Comedian Conan O’Brien, who’s identified for his very crimson, very excessive pompadour, lately stepped out with an incredibly totally different coiffure. And now viewers lastly perceive why.
O’Brien, 63, addressed the new look in a July 22 clip from his podcast “Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend.” Fans had first noticed the makeover throughout an episode of the podcast, which featured fellow comic Molly Shannon, earlier that very same week. It prompted many a query in regards to the departure from his signature type.
The origin story, it seems, begins on the June 18 opening of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, which O’Brien attended. The comic explained on the clip that he initially didn’t notice that the occasion was outdoor. While he splashed a little bit of sunblock on his face, the story would later take a flip.
“It’s three hours plus, and when it’s over, I’m so glad that I put the sunblock on, and I’m feeling really good about myself,” O’Brien mentioned within the clip, joking that he felt superior to others like comedians David Letterman and Stephen Colbert, who didn’t seem to have ready like he did. “I’m like, ‘Well, those suckers don’t know how to put sunblock on.’”
The good vibes didn’t final for lengthy.
“A day or two later, after the event, I feel like my skull is on fire. And then two days after that, my skull is really itchy, and whenever I itch it, it looks like a snow globe,” he mentioned. “White freckled confetti is pouring off of my head. It’s disgusting.”
It seems that O’Brien suffered a reasonably unhealthy sunburn on his scalp.
“I talked to someone. They said, ‘Yeah, you got a sunburn on your scalp,’ which I’m not used to because I’ve got so much hair, but this sun just blasted right through my hair, and it roasted my scalp,” O’Brien defined. “To treat this, you’ve got to rub oil into it.”
The comic admitted that whereas treating the burn, he had forgotten that he had podcast duties later that very same day.
“Then I come in and I look like I’m in Sha Na Na. I’m a grease ball,” O’Brien mentioned, referencing the doo-wop revival band.
Of course, he and his co-host Sona Movsesian and assistant David Hopping couldn’t assist however have a bit of enjoyable with the brand new ‘do.
“I look like I want to fight one of you in the parking lot by swinging a chain at you in 1952, or a little switchblade,” O’Brien mentioned.
O’Brien additionally joked that he regarded like “one of the Thunderbirds that is easily 55 years old” within the 1978 movie “Grease.”
Before he even addressed the hair, followers had been roasting O’Brien over the look.
“Seeing Conan’s hair like this feels illegal,” one social media user wrote.
Another individual dubbed O’Brien “Coney Soprano,” a riff on “The Sopranos” mobster Tony Soprano.
