Conan O’Brien congratulates Danhausen on his WWE debut
Conan O’Brien put out a special edition of his Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend podcast recently revisiting a conversation he had with Danhausen.
O’Brien explained that Danhausen had appeared on the podcast five years earlier and recalled being struck by his work ethic, noting that he had spent years “grinding away,” driving long distances to perform on independent shows.
O’Brien congratulated Danhausen on his WWE debut, saying:
“Danhausen is a wrestler, and he explained to me when we did this very first fan episode that he had loosely based his character, his wrestling character, on me if I was an interdimensional demon, which seems redundant to me.
And Danhausen and I had a great conversation. We talked about comedy, performance, the love of entertaining people. And what struck me, and still I remember this to this day, Danhausen told me that he had been grinding away for the past eight years, driving 12 hours every weekend just to be able to get up in front of people and wrestle. And this is a guy who just applied incredible work ethic to his passion. And I was so impressed with this fellow.
Well, now it’s five years later, and I am thrilled to report that Danhausen has recently made his WWE debut to rave reviews. And this is proof again that if you can marry hard work to your passion, you can go places.
So on behalf of myself and all of us here at Team Coco, massive congratulations and mad respect to Danhausen. And I am so proud of you, happy for you.“
The remainder of the episode features O’Brien and Danhausen’s conversation from five years ago and is available below.
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