Conan O’Brien Fired Employee For Rude Restaurant Etiquette

James Corden should take a page out of Conan O’Brien’s playbook.

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And we are not talking about his late-night talk-show playbook. We are talking about Conan’s kindness playbook.

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The former host of “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” reportedly took drastic measures when his employee decided to be rude to restaurant staff.

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A former writer on Conan’s show revealed on Twitter that the red-headed comedian once fired someone due to their poor behavior toward a restaurant worker.

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Todd Levin wrote for “Conan” from 2010 to 2020.

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He explained how his boss became annoyed when an unnamed employee got “impatient and rude” with waitstaff.

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“At CONAN there was a crew member who was fired because Conan witnessed him being impatient and rude to a server at a restaurant,” Levin tweeted.

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Levin tweeted this one day after news of Corden’s abysmal behavior toward several restaurant workers surfaced.

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Conan has not addressed Levin’s tweet or claims.

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