- An eerily prescient exchange between Danny Masterson and Conan O’Brien has resurfaced 19 years later.
- It shows Masterson making a joke about his genitals, to which O’Brien says he’ll be “caught soon.”
- Masterson was imprisoned for 30 years on two counts of rape on Thursday.
A 19-year-old clip of Danny Masterson joking about getting people to touch his genitals on late-night TV has resurfaced and gone viral following his rape verdict.
The clip aired on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” in December 2004 and appears eerily prescient in the wake of the actor’s sentencing on Thursday, which saw him imprisoned for 30 years for two counts of rape.
In it, the “That 70s Show” actor is quizzed by O’Brien about his Long Island accent, which he said had disappeared after a decade of living in Los Angeles.
But Masterson quickly folded in a joke suggesting sexual harassment, which O’Brien went along with — adding that Masterson “will be caught soon.”
Masterson starts by saying that while most of his accent has gone away, “there’s also certain words that there’s nothing you can do about.” He then says that his friend, “Criminal Minds” actor Bodhi Elfman, does an impression of him.
“He always teases me and he says, ‘hi, my name is Danny Masterson, would you like to touch my balls,'” says Masterson, exaggerating the accent on “balls,” to audience laughter.
“So why are you asking people to do that?” O’Brien says. “That’s the more important question.”
“I mean, you got ’em, you know what I mean?” Masterson says, adding: “Everybody should grab.” O’Brien riffs on the joke, saying: “Accent aside, that’s the more important thing.”
But with a slight change in tone, O’Brien adds: “I’ve heard about you. And you’ll be caught soon, I know you will.”
“I will,” agrees Masterson. The banter, which the audience clearly enjoyed, has taken on a new significance since Masterson’s sentencing.
The exchange took place just a year after the 2001 to 2003 period in which three women said Masterson raped them.
The case against Masterson took several years to come to court, but in May 2023 Masterson, who pleaded innocent, was found guilty on two of the counts.
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