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TIL When Paul Rudd appears on any Conan show, he’s supposed to show a clip of his latest movie. Instead he shows the same clip of Eric in a wheelchair going over a cliff into a lake with Mac looking on. That’s 15 years of pranking Conan O’Brien.

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