Conan O’Brien admitted that in his now-viral “Scorching Ones” look, “I misplaced my thoughts doing it.”
Only a few hours after the section dropped Thursday, O’Brien instructed Jake Tapper, “I had an entire breakdown — bodily, emotionally, spiritually.” He defined, “If I believe one thing’s humorous, I’ll do it and endure later. And that’s precisely what occurred.”
As an alternative of bailing at a mid-level of spiciness like many different celebrities do on the new wings-fueled speak collection, O’Brien not solely drank the most well liked scorching sauce, however smeared it on his face.
“After I acquired residence, my hand was burning. I spotted that the sauce acquired beneath my marriage ceremony ring and was burning by way of my pores and skin. As a result of it’s an acid, you fool!” O’Brien exclaimed.
O’Brien additionally gently chided Tapper for CNN making it seem like he was mourning “his good good friend” O.J. Simpson when he appeared on the channel earlier within the day.
“Considered one of my comic buddies took a snapshot of me on CNN at the moment,” the comic instructed Tapper of their Thursday evening dialog on the Paley Middle for Media, “and it’s me speaking about my new present, however it’s a second after I look distraught. And the banner beneath me says, ‘O.J. Simpson Lifeless.’ So simply from that snapshot, it seems like, ‘We acquired Conan on to speak about his good good friend, O.J.’ That’s what it seems like!”
The comic had instructed Tapper within the CNN look that he wouldn’t make an O.J. Simpson joke on the day he died. Tapper quipped that he was going to name O’Brien at 6 a.m. the subsequent day, when presumably, his same-day joke ban had can be lifted.
O’Brien’s new journey present, “Conan O’Brien Should Go,” premieres Monday on Max. Within the collection, which ties in together with his podcasts and continues a practice going again to his NBC “Late Night time” journey segments, he visits Norway, Thailand, Argentina and Eire.
He joked, “I’ve been chased from my very own nation and compelled on the run to attempt to discover somebody who needs to speak to me in a distant a part of the globe.”
Watch Conan O’Brien’s total Paley Middle interview with Jake Tapper within the video above.