Conan Thinks The Richard Gere Gerbil Story Is “Completely Untrue” | Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

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Published on August 8, 2023

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20 comments

  • John 9 months ago

    Poor Gere. He probably thought people must have forgotten about this by now. Oh…😂

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  • RedHeadRedemption 9 months ago

    “The rumors are completely untrue, I’ve never even met Mr Gere.”

    Dammit, we booked the wrong gerbil!

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  • LordThree 9 months ago

    Gerbils make good friends

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  • Rob Yost 9 months ago

    Gullible people will literally believe anything….

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  • Niles Oien 9 months ago

    The sounds at 6:30 are being beamed out into the universe and the aliens think that’s how earthlings talk. Alien super minds are looking at each other saying “Is this talk… of gerbils?”

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  • WithTheGrain 9 months ago

    Ok, I’m sure it’s made up. However… how the hell did everyone know this rumor in a world before the internet? It is crazy

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  • Bobby McPrescott 9 months ago

    I like the fact that of all people Don Rickles is being vague in this anecdote so as not to say something potentially offensive. I’m not sure if gerbils up the ass was one bridge too far or if he was particularly wary of Gere’s lawyers.

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  • Josh 9 months ago

    Get him on the podcast! He has things to say. 😉

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  • jkhoudini 9 months ago

    The Ballad of Lemmiwinks

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  • Benzaiten 9 months ago

    Sona is right, Conan definitely brought up this mostly forgotten rumor again. moreover just look at the state of the world and how many people believe in insane conspiracies theories, a lot of stupid folks will believe that nonsense.

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  • Steve Carll 9 months ago

    “There was talk…of Kedakai! As the gerbil god made her.” Do I have that right?

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  • Patrick LaBlanc 9 months ago

    De-Clawed, De-Furred, Pre-Lubed Party Gerbils… Yup, not a thing…

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  • My VHS Life 9 months ago

    Saw your show in 2001 at NBC. Your comedy before the show was better than 99.9% of comedians out there. You really got the crowd going! I want to apologize because I snuck my video camera into the studio and recorded some of the show. All these years later… I’m sorry. 😭

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  • Nick Mail 9 months ago

    Where do you think the band name Pet Shop Boys” comes from?

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  • Paulo Costa 9 months ago

    The question is: Who is in charge of declawing the gerbil and how is it done?

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  • Shane Bargy 9 months ago

    “I didn’t resuscitate it. It was Mickey Rooney…God rest his soul.” Absolute belly laugh moment. So damn funny.

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  • O. Randall Turner 9 months ago

    Sly Stallone (Rocky himself) started this rumor. He hated him after working on a film together.

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  • Chosen Architect 9 months ago

    Conan is wearing a tie, I knew something looked odd ;D

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  • M 9 months ago

    I always thought about this rumor since I first heard it, of course it is either real or fake, if it was real then it is very weird already, but if it was fake you have to think why would it get spread in the first place, what kind of person would spread this story and of course pay a lot of money for this?
    My theory is that Richard Gere angered a very powerful Hollywood executive, like Harvey Weinstein and the others that were named in the metoo movement, and he retaliated by spreading this insane story about Gere

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  • Noah 蔚寧 Weber 9 months ago

    Proudly among those who first learned this gerbil ~fact~ from conan

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