Conan O'Brien reflects on Robin Williams' support after being fired from The Tonight Show

On his podcast, ‘Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend,’ Conan reminisces about the kindness of Robin Williams. “When I went through my whole Tonight Show 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.”

O’Brien said Williams asked him, “‘How are you holding up, chief?’ And he said, you know, ‘You’re gonna be fine, you’re gonna be great.'” The Oscar winner, who shared an affinity for cycling with O’Brien, sent him to a bike shop in Santa Monica, where he had a cruiser waiting for him. “And I said, ‘What?’ And he said, ‘No, no, no, just head on down there. Ride around, you’ll feel better,'” said O’Brien. “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.'”

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