> “I was lucky enough to have some great interactions with Robin Williams before he passed,” O’Brien told guest Eric Idle on a recent episode of his Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend podcast. “One of the most memorable examples to me is 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,” added O’Brien. On the other line, **Williams asked, “‘How are you holding up, chief?’ And he said, you know, ‘You’re gonna be fine, you’re gonna be great.'” Then came an endearing gesture: Williams, who was into bicycling and knew O’Brien also liked to bike, instructed him to go down to a bike shop in Santa Monica, where he had a cruiser set up for him.**
> “And I said, ‘What?'” recalled O’Brien. “And he said, ‘No, no, no, just head on down there. 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,” added O’Brien. “I just couldn’t believe that he was thinking about me.”**
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> “I was lucky enough to have some great interactions with Robin Williams before he passed,” O’Brien told guest Eric Idle on a recent episode of his Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend podcast. “One of the most memorable examples to me is 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,” added O’Brien. On the other line, **Williams asked, “‘How are you holding up, chief?’ And he said, you know, ‘You’re gonna be fine, you’re gonna be great.'” Then came an endearing gesture: Williams, who was into bicycling and knew O’Brien also liked to bike, instructed him to go down to a bike shop in Santa Monica, where he had a cruiser set up for him.**
> “And I said, ‘What?'” recalled O’Brien. “And he said, ‘No, no, no, just head on down there. 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,” added O’Brien. “I just couldn’t believe that he was thinking about me.”**