Conan pretends to take offense after J-Hope calls him 'Curtain'

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Published: 07 May. 2021, 09:54 Updated: 09 May. 2021, 18:27

Conan pretends to take offense after J-Hope calls him 'Curtain'

American talk show host Conan O’Brien expresses his disappointment at BTS member J-Hope for calling him ″Curtain″ in his new video on his YouTube channel "Team Coco." [SCREEN CAPTURE]

American talk show host Conan O’Brien got hilariously incensed after witnessing K-pop superstar BTS member J-Hope call him “Curtain” when the band members were playing a speed quiz on a variety show in which they were asked to identify various celebrities by looking at their pictures.

O’Brien, who recently announced that he is wrapping up his late-night talk show on TBS on June 24 before moving to the HBO max streaming service, uploaded a new video on his YouTube channel "Team Coco" on May 6, local time, which expressed his disappointment with J-Hope.

The talk show icon began by saying, “We announced earlier this week that after, well, 28 years of doing a talk show day in and day out, that we were going to be wrapping things up here on June 24. But you know I got to say, when you go through a change like this, it gets the guy thinking about stuff. […] What's my impact been?”

He then showed a video clip from the program showing J-Hope blurting out “Curtain” after seeing a picture of O’Brien in Korea’s variety show “The Game Caterers X Run BTS.” The show is star producer Na Young-seok’s first collaboration with BTS. The producer announced earlier that his “The Game Caterers” show will shoot four episodes together with “Run BTS.”

BTS member J-Hope calling O'Brien ″Curtain″ in a speed quiz in Korea's variety show on TV. [SCREEN CAPTURE]

The episode that featured O’Brien was the first, and the second airs tonight at 10:20 p.m. on tvN.

“Curtain. He called me Curtain,” O’Brien said with a stern face then added, “He said I was a curtain! I've been to Korea,” laughing. “I was popular! 'Curtain!' I'll get you BTS, oh I'll get you good. And by that I mean I'll silently resent you."

O’Brien has been a staple of late-night TV shows for nearly three decades. He began his show in 1993 after taking over the Late Show on NBC from David Letterman.

BY YIM SEUNG-HYE [yim.seunghye@joongang.co.kr]