Jason Segel On David Foster Wallace | CONAN on TBS

Jason talks about playing the celebrated '90s author in his new movie, "The End of the Tour."

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Jason Segel On David Foster Wallace | CONAN on TBS

[ninesi]

I am enormously glad that through this movie a lot of people will hopefully get introduced to David Foster Wallace´s works. He deserves it.
RIP

[TheIvyBlade]

As George Bernard Shaw put it, "There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your hearts desire. The other is to gain it."

[AgidyYelov]

Man, Conan really is lightning QUICK.

[JDthings-rz]

This is such a great example of why Conan is the best hands down

[trentcole]

Please go out an see this movie. Just got back fro it and it is my favorite of the year. I see a lot of movies and this one is just incredible.

[blackbird]

Eastern philosophy is full of that very thing: getting what you want, being where you want to be, and feeling no different than when you were pursuing the dream. This is the state of human existence.

[rad]

I honestly think Jason Segel deserved an Oscar for his performance in this movie. It's ridiculous that no one seemed to even notice it.

[cl]

Segel and Conan are the shit...I'd love to have a beer or two with these two

[nickilovesdogs]

Be careful about meeting your idols! They might not be that glorious as you think they are. And the biggest disappointment is when those idols are arrogant. Then you really know that they still have some mental work to do. But David was not arrogant. Matter of fact he was very worried about coming across as arrogant because he was very aware of how wrong it must be and feel to be arrogant. David was the opposite of arrogant, he was extremely humble. I love him.

[SpirusOfH]

Segel thanking Conan for calling the movie well written and complex reminds me of the scene in the movie where Wallace says he can't take credit for the view outside his house.

[tombovitale]

You can see just from Jason's interview that he is a intelligent educated guy with a beautiful heart seems he's a caring loving kind of person n never would hurt a sole. He's one actor I love to meet one day just to tell him that wonderful human being he seems t be. Awesome Jason very handsome too

[jrock]

This was the most beautiful movie about such a beautiful human being. I have only made it half way on my last attempt at the magnis opus that was Infinite Jest. I have never attempted to honestly read a novel that so consistently had me reaching for dictionaries, and those footnotes… God the footnotes…! Anyway his work causes me to feel like a literary moron, and I have written all my life, and have been complimented for this skill over anything else all my life. I would love to just once write something “good”. Not THAT good… I just do not, and will never have the tools that beautiful man had. Much writing is about “finding your voice”… but there are vistas between my best voice and his most accessible work (like his short stories written for magazines)… I mean, it is just humbling. I idolised DFW since my 20s. I was more upset at his self inflicted loss than any other idol or public figure I can think of. For me it was his obvious humility demonstrated in the respect his interviewers and his readers just got me. There was nothing he could not do with a sentence. He didn’t pretend it was easy, but I don’t think his humility would allow him to appreciate just how far his writing felt to other writers or would be authors like myself. It is impossible for me not to feel that there were many times that he felt the need to “dumb down” when he was addressing a group or speaking in an interview. But he did it graciously, and with kind thoughtfulness that it made this movie as good a testament to his talent as anything. It still makes me desperately sad when I think about him if I am honest. Loved, respected, adored even, but so painfully separated from and isolated from. God. Siegel did a really underrated and beautiful job in that movie. Both actors and the script was so great at introducing what made him special and the envy of so many authors… and this guy.

[pilouuuu]

Jason seems like a really nice guy and Conan is so funny and witty!

[travissmith]

The other writer's name is David Lipsky, they just referred to him as Jesse Eisenberg throughout the entire clip lmao

[frankrosko]

Two of my favorite at the top of their game!

[therunkumar]

I anticipated the he would do that. He nailed it in lightning speed.

[GusinJapan]

Now I want to see this movie, sounds very intriguing.

[OnlyKindofMedia]

Saw this just while watching How I Met Your Mother

[ChrisF]

That punchline though. Conan just nailed it, as he so often does. "Cause that's what Conan's all about" xD

[RogelxD]

you can only pull that joke if you are so self confident as conan.