Conan O’Brien visited Harlem before starting a week-long residency at the Apollo Theater, and he had a great time.

O’Brien had some hilarious encounters, running into some big personalities, buying mixtapes, meeting a man selling bootleg DVDs, and music and visiting the iconic ‘Ballers’ apparel shop.

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Perhaps his best encounter was visiting a hair stylist-braid specialist, where the women inside couldn’t contain their excitement at Conan visiting. The stylist gave O’Brien a new, braided hairstyle which the funnyman proudly wore while dancing inside the shop.

Normally a Conan appearance mines the entertainment value of Conan in an environment of straight men, where he’s the obvious jokester playing off disbelieving locals. Here, though, the people of Harlem bring so much life and vitality and craziness of their own that Conan ends up being the straight man of his own bit, and it’s really fun to watch.

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