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The Darkly Funny Way Conan O’Brien Coped After Losing Both Parents Days Apart

After losing both parents within days, O’Brien said joking with Will Arnett and Bateman gave him a strange but comforting way to grieve.

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In December 2024, Conan O’Brien lost both of his parents within days of one another. However, as devastating as their back-to-back deaths were for him, it didn’t stop the late-night host from cracking jokes about the situation. And according to Will Arnett, who appeared on O’Brien’s podcast, Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend, late last year, O’Brien was making light of things almost immediately after his father died. When Arnett heard about the elder O’Brien’s passing the next day, he texted O’Brien his condolences, and received an unexpectedly humorous........

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