Pour A Healthy Glass Of Wine And Slip On Some Silks For Brian Mccann S Leisure Hour

• Oopey Mason
• Brian McCann in the midst of leisure

You might not know Brian McCann but you do. You know him as the FedEx Pope and as Eyeballs O’Shaughnessy, and you definitely know him as Preparation H Raymond. Because for 17 years he was a writer for Conan O’Brien, during both the New York and LA iterations of the host’s late-night show. And, according to McCann, he appeared in over a thousand sketches during his reign with Conan—which transformed the lanky, wily comic into a “that guy.”

And the thread of desperation stitched within Brian McCann’s Leisure Hour makes it all the more fun. As the performance wears on, the darkness settles in and the wine disappears—the whole bottle is crushed by show’s end—and McCann has to wrestle with the reality that his life of leisure may not be as self-imposed as he had previously let on. But that’s why there will always be more wine.