Clip of Conan O'Brien telling Danny Masterson 'you'll be caught soon' from 2004 ... trends now

A clip of talk show host Conan O'Brien interviewing actor Danny Masterson in 2004 has gone viral as Masterson was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison for rape on Thursday. 

The 47 year-old Scientologist had no reaction as Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Charlaine Olmedo handed down her decision - 15 years for each felony rape, with the sentences to run consecutively. 

The clip, believed to be from a 2004 episode of O'Brien's NBC 'Late Night' show, features him talking to Masterson about why he no longer has the accent of his Long Island upbringing, with the actor saying it had gone away after a decade in Los Angeles.

He then said his friend, the actor Bodhi Elfman, made fun of him for how he said certain words with an impression of him saying: 'Hi, my name's Danny Masterson, would you like to touch my balls?'

'Why are you asking people to do that?' asks a laughing O'Brien, with Masterson responding: 'You got 'em. Everybody should grab them.'

Deadpanning, O'Brien cracks: 'I've heard about you and you'll be caught soon, I know that.'

'I will,' responds Masterson.

The clip - which has been viewed over 2.3million times on Twitter - has people joking that 'Conan knew' about Masterson's predilections. 

One even stretched it further, noting that O'Brien wrote for The Simpsons, which is often credited with predicting the future.

'He used to write for The Simpsons so of course he would predict it,' one Twitter user said. 

Before passing sentence Judge Olmedo told Masterson that although he had 'steadfastly claimed his innocence….you are not the victim here. Your actions 20 years ago were criminal and that is why you are here today.'

At the sentencing trial, Jane Doe #1 called Masterson a 'true coward and heartless monster,' adding that to this day she suffer from an extreme fear of the dark and frequently wakes up crying.

Sometimes, she said, she hides in a closet or screams out the window: 'I'm not okay.'

'I think life is an appropriate sentence,' she concluded. 

The woman continued telling the room that she was born into a family of Scientologists, and when she reported the rape to the church, a top official 'made it clear that Danny was untouchable.'

'I did not choose to be born into Scientology - and I did not choose to be raped by Danny Masterson,' said the mother of three daughters, fighting back tears. 'Scientology attempted to silence us … to intimidate us.'

'I wish I had reported him sooner to the police,' she said, adding that at no point did Masterson 'show an ounce of remorse for the pain I was suffering.'

'The first couple of years after the rape were pretty dark. I lost everything pretty much. I had to start my life over at the age of 29,' she said.

Before he was sentenced, Masterson’s attorney, Shawn Holley, urged the judge to impose concurrent, not consecutive 15 year to life sentences saying that would be ‘fair and just.’

Prosecutor and Deputy District Attorney Reinhold Mueller asked the judge to hand down a 30-to-life sentence, saying that Holley’s plea for just 15 years was ‘not fair and just…absolutely not. Thirty years to life in prison is deserved.

‘After Masterson raped the first time he had time to think about what he had inflicted,’ he said. ‘Despite that, he raped again.'

Masterson had two trials. His first, six months earlier, resulted in a mistrial after a different jury were hopelessly deadlocked on all three rape charges.

Masterson was free on $3.3million bail throughout both trials. But that freedom ended with his double conviction May 31 and he has been locked up in the notorious Men's Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles since then. The actor hasn't been pictured since. 

Masterson's victims tearfully told the courtroom how he had ruined their lives.

'You are pathetic, disturbed and extremely violent and the world is a safer place with you in prison,' said Jane Doe #2, looking straight at the actor, dressed in a gray suit and open-neck gray shirt.

'You are a true coward and heartless monster,' added Jane Doe #1. 'I think life is an appropriate sentence.'

Earlier, as Bijou Philips looked on, trying to hid her emotions with a large pair of dark glasses, Jane Doe #2 stared down Masterson as she told him, 'I don't have to carry your shame any more. You have to carry it. You have to sit in a cell with it.

'I still have to contend with what you did to me…in this brutal manner.' Saying the emotional and mental damage she has suffered from the rape 'takes a lifetime to repair,' she added that Masterson had been 'enabled and protected' by Scientology because of his celebrity standing in the church.

And she said she was 'enraged' to learn that there were other rape victims. That's when, after many years of keeping silent at the urging of the church, she finally decided report Masterson to the police. 

'I decided to report him with the full understanding that my life would be demolished again (by going against the don't tell doctrine of) Scientology which has terrorized me since.' 

Addressing Masterson directly again, Jane Doe #2 told him, 'When you raped me you stole my ability to have any stability in my life for decades. After you raped me I stopped living.' 

She said that her 'promising' acting career 'nosedived after the 'heinous attack hijacked my life.' 

'I know you take pride in hurting women. You treated me like I was less than trash. Your emptiness and cowardice will be your true legacy.

'You are pathetic, disturbed and extremely violent and the world is safer with you in prison. I would not wish rape on my worst enemy.

'You thought the law did not apply to you. You moved in smugness and spite.'

She concluded 'victim impact statement' by saying that despite the two decades of of trauma she's suffered since Masterson brutally raped her, 'I forgive you.' 

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