Conan O’Brien: No One Should Have to ‘Think Twice Before Making a Joke’

During the taping of his late night show Wednesday, Conan O’Brien took a minute to deliver a serious statement on the terrorist attack that left 12 people dead at the office of satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo.

“This story really hits home for anyone who, day in and day out, mocks political, social and religious figures,” O’Brien said. While Americans tend to take the right to satire “for granted,” the host said that today’s tragedy “reminds us, very viscerally, that it’s a right some people are inexplicably forced to die for.”

“All of here are terribly sad for the families of those victims, for the people of France, and for anyone in the world tonight who now has to think twice before making a joke,” he added. “It’s not the way it’s supposed to be.”

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