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Conan your party resume writer for two
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years on The Simpsons and so since we're
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doing this tribute to the great Phil
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Hartman he also did a lot of voices yep
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do you interact with him uh yeah we we
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uh I wrote an episode uh the monorail
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episode and I wrote a part for this
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smooth talking kind of Music Man
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salesman and I called him Lyle Langley
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and it was just always written kind of
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as a fill role because Phil did a lot of
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great voices on The Simpsons and uh
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so it was fun because I went to The
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Simpsons after I was at SNL so I worked
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for a bunch of years with Phil and you
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guys at SNL then I move on to the
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Simpsons and I write this episode but
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there was a chance to kind of reconnect
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uh professionally with Phil which was a
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really cool thing and one of the things
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I like about that episode is Phil is
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obviously great he's fantastic uh and he
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he played a character also called Troy
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McClure on The Simpsons he's just yes he
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played a few great characters but
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uh I was very fortunate because I wrote
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this part for him and he could do it and
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uh he of course was amazing as he always
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was and what's nice about that episode
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is it just bounces around in the
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universe those Simpsons episodes uh just
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rock it around the world so it doesn't
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matter where I go
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there's all these people that have
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they're like oh yeah I guess you did
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some stuff in late night but man
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Simpsons dude you know and so it
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resonates uh it really resonates with
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them I'm not familiar with that episode
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so when you said music man was Phil kind
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of talk singing as well or yes yes
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there's a part where basically as the
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music man tried to sell uh the episode
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starts out as kind of a music man parody
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and then uh the the second half of it is
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a um Erwin Allen Disaster Movie parody
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uh and um but the first part is Lyle
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Langley shows up in town and he's a guy
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who's the town is coming into some money
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and they're trying to figure out how to
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spend it and of course Marge wants to
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spend it sensibly and then uh uh you
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know this guy stands up who's wearing a
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straw boater and it's it's Phil and it's
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Phil doing his you know Phil was so good
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it's smooth characters yeah so good at
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kind of saying hey I can help you out
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here I'm Lyle Langley and you know uh
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and then he basically tells them what
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you guys want is a monorail and which
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and I I loved monorails were just always
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felt so stupid and silly to me like this
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fake promise of the future that doesn't
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really accomplish much it's just a a
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trolley in the sky and uh so anyway he
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sings A talks sings a song about the uh
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about the monorail and You Know It uh
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you know and it's uh and of course Phil
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did it beautifully and it was really fun
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and it's just nice that it's out there
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and then a nice come about uh all these
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years later
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was The Simpsons did a big reunion
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show I don't know if it was their 30th
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or must have been their 30th and they uh
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had a Big Show at the Hollywood Bowl
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and Matt Groening and James L Brooks
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asked me and and The Simpsons writers
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said hey Conan would you come back and
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sing the monorail song at the Hollywood
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Bowl with the Hollywood Game Men's Choir
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and the answer to that is yes
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oh I remember that event yeah I didn't
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go to I remember that it was huge that
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was really fun it was really fun and it
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was one of those uh moments where you
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just you get to take your long thin
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spoon and pick the the whipped cream and
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the Cherry off the top of the sundae
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it's just perfect because not a lot of
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work just come in we did it twice we did
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two shows you get a nice score and it's
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just it's the [ __ ] Hollywood Bowl and
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it was it was very nice to just because
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obviously I did it was just a channel
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fill as best I could uh did you did you
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dress up like the his character yeah
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yeah
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they got me uh the suit the white
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Langley suit and the hat and I have a
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great photo
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they sent me of me holding my hat in the
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air full song and dance you know Jimmy
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Cagney and Yankee Doodle Dandy with the
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Hollywood Gay Men's Choir behind me and
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it's a it's a prized possession because
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it looks like wow Conan had a very
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successful career in Vaudeville
