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Backstage At The Oscars: Conan O'Brien & Mick Jagger Talk Stage Fright

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So I'm sitting there,

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stage left,

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and I'm looking at my monitor,

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and I'm just aware of like a presence to my left.

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And I kind of just look over,

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and it's this guy,

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and I immediately see that it's Mick Jagger,

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who I've never met.

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And Mick Jagger looks at me, and he starts nudging me.

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And in kind of a comic American voice, he's like, hey, hey, how's the crowd?

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How's the crowd?

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How's the crowd?

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How's the crowd out there?

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How's the crowd doing?

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How's the crowd doing?

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How are they?

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How are they?

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And I said, uh, crowd's really good, because they were, as I said.

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It's a good crowd.

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And I said, but you don't have to worry about that, because you're Mick Jagger.

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And he went, oh, no, no, I'm not gonna try and do a Mick Jagger.

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But he said, I always worry about the crowd.

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And I said, wait a minute.

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So you're with the Rolling Stones and you're in Buenos Aires and you're getting

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ready to come out and start the show and you're gonna start off with satisfaction.

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And you're anxious that the crowd isn't gonna be good.

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And he said, oh no, definitely, I wear an earpiece.

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and I listened to the crowd,

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and sometimes I can tell the crowd isn't quite there yet,

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and I have to give it a little extra up front.

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And I was so relieved, because I realized, obviously, he's...

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35 levels beyond me, but nothing ever goes away.

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Meaning I've had many people give me a hard time because I'm in a small gathering

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and I'm supposed to get up and give a toast and Liza can tell I'm anxious and I'm

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getting worked up and I'm looking around the room to see,

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is this a good room?

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And she's like, it's a dinner party.

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What are you doing?

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And I'm like, it just never goes away.

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You're always worried about that stuff.

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And to hear that Mick Jagger, who's I believe 81,

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The front man for the Rolling Stones is asking people, asking me, how's the crowd?

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You think I'll be all right out there?

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I don't know.

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It's gonna be touch and go for you, Mick.

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How's the lighting?

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Yeah, exactly.

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Yeah.

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But he, I mean, I was kind of intimidated because I didn't know what he would be like.

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He was incredibly nice.

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He said to me at one point, oh, and by the way, we've never met.

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And I'm like, he, how do you know you've never met me?

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Isn't your life just a blur of occasionally an orange person comes by?

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He was lovely.

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He was great and funny and thoughtful.

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And I had a great exchange with him.

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And then I knew

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I need to end this.

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Like, don't hang on too long.

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So I said, well, anyway, wonderful, lovely, it was very nice to meet you too.

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And I walk away and I think Ruthie has me walking away from him.

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And I saw that Ruthie was filming it and I just walk up and go like,

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okay,

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that just fucking blew my mind.

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That was fucking cool.