Jack Benny, and the Marx Brothers, is directly responsible for his love of humor. “The loudest I’ve ever heard anybody laugh was sitting next to him in a theater watching Peter Sellers in a Pink Panther movie,” Conan said.
Ruth O’Brien and a number of family members spoke about her time at Ropes & Gray in 2017, when she was given a business award for her influence and contribution.
She said, “The other mothers thought it was a riot, that Tom O’Brien was doing these carpools and was one of the girls,”
Referring to the difficult labor of juggling the six children between two working parents. “However, I suppose some of the spouses felt that engaging.
In some of this behavior was beneath their rank. The children seemed to like it, and he just assumed it was a joke.
“There were six children, two dogs, a cat, my grandmother, and a parakeet,” Conan remembered. That home was a little crazy at times, I’m not lying.
Beautiful insanity, but insanity nevertheless. They managed to sort things out really well, but I’m not sure how they did it.
