Conan O’Brien has interviewed hundreds of celebrities over the last 30 years, but who was his least favorite? That is what Ed Sheeran wanted to know when they were chatting on the Conan Needs a Friend podcast.
“It was someone from a long time ago. It was when we were first starting the show. We had, I mean, this amazing singer, actress Eartha Kitt was on the show. A lot of people know her from the 1960s Batman. She played Catwoman a little bit,” he said. “She was very tough to talk to. And I was brand new. And so I put most of it on myself. But, I would say things like, ‘Oh, you dated James Dean back in 1954.’ And, she would say, ‘Well, so what? Why are you asking me?'”
And that is when Sheeran said that it is more like a statement than a question. And now Sheeran is his least favorite guest.
Conan was joking about Sheeran, but he got serious and hinted he was not a fan of interviewing the cast from The WB shows, who were young and pompous. I am assuming he is talking about James Van Der Beek, who has admitted he was douche during his Dawson’s Creek days.
Who are Conan’s favorite guests? He loved talking to the late Norm MacDonald and Will Ferrell. He enjoys the Anchorman because you never know what he is going to bring with him, and you just have to go with it.
It is real moments like the ones we saw between Conan and Sheeran that really makes me miss him having a talk show. None of the Strike Force Five are as good as him when it comes to interviewing. Seth Meyers comes the closest, but he is still no Conan.
Ed Sheeran went live with Conan O’Brien on the podcast Conan Needs a Friend, and he talked about making his new album Autumn Variations.
Believe it or not. Sheeran was working on Autumn Variations when he took a break from recording it to write the songs that went on Subtract, which was released in May.
It is not that hard to believe when you find out that the singer spends his weekdays, 10a-5p, in the studio writing new music. All he hopes for is that he can write one good song a month because, after a year, he has an album.
So, he spent a lot of time writing songs about his friends for his latest record, which comes out on the 29th. And he wrote it by the English sea.
Back in December, the director decided that he should film some videos by the sea with the waves crashing on him. The director offered to do it in Los Angeles, but Sheeran said I can do it in England.
That turned out to be a huge mistake. Because he told Conan, “I lost a couple of inches for a couple of days.”
Some might say he suffered for his art. But I say he suffered for his bravado. ‘
With the number of songs he writes a day, he says two to three; I am sure he wrote one about his shrinking dick. However, I don’t think we will ever hear it. But we should.
I sincerely hope that one day, he decides to release a record with all of the joke songs he has penned. You know that he has written several of those.
Ed Sheeran has a new album coming out on September 29th, and he is selling the shit out of Autumn Variations.
The multi-platinum singer has been creating infomercials to get the word out. And it is working. So much so, I think she should start selling things we don’t need on late night TV. Are you buying what he is selling?
Ed Sheeran is on tour. Yet, he was seen working at Starbucks as a barista in Seattle. So, has the chart-topping singer hit hard times?
Nope. He just found a way to promote his upcoming album. You see, it is called Autumn Variations, and Starbucks just released the taste of Autumn, the Pumpkin Spice Latte. So he thought it would be the perfect way to promote his record while promoting their drinks of the season. And he was right.
Plus, if you are in Seattle, do what Seattleians do. Do Starbucks.
Autumn Variations comes out on September 29th.
Back to Sheeran. I love that he hangs out with locals at his different stops. He sang karaoke in Nashville, worked at a Lego Store in Minneapolis, and now this. What will he do next? We find out soon enough.
