Conan O’Brien doesn’t believe that dark humor is a sign of arrested development.
In fact, the comedian embraced that whimsy to get through a tough chapter in his life. Nearly a year after his parents Dr. Thomas F. O’Brien and Ruth Reardon O’Brien died within three days of each other last December, Conan and Arrested Development alum Will Arnett joked how they blamed Jason Bateman for their sudden deaths.
“I hear that your dad passed away and I text you that day or the next day and I said, ‘Hey, listen. I’m sorry to hear about your dad’s passing, sending love from our family to yours,’” Arnett, 55, recalled in the Dec. 8 episode of O’Brien’s Needs a Friend podcast. “And you wrote, ‘Thank you, Will. To be honest, I blame Bateman.’”
He continued of their off-kilter conversation, “I wrote, ‘It’s not a terrible theory.’ And Conan texted me back, ‘He killed my dad.’”
