--- title: Conan O'Brien in Minecraft: Video description: Game on canonical: https://time.com/3686106/conan-obrien-minecraft/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-28T18:14:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:16:20.173Z og:title: Here's What Conan's Show Would Look Like in Minecraft og:description: Game on og:url: https://time.com/3686106/conan-obrien-minecraft/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's What Conan's Show Would Look Like in Minecraft twitter:description: Game on twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Here's What Conan's Show Would Look Like in Minecraft  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jan 28, 2015 6:14 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jan 28, 2015 6:14 PM UTC On Tuesday night, Conan O’Brien says his show’s team asked Minecraft, the popular virtual world video game, if they could do an episode of _Conan_ in Minecraft, and the company said no. But considering there are tons of customizable Minecraft maps, it was not hard for the comedian’s staff to just make their own. There is a red-headed cubist figure of Conan, his desk, the audience and the game even played around with the idea of hosting the show from a pirate ship or fire pit. It is not the first time the comedian has lampooned the blocky game. He [mocked Microsoft’s acquisition ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At325BJ-xQ4)of its maker Mojang in the format of the game and, in a 2012 mock review of Minecraft for Xbox 360, described players as “young people \[who\] really can’t see well…people who have never seen what a real house looks like, and \[who\] like depressing climates.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3686106/conan-obrien-minecraft/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3686106/conan-obrien-minecraft/"},"headline":"Here's What Conan's Show Would Look Like in Minecraft","datePublished":"2015-01-28T18:14:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:16:20.173Z","description":"Game on","url":"https://time.com/3686106/conan-obrien-minecraft/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3686106/conan-obrien-minecraft/","name":"Here's What Conan's Show Would Look Like in Minecraft"}}]}] ```