He's never doing it! This has been brought up so many times over the years on various podcasts and he swears up and down that he'll never do it again for some reason.
@@killertofu90 I've been trying to go back and find the James Bonding episode where it came up, and I can't find it for the life of me. I remember Matt gave a lot more details and I was absolutely flabbergasted by the story. The organizer of the competition was some toilet machine parts company, and I distinctly remember that part of Matt's prize was they gave him free toilet machine parts. Also as champion, the company sent Matt on a bunch of C-level talk shows as a sort of a media tour. At the time of that James Bonding episode, Gourley insisted that no footage of that media tour survives.
Conan's auto-amnesia strikes again. He actually showed the training video in a _Conan_ segment around 2014 or so. The clip was posted to the Team Coco channel with the title "Conan's Awkward '80s Training Video" over 10 years ago.
@@coleeckerman1390 At this point, I question if Conan can remember any of them. 😂 I love Conan but he seems to wholesale delete memories of his shows once they go out and he gets details wrong on virtually every story he's told for which I can get outside verification.
It was Steve Belkin. _Kwik Witz_ is his only IMBd credit and in 2021 he released a book _Mileage Maniac: My Genius, Madness and a Touch of Evil, to Amass 40 Million Frequent Flyer Miles_ which sounds like a ChatGPT title.
What do you think a young woman would do for money? Doesn't take a genius to know it was dirty. 😅😅 And before you think I'm jumping to conclusions, just understand it's much more common than you think.
@@mediocreman2 i think so too. womens greatest superpower is making you think theyre "innocent". shes probably done some degenerate filth. thats why she was single for so long.
It was Steve Belkin. _Kwik Witz_ is his only IMBd credit and in 2021 he released a book _Mileage Maniac: My Genius, Madness and a Touch of Evil, to Amass 40 Million Frequent Flyer Miles_ which sounds like a ChatGPT title.
The IMDb entry for _Kwik Witz_ is itself weird. Only 2 episodes are listed: S1.E2 aired Nov 21, 1996 and S1.E7 aired Oct 14, 1996. Why episode 7 aired before episode 2 is anyone's guess.
Could be that there's a mixup between production order and airdate. So although it was the seventh episode to be produced, it was aired earlier, usually because they think its the stronger episode. It happens all the time, particularly in shows where you don't need to worry about continuity.
@@shawn5346 knowing how talkative sona is, if she cannot say it on record, it means its really dark.. since she's very open about stealing eyeglasses and munching gummies
Can I just say when Matt Gorley says he was "10,000 miles above San Francisco" That's 52,800,000 feet up so he is in outer space. (I recognize he meant to say feet lol)
3/4 inch U-Matic tapes and players ruled corporate and ENG ("Electronic News Gathering"). Even broadcast in smaller markets. Like a mutant VHS. The DVE (Digital Video Effects) box was a kind of joystick deal in line of the analogue video signal (Edit Bay Stuff). The twirling boxes were a big step up from Star Wipes etc.
That last bit cracked me up even more than usual, loved seeing Conan when he heard that Gourley won for other reasons than being good, you could tell he struck gold when he turned to Sona.
Hearing that Matt did a lot of improv, a lot of gameshows, and a (toilet flushing) sound effects competition makes me want him on Make Some Noise so much!
Ok, so the show Sona is referring to is called Eddie Dodd - the picture of 2nd graders pledging allegiance is the first few seconds of this though idk which kid is Sona: th-cam.com/video/_exvj4LivU0/w-d-xo.html
When Conan goes into crazy bits during the sponsor commercials, I have no idea how Sona keeps a straight face. Edit: then Matt's toilet flushing competition?? I have 8 pack abs from laughing so hard. I love these people 😀
I heard a "Conan needs a fan" episode from like 3 years ago and Matt mentioned this, I think it was in regards to a question like what their weirdest job was.
I totally remember KwikWitz. My friend was into Comedy Sportz so I made it a point to watch it. Even for late 90s televised improv, it was super cringeworthy.
Let's speculate as to what Sona did in the 90s for money that she demurs to mention for fear of Conan latching on and never letting go! 1. Sell weed to friends 2. Trim weed in the autumn 3. ....? Not phone sex, that was all in Quebec
I believe him when he said that he took these flights, I have no reason to think he's lying, but I looked up on one airline (Frontier Airlines) on a random day and did not see any way to book 3 back to back round trip flights in one day. I'd love to know what airline had that availability to fly from LAX to SFO 3 round trips in a day.
An entire episode where these three just show their most embarrassing or candid moments on Television? I'd subscribe for that alone!
WAIT…Matt’s been holding off telling us these absolute gems of stories for ALL THIS TIME!!!! 😂😅😂😅
Right?!
Matt being on a show called quick wits makes so much sense lol. His witty throwaway lines are what makes this show so great
Kwik Witz!
He said it was all pre written.
Conan is pure Angele Fire Dead pan!
Laugh And watch this brilliant, "Useless Idiot!!?"
Lmoa!!!! Take my checks you idiot!!
NATIONAL. TOILET. FLUSHING. SOUND EFFECT. COMPETITION.
BUT it wasn't the sound effect that won it? WHERE IS THEIR INTEGRITY?
now thats a mouth full!
Just when I thought Gourley's life couldn't be funnier.
He's never doing it! This has been brought up so many times over the years on various podcasts and he swears up and down that he'll never do it again for some reason.
@@killertofu90 I've been trying to go back and find the James Bonding episode where it came up, and I can't find it for the life of me. I remember Matt gave a lot more details and I was absolutely flabbergasted by the story.
The organizer of the competition was some toilet machine parts company, and I distinctly remember that part of Matt's prize was they gave him free toilet machine parts. Also as champion, the company sent Matt on a bunch of C-level talk shows as a sort of a media tour. At the time of that James Bonding episode, Gourley insisted that no footage of that media tour survives.
The seedy underbelly of network sketch comedy.
Quite a scandal that this “improv” show with, among others, Wayne Brady, was all scripted! I demand a congressional investigation!
Steve Belkin, the “mileage maniac” was his book.
Isn't that the Cath me If You Can guy? Who made the whole thing up?
@@b0tterman No, that was Frank Abagnale.
I’d love to see the face of this dude when sales of his book suddenly spike seemingly out of nowhere
Someone please write a movie script of Gourley's life. I would prefer the version where he does sleep his way to victory at the toilet thing.
I got the title ready "Flushed"
Or maybe ... "Royal Flush"
This is "The Mule" that I'd actually watch
That $150 per day in 1996 would be $298 in 2024 so not bad for an underemployed performer.
6k a month.
50
@@richi1235 5:19 $50 per flight and ideally 3 flights per day = $150
@@richi1235 5:19 $50 per flights with ideally 3 flights per day = $150
5:19 $50 per flight and ideally 3 flights per day = $150
This needs to be a full episode. There's so many threads unpulled!
8:25 is the sound of a man handing an axe over to his executioner.
Conan's auto-amnesia strikes again. He actually showed the training video in a _Conan_ segment around 2014 or so. The clip was posted to the Team Coco channel with the title "Conan's Awkward '80s Training Video" over 10 years ago.
You try doing a show every single night for 28 years and then try to vividly remember every single one.
@@coleeckerman1390Leno would
Yooo found it, thanks 🤣🤣🤣
@@coleeckerman1390 At this point, I question if Conan can remember any of them. 😂
I love Conan but he seems to wholesale delete memories of his shows once they go out and he gets details wrong on virtually every story he's told for which I can get outside verification.
@@1Husseini I’m sure Leno would considering he still watches clips from his own show every day like a washed up silent movie actress set in the 40s
The public absolutely needs to see all this old footage!!
"Conan's Awkward '80s Training Video" posted to the Team Coco channel over 10 years ago.
These clips are by far the best thing on TH-cam I'm so happy for Conan
I remember Matt alluding to this story in the very early episodes of the podcast. Im so glad we get to hear it now.
this is definitely the highest evolution of the podcast in quality content that is engaging and original.
I just wanted to report we fans are single handedly causing a spike in the TH-cam views of Kwik Witz videos posted years ago.
@@whitestoneandy797 lol you are so right. Plenty of posts by Conan fans. Haven't found Gourley yet, found Jack McBrayer though.
“I slept my way to the top.” “Good enough to be King Flusher?” I was 😭 😭 😭 and gasping for air I was laughing so hard.
Some how Conan just realized there are more layers to Gourley than he initially thought😂
That producer's name? J. Schlansky. No, that's too obvious. Jordan S.
Thank you Skinner
SIMPSONS DID IT!!
It was Steve Belkin. _Kwik Witz_ is his only IMBd credit and in 2021 he released a book _Mileage Maniac: My Genius, Madness and a Touch of Evil, to Amass 40 Million Frequent Flyer Miles_ which sounds like a ChatGPT title.
@@dlxmarks You're good!
@@dlxmarks It definitely sounds like something a Steve would do.
Matt has some crazy unexpected lore🤣
Agreed. He also worked at Disneyland as talking trash can😂
He’s the American Bob Mortimer. 😂
Even the show looks like front for a crime
True but oddly enough why is nobody talking about the human rights violations against American citizens by Kamala Harris ?
We're watching a 90's tax fraud in progress
It's like a rougher version of Whose Line Is It Anyway.
And now we definitely need to know what Sona did.
YES. i have long suspected that shes actually the worst of the bunch >:D
I heard there was talk of Gerbils...
What do you think a young woman would do for money? Doesn't take a genius to know it was dirty. 😅😅
And before you think I'm jumping to conclusions, just understand it's much more common than you think.
@@mediocreman2 i think so too. womens greatest superpower is making you think theyre "innocent". shes probably done some degenerate filth. thats why she was single for so long.
@@mediocreman2It's not that common dude. You know PornHub isn't real life right? Step siblings don't really do that as often as depicted.
Steve Carell was on KwikWitz in '96!
@@isuzu343 found Jack McBrayer on one.
Maybe Steve Belkin? In Google he is called "the original Mileage Maniac". In a CNN article, he says he hired dozens of actors to fly under his name
Yeah it is Steve Belkin.
It was Steve Belkin. _Kwik Witz_ is his only IMBd credit and in 2021 he released a book _Mileage Maniac: My Genius, Madness and a Touch of Evil, to Amass 40 Million Frequent Flyer Miles_ which sounds like a ChatGPT title.
I’ll take more Gourley Stories anytime!
He has a wild storied life. I've listened to probably 10 different podcasts he's hosted and still hear new stories.
Gourley’s Stourleys
The IMDb entry for _Kwik Witz_ is itself weird. Only 2 episodes are listed: S1.E2 aired Nov 21, 1996 and S1.E7 aired Oct 14, 1996. Why episode 7 aired before episode 2 is anyone's guess.
Could be that there's a mixup between production order and airdate. So although it was the seventh episode to be produced, it was aired earlier, usually because they think its the stronger episode. It happens all the time, particularly in shows where you don't need to worry about continuity.
@@jameshinton2401 I guess the show wasn't great overall so the second episode was probably rough.
Nineties syndicated shows were like that. Everything broadcast out of order.
I remember kwick witz!!! It was on nbc at like 3am… i remember wayne brady being on it very early in his career
These are my favorite part, the into and outro, i mean there has got to be 230 years of life experience between the 3 of them.
your math is amazing.
@jacobl5488 Conan got be 120 130 , Matt is like 90 and Sona is 20. We'll there souls are about age.
Sona: "We all did things for a buck...."
Her reluctance made it seem kinda dark.
@@shawn5346 When you don't have talent, but do have other _assets_ .
**jeffrey e. would like to know your location**
UH OH
@@shawn5346 knowing how talkative sona is, if she cannot say it on record, it means its really dark.. since she's very open about stealing eyeglasses and munching gummies
@@jollybee5220Or drinking lighter fluid.
The producer, Steve Belkin, did an interview with CNN on the scheme. He called them “millage clones” lol
I'd love for Conan to watch Matt's part in Community. That'd be comedy gold.
Can I just say when Matt Gorley says he was "10,000 miles above San Francisco" That's 52,800,000 feet up so he is in outer space. (I recognize he meant to say feet lol)
Maybe he got high on the plane.
Yeah, 10,000 meters would have made more sense
Jack McBrayer was on Kwik Witz!
3/4 inch U-Matic tapes and players ruled corporate and ENG ("Electronic News Gathering"). Even broadcast in smaller markets. Like a mutant VHS. The DVE (Digital Video Effects) box was a kind of joystick deal in line of the analogue video signal (Edit Bay Stuff). The twirling boxes were a big step up from Star Wipes etc.
5:45 And now we learn how Matt Gourley and Jeremy Carter met: as mileage mules for an airline scam. 😆
They developed Superego while mileage muling.
10:37 Conan took this to heart and this is why he lets the guests talk more.
Another clip to save in my "Keep laughing" list 😂
3:44 “go through security” 😂
We need to find the tape!
"Conan's Awkward '80s Training Video" posted to the Team Coco channel over 10 years ago.
That last bit cracked me up even more than usual, loved seeing Conan when he heard that Gourley won for other reasons than being good, you could tell he struck gold when he turned to Sona.
Matt Gourley really is The Most Interesting Man in Comedy.
11:02 "I have 28 years" 🤣
😂
They should definitely do the "bring in your most embarrassing thing" segment. A lovely little shame & tell segment the gang can bond over!
Hearing that Matt did a lot of improv, a lot of gameshows, and a (toilet flushing) sound effects competition makes me want him on Make Some Noise so much!
Love an episode with a revelation.
Wish we found out how much the penalty was though for not meeting your quota 😂
Kwick Wits seems just like Who's Line is it Anyway. Wayne Brady was so quick at coming up with song lyrics.
I actually loved Kwik Witz & nobody knows what I’m talking about. Launched Wayne Brady before Whose Line!
0:45 Sona's face is the best
One joke about Super Cuts and now we have weeks worth of commercials, lol, someone got in trouble :P
This is simultaneously the best and dumbest story I've ever heard. 😂
Ok, so the show Sona is referring to is called Eddie Dodd - the picture of 2nd graders pledging allegiance is the first few seconds of this though idk which kid is Sona: th-cam.com/video/_exvj4LivU0/w-d-xo.html
👍
My love for Matt and Sona grows everyday
I would pay to watch a SuperCuts remote with coco...just watching the entire proccess of him getting a haircut. Get on it SuperCuts
I need more of EVERYTHING they’re talking about
we need these videos yesterday
I definitely remember hearing about this milage scheme. Kwik Wits: I never heard of.
I love how the show aesthetic is the most pure, Heisenberg-grade distillation of 90s you'll ever see.
Quickest I've ever been able to get to a new Conan upload just 5 mins ago, idk why that feels cool but it does and I'm telling everyone! 😂😂
The book is 'Mileage Maniac: My Genius, Madness and a Touch Of Evil To Amass 40 Million Frequent Flyer Miles' by Steve Belkin.
👍
“I Slept my way to the top at the toilet flushing competition!” Should be the new “there was talk of gerbils”
MATT YOU TOLD US ABOUT THIS DURING THE EPISODE WITH SASHA AND THE GIANT TEA CUP!!!
The only youtube show that reliably gets a like out of me.
omg that was hilarious. i wanna see too these old cassettes
Crying at that toilet flushing competition bit 😂😂😂
More of this. Hilarious!
Oh do i hope Math opened a whole treasure of old things he did. For us to enjoy in the future.
Sona missed a good opportunity around 9:25, "Yeah, I worked for Conan for money!" Everyone in the room would have lost it 🤣
I love Matt from SuperEgo. Hilarious comedy.
Oh my god... Sona querying 'national?' about the toilet sound competition 😆😆😆👌I actually cried.
Conan, there is no one like you, and we thank the good god every day. Come to Indonesia, ppppplllleeeeassseee.....
This one was GREAT
When Conan goes into crazy bits during the sponsor commercials, I have no idea how Sona keeps a straight face. Edit: then Matt's toilet flushing competition?? I have 8 pack abs from laughing so hard. I love these people 😀
I watched Kwik Witz once and knew it wasn't improvised. I feel vindicated.
I heard a "Conan needs a fan" episode from like 3 years ago and Matt mentioned this, I think it was in regards to a question like what their weirdest job was.
This is such a 90s type story
"Let's never talk again."
And they never did.
I totally remember KwikWitz. My friend was into Comedy Sportz so I made it a point to watch it. Even for late 90s televised improv, it was super cringeworthy.
I want to see these videos that you are taking about!😂
I remember that show!!
"Let's never talk again".
Matt: "O.K."
LOL!
Please feature the tapes 😊
When Gourley factored in the delays in SF caused by fog... 😮
I want to call into the podcast and introduce myself as winner of the 37th Annual Toilet Flushing Sound Effect Championships - Second Runner-up.
I want to see each of these. Including the toilet flushing contest
Let's speculate as to what Sona did in the 90s for money that she demurs to mention for fear of Conan latching on and never letting go!
1. Sell weed to friends
2. Trim weed in the autumn
3. ....?
Not phone sex, that was all in Quebec
I was just editing my friend Matt's name in my contacts, and it literally suggested Gourley immediately. That killed me.
Matt also was on Drunk History as a narrator. I did the Leonardo DiCaprio meme pointing at the screen during a recent rewatch
I believe him when he said that he took these flights, I have no reason to think he's lying, but I looked up on one airline (Frontier Airlines) on a random day and did not see any way to book 3 back to back round trip flights in one day. I'd love to know what airline had that availability to fly from LAX to SFO 3 round trips in a day.
They really put the midroll ad on a spot where the audience is encouraged to skip it: in the middle of an important question
Ad after a question is aggressive lol
Literally crying!
I went to look for Kwit Witz and watched a bunch of them trying to find Matt, but ended up finding Steve Carell instead!
Not surprising coming from the guy who stars in a podcast called Mallwalkin'
I used to love Kwik Witz.
Doesn't sound like a scam... Sounds like arbitrage.
Is that where Punch Drunk Love’s yogurt-for-miles bit came from?
Matt Gourley helps scam an airline and i almost crash my car this morning because of it. Life is a funny thing
I hope they bring the tapes😂😂😂
Kwik Witz must have been a consolation prize for other markets where they didnt have Almost Live!
150$ for a day's work in the 90's being "nothing" to Conan is the most out-of-touch I've ever seen him.