Conan O’Brien Wants Paul Rudd to Hit Him with the MAC AND ME Prank on His Deathbed: “It’s Going to Bring Me a Lot of Joy”

Conan O’Brien has made peace with the end, so long as Paul Rudd is there to prank him one last time with that absurdly timeless Mac and Me clip.

If you’ve followed O’Brien’s shows over the past couple of decades, you already know the bit. Every time Rudd visits to promote a new project, he fakes out the host by setting up a heartfelt or action-packed clip… only to play the same ridiculous scene from Mac and Me, where a boy in a wheelchair accidentally rolls off a cliff.

It first happened back in 2004 when Rudd was supposedly teasing an exclusive from the Friends finale, and it’s become a running joke ever since.

Now, it seems O’Brien doesn’t want the gag to end…. ever.

Rudd recently appeared on Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend to talk about his role in Anaconda, and yes, he pulled out the prank again. But O’Brien couldn’t help but notice something was off.

“This is the least you’ve tried ever,” O’Brien cracked. “Is there part of you that just hates yourself when you’re doing the fake setup now?”

Rudd was blunt: “Are you kidding me? Absolutely. Hate it when I set it up. Hate it when I’m sitting watching.”

Despite that, O’Brien isn’t giving him an out. In fact, he’s got the next time Rudd needs to roll the clip all planned out, and it involves a hospital bed.

“I’ll be in the hospital, and you’ll be visiting me, and I won’t have long, and they’ll say, ‘[He’s] in a lot of pain, but he’s pretty good right now,’” O’Brien imagined.

“And you’ll come in to say, ‘Hi,’ and I know you’re going to do a thing where I’m kind of in and out, but I’m there, and I’m so happy to see you, and then you’re going to say, ‘I just got good news from your doctor … they did a scan, and they actually can’t find any of the disease in the area … take a look at the scan.’ And it’s going to be that [clip].”

Then he added, “It’s going to bring me a lot of joy, and then I’ll pass away.”

Rudd, fully committed, answered: “I’m just happy that I could bring that to you in your final moments.”

It’s classic Conan and Rudd, blending dark humor and genuine friendship with a prank that just refuses to die. And now, apparently, it won’t, not even when Conan does.