{"id":343154,"date":"2026-03-12T22:49:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T22:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/343154\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T22:49:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T22:49:13","slug":"conan-obrien-tells-jimmy-kimmel-about-emotional-trip-to-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/343154\/","title":{"rendered":"Conan O’Brien tells Jimmy Kimmel about ’emotional’ trip to Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\t\t\t\t\tConan O’Brien visited the site of his great-grandfather’s former home in Ireland, an experience the Brookline described as “emotional” and “powerful.”<\/p>\n

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\n\tConan O’Brien on the March 11, 2026 episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”. ABC\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBy Kevin Slane<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMarch 12, 2026 | 2:55 PM\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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Conan O\u2019Brien<\/a> prefers to keep things lighthearted on camera. But the longtime late-night host found himself at a loss for words during a segment the Brookline native filmed in Ireland for his travel show. <\/p>\n

Ahead of his gig hosting the 2026 Oscars<\/a> on Sunday, the Harvard alum<\/a> visited \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!\u201d to commiserate about the highs and lows of hosting the Academy Awards, a job Kimmel performed four times.<\/p>\n

After joking about how some of the films (like Netflix\u2019s \u201cTrain Dreams\u201d) don\u2019t naturally lend themselves to one-liners, O\u2019Brien shifted to discussing his HBO Max show, \u201cConan O\u2019Brien Must Go.\u201d<\/p>\n

In one episode, O\u2019Brien (who is \u201c100.00 percent\u201d Irish) heads to Galbally, Ireland to see his great-grandfather Thomas O\u2019Brien\u2019s former home.<\/p>\n

After preparing a raft of jokes and gags for the segment, O\u2019Brien instead found himself touched by the visit.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not someone who wears my emotions on my sleeves, but I got emotional,\u201d O\u2019Brien said. \u201cIt\u2019s very powerful when you\u2019re standing there.\u201d<\/p>\n

O\u2019Brien went on to describe how his great-grandfather, a tenant farmer with little to no money, made the tough choice to leave Ireland and try to make a better life in America.<\/p>\n

Visiting that empty patch of land, O\u2019Brien said, put the entire immigration process into perspective. <\/p>\n

\u201cI have incredible empathy for people who have immigrated to another country, because it takes an entire lifetime to go to a country where [\u2026] they don\u2019t speak the language, and they have to spend their entire lives just getting things started for the next generation,\u201d O\u2019Brien said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s a whole lifetime that you\u2019re feeding into this process. <\/p>\n

\u201cI was just thinking about how this guy, who I\u2019ll never meet, had to do that,\u201d O\u2019Brien continued. \u201cAnd I think I was overcome by that. I was overcome by the fact that there\u2019s a lot of sadness in that story, and in a lot of these stories. People don\u2019t leave [their home country] because \u2018Hey, I want to have fun in America,\u2019 they leave because they have to.\u201d<\/p>\n

Watch Conan O\u2019Brien on \u2018Jimmy Kimmel Live!\u2019:<\/p>\n

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