Grief is a strange beast, and there really is no one single way that you’re supposed to handle it. For comedian Conan O’Brien, humor was the way to do it. When O’Brien’s father passed last year and Will Arnett reached out with his sympathy, the comedian hilariously responded “I blame [Jason] Bateman.”
“The texts between Conan, Will Arnett, and Jason Bateman are hilarious,” X user Zito wrote on a video of the Team Coco podcast. “Conan lost both of his parents and somehow joking about Bateman killing them is so dark and yet such a sweet way to help a friend grieve.”
After being told of the exchange by Arnett, Bateman continued with the bit, texting O’Brien, “Arnett tells me you’re onto me.”
O’Brien goes on record stating that his father would have loved this. Sadly, two days after his passing, O’Brien’s mother also passed away unexpectedly. Arnett’s text in response to that news? “Bateman is asking for your sister’s street address.”
You can tell that this is a tight-knit friend group, because only close friends with similar humor could get away with this kind of ribbing during the worst moments of somebody’s life. And sometimes that is exactly what you need, instead of an endless streamy of sympathy.
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