It’s an only-in-New-York story.<\/p>\n
A Brooklyn bar owner went viral for her impressive improv when she spontaneously met comedian Conan O’Brien.<\/p>\n
Debbie Shields, owner of Confessions Bar in Bed-Stuy, appeared in an episode of the popular social media show “SubwayTakes,” where her quick wit went back and forth with the former late-night talk show host.<\/p>\n
“I got a call about 8 a.m., like, ‘Oh my God! You’re all over the internet! You’ve got 5 million hits,'” said Shields. “I’m like, ‘What?'”<\/p>\n
In the viral video, the bar owner and comedian joke about knowing each other for years, being married and having two children.<\/p>\n
“It was just like, I’m just kicking the gab with you,” said Shields. “We’re just talking mess and having fun.”<\/p>\n
Shields told News 12 that it all started as she searched for a seat on the F train.<\/p>\n
The spur-of-the-moment interaction happened more than a month ago, and Shields said she didn’t think much about it.<\/p>\n
“You know how you do something and go, ‘Oh, maybe we’ll see it one day,'” said Shields. “That was it. I never thought anymore about it.”<\/p>\n
Shields said the video resulted in an influx of fans calling and visiting her business.<\/p>\n
“It’s now, ‘Hey, I know you,'” said Shields. “They’re blowing the horns, and people are riding by on bikes and coming to give me hugs.”<\/p>\n
In honor of the success, Shields named a new whiskey-based drink after O’Brien, calling it ‘baby daddy O’Brien.’<\/p>\n
“Life’s stressful enough,” said Shields. “We don’t need that. We need to laugh.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s an only-in-New-York story. A Brooklyn bar owner went viral for her impressive improv when she spontaneously met…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-381400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}