Late Night: Conan O’Brien, Andy Richter lend their voices to ‘Halo 4’
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On Tuesday night, Conan O’Brien lived the fantasy of millions of gamers with a behind-the-scenes look at the hotly anticipated ‘Halo 4.’
He met with 343 Industries executives Frank O’Connor and Kiki Wolfkill, who showed him ‘top secret footage’ from the game -- who knew it included so many little dogs? -- and even invited him to voice one of its characters.
O’Brien, of course, asked trusty sidekick Andy Richter to join him. They were cast as a pair of workers on board what O’Connor described as a ‘massive hangar’ in the world’s largest spaceship -- or, as O’Brien put it, ‘I’m a clerk working in a loading dock.’ He pushed for a less anonymous role, suggesting his character wear one of his distinctive suits or at least hold a sign reading, ‘I’m Conan O’Brien.’ (It didn’t work.)
In the funniest part of the segment, Richter and O’Brien recorded their heavily improvised voice-over, playing two clinically depressed space drones. (Sample dialogue: ‘I sure hate my life.’) And like all truly accomplished actors, they were even required to die dramatically, grunting and groaning as if they were being pummeled with the butt of a rifle.
It’s a tough job, but someone’s got to do it.
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