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Conan Recaps The Mark Twain Prize Ceremony With Mike Sweeney
Thu, 3 Apr 2025
Conan is joined by Sona, head writer Mike Sweeney, and executive producer Adam Sachs to recap Conan’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor acceptance ceremony. Get access to all the podcasts you love, music channels and radio shows with the SiriusXM App! Get 3 months free using this show link: https://siriusxm.com/conan.
Chapter 1: Why is Conan O'Brien recapping the Mark Twain Prize ceremony?
Hey, Conan O'Brien here, and we're doing something a little different today. I know this is usually a fan episode, but there are no more fans. They're all gone. It's been a while. It's been a while, and we've actually used a couple of people ten times using different voices and mustaches, which is unnecessary when it's audio. And women.
Yeah.
But anyway, the point is we wanted to do something a little different because I just had a very momentous moment in my career. And we thought maybe we should talk about it. And there was some people asking questions. Actually, no one was. I just want to talk about it. No. No one felt it needed more discussion. I received the prestigious Mark Twain Award. Prize. Yeah, that's right. It's a prize.
And we looked it up. Prize is six notches down from award. Right, exactly. Yeah. It comes in a Cracker Jacks box. But, no, the Mark Twain Prize, which they've been giving out for, I think, 28 years or something like that.
Yeah, late 90s. The previous century.
Sure. That's so far not helpful at all, Sweeney. I'm joined by people who were there and participated. That would be Mike Sweeney and Sona Movsesian. Yeah. And I'll start by just saying that it was a huge honor. I mean that. I'm not someone who usually gets worked up about awards and such, but the caliber of people that showed up for this event. Me and Sona. Yeah, well, but it's still,
I'm saying you guys aside, the lineup was incredible. It was awesome. It was a murderer's row. It was a murderer's row of just some of the people I respect the most in comedy. And they came out and they were all hilarious and really funny. And I will set the table, which is that I didn't know what to expect. And as you can imagine, being the focus of...
being talked about and possibly complimented is the lowest rung of Dante's hell for me. For any Irishman. For any Irishman. And it was, I wasn't, I didn't know how to feel about it, and I was feeling very squirrely about the whole thing. And then I showed up, and there was a dinner the night before,
which in this case was emceed by Mike Sweeney, who was, and you feel free to jump on, Mike, anytime you want, Adam Sachs, because you were there as well. Wow, you seem thrilled. It looked like I just asked him, hey, if you want to, you can swallow a cup of my mucus. Adam, it'll help kill time. No. Just as you were an observer, and... It's like he was at the Hindenburg. Yeah, yeah.
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Chapter 2: Who attended Conan O'Brien's Mark Twain Prize ceremony?
Until May 4th, if it ever comes. Yeah, wait till the 4th of May. It would have been the 4th of April, except for Sweeney. May the 4th be with you. Did you say may the 4th be with you? Yes, I did. Why don't you take a Rizzer boat? And find yourself a new job. Yay. Anyway, it was. Conan O'Brien has a pun.
You mentioned your speech, though. I do think it already has hundreds of thousands of views up on YouTube. An excerpt of the speech, which I will just say I thought was incredible and powerful. And in the moment, I think people got chills. I did. Watching this, hearing the speech in the moment. And I really suggest everyone go check it out. Okay.
Go ahead. Well, you were so distracted. Well, not distracted. You were consumed by doing the Oscars. And then the Oscars were over. And all of a sudden, they were planning another travel show.
We left the morning after the Twain Awards.
To go to Austria.
To go to Austria. To finish up the show that had been interrupted by stuff in my life.
I just want to mention that then when you finally... The week before the Twain Prize, you were like, whoa, this is coming up. You wrote your whole speech. Every part of it was written by you. It was a fantastic job. Well done, including the serious part, which is out already. Yeah. And has already been nominated for a Grammy, spoken word Grammy. But anyway, yes, great job.
Oh, and you got nominated for Best Special Effects. Yeah. Incredible.
Best Skeleton.
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