The smoking writer was probably John Swartzwelder-who I think still has the record for having written the most episodes of the show. Eventually they stopped tolerating his smoking, so he went to a diner and sat in the booth and smoked and wrote there. Then, when, they banned smoking in restaurants, he bought the booth from the diner, brought it into his home, and continued writing and smoking in the booth. Eventually he stopped going to the studio except for when his scripts were finished. Then he would just drive up in his car, hand them out the window, and drive home. He's a legend in comedy, and was considered reclusive, though I know they called him on one of the commentaries and he actually answered his phone. He was cooking a steak, if I remember correctly.
His name was at the front of most of the epically amazing episodes, I noticed that as a kid. Homer gets a gun springs to mind, and the stonecutters, Frank Grimes, so many. Conan to his credit wrote the Monorail episode, which is also way up there.
I still believe John Schwartzwelder was an alter ego writers used when it was a collaborative episode. If not I'd love to see Conan interview him, the two best simpsons writers. Legends
I found what he said to be interesting cuz I live in the Dominican Republic and for a while too they only ran seasons 10-12 over and over again, I never understood why but I would also come back from school and watch those episodes every single day. And I know many fans hate those seasons but I got used to them lol
What a fan move. Sheeran could have fanboy'd in the back and asked all the question he wanted, but the excitement in his eyes getting to talk to someone he grew up loving the show Conan wrote on, asking him questions instead of being questioned. ❤
@@MonticArckeysyea! He was extremely negative, talked about his “tragic” success getting a late night TV show and then barely gave any insight into Simpsons production. Thanks for nothing.
Gotta agree. When people talk about the best sitcom of all time, or debate whether UK comedy is better than US comedy (I am British BTW), I’ll always point them to the golden era of The Simpsons.
He's also interrupting the answers. He's such a douchebag. He did make me like him at first when he asked that question, then he talks over his better in Conan who was gracious enough to let him.
Every once in a while I will return to some clips from the 90's simpson and honestly it convinces me everytime that for a brief period it was one of the best animation series ever, not only were the stories relatable and had great social commentary but the jokes were almost zucker-brothers level at how many jokes they would cram in a short episode. It really was an incredibly written show for a while.
I’d just sit there and ask Conan questions about the Simpsons for literal hours lol. Homer Goes to College imo is not only the best Simpsons episode, but one of the funniest American animation episodes ever.
The first 5 mins of it is possibly the greatest 5 mins of television ever made. Head bee guy, the box! The box! Quimby bribed with his 5000 dollar fur coat to make it go away, relax its just a simulator.... THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING! As homer caused another meltdown 😂 beyond genius writing
If I was lucky enough to be in the same room as Conan I wouldn't be able to speak, I would just cry cause he means the world to me! I wouldn't have made it through my darkest moments in life without Conan's humour! I also love his empathy and compassion for everyone. "So that’s what I wish for all of you-the bad as well as the good. Fall down. Make a mess. Break something occasionally. Know that your mistakes are your own unique way of getting to where you need to be. And remember that the story is never over."
2:38 Sona laughed so hard at that last but when noone else seemed to care or probably didn't even think of it as a joke. Shows how deep their chemistry goes and she knows exactly what he was talking about 😅😅❤❤
😂😂😂 oh please. “Musical genius”? Please don’t dilute the impact that word. There’s nothing genius about Ed. Most of his songs are crappy cliche’s and catchy rubbish. Plus the amount of times he’s been accused of plagiarism is staggering.
Bruh u don’t know nothing about ed Sheeran haha he’s incredible live. The way he’s using the loop paddle and basically being a one man band. Additionally he always sings live. You won’t find a Sheeran concert with playback. How much more talented does it get lol
@jarosbodytko6462 Wrong! Season 8 is great. Season 9 is the first season with bad episodes, but the gold over episodes produced during season 8 but released for season 9 are also classic and great. Season 10 sucks.
3:39 lol! Obviously talking about John Swartzwelder, hands down my all time favourite Simpsons staff member. He is singlehandedly responsible for a ton of the shows funniest moments
@@majeedhd5767 It was just an affable dig because I don't care for his music and therefor don't think about him ever or watch interviews with him - you should probably calm down or at a minimum learn what bragging is ;) lol
In Spain it was 14:00 to 15:00 so late lunch, I'd always have to leave during the commercial break of the 2nd episode... except for weekends and holidays, of course! They showed us 730 episodes per year when the show was less than 250 episodes old!
as someone who has seen at least one episode of the simpsons, his description of the writers' room perfectly captures the energy of 90s simpsons episodes
I think there were later seasons on a channel called Sky One, which a lot of people didn't have. I saw the odd episode and they did seem less grounded and more wacky. I think for the most part Britain got the heyday on the Simpsons in the 90s.
In Puerto Rico we had The Simpsons in the aftertoon, two episodes, obviously the spanish dub and they also had a fee seasons 9nky since many episodes would repeat. The monorail episode is my dads favorite
I lived in the UK when Simpsons was becoming popular in the US and I saw my first episode at a friends house on Sky TV (satellite) It was the episode where homer finds out he has a half brother named Herb, who runs a car manufacturing company. Don’t forget the apple sauce!
Interesting that the CBC in Canada also had two episodes of the Simpsons on after school when I was a kid. Used to be you'd get home, watch Kids in the Hall on the Comedy Network, and then switch to CBC to watch the Simpsons.
I think Conan gave us variants of “y’know it’s funny…” four times in this video. It’s his go to phrase which is almost never followed by anything funny 😆
Love how no matter what country you are from everyone's channel 4 on TV was jist called "channel 4". 1 2 and 3 all have different fancy names but its universal that we call channel 4 just that.
My generation in the UK LOVED The Simpsons. My Dad refused to pay for Sky TV so I had to give my more affluent friends blank VHS tapes and just ask them do fill it up with Simpsons episodes. I can remember at one point I had about 20 blank tapes full of Simpsons and Beavis and Butthead episodes. Conan's name always stuck out in the credits so when I found out he had a show I immediately remembered where I knew his name
Ireland was the same. One episode at 6pm on the national broadcaster (RTE 2), and because we were lucky enough to get Channel 4 too, we could also switch to their showing at 6pm in case we preferred their episode.
We had Channel 5 too but if you remember back in the analog days (before TV signals went digital) some places couldn’t pick up 5. So maybe Ed lived somewhere where he couldn’t get that channel
That’s really funny that even across the world kids were watching two episodes of Simpsons a day. I remember there was a point where the local Fox affiliate here took off the Simpsons and they got so many emails they had to bring it back. And they announced it with commercials that literally said “now stop emailing us!”
“In the UK no one had cable” That really isn’t true, the latest episodes of the Simpsons in those days were on Sky 1, which was a cable/ satellite channel.
To correct Ed (sorry to be pedantic), but BBC2 Simpsons in the late 90's/early 00's aired once a day on BBC at 6pm, except for one day a week (I think either Wednesday or Friday) where it was a double bill.
sorry to be "that guy" but ed is kinda right at 1:08m, UK/England did have satillite tv back in 98 with Sky owning first run rights to simpsons and still does due to contract with FOX. BBC only had syndication rights to older seasons and now onlder epsiodes on Channel4. I was like him too, but i watched all new epsiodes on sky one from 6PM onwards it was 2 hour simpsons feast. Conan's epsiodes like monorail was so funny and had proper storylines
It's amazing to see the proud look in Conan's eyes when he sees that his son is as successful as he is.
This fuxking comment doesn’t get enough upvotes.
@@8bitdee You are right. I'm doing my part.
I love that Ed is getting to know his dad
😂👍
That was hilarious.
The smoking writer was probably John Swartzwelder-who I think still has the record for having written the most episodes of the show. Eventually they stopped tolerating his smoking, so he went to a diner and sat in the booth and smoked and wrote there. Then, when, they banned smoking in restaurants, he bought the booth from the diner, brought it into his home, and continued writing and smoking in the booth. Eventually he stopped going to the studio except for when his scripts were finished. Then he would just drive up in his car, hand them out the window, and drive home. He's a legend in comedy, and was considered reclusive, though I know they called him on one of the commentaries and he actually answered his phone. He was cooking a steak, if I remember correctly.
It was definitely Swartzwelder
Yep. You're right.
I've read his books. Zany is the best word that comes to mind.
He was also the basis for Ron Swanson character in Parks & Rec
His name was at the front of most of the epically amazing episodes, I noticed that as a kid. Homer gets a gun springs to mind, and the stonecutters, Frank Grimes, so many. Conan to his credit wrote the Monorail episode, which is also way up there.
I still believe John Schwartzwelder was an alter ego writers used when it was a collaborative episode. If not I'd love to see Conan interview him, the two best simpsons writers. Legends
"We stopped at like Season Ten."
That's not a bad thing.
I found what he said to be interesting cuz I live in the Dominican Republic and for a while too they only ran seasons 10-12 over and over again, I never understood why but I would also come back from school and watch those episodes every single day.
And I know many fans hate those seasons but I got used to them lol
That’s the reason it got worse.
Simpsons ended S10.
@@jamiecook4288actually season 10 was the beginning of an era for the Simpsons.
It was never on bbc2 ? Was on channel 4
@dwaynedibley997 think thats showing your age diff, was defo on bbc 2
What a fan move. Sheeran could have fanboy'd in the back and asked all the question he wanted, but the excitement in his eyes getting to talk to someone he grew up loving the show Conan wrote on, asking him questions instead of being questioned. ❤
It's been said that the best CONAF episodes are the ones where Conan becomes a guest in his show, and this clip is proof of that.
love that Ed made Conan open up about himself too. So organic. Love this format.
The monorail episode is just so Conan. The humour is exactly him and you could just imagine him saying things like “the ring came off my pudding can”
The Batman exchange with Homer and Marge is priceless. "Batman's a scientist!"
"Would you like to be Homer Junior? The kids can call you Ho-Ju."
I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have stopped for that haircut
Take my penknife, my good man!
Lyle Lanley has a Conan vibe
Thanks Ed for asking that question. #TeamCoCo
Probably the most important question in Conans life
Seriously. I never seen him as excited as him answering about Simpson. Thanks Ed Sheeran
CONAN: they're comedy writers, they're very kind
SONA: bursts out laughing, looks around stage, looks back to Matt
Oh wow, thanks for pointing that out... Brilliant!
@@doctorkayak She's a Sona fan, so a blithering idiot.
Much like her, you contribute nothing to this.
"SONA: bursts out laughing" is kinda the default
What is sona?
Yes Conan is one of the best guests they’ve had for a while
I love when Conan answers questions. He is very interesting.
He doesn't really answer directly, he's rambling
@@MonticArckeysyea! He was extremely negative, talked about his “tragic” success getting a late night TV show and then barely gave any insight into Simpsons production. Thanks for nothing.
Sheeran pulled the ol’ switcheroooo!
we all benefitted.
90's Simpsons is in a league of its own. Nothing comes close to the consistency of funny those shows had.
I agree fully
Yep, the golden years of the Simpsons was the best. Roughly season 3 (1991) to season 12 (2001)
@@QuasiMonkey I'm still in awe of those episodes!
South Park prime run better, but close.
Gotta agree. When people talk about the best sitcom of all time, or debate whether UK comedy is better than US comedy (I am British BTW), I’ll always point them to the golden era of The Simpsons.
Ed Sheeran fan girls Conans a bit….
Conan: you are the best guest we’ve ever had
Ed Sheeran is the most humble and down to earth celebrity ever
Ed Sheeran is the best
Ed’s out here asking the questions we all want the answers to 🔥
He's also interrupting the answers. He's such a douchebag. He did make me like him at first when he asked that question, then he talks over his better in Conan who was gracious enough to let him.
Yes, well done Ed Sheeran,
Genuinely more interested to hear Ed Sheeran interview Conan than the other way around
Every once in a while I will return to some clips from the 90's simpson and honestly it convinces me everytime that for a brief period it was one of the best animation series ever, not only were the stories relatable and had great social commentary but the jokes were almost zucker-brothers level at how many jokes they would cram in a short episode. It really was an incredibly written show for a while.
I’d just sit there and ask Conan questions about the Simpsons for literal hours lol. Homer Goes to College imo is not only the best Simpsons episode, but one of the funniest American animation episodes ever.
The first 5 mins of it is possibly the greatest 5 mins of television ever made. Head bee guy, the box! The box! Quimby bribed with his 5000 dollar fur coat to make it go away, relax its just a simulator.... THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING! As homer caused another meltdown 😂 beyond genius writing
Marge vs the Monorail is a masterclass in comedy. There's a laugh every 5 seconds.
Ed looks like a ginger cat
Oh wow! I loved that episode growing up, I had no idea it was written by Conan!
NEEEEEEERRRRRRRD!
One of the best things Ed Sheeran has ever done. Famous people should take the opportunity more to ask him about The Simpsons
If I was lucky enough to be in the same room as Conan I wouldn't be able to speak, I would just cry cause he means the world to me! I wouldn't have made it through my darkest moments in life without Conan's humour! I also love his empathy and compassion for everyone.
"So that’s what I wish for all of you-the bad as well as the good. Fall down. Make a mess. Break something occasionally. Know that your mistakes are your own unique way of getting to where you need to be. And remember that the story is never over."
Where’s that quote from?
@@JulOyt Conan's Harvard commencement speech in 2000
I love that Conan is walking his own path and left the TV format behind.
2:38 Sona laughed so hard at that last but when noone else seemed to care or probably didn't even think of it as a joke.
Shows how deep their chemistry goes and she knows exactly what he was talking about 😅😅❤❤
In my opinion the simpsons in its prime was the best television show ever made.
Easily, when I heard that Disney was buying fox i assumed that they wanted control over the xmen again but I was wrong. They wanted the simpson's.
Thanks Peggy Hill
Some people think like it was nothing at all, nothing at all, nothing at all...
No comedy has ever reached the same level, but it's fall from grace was horrendous and has definitely tarnished its legacy
SpongeBob s1-s4 comes close
Omg a Conan O’Brien podcast with John Swartzwelder… the episode I didn’t know I needed until now
Ed, as a fan of Seasons 1 -8 of the Simpsons, thank you for this!! Also I love what you did on Hilary Duff's song Tattoo!! Really epic
The hold over episodes of season 8 released in season 9 are also great, you cheese eating surrender monkey!
I remember those days getting in from school and 2 episodes on bbc 2, good times
Ed is very humble man, he always interested with other people, while he himself is music genius.
😂😂😂 oh please. “Musical genius”?
Please don’t dilute the impact that word. There’s nothing genius about Ed. Most of his songs are crappy cliche’s and catchy rubbish.
Plus the amount of times he’s been accused of plagiarism is staggering.
Bruh u don’t know nothing about ed Sheeran haha he’s incredible live. The way he’s using the loop paddle and basically being a one man band. Additionally he always sings live. You won’t find a Sheeran concert with playback. How much more talented does it get lol
I would love to have just Ed and Conan together every episode
Omg the greatest gingers of all time 😢😮
I’ve never seen a ginger goat before
Which one? 🤣🤣
Two ginger enter. One Ginger leave. There can be only one.
@@kakonis 🤣🤣🤣
That's a "Highlander" reference for the youngsters.@@MS-ss1dv
I just finished listening to the entire podcast episode, and I think I've just become an Ed Sheeran fan.
Where do you watch full episodes at?
@@HawkSea I don't think they release whole episodes as videos. I listen to it on Apple Podcasts, but it's available on most platforms.
Cheers mate@@FinnGamble
Seasons 1-10 are gold - everything that came afterwards is disposable
Season 8 was already far below the quality of what came before. Not bad but certainly not on the level of the previous seasons.
@carlrs15
*1-9
@jarosbodytko6462
Wrong! Season 8 is great. Season 9 is the first season with bad episodes, but the gold over episodes produced during season 8 but released for season 9 are also classic and great. Season 10 sucks.
Monorail is a favorite. Still watch it from time to time.
Do you think. The tracks will bend?
🎶Not on your life my Hindu friend🎶
I call the big one bitey
Ed needs to stop interrupting and let the guest speak.
LOL
He takes a very long time answering
3:39 lol! Obviously talking about John Swartzwelder, hands down my all time favourite Simpsons staff member. He is singlehandedly responsible for a ton of the shows funniest moments
1:29 sounds like the BBC were just wise stopping at season 10
"that was an homage not a rip" gotta love conan
Conan and George Meyer are the two best writers the show had.
George wrote Separate Vocations and I laugh every minute in that episode.
Whoever wrote Homer the Vigilante Jesus Christ
I never liked Ed Sheeran until he asked Conan to talk more about the SImpsons
Ed Sheeran is the most down to earth humble celebrity ever, not liking Ed Sheeran isn't something you brag about
@@majeedhd5767 It was just an affable dig because I don't care for his music and therefor don't think about him ever or watch interviews with him - you should probably calm down or at a minimum learn what bragging is ;) lol
"You never see bart get older" just hit me in the liver
Yeah, surprisingly that didn’t get more laughs. Shows just how quick Conan’s humor is to throw that out there 😂😂
"You never saw Bart get older." Man, that's just such a clever line.
Sublime
Conan has a great mind for comedy
This was such an underrated reply. Went right over Ed’s head. 😂
Double bill of the Simpsons after school was just peak TV. My whole sense of humour formed watching that show. So intelligent and original.
In Spain it was 14:00 to 15:00 so late lunch, I'd always have to leave during the commercial break of the 2nd episode... except for weekends and holidays, of course! They showed us 730 episodes per year when the show was less than 250 episodes old!
@@DanArnets1492 we were spoiled!
Conan thank you for the great episodes you brought us.
Says :”lets make this entire podcast about me”, then proceeds to do so😂
Marge and The Monorail is perfect television.
Damn I had no idea he wrote episodes of the Simpsons. Even furthers my notion that hes a creative genius. I love Conan.
WE NEED MORE OF 'THE MAKING OF THE SIMPSONS WITH CONAN O'BRIEN'!!! Would be an epic adventure. 👍👍👍👍👍
I really miss Conan man, late night isn’t the same without him.
the makeup artist for conan deserves a raise
as someone who has seen at least one episode of the simpsons, his description of the writers' room perfectly captures the energy of 90s simpsons episodes
You can really tell the moment Conan came to the Simpsons. The comedy improved ten fold. His fingerprints are all over that show's legacy.
I was there!!! It was a dream come true being in this audience! 😭😭🙏🏻
I could listen to this for hours!!!!!
Thank you!!!
Love it!!!
Ed is such a good egg. I love him
Love how Conan didn’t answer any of Ed’s questions, he just went down memory road with everyone 🤣
Tbf, Sheeran kept interrupting him.
“Sit perfectly still, only I may dance” 🕺
Homer goes to college is the funniest episode of animation ever
ED should be grateful he only got to watch simpsons episodes from season 1 to 10
🙄
Absolutely!
You came quick with the predictable comment
I think there were later seasons on a channel called Sky One, which a lot of people didn't have. I saw the odd episode and they did seem less grounded and more wacky. I think for the most part Britain got the heyday on the Simpsons in the 90s.
Probably why he didn’t resort to pulling an OJ lol
This is nice because podcast are not just to intwrview anymore but to have a converasation with the special guest
I want an entire podcast about this!
Never related to Ed Sheeran so much!! Simpson 6pm, BBC2 was my childhood
One of Ed Sheeran's bucket list: appears as a guest star on The Simpsons.
"Stop - only I may dance" 🕺
I want more of these two😂😂😂😂😂
In Puerto Rico we had The Simpsons in the aftertoon, two episodes, obviously the spanish dub and they also had a fee seasons 9nky since many episodes would repeat. The monorail episode is my dads favorite
Are these live podcasts anywhere in their entirety??
I lived in the UK when Simpsons was becoming popular in the US and I saw my first episode at a friends house on Sky TV (satellite)
It was the episode where homer finds out he has a half brother named Herb, who runs a car manufacturing company.
Don’t forget the apple sauce!
Conan is a damn international treasure.
Conan wrote the most legendary episode of the Simpson’s: MONORAIL! Doh!
Interesting that the CBC in Canada also had two episodes of the Simpsons on after school when I was a kid.
Used to be you'd get home, watch Kids in the Hall on the Comedy Network, and then switch to CBC to watch the Simpsons.
I think Conan gave us variants of “y’know it’s funny…” four times in this video. It’s his go to phrase which is almost never followed by anything funny 😆
It's an expression, genius.
funny also means peculiar I think
Love how no matter what country you are from everyone's channel 4 on TV was jist called "channel 4". 1 2 and 3 all have different fancy names but its universal that we call channel 4 just that.
This is so true. Sweden has Kanal 4 or TV4. Basically just means channel 4. Why is this true? Holy damn....
Season 3 to 6 were only my favorite. Thx Conan
There were over 80 episodes during that time and Conan wrote 3 of them.
My generation in the UK LOVED The Simpsons.
My Dad refused to pay for Sky TV so I had to give my more affluent friends blank VHS tapes and just ask them do fill it up with Simpsons episodes.
I can remember at one point I had about 20 blank tapes full of Simpsons and Beavis and Butthead episodes.
Conan's name always stuck out in the credits so when I found out he had a show I immediately remembered where I knew his name
Interesting twist on the podcast! Conan talks to a celeb in front of a crowd of people. Who came up with that? Genius!
Conan: You never saw Bart get older.
That was a really underrated line! Well done Conan!
I like how they cut it when conan says that's all the time we have. Even though he was joking it was true for this clip.
Actually in England it was one episode a day at around 5 or 6 pm, and a double bill on Fridays. Those were the days.
Ireland was the same. One episode at 6pm on the national broadcaster (RTE 2), and because we were lucky enough to get Channel 4 too, we could also switch to their showing at 6pm in case we preferred their episode.
And we had more than 4 TV channels. I have no idea why he thinks we had just 4 channels.
We had Channel 5 too but if you remember back in the analog days (before TV signals went digital) some places couldn’t pick up 5. So maybe Ed lived somewhere where he couldn’t get that channel
Lol at Ed thinking you can host a late night show and be a Simpsons writer at the same time.
That’s really funny that even across the world kids were watching two episodes of Simpsons a day. I remember there was a point where the local Fox affiliate here took off the Simpsons and they got so many emails they had to bring it back. And they announced it with commercials that literally said “now stop emailing us!”
“In the UK no one had cable” That really isn’t true, the latest episodes of the Simpsons in those days were on Sky 1, which was a cable/ satellite channel.
OH GOD ED ON CONAN THIS IS WHAT I NEEDEDDDD
The smoker was John Swartzwelder. He is an amazing writer!
Great interview
Its funny because CBC in Canada used to play two eiposdes of the Simpsons after school as well.
To correct Ed (sorry to be pedantic), but BBC2 Simpsons in the late 90's/early 00's aired once a day on BBC at 6pm, except for one day a week (I think either Wednesday or Friday) where it was a double bill.
Ed is basically Conan in the morning.
Big laugh gang 😂
Ed’s kids are 3 and 1, and they love the Simpsons
I’m always wondering about Conan’s involvement every time I hear him I talk about it. Still watch the Simpsons every night going to bed.
this was great.😂😂
If Ed forms an insurance company, he should better call it...
EdSheerance. 😂😂😂
Goes to show you, the writers room being modest, made the writers write better, because they were writing to make themselves laugh, and not the world.
"Only I may dance"
caramel on ceiling, waffle on ceiling, perhaps inspiration for the joke. "I know I shouldn’t eat thee, but… Mmm…sacrilicious."
sorry to be "that guy" but ed is kinda right at 1:08m, UK/England did have satillite tv back in 98 with Sky owning first run rights to simpsons and still does due to contract with FOX. BBC only had syndication rights to older seasons and now onlder epsiodes on Channel4. I was like him too, but i watched all new epsiodes on sky one from 6PM onwards it was 2 hour simpsons feast. Conan's epsiodes like monorail was so funny and had proper storylines
Everyone stops at 10 lol
Why are full video versions of your podcast not available to us? Why O Why!
i’m with you on this one! if Joe Rogan can do it, why not Conan? 😑
Love you Conan
It's okay to watch up to season 10 because those are the best seasons anyway 😊
I would give a limb for Swartzwelder to be interviewed.