Conan O’Brien tells Ayo Edebiri she’s ‘revered by the Irish people’

The luck of the Irish is shining on Ayo Edebiri, but on Conan O’Brien – not so much.

The actor congratulated The bear Star for her continuous commitment to a little in which she claims to be Irish, deplores this because of this, she is “venerated by the Irish people” when he “rightly hates” (despite his Irish), he said in the last episode of his Podcast Conan O ‘Brien needs a friend.

The joke in question started in March 2023 at the South by Southwest Film Festival, during an interview with Letterboxd. In this document, Edebiri slipped into and out of an Irish accent when she joked that she had played the role of Jenny the donkey in the Oscar candidate in Ireland The Banshees of Inisherin.

Edebiri continued the bit in the interviews and appearances of subsequent red carpets, on which O’Brien on his podcast specifically rented.

“I wanted to congratulate you, because you started this joke that you improvised, a joke about being Irish, then you continued,” he said. “And there is this crucial point where a joke becomes like:” Okay, that’s enough, I did it enough, I should stop “, or you double, triple and quadrupled on it and refuse to let it go – what you did.”

“Now it has resonated so much that the inhabitants of Ireland accepted you as one of their own, which they will not do with me,” continued O’Brien. “I am this great shame figure in Ireland. But you have a day in Boston, and you are venerated by the Irish people. I rightly hate the Irish and never one day in Boston.”

(Earlier this year, the mayor of Boston Michelle Wu said on April 10, 2025, to be Ayo Edebiri Day, who recognized the achievements of the star and his influence on Boston Youth as from the city and graduate of the Latin school of Boston herself.)

Among the origins of his joke, Edebiri told O’Brien: “I remember talking about it with a friend. I said to myself:” My favorite type of discreet joke could be a lie. “As, something where it is not even funny, it’s especially funny for me.”

She recalled that during the interview with Red Carpet SXSW, now Iconé, she assumed that her publicist thought that she was about to “mental depression”.

“I remember that at that time, I saw my Pr. She was at the corner of my eye and she was a bit like” no, no, no, no, no, no, “because I was right, it was nonsense,” said Edebiri. “It was just me like, oh yeah I was standing in Ireland and I was a little dispensed and she said to me:” Ok, mental depression on the horizon. “I don’t know, it continued. And I say to myself:” Yeah, what’s up? “”

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As for O’Brien, who is actually very Irish and also Boston, Edebiri told him not to lose faith, that he would gain respect for the Irish and Bostonian compatriots.

“I think your day could come, that’s what I’m going to say,” said Edebiri.

Look at the full interview with Edebiri and O’Brien above.