Arsenio Hall tells Conan O’Brien how he was able to book Robert De Niro on his late-night talk show in 1989: “I knew I could get him though, cause I had a lot of Black women on the staff. And I said, ‘if he’s gon do a show, it’s gon be this show. I got a lotta sisters names Toukie on the staff.’”

I appreciate all of the recent Conan content.

Arsenio talking about his show that started in 1989 when his face looks like he was born after that

As Paul Mooney once said: “Robert De Niro marries a black woman every 15 minutes. Only thing a white woken can do for him is show him where a black woman lives” 😭

One time he was filming a movie near where my dad works in Queens. One of his coworkers happened to cross his path and was asked out on a date, but she said he was impossibly boring and only wanted to talk about himself. I still have an affinity for him but that cracks me up


*him