Fresh from hosting the 2026 Oscars, Conan O’Brien had one more performance to offer, and this time the topic was marriage.
speaking in vanity fairAt the annual post-Oscars party with his wife Liza Powel O’Brien, the comedian, 62, shared the unlikely secret behind nearly 25 years of marital bliss: separate bathrooms.
“We were saved because we moved into a house that had a bathroom for me and a bathroom for you,” he said. vanity fair.
“I think that really saves [a relationship]”.
He has been married to Liza since 2002 and had no qualms about doubling down on his theory. “They say that goes a long way toward perpetuating a marriage,” he added. “I think that’s key, very key.”
Liza, 55, gave the claim her own understated seal of approval.
“I don’t dislike it,” he said, which Conan immediately translated for the room. “You don’t dislike her, which means those are two negatives. She likes her!”
The couple met in 1999, when Liza was working as a copywriter at an advertising agency and Conan came in to film a segment for Late Night with Conan O’Brien about the worst advertisers.
According to himself, he disappeared immediately. “Somewhere in the NBC vault there is footage of me literally falling in love with my wife on camera,” he told Piers Morgan in 2012.
