with Julia Louis Dreyfus. Jerry Stiller is so good as an actor that she cannot hold it together without laughing.

[@Salsa_Shark]

“Maury Ballstein, Balls Models.”

[@jeremychambers7861]

I love the mention of the stunt folk actually on fire... then "meh not going to use this!"

[@kevincorso9757]

well now i want to see the other cut of the gasoline fight 😂 zoolander is one of my most beloved comedy movies ever lol

[@knIfebOmb769]

Zoolander and Tropic Thunder are two of my favorite films of all time. This man is brilliant. Can’t wait to see what he does next.

[@alexistrebexis3195]

Omg, I SO agree! I cried laughing when I first saw that. How the first guy sneakily pulls the nozzle out and sprays another guy while laughing. 😂

[@drummond13]

My wife and I showed this to our ten-year old son recently and we were laughing hysterically during this scene. Afterwards, our son lit into us, saying, "I don't understand why THREE OF HIS FRIENDS DYING is supposed to be FUNNY!" And we couldn't think of how to explain it to him because he actually had a reasonable point. The next scene is Derek at their joint funeral tearfully saying goodbye. It was hard to get across the him the humor of the absurdity, which I can't really blame him 100% for.

[@danielwilliams7562]

Good kid

[@Tonyhouse1168]

@@drummond13 have you shown him Clue yet? That’s a film filled with absurd, hilarious deaths

[@drummond13]

@@Tonyhouse1168 Not yet, but it's high on our list. Maybe it will be better set up, since it's a murder-mystery movie. I think the extremely sudden death of three happy characters was part of what got to him.

[@kstepko]

To him, it really was a freak accident.

[@darkevilazn]

He's a good kid, but perhaps too young and innocent for dark humor.

[@jasoncarrick5461]

For me The Cable Guy was that movie where I realized just how dark you could go while being funny and it was just so original that it blew my mind. I love that movie so much.

[@gregorio87]

That movie is severely underrated I think... That or underappreciated, I'm not sure which one.

[@Dhnendndjdjjxn1]

Ben needs to release his cut !!!!

[@kstepko]

I saw that in the summer prior to beginning college, and was sure that it was going to be the thing that everyone was talking about. I showed up expecting to karaoke Jefferson Airplane and play Porno Password, but unfortunately, I was the only one.

[@JamesEvans2023]

Ben Stiller still somehow comes across as underrated to me when you are talking about directors and their range. He has some real bangers on the resume in comedy and drama and continues to produce hits.

[@noelv1976]

It's wild his movies were never nominated by the Emmy's for best comedy.

[@JamesEvans2023]

@@noelv1976 well tv shows are done by the EMMY's and movies are golden globes and oscars, but I get your point.

[@noelv1976]

@@JamesEvans2023 yeah I meant Oscars...was on the toilet when I made this comment 🤣

[@clicheguevara5282]

Underrated?? He's worth a quarter billion dollars and his movies have been _massively_ successful. Is he as celebrated as Spielberg or Kubrick? No. Of course not. ....but that doesn't mean he's "underrated". Most people know Ben as an actor because most people don't pay attention to directors in general. ...but everyone who knows about movies knows how much range Stiller has. The internet has completely BUTCHERED the word underrated. It's totally meaningless now. I've literally seen people referring to The Beatles as "underrated". Lmfao

[@JamesEvans2023]

@@clicheguevara5282 Did you miss the "to me" part of my statement making it a clear personal and opinionated statement? But to the things you said, I don't really care about your opinion enough to comment, you commented on my opinion, that's the difference between us. Bye...

[@wades2132]

It’s not just the funny actions of the gas fight, but it’s the WHAM song playing during it.

[@Salsa_Shark]

@@wades2132 It only works with that song!

[@wades2132]

@@Salsa_Shark YEAH lol

[@carzywill]

I would pay good money to see that deleted version of the gasoline fight lol

[@Paulafan5]

It pains me that there are interesting deleted scenes we'll never get to see (for one reason or another). A lot of older movies (before DVDs), they'd often toss the unused footage because there was no reason to keep it.

[@bigdreams5554]

I would love an "ultimate collector's edition" of this. I am afraid I will laugh anyway, just like Conan did, lol

[@heathersumner4766]

The gasoline fight never fails to make me cry laughing

[@michaelnolan6054]

1:55 Ben- “In the year 2000” goes unacknowledged.

[@niksand4]

Lol right!

[@dontioraul6946]

lol wow!

[@VSaccount]

1:48

[@Crimedawg27]

Probably because NBC owns that bit. He either Men in Blacked it from his brain or didn't want to give them credit.

[@HOTD108_]

You got the timestamp wrong, Michael.

[@Robpool2000]

Not gonna lie, whenever I put gas in my car I always worry I’m gonna hear that song and someone is gonna light up a cigarette.

[@whyitmatterstome]

Ben is clearly has a highly intelligent mind for comedy and in general - only the brightest acknowledge the collaborative nature of success.

[@KayRo101]

Thay gasoline fight was my introduction to alexander skarsgård and the beginning of quite an obsession 😂

[@Cheeselord83]

PSA to advertisers: Making long unskippable ads means I avoid your products 100% of the time.

[@alexanderball6326]

Not disagreeing with what you said, but you can always fast forward through the ad

[@jcout25]

PSA to you....adblock plus and you'll never see another ad again. I've haven't once seen an ad on youtube since their inception. Not once.

[@tishamac529]

Makes sense! Definitely Conan’s style of humor cause I swear he’d walk out on stage every night with THAT energy especially with the awkward skits! Saw the show in person once. Had an amazing time! Had to correct some grammar as Conan is only serious about one thing and that is grammar.

[@drestotv4444]

Interesting synchronicity, just last week I watched Zoolander for the first time in my life and me and my wife we had a blast 😂 Ben Stiller is amazing and has a great sense of humor ❤

[@h0lly_blue]

1:27 for Conan cackling at pain

[@dontioraul6946]

i was looking for a comment about this hahahaaha

[@CoryFalde175]

"The files are INSIDE the computer"

[@garyi.1360]

Walter Mitty is a great movie. I wish more people appreciated it.

[@danieldanieldadada]

Nah it was boring. I like the premise but it was boring. Couldn't finish it. Wouldn't recommend it to anyone. Not even to my enemies.

[@Tonyhouse1168]

One of my absolute favorites. Action, comedy, thoughtfulness…it’s just an all around great moviw

[@jonm.1030]

💯Walter Mitty is definitely underrated and one I find has more meaning as time goes on.

[@thecompanioncube4211]

It’s always my feel good movie when I’m down

[@Tonyhouse1168]

@@garyi.1360 🎶 ground control to Major Tom..🎵

[@Edyth_Hedd]

Zoolander is good, but my favorite Ben Stiller movie is still Dodgeball. Absolutely brilliant.

[@franciet99]

“Something about Mary” for me. 😂😂😂

[@Coastfog]

"Eins, zwei, Hasselhöff!"

[@Paulafan5]

*bleeping Chuck Norris!

[@Ccthomas-ks1hn]

White Goodman is one of my all time favorite comedic characters. So many hilarious quotes

[@Moekoffee2001]

“We got a bleeder!!!”

[@mirr1984]

Frank and beans!!

[@alhollywood6486]

How'd you get the Frank under the beans?!

[@Firm-Tofu-King]

Fallout 3 raider -

[@joseburgos9020]

That's Something About Mary

[@paradoxparade1]

@@Moekoffee2001 Damn, now you've reminded me of that creepy fridge scene from "Requiem For A Dream". We've got a winner...

[@shiryu22]

zoolander made me want to be a male model maybe in a next life! put this in my eugoogily

[@Mr.Mikson]

"But why male models?"

[@Tonyhouse1168]

Oh, you didn’t think I know what a eugoogily is?

[@franciet99]

👩‍🍳

[@Coastfog]

​​@@Mr.Mikson But why male models?

[@Coastfog]

@coastfog Are you serious?

[@JayKay-f3p]

The gasoline fight is one of the funniest things I've ever seen and listening to Ben explain the outtake just takes it to another level.

[@joshualovins4983]

Ben stiller has made such unique films. We are missing that in todays cinema. His show severance is exactly the type of uniqueness we are missing. He is a genius. I don't even find him personally funny but his movies are hilarious and amazing

[@dontioraul6946]

i find him so funny, especially in meet the parents and starsky in hutch

[@paradoxparade1]

🎶 Wake me up before you Co-Co! 🎶

[@evilincoln23]

If you look up the alternate end credits sequence, when you get to the point where they credit the three guys you can see a couple quick frames of them on fire. I assume it’s from the sequence they cut.

[@ShadeNinja2990]

It’s so absurd it’s the funniest thing ever

[@juliaf5839]

I remember one time i was watching zoolander and my mom had seen it before and commented , " Have they gone to the gas station yet?" they obviously hadn't since those characters were still alive. One of the funny memories I have of the time before my Mom passed away..

[@ShirleyPotts-ud3nb]

I just love Conan O'Brien he's very special and talented

[@Dhnendndjdjjxn1]

It was surprisingly not included in the deleted/extended scenes, must’ve just *really* not worked tonally Also what a full life Ben’s lived to not be able to recall that until reminded

[@vibangigan5336]

One of my favorite family moments is all of us together watching Zoolander and my brother and sister and I all in tears crying laughing that whole movie.

[@rejachemno]

Hearing Conan describe those scenes makes me realize how funny they truly were when I watched them for the first time

[@paradoxparade1]

Did you ever think that maybe there's more to life than being really, really… really ridiculously good looking? 🤔🤔

[@noelv1976]

I busted out laughing the moment he mentioned the gasoline scene. It is definitely one of the funniest scenes in movie history. Right up there with the hair gel in There's Something About Mary.

[@ron6625]

The first time I saw that scene, I laughed so hard. To this day, it is one of the top 10 funniest/hardest laugh moments of my life. So good.

[@benf1111]

Ben's skit as Tom Cruise's stunt double is gold.

[@Rob_Dekker]

So Ben is sitting on some great Zoolander footage 😢

[@Paulafan5]

Conan is the best because he allowed funny people to be funny without stepping on their joke. He would play into their jokes instead of trying to steal a laugh for himself (like some talk show hosts do). From Norm Macdonald to Will Ferrell to Paul Rudd, he just was their to support the joke. Gotta look up the Ben Stiller bits. It's been a while since I've seen them.

[@Operation_Agatha]

Ben Stiller is awesome! I love his movies! Tropic Thunder was epic!

[@desisshadow314]

Fun thing I'll always remember about Zoolander is that I came in right after the gas fight, so the end statue always confused me.. and then when I rewatched it I couldn't stop laughing.

[@callmeshaggy5166]

0:48 Conan beginning to giddy laugh at learning a secret

[@ltaylor2799]

The most hilarious part of that gasoline fight now is realizing its serious actor Alexander Skarsgard 😂 “orange mocha frappuccino”

[@Logan8x]

One of the funniest unexpected scenes ever

[@kcmichelson4528]

"You could never make Tropic Thunder today!". Bro you couldnt make it in 2008 lol but they still did.

[@ArchibaldClumpy]

You couldn't make Tropic Thunder today, people would be like "hey your movie is just Tropic Thunder, they made that 15 years ago"

[@nnjjee1]

They MUST release the extended burn cut

[@CyclopsWasRight616]

they actually have the Zoolander gas fight in World of Warcraft, in the Goblin starting area. You'll see it. It's amazing.

[@cry2love]

In that Gas Fight Scene Zoolander was saved by his own narcissism🤣 by picking up the magazine that roasted him

[@YouFightLikeACow]

I need to see that cut of the gasoline fight.

[@_mic_audio]

After I that scene, I bought the DVD and kept playing 😂😂😂

[@tophergoeson]

A freak gasoline fight accident!

[@CharlesBukowski-m1o]

As a 51-year-old, I can't believe the odds of this showing up on Conan's broadcast just after I saw the scene for the first time in years! I remember the 1980s at 10 years old. I don't know how they make the goofiness of that with a tragic explosion that killed three people, ha ha ha?! (Hey, people looking for a fight, it's just a movie!)

[@forthepeople1664]

The scene where they escalate to underwear showmanship is one of the best parts of any comedy.

[@nnydepp]

So iconic that a song is named out of it by It Dies Today, lol Freak Gasoline Fight Accident.

[@skysurfer5728]

I laughed so hard I couldn't breathe the first time I saw that

[@frankdux5785]

Ben stiller needs to bless us again with comedy… tropic thunder, meet the parents, something about mary, starsky and hutch, cable guy, heartbreak kid, etc, etc, guys resume is insane.… hell i just watched “envy” again couple weeks ago and it was so much better than i remembered despite it being looked at as a low point im pretty sure…. So i Watched “nutcrackers” when it came out with high hopes to see a new comedy from stiller and felt like a soggy deflated husk of a man afterwards! What happened?! Please come back Stiller!!

[@golbez3794]

imagine how awesome it must have been having jerry stiller for a father

[@Yumi_G]

In the year 2000😂

[@allocater2]

omg release the cut version!!

[@ophelias4172]

I love Zoolander. I still use the term “really, really, really, ridiculously good looking” to describe those kind of actors I personally find impossibly attractive.

[@JuanCarlosLTO]

One of the most underrated comedy movies of all time.

[@GastenX]

Alexanders Skarsgards big break! =)

[@nemirm]

why do i want to watch the other version of them burning and dancing in slow motion? 😂

[@theycallmethesoandso]

I want to see the full scene in a masterclass! 😂

[@teesrakinara]

Who can forget "Blue Steel" look.

[@SK-oh9ui]

I preferred Le Tigre 😂

[@Steambull1]

I was a fan of Stiller in the 2000s, when he was popular, yes, but also kinda hated by a lot of people due to being so visible in Hollywood's comedy output. He definitely wasn't everyone's cup of tea, I remember being the only one on a film forum / review site that regularly spoke up for him. That was when I still watched new movies. I remember hearing the word "shart" for the first time in Along Came Polly, laughing my ass off at that exchange and how Seymour Hoffman's character came across in general. There were memorable, funny moments even in films like Envy ("up... up and away!") that definitely weren't critical successes, and kind of all over the place with their writing and style. Besides his trademark neurotic guy and fully hammed up roles like Zoolander, Ben actually makes a great straight man when paired up with other comedians. He was great in his Curb episodes, too. I suddenly feel like re-watching some of his films - maybe Mystery Men and Keeping the Faith, and also some that I don't remember anything about, like Duplex.

[@Cheekiemoney]

The first Zoolander is one of the best comedies ever made. The sequel is one of the worst.

[@charlesselby3559]

Ben stiller is one of the greatest comedy movie creators. His catalogue is massive (that's what she said)

[@DTNNooby]

this reminds me of a discussion i had once when someone said "violence isnt funny" when watching a movie, but then sometimes it is. its because in movies where the bad guys go flying, hit a thing do a spin then hit another thing then splat on the ground. it's way funnier than just kicking someone in the face.

[@DTNNooby]

watching people get hurt isnt funny, watching people get absolutely wrecked is.

[@SuperJoshuaWorld64]

MERMANNN

[@W0LFRAVEN-]

Gasoline fight by far my favorite scene in the whole movie.

[@florete2310]

More Ben Stiller pleeeeease!!!❤

[@RichardLearnsGames]

The very concept of the gasoline fight is hilarious. All they had to do was execute it, and they did and it is one of the funniest things in moviedom.

[@adorednes560]

Zoolander 1+2 are two wonderfully brilliant, stupid films. Comedy masterclass. Great cast and everyone is brilliantly funny. Ben Stiller's films are just great fun.

[@herbstencil]

Good segment guys.

[@wingflex5367]

This clip needs to be at least 3 times longer then this.

[@Brendonbradford]

I want to see that cut now!

[@spincut13]

OMG; learning about the alt gasoline fire season was worth every second of that You’re Invited Ad (I don’t mind the sponsorship/conan fueled ad breaks, just that the movie was a dud😅)

[@livinginvancouverbc2247]

ka-*BOOM!* "Oops"

[@alex0589]

There was a heavy band that had a song called “freak gasoline fight accident” I thought it was a super metal title until i saw zoolander and understood how funny the reference was

[@milpool001]

RIP Brent, Brint and Meekus. So tragic.

[@teebles]

omg release the horrific version! it sounds TERRIBLE but I want to see it

[@dustinfenimore3077]

Mer-man!

[@radhiadeedou8286]

I miss his movies

[@PaperHamburgers]

I’ll take 12 more hours of this convo please and thankyou!

[@_D_P_]

I need that scene released.

[@Scuba4Steve]

Zoolander is one of favorite movies

[@Tom-it6gi]

I want to see that other version.