“I think he put the travel bug in me,” the talk show host reflected.
Conan O'Brien speaks onstage during the featured session"Conan O'Brien Must Go" during the 2024 SXSW Conference and Festivals at Austin Convention Center at Austin Convention Center on March 09, 2024 in Austin, Texas.The comedian’s mom, Ruth Reardon O’Brien, died at age 92. just three days after his dad, renowned physician Dr. Thomas O’Brien, passed away on Dec. 9 at age 95.
King Charles, Queen Camilla arrive at pre-Christmas lunch after Prince William and Kate Middleton pull out of event“My dad was the dreamer,” he said. “My dad was the one who was saying, ‘I’m off to Peru with a change of clothes in my briefcase to try and launch this website for a hospital there high in the mountains.'”One year, the physician let O’Brien miss school so they could attend an international work trip together.
The podcast host described his mother as “heroic,” as she balanced life as a lawyer and a parent to six children. Ruth and Thomas, who were married for 66 years, raised O’Brien and his five siblings — Neal, Luke, Kate, Jane and Justin.“My mom was the one who really saw to it when we were little kids that we were fed and our clothes were laid out, and that we got to our dental appointments and medical appointments.
“The loudest I’ve ever heard anybody laugh was sitting next to him in a theater watching Peter Sellers in a Pink Panther movie,” O’Brien recalled in his tribute. “And when he would laugh, his whole body would convulse and he would almost hug himself.”
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