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Robin Williams Called Conan O’Brien After ‘Tonight Show’ Firing and Sent Him Out on a Bike Ride: ‘You’re Gonna Be Fine. Ride Around, You’ll Feel Better’

Robin Williams called Conan O'Brien after he got fired from 'The Tonight Show' and set up a bike ride around Los Angeles.

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.” It turns out clearing his head and biking around Santa Monica is just what O’Brien needed in the moment. It was Williams who taught Idle to be generous to fans, the Monty Python comedian admitted.

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