My Brian Stack story. One morning, back when Conan was still doing Late Night on NBC, l got off the train at Grand Central, and as l’m walking up the platform l recognized this actor (l didn’t at the time know he was also a writer) whose work I loved on Conan. I plucked up me courage and approached him and asked if it was indeed he, and indeed it was. He couldn’t have been nicer, as l conveyed my fandom. So, he gave me his number to call for tickets, l subsequently did so, and had a delightful conversation with him, going back to the days of the Embryonic Polka-dotted Rockabilly Fighter Pilots. The tickets came through, l went to the show, called him later to thank him, and again had a wonderfully enjoyable conversation. It may sound silly, but there was a kind of magic about it, being able to speak at length with someone so central to all those years of entertainment, and his being so receptive and kind. Summer Colors Frankenstein!

@SeveredLegs

Ай бұрын

I love that only us super fans can immediately remember the silliness of Fighter Pilot Embryos Who Like Rockabilly.....and are Polka-dotted.

@wendigo53

Ай бұрын

... before the days of pepper-spray.

@trencher7

Ай бұрын

That's great. He was one of my faves and I love this bit so much. The other guy who I loved was the guy who made up the overly long complicated chants that he would try and get the audience to follow. Wonder where he went.

@jasoncinema

Ай бұрын

That’s so fucking awesome. This character and Hannigan The Traveling Salesman were my two favorite Stack characters, with The Interrupter closely behind. And yeah everything I’ve read about him, and all of Conan’s writers, as well as Conan himself, are how kind and nice and wonderfully down to earth they always are with fans. :)

@saulchapnick1566

29 күн бұрын

You should write a little ditty about your experience 🎵

"Hitlery-Hoo." 🤣🤣🤣

@qapplor

Ай бұрын

@@2bb-2 Drownedy-Mick!

@moonman2022

Ай бұрын

@@qapplor N✱✱✱✱rly C✱✱t! (cut for time)

@JimmyMossYourDaddy

Ай бұрын

Slappity-GAL.

@davidgalinat4257

28 күн бұрын

Very popular on German radio back then.

@dekay1428

28 күн бұрын

Labotomy-loo

"I *was* murdered." Gets me every damn time lol

@chrislashley

Ай бұрын

Me too. I've replayed that moment so many times. I can't tell exactly what it is, but his delivery is genius.

@dundundata7603

26 күн бұрын

pretty brutal

@thomasgagliardi5931

25 күн бұрын

that and Hitlery-hoo

I love how every iteration of this sketch is basically the same as the other ones and it works every time.

@teeveeparty

Ай бұрын

A lot of conan's segments are like that. The punchline is the same every time, but the journey to get there is different.

@danielstack4158

Ай бұрын

Conan always had a bad memory. This crooner ghost and the traveling salesman guy showed up many times, but he'd never remember their previous visits.

@Cursed_Mark

Ай бұрын

"Oh, I've got bulletproof legs! I've got bulletproof legs...!

@KremitFrogman

Ай бұрын

Same format, different words…you know, like comedy or music.

@djm5687

Ай бұрын

Conan is always just as clueless!

I’m most impressed that Artie seemed to know what DNA was in the 1930s!

@handymatt1970

Ай бұрын

they all have time machines

@KremitFrogman

Ай бұрын

DNA was first isolated by the Swiss physician Friedrich Miescher in 1869.

@djm5687

Ай бұрын

​@KremitFrogman Yeah, but the phrase DNA wasn't used until the 1950's.

@KremitFrogman

Ай бұрын

@@djm5687 I guess Artie Kendall was a ghost ahead of his time.

@chosenArchitec

Ай бұрын

I mean he's been hanging around 👻

His calm soothing vocal inflections make this even funnier.

@r.hulsewe8353

Ай бұрын

A parody of Bing Crosby.

@LtPowers

Ай бұрын

DNA wasn't discovered until the 1950s.

@yohei72

Ай бұрын

@@r.hulsewe8353Yeah, it’s pretty dead on, at least his speaking voice.

Well of course the Irish have hot tempers, that's why their nation is called Ire Land.

@paulmoneill

Ай бұрын

Ah man I've lived on the island all my life and I've never thought of that one. It's been staring at me all these years. That's getting me so mad I oughta...oh I see what's happening here. Curse you palaceofwisdom with your unironic name.

I remember seeing a clip of this on KZread at the time and I howled with laughter at how Conan plays along and reacts in horror to each ending of the song, particularly "Drownity-Mick." 😂 Watching it in 2024, howling with laughter all over again. 😂

I find it hilarious that DNA's exact function was not exactly well known during Artie Kendall's time, but still used it to make a racist jab at the Irish.

@wendigo53

Ай бұрын

"Racist jab"? Don't we all have monkey DNA?

@zapazap

Ай бұрын

I don't think it was even know to exist until the 50s.

Brian Stack is an absolute gem

@HOTD108_

Ай бұрын

Yeah :( Gone too soon...

@ZedPower

Ай бұрын

@@HOTD108_ I don't know if you're doing a bit because he's playing a ghost here, but, just in case, Brian Stack is 100% alive as of this writing, unless he's been murdered since his last tweet five minutes ago.

@peterhughes7649

Ай бұрын

May his soul transgress this earthly plane.

@scottgunvaldsonmusic4116

Ай бұрын

He writes for Colbert now.

@radicalross7700

Ай бұрын

​​@@ZedPowerWrote a song about that. Like to hear it? Here it go: Brian Stack was murdered just today. An Irish woman blew that fool away She unleashed flying lead And now poor Stack is dead For dissing Irish folks and women too Stackety's through!

I love Conan's silly bits. Specifically these ones!! Such gold!!

1:00 That's a Neville Chamberlain classic.

@grecomic

Ай бұрын

🎵...Appeasity-Kraut!🎵

@ChewyChicken589

14 күн бұрын

Chamberlain > Churchill

Brian Stack is a goddamn legend, a gem, and a multi-talented artist who still works steadily for the Late Show. Clearly this was just added to the channel because of all of the attention Brian Stack is getting. All of the bootleg copies of this sketch on other channels were getting too many views. I for one am glad Conan's Hot Ones was such a success (of course it was) so that his and Stack's work can be shared again and again. Now stop reading this if you're still here and go watch CONAN O'BRIEN MUST GO on MAX

@browngaymethodistjesuschri1361

Ай бұрын

Buy me a VPN yank

Needs to be a supercut of all the Artie segments

@lonniedeckermusic

Ай бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/rJmoo9ZuntbMXbg.html

Great - now I’ll be humming ‘Oh Irishmen have Monkey DNA!’ all day long!

Ending the song with “Hitleryhoo”… 🤌

@jussikankinen9409

Ай бұрын

Putleri-poo

Only the 2nd HD official clip, wow!

Brian Stack is awesome.

We need this back on network TV. Conan always cracks me up.

Stack was gold, especially WikiBear.

Drownity-mick got me good!

"Sing it to the tune of 'Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer'. C'mon, y'all know it".

He just needed to cry, "Give me a C, a bouncy C!"

Whoa, didn't realize they were filming this in HD in 2007. I've watched 480i versions of this so many times, crazy to see it this clear and crisp.

Drownd-ity Mick 😅

Your videos age gracefully still very sharp and crisp!

There’s some compilation of all these here. It’s my most watched video after the Interrupter compilation!

@robertfeldman2417

11 күн бұрын

I used to watch that over and over as well

a great Bing Crosby impression.

i remember these live! what a great find

So all his songs are 100% accurate

The way Artie looks down to focus on hitting the note just right during “Hitlery Hoo” is hilarious! 🤣🤣

Hitlery Hoo, Stenchedy Stew and Drownadee Mick. They're in my head now.

This ongoing bit is in a 3-way tie for favorite of all time with In the Year 2000, and his staring contests with Andy

LNWCOB is such an underrated gem even though it was well known. The era around the 2000s especially with the all stars Stack, Glaser, McCann, Blitz etc.

Im so glad you uploaded one of this skits, this racist, horrible ghost is the best Artie Kendall thing to me, after The Interruptor.

@PigDan

Ай бұрын

Wait, did you just mention The Interr--

@technicolourmyles

Ай бұрын

@@PigDanwhat lore am I missing

Even just the first ba-ba-ba-boooo is already pretty funny. Stack is great.

That second song hits though

The best Conan character.

The Country Music skit from Key and Peele was watching :)

Classic Conan.

WOW, Artie Kendall - that guy is old-radio-croon-tastic! 👍

"And beg for Hitler's mercy on our knees." LOL! Total irredeemable cowardice is tight!

That’s bloody hilarious.

Ol' Rusty Steel! 😆

"I'm surprised you weren't murdered." "I was murdered."

more brain stack and other writers bits pls❤

@JoeyLevenson

Ай бұрын

Well the Hot Ones episode had his main writer cracking us up…

Brian Stack is a real hoot with Colbert. I didn't realize he worked with Conan.

Our dear ghost 😂😂😂😂😂 dear con ❤❤❤❤

That kinda went hard at the end

@SeveredLegs

Ай бұрын

They did this bit like 20 times, and they're all really funny. You got to check them out.

Stenchity-stew is my new favorite phrase.

It's somehow more surreal and unhinged in HD.

What’s funny!? These songs are gold 😮

So much better than car-pool karaoke.

That soft Bing Crosby

*hilarious!*

Artie rules.

Turns out it's pretty easy to be a songwriter if you use the exact same tune every time.

That is pure comedy gold. He should do a song about gypsies and Slavs next. LOL

@madforit2

Ай бұрын

Brilliant. He should do a song about Jews as well, like having too much money, power and overrepresentation or something. Be hilarious. This is classic stuff

@You_Dont_Like_My_Music

Ай бұрын

@@madforit2 No, a song about Jews would probably get him in trouble.

Didn't Brian also do the name that tune singer skit where Conan goes into the stands and picks someone to play?

“Hitlery-hoo” killed me dead

Brian Stack is my favorite late-night 'unknown' that everybody knows. I don't think I've seen him do anything that wasn't funny.

Start of the song is similar to butters song from South park

@bzipoli

18 күн бұрын

oh thats a common trope for songs

"Stenchity-Stew!"

Stenchadeescoot

Pretty sure Richard Cheese did the singing for this segment.

I love Brian Stack. He's doing an AWESOME job on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

What makes this truly funny, is that Conan is the object of frank racism between two white guys. THAT'S comedy.

🤣🤣

Conan alwasys has hope for the " Song for the Ladies."🤔😳😳😳

😂

😂😂😂

Sounds like a song Harrison Butkner would write.

@user-rn1sz2gv2w

10 күн бұрын

Hey did you know Butkers jersey sold out in record time/numbers?

@alexjessop5330

10 күн бұрын

@@user-rn1sz2gv2w so there’s lots of bigots in world

Funny its always the same beat for all the songs!

I can rarely stand Conan, but this was funny.

Four legs good, two legs bad.

ba ba ba boo

@radicalross7700

Ай бұрын

Bing Crosby wannabe.

I *was* murdered

All of those lyrics sound, 100%, like Conon himself wrote them. Hitlery-hoo!

Big bad Conan isn't doing his show live from Haiti? Huh?

Wait a second...Artie Kendall mentioned DNA, which wasn't discovered until 1953....

2:30 Even Conan thought that was funny

Stack does Bing Crosby better than Bing Crosby.

It’s the same song every time lmao

i just saw this dude on stephen colbert

@HOTD108_

Ай бұрын

That was his twin brother, Ryan Stack.

@asphaltcowboy7567

Ай бұрын

Eww colbert is putrid..

lol

Ba ba ba booo-

Now we literally have people who once again are of the belief that everyone should surrender because "Russia strong grrr."

You know, Conan's NBC show had so many great characters that didn't follow him to TBS. I guess NBC owned the characters?

Woohoo!

Wikibear!

Watched 'Conan O'Brian Must Go' and it feels weird without a laugh track.

Based ghost

America First!

@metalfacemartinez

Ай бұрын

You scamp

@futuristica1710

27 күн бұрын

Ok, coup-publican.

Brilliant bits like this is why Conan should have stayed in NYC at 12:35 he was Stupid to take The Tonight Show he dumbed down his comedy tried to make it middle of the road white bread humor same mistake Leno made when he got The Tonight Show. Conan would still be on NBC at 12:35 if he had stayed where he belonged. This show had brilliant comedy every night.

Hi

Family guy already did this years ago.

@bzipoli

18 күн бұрын

smh my head at you

Hitlery-Hoo

Hitlery-hoo

No one in the West ever thought that way about women except college educated Madison Avenue types in the 50’s. The Irish song was pretty funny except the part about drowning.

That song about women. I feel attacked.

@radicalross7700

Ай бұрын

Understandable. But just remember: Doo Doo Dah Doo Doo Doo 🎵 Although Artie K. was 'round the bend. All his crazy plans came to an end. He was killed in '39. You ladies should be fine. And you won't ever have to go through life As a Stepford Wife.

@JayDeeIsMyName

Ай бұрын

​@@radicalross7700Murderee-doo!