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  • You have a one man show, The New York Story.

  • Yes.

  • And one of your points is you feel New York has changed.

  • How has New York changed, Colin?

  • New York and L.A. have both changed,

  • and New York has changed because there's no characters,

  • 'cause people are afraid to say anything, you know,

  • obviously in the climate we live in in the country.

  • So the New York, a construction worker sees a girl walking

  • by now, he's like, hey, look at that strong

  • independent woman, you know. (laughing)

  • And, uh, yeah, watching men yell at the players.

  • Hey, ump you're crazy, no offense to anyone

  • with mental illness in their families. (laughing)

  • And, but L.A., so New York has lost its... the whole point

  • of New York was, the whole world wants to be tolerant,

  • and positive, and non-judgemental.

  • [Conan] Yes, yes. That's good.

  • Not New York, and of course, Boston is the other.

  • I'll talk about L.A. in one second, let me just side

  • back to Boston, 'cause I was in Boston and I realized it's

  • the only place, everywhere else, like, oh, you know,

  • who's from here, this person from Mad Men,

  • all the celebrities.

  • Boston, they're like hey, Ben Affleck's from here, huh?

  • (Beep) him. (laughing)

  • It's like, what?

  • My friend knocked over his coffee, he didn't do anything.

  • He's a, and you know, Marky Mark, my cousin beat the piss

  • out of him in a Foxborough Mall.

  • [Conan] Yeah, yeah, yeah. (laughing)

  • No, I'm from Boston.

  • A Boston autograph, exactly.

  • I'm from Boston, and that is exactly how they are.

  • I went to the, I told this story before, but I showed

  • up at Logan Airport, and I'm walking, there's a long line

  • to get in the taxi cab, and I'm walking towards the back

  • of the line, like I got my suitcase and I'm going to go-

  • Like Irish people, going to jump the line.

  • Yeah, and I'm walking with my suitcase towards the back

  • of the line, and before I can even get to the back

  • of the line, the guy running the line goes like, hey,

  • back of the line, movie star! (laughing)

  • I'm like, I'm not in the movies, and I was heading,

  • and the whole line looks at him like, what is

  • that asshole doing? (laughing)

  • Right, that's a very Irish attitude,

  • like, don't think you're getting too big.

  • But the thing about L.A., L.A. when I was first here

  • in the eighties, back the eighties, and um, it was,

  • it had its mojo, somewhere in the course of technology,

  • you let those nerds in Northern California start

  • to shame you, where you guys feel, instead of being

  • the hedonist that you are, you start going, we have

  • to be smart too, and suddenly they're trying

  • to be intellectuals, they, you know, L.A.'s getting

  • like this whole activism, awareness.

  • You guys are beautiful, just sit by the pool

  • in the lounge chair, that's your job. (laughing)

  • Look pretty, okay?

  • [Conan] Look pretty. Yeah.

  • And now look, the water, the drinking, you think

  • they're gonna send the water back down when you guys are

  • just starving to death, spitting on your lawn?

  • No. (laughing)

  • That place was supposed to be your mini-bar.

  • You run up there, you got drunk in Napa Valley,

  • then you come back down the same night.

  • And now they, you know, you gotta go up there

  • and beg some 25 year old nerd for ten million dollars

  • cause, you know, he invented an app where you can have sex

  • and find the best fro-yo place in- (laughing)

  • L.A. and New York have lost their mojo.

  • You don't know what the hell you're talking about

  • (laughing)

  • There's no app where you get sex and the best fro-yo place.

  • Now wait a minute, I'll prove it to you.

  • Oh, look who's the nerd now.

  • That thing isn't even real. (laughing)

  • I have a prop phone. (laughing)

You have a one man show, The New York Story.

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