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Jeff Goldblum

Conan O'Brien with Jeff Goldblum

Goldblum and Conan produce procedural surrealism from pinky rings, funny children, marriage, elocution, and speaking in jazz.

The official subjects include pinky rings, raising funny children, marriage, and speaking in jazz. This list is accurate in the way a customs declaration is accurate about a suitcase containing a weather system.

Goldblum’s delighted digressions meet Conan’s compulsion to heighten everything. Together they create a conversational procedure whose output is reliable nonsense.