Conan O’Brien talks Charlie Sheen!

Conan O’Brien is on team Charlie Sheen.

The talk show host bigged up the troubled actor at the Hollywood Bites Back benefit for Malaria No More, at Club Nokia in Los Angeles, by comparing himself to Sheen.

“This is the thing that pisses me off,” Conan said, bringing up the fight he had with NBC last year, and the 42-city tour he conducted afterwards.

“One year later, Charlie Sheen picks a fight with HIS network, alright, (also) said f*** you, I am out of here, walks out, goes on a 42-city tour, loses his mind, but brings two porn stars with him. That man is a genius. I blew it: I didn’t bring porn stars.”

O’Brien recently discussed his bust up with NBC in an interview with Fortune magazine.

“You know that scene in the first Indiana Jones movie where he gets thrown through the truck windshield by a Nazi? I was thrown through the windshield of broadcasting,” said O’Brien, who was replaced by Jay Leno after hosting the Tonight Show for just seven months.

“I made a decision and that decision very quickly led to me walking away from the crown jewel of old broadcasting and, in addition to that, being legally prohibited from going on television….

“Ten years ago, if my situation with NBC had unfolded, none of this would have happened. Yeah, maybe I was 10 years too late to do The Tonight Show that I wanted to do. But I was just in the nick of time. Do you know what I mean?

“The Beatles were trying to be the Everly Brothers, and they couldn’t quite pull it off. Elvis really wanted to sound like Dean Martin. But, you know, by failing. You have an image in your head of this iconic person.

“For me, it might have been Johnny Carson, where you grow up with him, and you think, ‘Well, that’s who I need to be’ to realize that feeling I had when I was 8, sitting in my parents’ house and watching him.

“And then things happen, and you think, ‘Oh, my God, I didn’t that fell apart.’ But it’s the failure to be that person or to completely follow through on what he did that leads you to something that’s much better.”