Rory Scovel On His #ConanNYC Crowd Work

June 13, 2017

Rory Scovel

Rory did some very literal crowd work during our week of shows at The Apollo Theater.

TranscriptYou've been doing standup for years. You're very good. You've been doing it for a very long time. Why call your special "Rory Scovel: standup for the first time." Rory: things don't have to be true anymore. We now know this. This is a marketing tactic. The consumer. They don't want fact or the truth. They want fun. Mix it up. I've never done standup and I'll refute anyone who says otherwise. You probably won't believe this but familiar a lot of people who still don't know who I am. CONAN: No, that's crazy talk. Rory: this entire crowd is like well, we do. That's why we're here. I like when there's a little pause. They're like oh, he needs us to applaud right now. They're like oh, let's go see the guy. He's never done standup. He's never done the couch. Let's go see what he does. CONAN: You did standup -- I can prove it -- when we had a week of shows at the Apollo theater last fall and you did something very daring. You went out into the crowd, into the audience and did your set? From in the crowd. Let's look amount that alcoholism. Rory: when you watch a detective. Let's stay on point here. Just for right here. Folks -- all right, I'll move, geez. Not really a team player right now, is he? Can you move? I can't see show. I can't see the screen, sir. He's not even turning around to see the show. [APPLAUSE] CONAN: That was a really -- 1 Rory: that wasn't standup, if you're honest. People are like all he did was talk to some people. CONAN: You love to perform with a fake accent sometimes. Where did that come from? Rory: it's very teematic tonight, all these answers. I am very lazy so if I get to a point where I don't have any new jokes, I'll just do the same jokes with an accent. That's cool, nobody will notice. Sometimes I'll do this southern guy. Go out and talk about stuff like hey, I don't like how I waved. You'll were right to clap. It was kind of cool -- you'll be like make it is a different show. I'm lazy. I don't do anything new. I said to that guy, do something, I'm floundering right now that. Woman is not even turning around to watch. -- watch. You're giving me nothing. I'll do a German guy sometimes. I've done an accent on this show and I've reeled the comments on like the video afterwards which you're not supposed to do because there are a lot of vicious people out there. Some people got into an argument that that was a real accent. I don't think I'm even doing the accent that well. CONAN: He's from Austria.

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