--- title: Watch Conan O’Brien Take a Tango Lesson From JB Smoove description: As Andy Richter looks on canonical: https://time.com/3627919/conan-obrien-tango-jb-smoove/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-10T15:53:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T02:44:03.771Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Watch Conan O’Brien Take a Tango Lesson From JB Smoove og:description: It's hard to look away. og:url: https://time.com/3627919/conan-obrien-tango-jb-smoove/ 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: Watch Conan O’Brien Take a Tango Lesson From JB Smoove twitter:description: It's hard to look away. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Conan O'Brien Take a Tango Lesson From JB Smoove by [People / Alex Heigl](https://time.com/author/people/) ## People / Alex Heigl Dec 10, 2014 3:53 PM UTC by [People / Alex Heigl](https://time.com/author/people/) ## People / Alex Heigl Dec 10, 2014 3:53 PM UTC If you’re going to get an on-air tango lesson, you could do a lot worse for a teacher than a guy named JB Smoove. And Smoove, who costars in Chris Rock’s new film, _Take Five_, didn’t disappoint pupil [Conan O’Brien](http://www.people.com/article/joseph-gordon-levitt-conan-fake-nose-video) Tuesday night, when he appeared on [_Conan_](http://www.people.com/article/charlie-day-zac-efron-mail-shrine) for the impromptu tutorial. Watching the two 6-foot-plus men dip each each extremely low as co-host Andy Richter looks on is, well … honestly, it’s actually hard to look away, like watching [tropical birds perform their mating dance](http://www.people.com/article/galapagos-albatross-mating-dance). Smoove recently told _The New York Times_ that he actually got started in the entertainment industry as a hip-hop dancer, and mentioned to Conan that he’d be fine with competing on [_Dancing with the Stars_](http://www.people.com/article/dwts-cheryl-burke-abc). Whether or not that happens – and if it does, whether O’Brien will show up as his partner – remains to be seen. Watch the full segment from the show below. [_This article originally appeared on PEOPLE.com_](http://www.people.com/article/jb-smoove-teaches-conan-obrien-tango) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3627919/conan-obrien-tango-jb-smoove/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3627919/conan-obrien-tango-jb-smoove/"},"headline":"Watch Conan O'Brien Take a Tango Lesson From JB Smoove","datePublished":"2014-12-10T15:53:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T02:44:03.771Z","description":"As Andy Richter looks on","url":"https://time.com/3627919/conan-obrien-tango-jb-smoove/","keywords":["Television","Late Night","Conan O'brien","Dancing with the Stars"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"People / Alex Heigl"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","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":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3627919/conan-obrien-tango-jb-smoove/","name":"Watch Conan O'Brien Take a Tango Lesson From JB Smoove"}}]}] ```