Conan O'Brian

Conan O’Brian introduces Leonard Nimoy as the actor who played Mr. Spock and informs about the stage-play he is directing, opening tomorrow here in New York: The Apple Doesn't Fall...

COB: "How are you?"
LN: "Great, I'm great."

COB: Referring to an episode of The Simpsons (Marge vs. the Monorail) he wrote and Leonard read his part.
LN: "You were there... Why didn't you say 'Hello' to me?"
COB: "When? I did."
LN: "No, no. I remember being very upset about it. Conan O'Brian didn't say 'Hello' to me. You have this show on the air for how many years by now?"
COB: "It's been 9 years."
LN: "This is the first time I have been invited here. I am from Boston, so why are you doing this to me?"
COB: "I am sorry, Leonard, I apologize."
LN: "Let's start from scratch like friends, o.k.?"
COB: "O.k. How are you? How is it going?"

LN: "You're a Boston guy."
COB: "Yeah, and you are, too. Where were you born?"
LN: "In hospital."
COB: "You'll not give me the wise guy all night?"
LN: "No, no, no, just telling you the truth... I have got a question: My wife is a very good actress. Her name is Susan Bay. She auditioned for a sketch on your show. Until 5 o'clock today, this evening, she has not heard anything from your casting department."
COB: "Are you serious?"
LN: "This is my wife Susan." (Susan Bay Nimoy gets applause from the audience... [trying to say that she doesn’t want the job]). "Say 'Hello' to Conan, he is trying to be nice now."

Now Leonard unpacks the paper-bag he's brought along.
COB: "Are you eating your lunch now? What’s going on now? What is it with this interview?"
Leonard puts an apple on the table.
COB: "This is possible one of the weirdest interviews we've had in a while. We're going to take a break and talk some more to Leonard Nimoy. So, stick around, we'll be back in a moment."

B r e a k

Conan O'Brian is summarizing some facts of Leonard's career and mentions his request to get a phone in his dressing room. The answer Leonard Nimoy has got was: 'Look, pal, we just could put the ears on someone else.'
LN: "That's right. It was a management attitude, it wasn't very friendly. We worked it out... you got to understand the context of the time."

COB: "You wrote a book: I Am Not Spock.
LN: "Well, I am not, really."
COB: "Thank you, I was losing it here. I thought, Spock's coming, but they said: 'No, Leonard Nimoy is coming, he's an actor. But later on you wrote a book: I Am Spock.
LN: "Well, I am."
COB: "That's what I was saying... What's going on here?"
LN: "... people asked me to write a sequel to 'I am Not Spock.' (And then he's telling the story of the boy at the airport.)
COB: "And people calling you: 'Spock!!!' how do you silence those people? Do you hit them? Do you give them the nerve pinch? How do you silence those people?"
LN: "The nerve pinch is very interesting."
COB: "I need that, I can't sleep."
LN: "Is that a fact? Maybe I can help?" (trying to apply the VNP and COB pretending to go down.)

COB: "Let's talk about The Apple Doesn't Fall... This is the first time directing on Broadway?"
LN: "First time directing on Broadway... We are in previews now. It's a wonderful evening, a very funny, a very touching play about a mother and daughter relationship... a wonderful cast and I’m having a great time."

... about directing Star Trek III and IV...