Popping culture: Conan and friends help you come out of the closet during the holidays

If Dickens’s Tiny Tim were around today, he would say, “God bless Conan O’Brien and his writers.”

On a recent episode of Conan’s show, his sidekick, Andy Richter, extolls the virtues of his latest business endeavour: he will tell your family that you’re gay.

But if that’s not good enough, he’ll bring along George Takei to help seal the deal. Oh my.

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