'Conan Without Borders' works so well is because of O’Brien’s innate ability to improvise, his willingness to make a fool of himself, and the show’s effort to tackle uncomfortable topics
Photo: Netflix and Vulture Over four years ago, when Conan O’Brien began Conan Without Borders, a spinoff travel segment from his TBS late-night show Conan, it became clear that he was successfully separating himself from the parlor games and politics that occupied so much of late night’s real estate. And that was in 2015, when Donald Trump was still being mocked for thinking he could win the U.S. presidential election.
The cast of characters who join O’Brien have also become perfect comedic partners for the traveling host. Fan favorites like Sona Movsesian, Flula Borg, Jordan Schlansky, and Steven Yeun all perfectly complement O’Brien in their respective episodes. 11. Australia .youtube[data-uri="www.vulture.com/_components/youtube/instances/ck0nyyyw2006r3h664qs5q5zi@published"].border-top:before { content: 'Watch'; } A prison-hat-wearing Hugh Jackman tells O’Brien via video message that he’s seen the host go everywhere except Australia. “There’s an old rule in show business,” O’Brien says in response. “When Hugh Jackman tells you to do something, you do it.
Highlights of the episode are mostly outside of the studio, though, as O’Brien appears in a telenovela called Mi Adorable Maldición playing a forgetful, bolo-tie-wearing cheese merchant. He trains to become a luchador and transforms into El Gallo Loco , whose power is pecking and crowing. The beauty of this episode is that it exposes us to a rarely discussed country and their culture. Greenland is so seldom in the news that when O’Brien encounters a Greenlander wearing a Make America Great Again hat, he learns that the man only likes Trump for all the publicity he’s given his country, not because he’s a supporter.
Don’t miss this episode, especially if you want to see Jordan Schlansky give his opinion on Japanese toilets and get his dreams crushed by Ralph Macchio, who shocks Schlansky by telling him Karate Kid II was not filmed in Japan. This episode’s more sentimental moment occurs when he speaks with Palestinian, Syrian, and Afghani refugees at Berlin Tempelhof Airport, a reminder that this whole exercise is to, indeed, broaden viewers’ horizons.
5. Haiti .youtube[data-uri="www.vulture.com/_components/youtube/instances/ck0nz3i7i00833h66zjkzb7ma@published"].border-top:before { content: 'Watch'; } The Conan crew made this happen almost immediately after Trump described Haiti as one of those “shithole countries.” “Now I have no idea what the president has against the people of Haiti,” O’Brien said. “But if the president doesn’t like them, they must be lovely people.
4. Korea .youtube[data-uri="www.vulture.com/_components/youtube/instances/ck0nz45h1008b3h66gft0d1ww@published"].border-top:before { content: 'Watch'; } If you want to see O’Brien insult gamers at a PC bang , help a Buddhist monk shovel snow, and star in a psychedelic K-Pop music video with Steven Yeun, then this is the perfect episode for you.
The duo has gained quite the following over the last few years because of their chemistry and natural comedic contemptuousness for one another. The trip is a chance for O’Brien to finally spend time with his producer who claims to perform “various duties” for the show and is a self-proclaimed expert on Italy. O’Brien gives viewers a chance to see Italy through Schlansky’s “cold, dead eyes.”
O’Brien encounters an eclectic mix of characters, like David, an older man who invites him to his apartment for coffee, only to sit in silence with him and calls the host “beautiful.” There’s a hairy man on a Tel Aviv beach whose chest hair is used for O’Brien to hang his sunglasses, and a rabbi who tells the Irish Catholic host that he is “pure” — which prompts O’Brien to ask if he needs to be a virgin to convert to Judaism, “because up until five years ago I’d have been fine.
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