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Conan & Billy Crystal's Trip To Yankee Stadium - "Late Night With Conan O'Brien"

Jun 03, 2021
we're back now everyone

billy

let's set this up for a second you're for anyone who doesn't know you take baseball very seriously the

yankee

s yeah the

yankee

s yeah in particular it actually made me convert in a baseball player. player in high school on Long Island, um, and then when I went to college in West Virginia, I kind of got into comedy and theater, I was playing second base and entertaining, the first slow grounder to short, which you hate because I know they're going to leave you in a double play and I'm there and I'm going to make the turn and all I saw is this uniform right there and they left me here and as I was getting off of Conan I saw a sign that said auditions today will be I better do that, the comedy yes, you hung out uh you know, of course, george steinberg you have to sit in the box the world series

late

r I started I met Joe Torre I talked last day about Mickey Mantle the year they revealed the Mickey and Joe Sadette memorial was really cool, anything we could do I was like, well can I work with a team once he's there?
conan billy crystal s trip to yankee stadium   late night with conan o brien
Yeah, we're going to Anaheim, you'll be there, so I worked out. with them and then I started calling joe torre on the phone. He gave me his numbers during the course of the pennant drive and it became a thing like we were superstitious. He would call them. They would win. He would call them. Know? From that and then I finished, I was invited to the world series. I'm sitting in Mr. Steinbrenner's box and there's this weird combination of the great Joe Dimaggio and Henry Kissinger and Senuences and I'm not sure why you like the game. Yes. do and so now I had met Mr.
conan billy crystal s trip to yankee stadium   late night with conan o brien

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Kissinger about ten years before on the Concord I was flying to London when I was on Saturday Night Live and I ended up sitting next to him the plane is very small have you been on it yes, I have been on the Concord still, so he's sitting next to me and he's really tight and I'm with Henry Kissinger and I'm looking at him thinking what the girls thought about this guy, he was like a big womanizer, he was cool, yeah, very. big ladies with all due respect, I don't get it and oh no one will hear that don't worry and can I tell you something he said sure I've been thinking about this for a while I want to tell you something. you said I said what then he says you look wonderful so now it's been ten years I'm in I'm in the Steinbrenner box it's game six of the world series and there he is and it's good to see you again he said it's good to see you, mister happy, he says I want him to bring my wife, honey, come here, look who's here, honey, come here, look who's here, look,

billy

joel, say hello, uh-huh, so the first game in the series and The Yankees are there. down 11-0 or something, you know, and he turns to Mr.
conan billy crystal s trip to yankee stadium   late night with conan o brien
Dimaggio, who is he? You know, this is the biggest hero you know and he tells him that the Yankees are thinking at the door and he says, Hey Joe, get dressed, uh-huh, yeah, and I said. He's great to see you at Yankee Stadium, yeah, yeah, well, it's good to see you, doctor kissing you, she said no, I'm at the

stadium

, call me Hank, he actually has a little sense of humor. Well, should we show this? uh, we're right, uh, we. uh any setup we need for this I have to tell you your staff is great and you are great we did this last minute yeah sorry you couldn't make it it's okay and we literally finished playing at 2 :30 this afternoon and here we are a couple of hours ago and I haven't even seen it yet because they edited this pretty quickly and we did it for about an hour and something so we haven't seen it, we have no idea what happened but we'll miss a look at our little

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to yankee

stadium

okay we're here at yankee stadium uh billy

crystal

got us thanks billy you would do it now this is really hard for you isn't it you're Boston Red Sox fan I grew up on.
conan billy crystal s trip to yankee stadium   late night with conan o brien
Boston and when I was a kid I used to watch the Red Sox come here and play the Yankees and when I was a kid I was told and we believed it that if a Red Sox fan came to Yankee Stadium he would be killed, yeah, and then we found out that You don't actually have to be a Red Sox fan, you can come here and anyone can get killed. Yeah this is a gun

night

here and there's another good

night

of public beatings so I took Tina Martinez's back cause she's got 14 home runs and too many rbis that's pretty good this is Shem spat yeah this is Pat Kelly of the Yankees at bat, so Pat, you're on national television, okay, show us what you've got.
I want, I want a launcher, no. a glass of water here's your flow oh heavens in the seats aerial scenes that's tommy tune why do your hands hurt so much when you hit the ball because you're so soft oh I love him this is where I really show him what I'm made of I think You look like Marlena Dientrich after a crying episode. She's always wanted to pull a double play, so maybe we'll get a chance to do it while the fun continues. Oh yeah, wow, did you see that Boston kid drop the ball, Mr. Softhand?

conan

catching the ball was billy's fault what was there no you did it all wrong get those little talk show hands look at all the mail this is all i'm guessing now for daryl look at that daryl strawberry daryl in this don strawberry Not even You need an address to get to Daryl Strawberry, just type "Strawberry" and get here.
They're awesome time cards, okay, oh okay, do they go away after a game? I don't know, I realize you're telling me to do it. Yeah, go ahead, you're the host, I'm just a guest, it's just someone who wants me to sign their card, that's nice, that's cool, yeah, you know, I'll give this kid a real gift instead, I will sign it. It's going to be a retreat for him so he can get excited once someone explains who I am now all Daryl this Mariano four letters yes and look they are all in his handwriting he writes since the death of the suspect king I do that is the saddest thing you can i can look at this here look this is going to get someone in trouble the yankees stole a shopping cart from gristiti's market this is bad if george finds out about this this guy was traded who did this i think it was george i think george saw a way To save, what is this worth?
It's probably worth 38 38 dollars. Yes, it is interesting to have a sandbox in the middle of the clubhouse. Yes, it actually saves time before the game. Yes. Why go to the men's room when you have the box? Yes, can you help me with the pronunciation? It is a venereal disease. I think the master passport. Yeah, you don't want to get that. No, how do you explain to your wife that you are martial. It is possible that this is an adult man. Wade Bob, he's 37 38 years old. and yet the top left coin has some things down here that are a cry for help if ever there was a single team member, so come on, come on, wow, healthy food, look, look at how the players are They stay in shape, sugar cookies, you got your skippy, this is good, hey. look at this gum, yes, it's good, it was very fun, very nice, great, it was fun, an honor, uh, very good, you guys did a great job on a real note, although on a real note, you were really very moved . being there I mean you've been there before but first of all you played great but you were like a kid in a candy store oh isn't that the best?
It is one of the best places in the world. It's like that. huge synagogue with grass, you know it's the best place, no, I love that place, you know, I grew up going there, you know, my first game was in 1956. you love a team like I love this team, you know, and you love the game and play a little bit but then you know you saw you were on that field and then phil rizzuto played there holy cow and oh come on I gotta tell you it's amazing yeah yeah it was a uh it was a good time to we.
Also and as I was saying today, we don't have access to many places, so if you could take us places from now on, where do you want to go? I would like a remote control in France, actually, just Andy and me. Take us to France and we eat in the best restaurants. I know some people. I'm looking forward to it. I've shown up on France's doorstep before and then I'm gone. No, it will be us anyway. Oh no, Andy, Andy. a happy ending will be fine, we'll take andy, well yeah, we can go to France, okay, billy

crystal

, we can't thank you enough and good luck with the movie.
I heard wonderful things about her and come on. I will return at some point, I will definitely return to Billy Crystal. Everyone, Wolfgang Puck, Uncle Madonna is coming, we'll be right back.

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