The video features a lively conversation between two individuals discussing various topics, ranging from television shows and weddings to the feminist movement and personal experiences in the 60s and 70s. The dialogue begins with a humorous story about a dramatic wedding event, which sets the tone for a series of entertaining anecdotes shared throughout the conversation. The discussion touches on the cultural shift experienced by different generations, particularly in how they approach relationships and societal norms.

Another focal point of the conversation is the guests’ experiences on television shows, such as "The Sonny and Cher Show" and "Elvis Presley films." They humorously recount stories of working with famous personalities like John Travolta and Elvis Presley, highlighting both the joys and awkward moments experienced on set. These nostalgic reflections offer insights into the television and film industry during those times, providing a sense of what it was like to work alongside such iconic figures.

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Key Vocabularies and Common Phrases:

1. shriek [ʃriːk] - (verb / noun) - To make a high-pitched, piercing sound, usually due to fear or excitement. - Synonyms: (scream, screech, yell)

I come out just before the show to say hi to the audience, and they often shriek in horror.

2. vibes [vaɪbz] - (noun) - Informal term for feelings or atmosphere conveyed by a place or situation. - Synonyms: (atmosphere, mood, ambiance)

And these vibes are here. These vibes are here to help me tell stories.

3. humiliating [hjuːˈmɪliˌeɪtɪŋ] - (adjective) - Causing someone to feel ashamed or foolish by injuring their dignity and self-respect. - Synonyms: (embarrassing, degrading, shaming)

Well, it's humiliating for him pasting those pictures under the thing all night.

4. loathing [ˈloʊðɪŋ] - (noun) - Intense dislike or disgust. - Synonyms: (hatred, aversion, abhorrence)

What's the opposite of awe? What, loathing and disgust, maybe.

5. beneath [bɪˈniːθ] - (preposition / adverb) - In or to a lower position; below. - Synonyms: (below, under, underneath)

I thought it was a little bit beneath my station, quite frankly, because you were, you know, trained, you know, I guess classically.

6. rehearsing [rɪˈhɜːrsɪŋ] - (verb) - Practicing a play, piece of music, or other work for public performance. - Synonyms: (practicing, preparing, training)

So we're rehearsing it, and he says, okay, see you later, everybody.

7. disdain [dɪsˈdeɪn] - (noun / verb) - The feeling that someone or something is unworthy of one's consideration or respect. - Synonyms: (contempt, scorn, derision)

Well, I just thought. No offense, but I thought they were like fake Beatles...

8. eccentric [ɪkˈsɛntrɪk] - (adjective / noun) - Unconventional and slightly strange behavior or character. - Synonyms: (quirky, unusual, odd)

It's one of the weirdest movies ever made, and we were actually looking at it today.

9. quirky [ˈkwɜːrki] - (adjective) - Characterized by peculiar or unexpected traits. - Synonyms: (eccentric, unconventional, unique)

I mean, you know, these were all kind of odd, quirky things.

10. awe [ɔː] - (noun) - A feeling of reverential respect mixed with fear or wonder. - Synonyms: (wonder, amazement, admiration)

Were you in awe of Elvis?

Teri Garr's Celebrity Gossip - Late Night with Conan O’Brien

How are you? Fine, thank you. How are you? I'm very fine. You look terrific. You look tall. You are much taller than I thought you were. People don't know that I'm well over. I'm, like, close to nine feet tall. I come out just before the show to say hi to the audience, and they often shriek in horror.

Yeah, well, you know, first of all, it's always weird to be here because of the Letterman show was here for so long. That's right. It was in this same studio. And these vibes are here. These vibes are here to help me tell stories. All right, let me think. One story. I know because I don't have a lot to tell you right now, but a friend of mine went to this wedding recently, and the bride and groom were walking down the aisle, and it was a big wedding with 500 people and a tent and everything. And when the priest said, is there anyone here who sees reason for this man and woman not to be united, please raise their hand now. So the groom turns around and raises his hand and says, I do. Everybody reach under your seat. So everybody reaches under their seat and they pull out a photograph of the bride having sex with the best man.

Do you like that story? I kind of like that story. This is the best episode of Rolanda we've ever done. This is. I gotta say, that's amazing. That's Rolanda. She's one of those talk show daytime people. Wait, is really this guy? What a dramatic thing to do. It's a fabulous thing. I mean, can you imagine? Well, it's humiliating for him. It's humiliating for him pasting those pictures under the thing all night. I'd like to be the guy in the photo lab, you know, I would like to be that guy at the Kodak photo shed. I want 500 of these. All right, I need. So that's a story that I have, and I don't know where that's going or why it's here. No.

That was incredible. I think that shocked everybody. I think that was sufficient. It's an excellent story. That was terrific. What a great. Were they all. Yeah. Were they all just copies of the same shot or was it like an action series? That's like if they all got together. Yeah. If they. If everyone got together afterwards and put them in order and ran them by. Yeah. Put a little fuzz base on it. Was this the one? The one picture? And the guy was, like, very angry, and he was mad at this woman.

So that is such a cool thing to do. That guy has A lot of guts. I'm going to do it. I think I'm going to just go with some guy that's going to have an affair with someone just so I can do that at a wedding. I like this. How are you going to know that this guy is going to have an affair? Oh, because they all do. I'm sorry. I have to tell the truth. Wrong here. Ok. Okay, man, that takes. Really. No, no, Guys are great. Guys are terrific. Really? Yeah. Take it from me. That's my public service announcement for the tonight guys. We're terrific. I think.

Okay, fine. What. What do you mean? What do you mean? Guys are terrific? But I do think this. I think that your generation, you kids that are a little bit younger. My generation, everyone got ruined, the baby boomers by the feminist movement and all that stuff. So everyone has a horrible time having relationships. They don't know how to have relationships. The younger kids, you kids, you get married, you go, okay, I'll accept this. I'll be responsible. But my generation, everyone's nuts. They don't know what's going on.

Are you saying my generation's boring and dull? No, I'm saying you know how to have relationships and you know how to respect women and that women are treated more equally than men. But in my generation, maybe just a little bit older than me, you either become a robot Stepford wife or you just have a career and never get married. But don't try to do both, you know?

Right. Well, do you think that because of the 60s movement, everybody, you know, free love and all that, that, that turned, that spoiled that generation, so now they can't really commit and go home every night? I think. I think it was a horrible idea. I don't know. Whose idea was it? It wasn't one guy's idea. Hey, you know, I just thought of something. Let's break free the bonds of oppression, all get naked and have sex for 10 years. Oh, good idea. It was actually. It was Frank Gorshu. Yeah, it was Frank Gor. I think it was Frank Gordon.

You know, I was going to ask you something because speaking of, I'm a TV buff and speaking of the 60s, they're rerunning now. They're about to rerun on TV land. The Sonny and Cher. The old Sonny and Cher show. And you were on that show. I know nothing about that.

Oh, come on, tell us about the Sonny and Cher show. Do that to talk show. Oh, come on. No, I want to hear about the Sonny and Cher show. What was like Sonny like, Did you know that he was destined for great things in politics, to become the great. The great. They laughed at themselves at this. He used to say things like, this is the tip of the iceberg. And I think, what. But he would. I remember one time we were doing a sketch, and we were in the cast reading before we did it, and it was supposed to be about Sonny's Pizza Parlor. And before he leaves the room, he's supposed to say, ciao, it says on the script. So we're rehearsing it, and he says, okay, see you later, everybody. Callo. Because that's what it said. It said ciao on the paper. Oh, no. And this man is now in the. Well, he just is going to avoid that one word. I'm not putting him down. I'm just saying that he had trouble reading an Italian word, and he is, in fact, Italian, so.

Oh, my God. That's. Well, what about Cher? What did you know about. What did you know about Cher? I mean, she had. She has crazy wigs on in that. In that old show and probably still does. She had. She had a wig maker there all the time. But, you know, as I say, you know, Cher is the same generation as myself, and. And it's the same kind of thing. I mean, she's had a hard time being a woman in this generation. I think it's easier for the men because, like, Sunny can just go, I'll just keep getting married to these younger women and having kids and stuff. But Cher and I, I don't know, we're going to be working out in Palm Springs ourselves. In a lounge act.

Oh, no, no, it's true. I'd like to see that lounge act. I'd see that lounge act any day. Yeah. Can Andy and I come check it out when you guys are absolutely. On that show. We did a sketch together, Cher and I, so that'll probably be on these. Please watch it on Nick and night. It's the biggest thing in my life. Okay. No, that's not true. I just did a movie with John Travolta. Yeah. Oh, tell us. What? It's a movie that's, I guess, going to come out at Christmas time. You work with John Travolta? What's he like?

He's fabulous. He's so wonderful. You know, he came and gave me a massage in my room for about a half an hour. A little tense. Are you sure that really happened? Maybe you nodded off for a second. What? No, it did. It did happen. I'd say you could nod off and dream something like that. He's a very nice guy. He's very funny. He would walk around the set going up to all the crew, going, come see the sexy side of Sears. I don't know what it meant. What?

Wait a minute. John Travolta is walking around singing the Sears song. Yes. That's such a great plug for Sears. Yeah. It sounds like one of those crazy Scientology things. Yeah, it's the first thing they teach you something about that. It was just. He's just funny. He's just funny and nice and he's very, very rich and he doesn't care what we say, so.

Yeah, well, we're gonna take a look at him before plastic surgery. That'll show him. Yeah, we'll get even with all these big celebrities. No, we love them all. Yes, we do.

Can I ask you about something? I'm again, I'm talking about 60s TV. But you were in the Monkees movie Head. Yes, and I didn't get to ask you about that last time. It's such. It's one of the weirdest movies ever made, and we were actually looking at it today. We were. What?

Why? Because we just screw around a lot during the day. Why work on the show when you can watch TV? So now that makes about 19 people who have seen the movie. Yeah, but it's the Monkees. They had their big chance to make a movie, and so they go and they make one of the weirdest movies that anyone's ever seen. It's a very strange. I think Jack Nicholson wrote it. Yes, he did. Yeah.

And you're in this movie and what was it like? Were you in awe of the Monkees at the time? No, I wasn't. What's the opposite of awe? What, loathing and disgust, maybe. Well, I just thought. No offense, but I thought they were like fake Beatles and that. In fact, that's what they were, weren't they? Yes. Yeah, that was the whole idea.

Yeah. So that's what the movie was like. It was like they tried to copy. What was that movie. Now, let me tell you why it's kind of hard to respect a rock group where no one plays musical instruments, I guess is the idea. I mean, no one did at the time play an instrument. Now, I hope this isn't a rude thing to say, but this is very late night tv. But the reason they said they called this movie Head was because the next year they thought it was going to be such a big hit so they could put in their ads from the people who. Sorry, you couldn't even bleep that out. I'm sorry. That's what they did. And that's why they call it head. I'm sorry, Connor.

No, that's fine. You don't like that kind of. No. What do you mean? I don't. Don't work glue, babe. Don't work glue? Yeah. What do you mean? What do you mean? I don't like that kind of. It's just my generation where, you know, we work on relationships, we don't get crude. We're very normal. That's all your generation talks. It was trashy and crazy in eighth grade and stupid.

And you were in. You were in Elvis movies, too? Yes, I was. Were you in awe of Elvis? I mean, he could play his instrument so well. I was in awe of Elvis. But on the other hand, I thought, you know, I had been a ballet dancer and I had been on tour with this ballet company and to dance in an Elvis Presley movie. I happened to go to this audition. I thought it was a little bit beneath my station, quite frankly, because you were, you know, trained, you know, I guess classically. And they just had to go like that in the background pretty much for the whole movie, so. And now that is considered in, you know, classic artists and everything. They teach that at the institution. But I thought, you know, it was nice to see Elvis and all that stuff, but I was just as talented as he was. But I was wrong about that. He was very talented. He was very talented. He had very dark hair.

You had. You were working on all these strange projects. Who was representing you at the time? Did you have a. I mean, you know, these were all kind of odd, quirky things. You. It was. And, you know, there might be a reason for that.

Every single person that represented me for that period of time died in a very strange way. Were they all in, like, one car? I mean, what. I mean, is it one of those coincidences, really? Well, it might be because that they were all like, in their 90s. I don't know. Why. Well, that kind of happens. That's. No. All these people I used to know in their 90s are gone now. What happened? I don't get it. I said, I finally meet someone I like and they die.

Did you have a crazy old agent or something? I did happen to get this one agent who would tell me if I would drive him around to the studios when he would pick up the sheets that tell you what's going to be on the show, who's going to be casting that week, that he would get me in to meet, like, Daryl Zanuck. Or different people like that. So I would drive him around and then he'd say, wait in the parking lot, I'll be right back. He'd go and he'd take all these pictures in, he'd get the breakdowns, he'd come back and I'd say, well, am I going in to meet Daryl Zanuck? He said, he's a little busy today, but you'll meet him next time. And I never met him. And he just did this, he just, he did that. He never gave me gas money and I went around and that's when I.

So he had you just convinced that he could get. He could bring you right to the top and it never happened. You know, that makes me seem like I'm kind of a bubble airhead person. What? When I was young and was driving this man around, thinking I was going to meet people this way. Uh huh. But I just was trying to learn, you know, about show business. We all went through a sort of a phase like that. It was the school of hard knocks.

I was a complete moron until just like two months ago. And then I just suddenly. Yeah, and now this is it. This is kind of like mildly stupid. Yeah. Now we've got to that catch me in a year, then I'll be just mediocre and everything's going to be great. Well, thank you so much for coming.

And let me mention this movie, Michael. Yes, we did is with John Travolta and that's coming up in a couple weeks and William hurt and Andy MacDowell and that's coming out at Christmas. Very cool. And then there's the Yoko Ono Story, which I'm starring in.

You're starring in the Yoko Ono story? Oh, didn't I tell you? Really? Yeah. Oh, and you're Yoko. Yeah. Oh, all right, well, let's check that out. I'd see that. And your lounge act with Cher. It's all coming together. All right, Terry Gar, thank you very much. We're gonna take a break. We'll be right back.

We will see you in a moment.

COMEDY, 60S CULTURE, TELEVISION, ENTERTAINMENT, INNOVATION, INSPIRATION, CONAN O'BRIEN