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'Conan' Writer Laurie Kilmartin Opens Up About Mom's COVID-19 Death

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Conan writer Laurie Kilmartin opened up about losing her mother to COVID-19 and documenting the end of her mom's life in a series of comedic tweets in an interview with Conan O'Brien on Wednesday's edition of O'Brien's eponymous TBS late-night show.

Kilmartin's mother, JoAnn, caught the disease after she was taken to a nursing facility following a hospital stay and died in June. "I guess, like every comic, you don't like to sit in a feeling too long, you like to pull yourself out of it, and the best way for us to do it is write a little joke about it," she said on Wednesday's episode.

Kilmartin revealed that writing jokes on Twitter wasn't an unfamiliar coping mechanism, noting that she had done the same when her father died of lung cancer..

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