Conan O'Brien may have been "legally prohibited from being funny on television," but thanks to TBS he'll be back on the air very soon. Conan and Andy Richter stop by Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters for a morning of hilarity. This event took place on May 5, 2010. 

Conan Christopher O'Brien is an American television host and comedian. He served as host of Late Night with Conan O'Brien from 1993 to 2009, followed by The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien from 2009 to 2010. Prior to his hosting career, O'Brien was a writer for Saturday Night Live and the animated series The Simpsons.

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Steven, thank you for playing music usually reserved for a fireman's funeral.

That's creating a really nice atmosphere for me right now.

What a rare honor for them to see you in the flesh.

Yes, on behalf of all the Googlers, let me express a very warm welcome.

Especially for the guys when they're walking into a bar.

You don't have to say that to a, you know, like I'm a G-man or something.

You gotta get something else going, cause Googler.

Well, we're pretty much done here, aren't we?

But you invited me and that's your problem.

I don't know what the rivalries are here.

I mean, a lot of us was just wondering the intentions.

Intel, Twitter, Googler, Coco, level with me.

Are you looking for a job in the Silicon Valley?

Let's sit in this fake airport lounge that we've created.

My flight was supposed to board 20 minutes ago.

So, I'm sure you have many questions for me.

If you feel like dancing, go right for it.

Yeah, So we have a thing inside Google called a Dory.

But it allows, it allows, it allows The most

You just relax and let the search engine do the work.

Are you all dancing when Morris Day and the Time come out?

And ladies submitted a bunch of questions.

And then I culled them and picked the best ones, so it's quasi-democratic, I guess.

That's like Stalin saying, you guys decide amongst yourselves and then I'll kill all of you.

And then grind them for all they're worth.

The first 1 is from a Googler named Chirp.

What lessons and wisdom can you offer those seeking to grow a beard as luxurious as yours?

I grew this beard pretty much out of, it was a feeling of, for every day for 17 years I've had to shave and I just, the first day that I didn't have the Tonight Show, I woke up and I thought, at least I don't have to shave.

And then I went with that, and it's 1 of those things where you just go with the opportunity.

And then really, very quickly, because I'm all man, I had this beard.

Literally, within a day, I had this beard.

I am very, I am just all man is what I am.

So, I, So if you, I say, but you know, you hipsters and hep cats, you, what generation is this?

So you've like never even heard of the television show chips.

I'm just running a test quickly right now.

You were all born like after the Cosby show was off the air.

I'm quickly trying to find out who this audience is.

Conan, they don't even know what The tonight show is.

Are you sure you want to read that carefully?

Burns was your favorite Simpson character to write for.

Burns quote of all time, either written by you or someone else?

Boy, I don't, I can't, I don't, there's not 1 that comes to mind.

Well, I guess 1 of my favorite things that was a repeating joke that we did all the time that always made me laugh was that Mr.

Simpson, even though he had had hundreds and hundreds of death-defying encounters with Homer Simpson, never remembers who he is.

Every time Homer's brought into his office, he's like, Simpson, And could never remember who he was.

My other favorite thing is that we made him impossibly old.

We always, there's an episode, I think that John Schwarzwolder wrote, where Mr.

Burns wants to play, assemble his old baseball team.

And he wants to assemble a baseball team of ringers.

And it's all these people that died in 1905.

And he can't believe that they're not alive anymore.

He was just the most fun person to write for because he's a comedy writer's fantasy.

There's limitless potential for him because he has unlimited wealth and he's as old as time.

He could have chambers deep down underneath his house where he would like, he could be asleep in a hyperbaric chamber when Smithers comes to get him.

Whatever we thought of, we could make happen.

I appreciate you explaining that to me because if I had to guess what a comedy writer's fantasy would be, I would have gone elsewhere.

Do you interact with this man on a regular basis?

Are you in, except it's not from me, this is from the audience.

You can totally have my job exactly 5 years from today.

The way things are going, I would take that offer.

So, yes, whoever you are, I'm very interested.

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