Conan Interviews Bread Expert Steven Kaplan | Late Night with Conan O’Brien
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- (Original air date: 02/22/07) Steven Kaplan teaches Conan about the sensual experience of making, handling, and tasting bread.
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Conan Interviews Bread Expert Steven Kaplan | Late Night with Conan O’Brien
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The cheeky smile the professor gives every time he knows his delivery hits is just so wonderful.
Masterful trolling.
@@jesusisgod2953 are you having a stroke?
@@jesusisgod2953 Freak.
@@jesusisgod2953 this is not the place for your creepy proselytizing
@@jesusisgod2953 god aint real
We need Jordan and this guy to sit down and discuss the wonders of bread
Waqar Ud-din wonders of bread.
Nice.
I was thinking the same thing!!!!
You beat me to this comment!
The obvious juxtaposition of this man against Jordan is not coincidental. He is literally the Schlansky of Bread. The tautology and tactile nature of baguettes, give me a break.
“What are you doing in the kitchen”
Schlansky: INHALES
"That is the tautology in which non-believer are locked into!"
This guy has some legendary lines lmao
You can tell he’s had to see it before
I am just gonna use that line randomly from now on - to sound smart. No matter the context, I am gonna throw that in.
He's a writer.
Steven Kaplan was my professor and mentor at Cornell in the mid-70s and launched me into my career. As a disciple of the Annales school of history his scholarship ranges far beyond bread, although bread, as a core component of the French and European diet even today, is central to all his work. And yes, his lectures and seminars are every bit as entertaining as this Conan segment, filled with metaphor, puns, and ribald imagery. He is brilliant if verbose.
So you're a spitter or swallower?
That's an amazing story for us, and an amazing memory for you... 🍞
@@HollyHeflen-pm2se yes, even I wanna be in his bread classes😭😭😭
Proof
Career of Stroking Breads?
This professor isn't giving Conan an inch of space. He's matching him the whole time.
Yes, he is witty as fuck. Very few people match Conan
Conan tried hard to make bread funny. The professor succeeded effortlessly.
@@alexanderzerka8477 Was just saying I was surprised the professor was handling the comedy of the show so well. He fit right in.
@@alexanderzerka8477 are you ok buddy?
@@alexanderzerka8477 You're the type of person I avoid interacting with at social gatherings.
This bread guy is clearly an unfulfilled comic
I had a blast
Most passionate College Professors are hahaha
College professors have mastered the art of playing to an audience, that's their job :)
he would be more filled if he wasn't a spitter
Perhaps not unfulfilled, just passionate about other things
Wrong he is a muppet. Who is trying to convince you to eat bread. Now think about that. Why would they bring a person on this show to talk about bread?
awkwardly sexual bread professor is more entertaining than most celebrities XD
why awkwardly?
@@walterwolk2639 He smells the bread-like that dude from "Can you eat p like that?" video
Because he actually has something to talk about
I looked him up, he's an actual European history professor with a PhD from Yale.
You gotta admit, enthusiastic professors are the best
@@xpan195 they love what they do.
hes written a bunch of books on bread in 18th century france
This guy is such a college professor: everything is sexual, he swears, and he's perhaps too enthusiastic about his very particular field of study.
Jordan Schlansky should learn from him
You just know the pocket bread knife is the coolest and most hilarious thing in the world, to him.
Lmao
Best way to teach this to young people lol
Or anyone with a pulse really
Just like everyone else
Why are people calling this man strange? He's literally one of the funniest guests I've seen in a long time.
Or he's funny and a little strange.
@@blayze995 I think the Professor was messing with us
Okay? Strange and funny aren't mutually exclusive qualities.
Because his behavior is very obviously strange.
Your own faulty perception that being or acting strange is always a negative thing made you feel the need to defend him.
_CHILL_
The guest said, “The bread has no theology, so a Catholic shouldn’t be worried about it.” Do you realize how quick witted this man is?
Indeed!
Even Conan was caught off guard, as was the whole audience
@Whytegenocide Isreal ,,, who hurt you? Israel?
He even had the foresight to wait until the audience had stopped laughing to make the comment. He’s a pro, through and through.
You're right, but comedy doesn't work if you overthink it. Oh and it's not the first thought that comes to mind, when you're trying to eat a piece of bread
This guy was easily one of the best guests Conan has ever had. Lightning in a bottle moment.
This is easily a top 20 Conan interview. Without a doubt
What would be top 1?
@@PrincipeCharro Here is my top 1. th-cam.com/video/ZFLqYFC6lIk/w-d-xo.html
True
@@PrincipeCharro Bill Burr
Top 5 easily
"It smells like bread!"
"That is the tautology in which non-believers are locked into."
ROFL I'm dying
Underrated joke. Way cerebral in shape for mainstream, but visceral in content for a good joke (if you get it).
@@OscarGeronimo Eck, try harder.
@@OscarGeronimo mr big brain
Oscar Geronimo that is not a difficult joke to understand, douchebag
Heath Sims Scientists at Harvard recently discovered an inverse correlation between character count per word and penis size. Sorry, Mr. Sims.
This is a segment that Jordan Schlansky would enjoy.
Oh the two of them would become besties
Jordan would be like: "why are the laughing?"
Honestly, Conan should have brought him for his last episodes, he is a wonderful guest to have
Wait, Conan is no longer doing shows?
@@Alvin_Vivian it ended. But he’s going to have a show on HBO
@@Alvin_Vivian he has a podcast
"it has no theology, so a Catholic shouldn't be worried about it." - that line was KILLER
yeah nailed it.
I don't get it. As far as I know catholics are mainly into theology not protestants. ( I understood the joke as like catholic people are not into theology or they renegate about it)
@@Remains123 Dude, Sarcasm? He just said in a polite way: "Theology and BS like that have nothing to do with bread, moron. So stop talking about religious nonsense when I try to explain something to you"
@@SolidXdamage to a +, I bet
@@Remains123 I think he means that bread is not tied to certain theologies; therefore a Catholic, who might be concerned about theology, should not need to worry about bread.
The subtle, quick dirty looks this guy gives the audience when they laugh is priceless.
You mean evil look??
@TheHound nah dude. That wasn't scripted...
@TheHound still funni dough st0p bean a party p00per
@TheHound nope you're just biased and nitpicking bye bye I win
@TheHound rekt
I remember watching this live and when he first came out I thought “aw man this is gonna be boring” and it wound up being the most memorable interview of Conan’s career for me.
Same. There's often some "third guest" types that come out just to tail end the show when they don't have a musical guest and sometimes I zone out because they're not all that interesting but this guy really did a good job playing around with Conan.
conan got roasted so hard when the professor said he probably likes wonderbread
I miss this type of guests on the current show
This *is* the current show...
Agreed. His Late Night show was SO much more funny than his current TBS show. That segment that Conan did with Sue Johanson, Tom Selleck, and The Big Show (Paul White) was one of the funniest segments in Late Night history.
Kevin Wells if only
Can someone find the beer expert who was on with Halle Berry? He was hammered and had his fly open 😅
@@Vladpryde really? I think the opposite, I feel it more restrained and fake than now. I feel like Conan would've improvised more jokes now
I'm convinced Jordan Schlansky's character is a parody of this guy
Yeah Jordan's Character is very much like Steven but without emotions and minus the sex too
What? Not even close. This was sexual for no reason which was funny, Jordan isn't sexual, ever. Clearly the professor is joking around and Jordans character is trying to be overly serious and analytic. Actually I don't see any resemblance to Schlansky.
@@taserrr he has Schlansky's over enthusiasm about food, and about the various technical minutiae of it. But he's much more animated, it's like he's Jordan Schlansky's eccentric, fun uncle.
Yes!!
@@taserrr Then you are blind. Just look at how Jordan talks about wine or coffee, its a carbon copy.
8:43 Conan forgets the professor's name and looks up in despair. He then starts talking about the book instead.
8:50 Conan sees the name on the book. He feels relieved and pretends as if nothing happened.
Pretty sure the professor realized it from the beginning and was trying to see how Conan gets out of this one. Was not disappointed.
Well spotted
I was looking for this comment to know that I wasn't imagining the situation 😄
Man I love this guy. He really loves bread and it’s history. Maybe a little too much.
I read that in Ron’s voice
If this isn’t one of the most impressive segments I’ve ever seen. The natural comedic talent of the bread guy, Conan’s ability to feed off of the bread guys jokes and energy, the way they compliment each other, and the fact this comes off as unscripted and completely genuine comedy. I wasn’t expecting this
Spencer Curtis that’s bc the bread guy isn’t an actor he is an actual renowned bread expert
That's "bread professor" to you!
this was perfect in every way
I don't get it.. when "WINE TASTERS" do the same thing it's classy and we are laughing at this guy. He is a legend.
We're laughing because he's self aware, we're laughing with him.
cause he's obviously playing it up
everyone listening to the wine tasters might already be drunk lol
He is purposely turn in it up a notch to make it funnier
Wine tasters arent right in the head, they make me drunk with their bullshit.
This guy is the Larry David of the bread world
Exactly
Im pretty sure it's the bald part. Like 69%
I love how Conan finishes the interview in the last five second. A sincere thank you and a handshake. Aknowledging that this was a bit and the man deserves credit for his book
Conan has always been a class act.
It wasn't a bit. But Conan turns it into such. Awesome
Bread fetish. Now I've seen everything.
oh he knew exactly what he was doing
🤣🤣
Got to agree with you
yeastiality
We all have kneads.
Please bring him back when the show returns. I want to know what else he has to say about bread 13yrs later.
We need #parttwo !
He is probably 80 years old, probably doesn't chew on a whole lot of bread anymore.
@@jakep1979 so you are saying he is a swollower now?
@@flandersinjection5673 like a duck!
Intelligent, cultured, funny, and not afraid to get his hands dirty....* insert Conan growl *
A good example of what makes Conan so magical. You can see it in his eyes early on that he knows this is going to be a good interview.
Normal Presenters: Invite a Famous Actor or singer
Conan: bReAd ExPeRt
Conan rules
“Who should we have on? Hanks?”
“Nah, get the bread guy.”
because hanks has corona
gomcoclamp in 2007?
too soon
he was there to promote his book. they promote books a lot, in addition to showbiz's movies, tv shows, comedian tours, stand ups, theatres, sports games, singer concerts
I love that he has a sense of humor about his expertise and obsession. The absurdity about the enthusiasm he has for something so simple like bread is not lost on him. He's effortlessly hilarious.
The single greatest interview on Conan ever! This guy has legend status
4:24 "THAT IS THE TAUTOLOGY IN WHICH NONBELIEVERS ARE LOCKED INTO!"
This should be a bumper sticker
I want to know specifically what his believers are believing in. What constitutes a nonbeliever in bread? I have so many questions!
Spit on da non believers (...in the great taxonomy of things).
@@AkiraChan24 He means the people who refuse to take bread seriously as something with depth, a rich cultural heritage, and worthy of analysis. He's suggesting you should humour the idea that it's not "just bread", but something that really does have a great amount of meaning and dimension behind it.
Said like a true professor
When he kind of proudly took out the Swiss army bread knife I lost it
If Bread Professor was a regular guest I would actually watch this show.
Dude we get enough if the bread professor’s energy in Conan every show, we don’t need double trouble
This guy is Bernie Sanders brother that got wayyyy into bread instead of politics 🤣
Omg I can’t 😂
@@goodgirl140 😂😂😂😂
Yeah his voice immediately reminded me of Bernie.
"we should not leave bread tasting to be the monopoly of snobbish wine drinkers" has a real bernie sanders vibe
I love this bread guy.
At first I was like: 'poor old man, I wonder if they warn their guest of how...well strange conans interviews can be'
But then he goes all in and plays that weird bread guy so well.
Very entertaining interview great exchange.
Ahhhhh, the beloved "second guest". Always loved these odd guests. Worst part of the new format is the lack of the second guest no one cares about.
db lucky for you it was just announced conan is going back to the hour format!
db okay I actually lied. I thought it was an hour format but it’s not. Still 30 minutes
These were usually the third guests.
Especially a second guest sitting next to Norm MacDonald
Notice how all of COCO's old clips are of the show's old format. New Ellen style table no desk 1 guest is so TRASH!
8:05 look at the face of the breadman. He spend the last 8 minutes setting up that joke, and it worked PERFECTLY.
no one is going to talk about the fact he had a bread knife in his pocket
The way he opened that knife and slammed it down on the board was hilarious, I’m surprised that didn’t get more of a laugh
@@corgio1260 if anything. its funnier that no one noticed
He is bread grand master. Of course he is going to have a bread knife.
Conan's team is marvelous. Having the ingenuity to invite an expert such as this on the show is fantastic.
Kudos to Conan as well! A true host. I love how this went down! Hahaha
This guy scientifically talks dirty about bread, this is an art.
I love the part at 4:27 when Conan realizes there's nothing he could possibly say that could top what the bread guy said.
When you think even Colbert tiptoes around O'Brien not knowing what to expect and this guy doesn't even leave him any room to breathe. The Catholics comeback, wow
As a frenchman, I actually identify to everything this man does and says. Respect, monsieur.
tbh we don't do all the fuss around and we certainly don't spit at the end, but ofc most people in france can recognize a good baguette from a bad one immediately ; i cringed as soon as i saw some of the baguettes, and felt relief when he threw them away (not a joke)
There are A-list actors who don't have as interesting and engaging interviews.
8:40 Looks like Conan forgot the professor's name and was trying to find it on the book cover xD
He keeps stroking the bread throughout the entire interview.
"It's like a sexual experience"
...like? 😂😂😂
How else is he supposed to butter his bread?
To be fair, a good baguette with crust really is enticing to touch. I kind of get where he's coming from lol
My mouth watered a few too many times watching this lol.
Krystal Myth Same! And I’m on the keto diet 😂
I kept thinking about that one scene from Ratatouille where they listened to the bread crunch haha
Gracelynn Lu Not the smell, not the look, but the SOUND... yes the sound.
Dude that movie makes me so hungry, especially the soup they make lol
Gracelynn Lu yes!
Tbh baguette crunch is quite important. Good baguette will have really nice sound
wait, someone unironically watch Ratatouille ?? I don't believe you.
6:29 that's the moment of genuine appreciation by Conan!
One of the best Conan guests
Professor, you've earned your French citizenship hands down ! Here we love bread and everything baguette's related. With so much knowledge, you can run for next presidency no questions asked.
@@alexanderzerka8477 Do you just sit here every night and angrily analyze people's youtube comments. Ive scanned for 2 minutes and counted like 9 of your lame negative comments. Like imagine quarantine sucking bad enough but then you spend your time doing that hahaha yikes.
This guy played his part perfectly.....a surging geyser of aromatics. That was great
The finale was just awesome, that guy is so hilarious and has a good chemistry with conan
Plot Twist: He's the uncle of Jordan Schlansky.
He probably is
OMG, so funny. I lost it when the good professor thrust his nose into the bread.
This guy is CHARLES BOYLE people....he talks sensually about food, he speaks about MOUTH FEEL and he SPITS after tasting food
prove me wrong
Oh the Mouth Feel, why won't anyone talk about the mouth feel!
The writers of Brooklyn 99 must be Conans fans and remembered (or even took notes from) this interview 😂 😂 😂. It cannot be a coincidence
Holy crap, you are absolutely right!
@@Ex0dus111 Not enough people are talking about the mouthfeeel :(
But did he send the email blast tho?
This Bread PhD guy has the crowd in the palm of his hand.What a boss.
One of the best segments from coco
This guy schooled you Conan. He was the star in this..
@@alexanderzerka8477 Of course! But they may also be a spitter or a swallower as well
That was randomly one of the funniest interviews I've ever seen.
“It appeals to the sight it appeals to the sound” this guy is Jordan schlansky
This guy is a master of his craft! Hoped he was a comedian. But alas.. he's one professor that can never be too boring to listen!
Big Daddy, I took a class with Steve Kaplan in 1982 and never forgot it: the first lecture was 45 minutes on the social significance of bread in French society and Catholicism before the French Revolution, and at the end he talked about Marie Antoinette’s “let them eat cake,” and why it would have been a big deal in 1789. Yes, he would throw in the sexual comments (not quite like here-he’s having fun), but then he would move to the insight of how a little thing like bread told you about a society and world.
@@palamane1 That's amazing man. I really hop his lectures are available in video format, hopefully on TH-cam. Would very much like to listen to them and take a deeper peek into this bread madman.
This man is the Jordan Schlansky of bread
David Brown I was literally just about to say this. 😂 You beat me to it.
@@user-unknown173 I can hear it now, "You may find the subject of good bread unappealing, but to those of us with more sophisticated palates, the various details are fascinating. I prefer a bread with a more crisp crust for example, one that doesn't melt away after it comes in contact with the saliva."
that has to be the funniest interview i've ever seen.
"There are swallowers and there are spitters" 😂
Man this guy's a legend!
I say it again. THIS is one of my favorite Conan episodes.
One of the best Conan segments I've seen, even at this present time.
Why every time Conan gets a expert of something completely innocent they turn out to be total freaks 😂😂
because it's Conan!
Cause no one spends 40 years studying bread if they haven't got ulterior motives.
@@lamolambda8349 hahahah
Because no sane person looks at bread and decides to make it a life passion
Were all freaks
"That's the kind of tautology non believers are locked into". This man really knows how to describe something
Who would have thought an interview with a bread expert would be one of the best and funniest interviews ever?
Thirty-nine people just don't know an ICON when they see one.
It's going viral again, up to 73.
Whoever decided to upload this today is a genius. Everything about this video would make almost anyone laugh, especially today
why today?
I just love this inteview... see it every couple of months and then I have to see it a few times because I cant belive everything that happened... LOVE IT🤣
Me too, I keep rewatching it.
this is one of the few times a guest took the show from Conan. Conan just had the follow through the craziness. It was amazing.
I assumed this would be boring. Man I was way “wronger” than I thought.
This is like an episode of Curb starring Jordan Schlansky.
No way Schlansky is this good with the audience. He doesn't even have the flow
This is a brilliant example of 2 funny guys who have frequencies that are perfectly-aligned. The interview practically writes itself and the audience is engaged throughout. Hilarious professor XD, some of the lines he nonchalantly improvises are actually genius
Pretty sure Jordan Schlansky booked this guy
6:36 HE MENTIONS THE MOUTH FEEL
I feel like he and Charles Boyle would get along great
Well of course, the insides of your cheeks are like the insides of your thighs.
@@DissociatedWomenIncorporated bread man, is that you?
ContraPoints would be proud
"If this segment airs tonight, I'm gonna be very surprised."
This is not this decade. Or the last five years. I don't think. Going to read the description now. Looks like young Conan.
2007
This is one of the great interviews of Late Night. Everything about it was comedic gold. Possibly intentionally, but if so, they disguised their writing pretty gracefully, making it seem like the lines were naturally-delivered. But I think it was mostly unintentional, and Conan just happened to have a funny guest who knew _exactly_ what he was doing.
I wish I loved anything as much as this guy loves bread.
That theology comment caught Conan off guard
Reminds of that scene in Ratatouille, “Listen. A symphony of crackles. “
He wrecks wonderbread at 7:16 like he has been waiting to do it his whole life.
Me thinks this fella teaches at the "Jordan Schlansky" Center for kids who can't read good. Man the wordsmithing from this man is on point.
Freud would have a field day with this guy.
svsguru2000 Exactly
As a French it was hard finding good bread that wasn't expensive when I was living abroad in America. Making bread is really an art, it take skills. You can really taste the difference like a good wine. Spitting the bread or getting his head in the bread was quite weird and funny tho.
my face hurts, funniest Conan interview ever!
Still one of the best guests he's ever brought on the show
7:45 I haven’t laughed that hard in a long time. Bring this guy back!😂
Forgot how much I loved late night with Conan until I watched this clip.
The off-the-rails quirkiness defined the summer nights of my adolescence. Goddamn do I miss this.
Never would have thought it by the description....but this is one of the very best guests ever had.
Conan with a witty guest is the best.
Cmn i thought this was going to be serious talk.
It ended being one of my favorite Connan segments ever