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Denis Leary Recalls Learning He’s Related to Conan O’Brien: “We Look Like Two Irish Aunts”

Leary and O’Brien both got their start in comedy, as a stand-up comedian and 'Saturday Night Live' writer, respectively.

“Well, my uncle Patrick, who was the oldest brother in the Leary family, we got him a satellite dish so that he could see the [ Late Night with Conan O’Brien] shows that I was on,” he continued. “And he said, ‘I think there was a Reardon woman in Worcester, Massachusetts, who lived in a three-decker when your father and his brother Jerry got off in New York. Leary and O’Brien both got their start in comedy, as a stand-up comedian and Saturday Night Live writer, respectively.

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