Iconic Paul Rudd Conan Joke Almost Became A Wild Meta Movie, Details Writer

Paul Rudd’s iconic Conan Mac and Me joke almost became a wild meta-movie, details a screenwriter. The shameless and terrible E.T. knockoff Mac and Me should have disappeared without a trace after grossing just $6.4 million at the box office in 1988. But the movie got a bizarre second life when, years later, Ant-Man star Rudd made a running joke during appearances on Conan O’Brien’s various shows where he would pretend he was about to present a clip from his latest project, only to whip out a certain hilariously bad scene from the aforementioned flop E.T. rip-off movie, invariably causing O’Brien to become exasperated.