Fanhausen Revisited

I really love these segments, and the very first one featured a fan of my name, Dan Housing.

“Now, Dan Housing is a wrestler, and he explained to me when we did this very first fan episode that he had loosely based his character, his wrestling character, on me, if I was an interdimensional demon, which seems redundant to me.”

And Dan Housing and I had a great conversation. We talked about comedy, performance, the love of entertaining people, and what struck me, and still, I remember this to this day, Dan Housing told me that he had been grinding away for the past eight years, driving 12 hours every weekend, just be able to get up in front of people in wrestle. And this is a guy who just applied an incredible work ethic to his passion, and I was so impressed with this fellow, well now it's five years later, and I'm thrilled to report that Dan Housing has recently made his WWE debut to RAVE reviews, and this is proof again, that if you can marry hard work to your passion, you can go places.

So on behalf of myself and all of us here at Team Coco, massive congratulations and mad respect to Dan Housing, and I'm so proud of you, happy for you, and I just should mention, because your character's based on me, I'm getting 20%.

Oh, what are you getting 20%?

Well, I will. Once I unleash my interdimensional demons, Rick Rosen, from William Morris and Devour, and the blackest, blackest heart of all Gavin Plowns, I mean, what when they're done with Dan Housing, he's just going to be some flesh clinging to a battered vertebrae.

“Yes. Anyway, I'm just thrilled for him. So here, this is unusual for us. We're going to revisit my chat from five years ago with the one, the only Dan Housing in joy.”

Conan O'Brien needs a fan. Want to talk to Conan? Visit teamcoco.com/call Conan. Okay, let's get started. Hey, everybody, Conan O'Brien here, and we're going to try something a little different in the short time that I've been doing, Conan O'Brien needs a friend. I've just been delighted. I'm having an absolute blast, and it's working. I'm actually making some nice bonds and friendships with a lot of different people, but what occurred to me is all these people have one thing in common, their celebrities.

I thought it might be nice to try making friends with average folk people out there in the world civilians, not celebrities, just talk to the people who make this great country we call the United States America, or even people from other countries, it doesn't matter.

“Just talk to some regular folk, and then hope, hope desperately that they become celebrities. That's the concept. What do you guys think? Yeah, why is that horrible?”

It's very important to me that eventually they become celebrities. So you don't have time for anybody that would live their whole life as a regular joke.

Who would do that? What kind of monster would choose that life? Seriously, I really do want to. And especially, I have to say a lot of this comes out of this last year. Let's get outside this bubble, this celebrity bubble that we're trapped in. I'm not trapped in a celebrity. Oh, I'm not even. Oh, God. No, I didn't mean either he's a few. Oh, God. No, no, no, no, no, no, please. Oh, oh, how embarrassing. Oh, I'm covering my mouth. I'm laughing. Because I mean, we don't even do a podcast with a celebrity. So how would we do? Oh, snap. Snabby. Dabby. Ouch. She wougy. I'm looking at that. I'm looking it up. I am looking it up. I am looking it up. Yes, I am a celebrity. I just looked it up. You go. Yeah, I am a be-lister, but I am a celebrity. So, okay.

I am a solid be. I'm a solid be-lister celebrity, and I'm proud of it. And if love boat, we're still on the air. I could potentially be a guest. Oh, not the first guest, but like the third guest, who's the comic relief guest. I would kill the sea one love boat. Yes. But anyway, this is this is something I want to do, and I'm really looking forward to it. And I don't know. We're just going to give it a try and see how it goes.

Yeah. I am very ready. Conan, please meet Donovan, who is a minor league professional wrestler.

“Wow, Donovan. Very nice to talk to you. Where are you coming from, Donovan? Where are you?”

I am in Michigan right now from Montreal. Do you consider yourself a Canadian? No, no, I'm from Michigan. Yeah, sorry. I probably said that my wife is from Montreal. Wait, I'm confused already. You're from Michigan. You've married someone who's from Montreal. Yes, exactly. Okay. So I'm in the process of getting my permanent residency there. Oh, okay. You're going to move to Montreal. I'm going. Yes. Okay. Well, that's all the time we have. Thanks. So, Donovan, you are a professional wrestler. Is that right? Yes. Okay. Now, help me because I know of a type of professional wrestler that has a character.

And I don't know where you are a professional wrestler who's really wrestling and using wrestling moves, and it's not that fun to watch, or are you a wrestler who's also kind of a performer and has a character. I'm a character. Actually, I have a picture if you want to see it. It's a. Oh, my God. Okay. Well, we are a podcast. So I'm going to describe it. Yeah. You're sort of demonic looking. You just showed me a picture of what looked like a very fierce evil demonic wrestler. Yes. So I go by the moniker very nice, very evil because nobody like somebody who's too evil. So I introduce the nice part of it, so then they buy into it and I can trick them. Okay. Very nice, very evil.

“And I get to describe it if somebody a demon possessed you actually. Oh, a demon possessed me. If Conan O'Brien was possessed by a demon, that's what it gets described as because I'm heavily influenced by you rather than other wrestlers.”

Yes, you mean of the wrestlers. I'm the one that's influenced you the most. Yes, of course. That's fantastic.

Describe then a demonic Conan O'Brien as a wrestling character. What, what are you using some of my moves? Is it my attitude? Does your character have, you know, sort of little beady eyes and thin lips and sharp cheekbones? Yes, yeah, I don't have the height, but I have a, I utilize so I pour teeth in my opponent's mouth to disorient them. What in their mouth? You're human teeth. You pour human teeth into the mouth. I love how that's people see that and go, oh, that is so Conan. It's just, I think it's the presentation because I didn't put, I take a lot of like Simpson's references and references from you and just 80 horror movies.

I put it all together because these are the things that I like. So I included it into the character because wrestling should be fun.

Yes, it shouldn't be worth it. No, no.

So, um, okay, one of your standard moves is to pour loose teeth into the mouth of your opponent to confuse and disorient them. What are some of your other minutes? Okay, I can write them out. I have the go to sleep, which I call the good nighthausen. I had housing. My wrestling name is Dan Housing and I had housing to every, so to make it all about me. That's very coding. Okay, that's very nice.

Yeah, I love that. You just add a housing to things. So it's so good night housing is like a good night move. Yes, and I popped them up off my shoulders and I need them in the face. Okay, finishing. Leave them in the face house. The face. Yes, exactly. Sorry. Like, if I were talking to you, I'd call you cone in housing. I had housing to the end of it. Uh-huh. This is fantastic. You're, I'm delighted by you.

You're, I'm delighted by this foolishness and that you've like me dedicated your life to. Absolutely.

“It is. This is fantastic. Now, are you a good wrestler? Are you a good athlete?”

Yeah, but that doesn't matter. Uh, no one cared when I was just a good wrestler. They cared once they switched and put on makeup and started acting goofy. And doing Sim Sim's references in the middle of matches and like a stole the Mr. Burns hop in. I brought a tiny airplane to the ring and I told my opponent to hop in and I had three, four hundred people chanting hop in at this guy. How successful have you been? It sounds like, is this growing? Do you feel like,

Dan Housing is becoming a bigger, bigger character? Yes, absolutely. Since I've switched this, which is about two years ago and about a year full of doing this actual character, I've been wrestling for eight years. Once since I've switched this, it's just like snowballed more and more and more and now I have a certain hot topic and I've gotten science, you're like a TV company.

Yeah. Like I want to maybe do some sort of, I want to tape a video. I seriously want to do something where you're in the ring and then I appear and I'm either for you or against you. You know what I mean, or you're my long-lost son, we've got to, we've got to somehow get into, I want to get into the lore of Dan Housing.

“I want to be part of it. What would you do with me?”

I, oh, with you, I would, I would call us both legendary ladies. I guess what there's a lot of those now. There's literally like 600 in America. So you might want to come up with something cooler. This character is all about himself. He's all about making sacks of money. I call them. I carry around a money sack. I pulled it out after I won my contract on TV. And I revealed it for my cake. Hold it. I pulled a $20 bill and I said, look at these millions of me through it.

Would we actually fight and first of all, you know, I know how to handle my show.

Oh, come on. I'm fairly athletic. I can take a punch and I love to fake fight. And so if I entered the ring, would we start out being friends, but then I would think that you had gotten to cocky and I would attack Dan Housing. What would happen?

“Yeah, maybe. I think I do this thing where I try to punch people in the groin.”

Yeah, right before the bell rings, so I can just pin them without doing any work. Yeah, so I don't think I would do that because people know that I love Conan. Right. Like as a character, it's very public that I love Conan. And that's one of Dan Housing's idols. So I don't think they would think that they'd probably be taken back if you did it. Okay, how about this? Let me pitch you this because I'm really into this. All right. So Dan Housing, you're fighting your foe. He starts to get the better of you. He starts to win. He grabs the bag of teeth and starts to pour them into your mouth.

He steals your sack of money. He punches you in the groin. It's all going badly when all of a sudden the music changes. Fog machines go on and I appear. I come down on wires and it's me and I'm there to save Dan Housing. And I think the crowd would go nuts. I hope so. What if the crowd just fight? All right. Okay. There's Conan, I guess. Well, let's see what he's got. All right. Let's go. If we go early, we can beat the traffic.

“In my mind before I go on, that's what I think. That's the reaction I always think.”

If I leave now, I can beat the traffic. I want you on the Dan Housing world. I really do, Donovan. Yeah. Well, I would love that if that's a possibility. That's like the ultimate guest for Good Night Housing with Dan Housing.

You know what? I've always said, if there's a way that I can be involved with Good Night Housing with Dan Housing, I want in Housing and right now Housing.

Not tomorrow, Housing, but today, Housing. I'm not fucking around, Housing. I'm serious, Housing. So let's make this happen, Housing. Let's sign a contract, Housing. I want to get paid, Housing. Yes. We'll pay you in a wonderful sack of human money. This is only one kind of money. There's only human money. No animal uses money. He has no idea. He just knows it gets you power.

Yeah. Wow. That's very exciting. Well, you know what? I think you're going to do well. I love that you're going to Canada because I don't say this just to suck up to Canada. But I love Canadians and I think they're like the funniest, one of the funniest countries in the world. They're really funny people.

So I think, and they really love nuanced, like weird cookie comedy and they've always been so nice to me. So I love that you're going to Montreal. I think that's great.

Thank you. Yeah. It's been exciting and a lot of work. Donovan, you have my blessing and I will figure out a way to enter the world of Dan Housing. I will. Please do. I would lose my mind and so would my fans. I'd be crazy. All right. Well, Sonna, you make sure you follow up on this. We'll follow up on this. I'm really excited about this. Yes. Thank you. Thank you for doing that.

Yeah. No problem. Hey, really nice to meet you, Donovan. Nice meeting you too. Nice meeting you. Hi, Donovan. Conan O'Brien needs a fan with Conan O'Brien, Sonna Movesesian, and Matt Gorley. Produce by me, Matt Gorley, executive produced by Adam Sachs, Jeff Ross and Nick Lea. Incidentally, music by Jimmy Vivina, take it away, Jimmy.

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