Robin Williams purchased Conan O’Brien a customized bike so he may clear his head after he misplaced The Tonight Present.
Conan O’Brien hosted The Tonight Present for lower than eight months earlier than he was in the end changed with – but once more – Jay Leno. Whereas we don’t have the area to get into every thing that went down behind the scenes, it was Leno who got here out trying just like the villain whereas followers and plenty of throughout the trade threw their assist behind Conan. One such title was Robin Williams, who had appeared on The Tonight Present beneath Conan’s brief tenure a few instances however made a gesture in a means that solely a real good-hearted man would.
Talking on his Conan O’Brien Wants a Pal podcast (through EW), the comic remembered that Robin Williams reached out within the aftermath of The Tonight Present debacle. “Finally, the show is done, and I don’t know if I have a career anymore. What am I gonna do next? I’m lying on the floor in the living room of my house, and my phone rings, and I pick it up, and it’s Robin Williams…I don’t even know how he got my phone number. ‘How are you holding up, chief?’ And he said, you know, ‘You’re gonna be fine, you’re gonna be great.’”
However Robin Williams didn’t restrict his assist for Conan O’Brien with only a cellphone name: he gifted him a motorbike to assist clear his head. “‘Ride around, you’ll feel better.’ And I went down and it was a Colnago, which is a very nice bike. And he said, ‘I told him to paint it in all these crazy Irish colors.’ I get down there and it’s the most ugliest— I mean, it was just greens and shamrocks and everything. And he was like, ‘You’re going to like that bike, chief. Don’t worry about it.’ I thanked him many, many times. I just couldn’t believe that he was thinking about me.”
These are simply the type of tales about celebrities we love listening to, particularly from somebody so beloved as Robin Williams, who handed away a decade in the past. Nevertheless it’s actually not shocking in any respect, as Williams was recognized to be about pretty much as good of a pal as you could possibly be, at all times searching for you whenever you’re at your lowest. One of the crucial well-known friendships he had was with Christopher Reeve, taking a lot of his time to cheer him up after his 1995 horse driving accident which left him paralyzed, even making him crack up by posing as a Russian physician there to ship a rectal examination. Williams has caught up for his buddies in much less colourful methods, too, as Sally Area as soon as remembered him making certain she received to see her father after he suffered a stroke whereas she was making Mrs. Doubtfire.
And Robin Williams was proper in that Conan O’Brien would rebound, as he has turned himself right into a full-on model, with quite a few podcasts, a journey present, a spot internet hosting subsequent yr’s Oscars, and extra.
