“You know what’s weird. I swear to God, this is how I grieve.”
That’s Conan O’Brien explaining the hilariously dark message chain he had with Will Arnett and Jason Bateman in the days after the deaths of his parents, which the two break down in the Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend podcast clip above.
In a nutshell, what started as a jokey rivalry with Bateman over a party invite escalated to O’Brien blaming Bateman for the death of his father immediately after his dad had passed away.
“I’m a sick person,” says O’Brien. “But I remembered very much wanting to connect, and it was so comforting to me to screw around with you guys at that moment. It just was. And if that makes me a madman, so be it.”
