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Home : Humor : The Ridiculous Paul Rudd Mac And Me Prank On ⁦Conan O’Brien⁩ Explained

The Paul Rudd Mac And Me Prank On ⁦Conan O'Brien⁩ Explained
Since 2004, Paul Rudd has been trolling Conan O'Brien with a clip from the 1988 movie "Mac and Me".

The Ridiculous Paul Rudd Mac And Me Prank On ⁦Conan O’Brien⁩ Explained

In February 2004, Paul Rudd stopped by "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" with an exclusive clip from the "Friends" finale. It was actually a clip a boy in a wheelchair falling off a cliff from the 1988 movie Mac and Me. Here's the Paul Rudd Mac And Me prank explained.

July 3, 2018 by Joe Michaels
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  • The First Paul Rudd Mac And Me Prank
  • Paul Rudd Mac And Me Compilation From His Many Conan Appearances
  • The Paul Rudd Mac And Me Joke Being Explained To Chris Evans
  • Paul Rudd's EXCLUSIVE "Ant-Man" Clip
  • Paul Rudd Pulls His Mac And Me Prank One Last Time On Conan's Last Week As A Late Night Talk Show Host
  • The Official Mac And Me Trailer

The Paul Rudd Mac And Me prank is one of the longest running gags in talk show history. Anytime he gets a chance, Rudd will trick Conan O’Brien into thinking he’s brought a video of his latest project for the audience to see and will instead play a clip from the 1988 box office disaster, Mac and Me. Decdes later, he’s still doing it. Here’s the Paul Rudd Mac And Me prank explained.

Paul Rudd has been trolling Conan O’Brien with a clip from the terrible 1988 movie Mac and Me. Why? Here’s the Paul Rudd Mac And Me prank explained.
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The First Paul Rudd Mac And Me Prank

The first time that Rudd ever pulled off his now famous “Paul Rudd Mac And Me” joke was when Rudd was promoting the final episode of the hit NBC TV show Friends. Rudd played the love interest of Phoebe Buffay (Lisa Kudrow) in the series and was bragging to Conan that he had an exclusive clip from the series finale episode.

Everyone, including Conan, was very excited. Here’s a segment from Rudd’s February 6, 2004, appearance on NBC’s “Late Night with Conan O’Brien”. Skip to 3:20 to see the Mac And Me clip.

#MacAndMe is one of the few movies with 0% on @RottenTomatoes. But thanks to #PaulRudd and @ConanOBrien, it’s growing in cult status… #PaulRuddMacAndMe
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Paul Rudd Mac And Me Compilation From His Many Conan Appearances

Over the years, Paul Rudd was a frequent guest on Conan’s various late-night talk shows. And each and every time, Rudd played the same exact joke on Conan.

To make it feel legit, Rudd will tease the audience that’s he about to play something special like an exclusive scene from the final episode of Friends or a clip from one of his movies like The 40-Year-Old Virgin or Anchorman. But instead of showing his “exclusive” clip, Rudd always plays the ridiculous scene from the movie Mac And Me of a boy in a wheelchair falling off a cliff.

Even though the audience started to expect it, they were always delighted to see the running gag get played on Conan, yet again. And Conan’s fake frustration just added to the moment. The long-running joke was the equivalent of a “Rick Roll”, but Rudd started doing the joke long before Rickrolling was even invented.

Here’s a Paul Rudd Mac And Me compilation of most of his appearances on Conan’s various late-night shows.

The Paul Rudd Mac And Me Joke Being Explained To Chris Evans

What do Rudd’s costars in the Marvel films think of this running gag on Conan? Here’s a clip of Rudd explaining the joke to Chris Evans, the actor who plays Captain America.

Paul Rudd’s EXCLUSIVE “Ant-Man” Clip

While other movie studios looked the other way and let the long-running “Mac And Me” joke play out, Disney was different. Rudd and Conan talked about the Marvel movie machine and how Disney wouldn’t allow him to show the same scene from Mac And Me. So while promoting the Marvel film Ant-Man, Rudd finally played a different clip after all these years.

Paul Rudd Pulls His Mac And Me Prank One Last Time On Conan’s Last Week As A Late Night Talk Show Host

In November 2020, Conan O’Brien announced that he was ending his TBS late night talk show. After 28 years, he was finally calling it quits. Although Rudd wasn’t booked as an official guest on Conan’s last week, he crashed Bill Hader‘s interview. The three of them reminisced about one of the worst sketches in Saturday Night Live history, called “Ed Burns’ Grill Boys”, that aired when Rudd was the guest host. Rudd offered to play the clip of the SNL sketch, but of course, it was the Mac And Me clip. He did it again!

We are so happy that Paul Rudd got to do his Mac And Me prank one last time to Conan.

RIP Paul Rudd Mac And Me prank (2004-2021). It was a great piece of performance art that we got to enjoy for 17 years. Thank you, Paul Rudd!

The Official Mac And Me Trailer

We’re not sure what the creators of the film Mac And Me think about all of this. The mostly forgotten film from 1988 certainly keeps getting an extra boost of publicity from Rudd’s appearances on Conan. If you haven’t seen Mac And Me before, it’s basically a bad ripoff of Steven Spielberg‘s E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982). How bad? It has a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Paul Rudd has been trolling Conan O’Brien with a clip from the 1988 movie #MacAndMe since 2004. Why? Here’s the Paul Rudd Mac And Me prank explained.
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NERD NOTE: Jon Hamm (Mad Men) and Paul Rudd were childhood friends, and they are still close friends today.

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Category: Humor, TV & Film Tag: Anchorman, Ant-Man, Captain America, Chris Evans, Conan O'Brien, Disney, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Friends, Lisa Kudrow, Mac And Me, Marvel, NBC, Paul Rudd, Phoebe Buffay, Rickrolling, Rotten Tomatoes, Steven Spielberg, The 40-Year-Old Virgin
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