Conan O’Brien Congratulates Danhausen On Signing With WWE, Jokes He’s Taking 20%

Five years ago, Conan O’Brien welcomed Danhausen to his podcast for a special fan episode. It was the first episode where Conan had a fan on, and Danhausen explained how his character was loosely based on Conan.

Five years later, Danhausen has signed with WWE and is part of both Raw and SmackDown.

Conan re-visited the episode with Danhausen, and congratulated him on his success and signing with WWE.

“Danhausen explained to me, when we did this very first fan episode, that he had loosely based his wrestling character on me if I was an interdimensional demon, which seems redundant to me. Danhausen and I had a great conversation. We talked about comedy, performance, a love of entertaining people. What struck me, and I remember this to this day, Danhausen told me he had been grinding away for the past eight years, driving 12 hours every weekend just to be able to get in front of people and wrestle. This is a guy who applied incredible work ethic to his passion. I was so impressed with this fellow.

“Now, it’s five years later, and I’m thrilled to report that Danhausen has recently made his WWE debut to rave reviews. This is proof again that if you can marry hard work to your passion, you can go places. On behalf of myself and all of us here at Team Coco, massive congratulations and mad respect to Danhausen. I’m so proud of you, happy for you, and I should mention that since your character is based on me, I’m getting 20%.”

Conan joked that his interdimensional demon is his law team that will take everything from Danhausen.

Not very nice of Conan O’Brien.

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