“This is an amazing job I have,” the startling encounter made O’Brien think.
“This is an incredible job.”
You might not remember how crazyConan O’Brien’s early talk shows were but O’Brien certainly does.
Conan O’Brien and Mickey Rooney.Lesly Weiner/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank; Ron Galella, Ltd./ Getty
“Dear God,” Stewart replied, “did he know he was on a test show?”
O’Brien continued to remember “talking to Mickey Rooney outside that 30 Rock hallway.
And I thought,This is an amazing job I have.
O’Brien added, “He was flipping around doing full 360s!”
O’Brien’s official YouTubechannel still hosts aclipof Rooney’s interview on the latter episode.
“It lasted I think about four or five minutes,” he joked.
Carvey recalled his ownwild Rooney memorieson a 2023 episode of hisFly on the Wallpodcast.
“‘I was the No.
1 star in the world.
That’s what he said every day, every 45 minutes, down the hallway, ‘No.
1 star,'” he remembered from theOne of the Boysset.
Rooney’s Hollywood career lasted over eight decades.
He was ushered into show business by his vaudevillian parents at only 18 months old.
Hedied2014 at the age of 93.
