The Walking Dead’s Steven Yeun gets a job as Conan O’Brien’s stand-in
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After leaving fans hanging with a cliffhanger finale followed by months of teasing, Sunday’s episode The Walking Dead finally revealed which unlucky survivor got smashed to death by Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s baseball bat: Abraham, the guy with red hair and a mustache. Oh, but wait! It turned out that Jeffrey Dean Morgan was still thirsty for some brutal violence, so he also smashed the brains out of Steven Yeun’s Glenn, a character who had been on the show since the beginning.
Walking Dead viewers may still be mourning Glenn’s death, but Yeun himself has already moved on to a new gig. As he revealed on tonight’s episode of Conan, he has actually been working as Conan O’Brien’s stand-in during rehearsals for a while—a fact that O’Brien wasn’t aware of, because he can’t be bothered to come to rehearsals.
It looks like a pretty intense job, but at least Yeun can get some hair tips from a familiar face.