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As Conan O’Brien wraps up his late night show this week, Paul Rudd couldn’t miss the chance to stop by for one last go at his running joke on Conan. The bit all began with Bill Hader, who was a guest on last night’s show, explaining an old SNL sketch he was doing with Rudd called “Ed Burns’ Grill Boys.” As he explained to O’Brien, the sketch bombed because Rudd refused to do the Burns-inspired voice — but before he got the chance to tell more of his story, Rudd himself showed up to set the record straight. And yes, he brought the infamous Mac & Me clip with him.
Rudd claimed he did do the Ed Burns voice, and to prove it, he promised to run the clip from the dress rehearsal. But instead, the Mac & Me scene featuring a dramatic plunge into a waterfall played in its place, much to the delight of O’Brien and Hader.
“It’s been like 25 years of you coming on the show,” O’Brien said. “You’d always say, ‘I’ve got a clip,’ and every time for years, I would be convinced that I would see the real clip, because you’re such a genuinely nice person. And you would say, ‘No, this movie is really important to me and I put my own money into this and I really care about this, and then you pull that shit every time!”
Rudd explained that he first came up with the idea because he thought it was “so artificial to come on and sell your wares and show a clip from your movie.” So, he decided to show a clip from another film, and the rest is history. “We’ve never talked about this really, but I thought, ‘What if I show a clip from this movie that I saw a long time ago that is just really strange?'” he said.
And while the Mac & Me clip has become Conan canon over the years, Rudd said there was another contender originally in the mix. “I was kind of waffling because there was another movie that I was obsessed with at the time,” Rudd recalled, mentioning the 1999 film Baby Geniuses. While he eventually settled on Mac & Me, Rudd offered to show O’Brien and his audience the clip from Baby Geniuses — and by now, you should know what’s coming — but pulled one last Mac & Me instead.
Watch the full bit from Conan in the video above. The final episode of Conan airs at 11/10c June 24 on TBS.
