--- title: "Rob Riggle Channels His Inner Mattis On Conan’s Late Night Show" date: "2016-05-05" modified: "2016-05-05" authors: - name: "James Clark" job_title: "Editor-in-Chief" link: "https://taskandpurpose.com/authors/james-clark/" url: "https://taskandpurpose.com/culture/rob-riggle-channels-inner-mattis-conans-late-night-show/" categories: - "Culture" - "Entertainment" - "Humor" tags: - "general mattis" --- # Rob Riggle Channels His Inner Mattis On Conan’s Late Night Show ![]() Comedian Rob Riggle has a plan to kill everyone he meets, or at least television host Conan O’Brien and co-star Andy Richter. [On a recent episode of TBS’ Conan](), the Marine Corps veteran explained that he thinks tactically when he enters a room, goes golfing, or attends an interview on a late-night show. “You probably know how to kill Andy and I very quickly?” Conan asked. Riggle laughed before frankly admitting, “Yeah,” with a big smile. “It’s the weirdest thing though, when you're in the military and you’ve deployed or wherever, you start to get a tactical mind, you just think tactically,” said Riggle, who retired from the Marines in 2013 after 23 years of service. “I’m not kidding, if I go into a restaurant, if I go into a room, I know all my egress points, I know what I’m going to do if there’s trouble.” Related: 5 veteran celebrities you never knew about » Riggle’s comments, while funny, speak to the constant vigilance that many post-9/11 veterans acquire during their service. It also sounds like he’s familiar with the famous quote, “Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet,” from retired Marine Gen. James Mattis. “I was out on the golf course the other day and I was like, this is a great place for an ambush, right here,” said Riggle. “If I was setting this up, look at that saddle right there, there’s a ridgeline. This is dynamite cross-fire. I would not want to be here.” **Check out the video below and watch as Richter and O’Brien try to decide whether or not he’s joking.** ## Author James Clark is the editor-in-chief of Task & Purpose. He is a former Marine and a veteran of the War in Afghanistan. ### Author social links [Twitter]() [LinkedIn]()