--- title: Ice-Bucket Challenge: Conan O'Brien description: Conan O’Brien is the latest high-profile star to take on the ALS ice-bucket challenge — and outdoes everyone in the process canonical: https://time.com/3115278/conan-obrien-tals-ice-bucket-challenge/ author: Stephanie Burnett article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-15T06:53:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:12:28.580Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Conan O'Brien takes the ALS Ice-Bucket Challenge og:description: It might be the best one yet og:url: https://time.com/3115278/conan-obrien-tals-ice-bucket-challenge/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6a2612e5dd4215c0/69869faad0b6f21428305b5a/conan-obrien1.jpg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Conan o'brien og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Conan O'Brien takes the ALS Ice-Bucket Challenge twitter:description: It might be the best one yet twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6a2612e5dd4215c0/69869faad0b6f21428305b5a/conan-obrien1.jpg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Conan O'Brien Take the ALS Ice-Bucket Challenge by [Stephanie Burnett](https://time.com/author/stephanie-burnett/) ## Stephanie Burnett Aug 15, 2014 6:53 AM UTC  by [Stephanie Burnett](https://time.com/author/stephanie-burnett/) ## Stephanie Burnett Aug 15, 2014 6:53 AM UTC Conan O’Brien is the latest high-profile star to take on the ALS [ice-bucket challenge](http://time.com/3100272/als-ice-bucket-challenge/) — and outdoes everyone in the process. That’s because he seemed to have misunderstood the whole point of the ALS campaign. “Apparently if I get ice water poured on my head, ALS will then pay me $100\. That’s a pretty sweet deal,” said O’Brien as he looked into the camera. In the video featured on Thursday night’s episode of _Conan_, the late-night host stood in a black T-shirt and gray shorts as a staff member poured the ice-cold water onto his head. “Whoa! Wow that was cold!” gasped O’Brien. Someone off-camera then explained that he had to donate money in addition to completing the challenge. He jokingly fired back: “I pay? Why would I do both?!” O’Brien, of course, did end up donating to ALS. But not before he revealed a hilarious trick of his own. Watch the [video](http://teamcoco.com/video/conan-ice-bucket-challenge) to find out. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3115278/conan-obrien-tals-ice-bucket-challenge/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3115278/conan-obrien-tals-ice-bucket-challenge/"},"headline":"Watch Conan O'Brien Take the ALS Ice-Bucket Challenge","datePublished":"2014-08-15T06:53:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:12:28.580Z","description":"It might be the best one yet","url":"https://time.com/3115278/conan-obrien-tals-ice-bucket-challenge/","keywords":["Newsfeed","society","Television","viral","Conan O'brien","Late Night Television","als ice bucket challenge"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6a2612e5dd4215c0/69869faad0b6f21428305b5a/conan-obrien1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Stephanie Burnett","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/stephanie-burnett/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6a2612e5dd4215c0/69869faad0b6f21428305b5a/conan-obrien1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Conan o'brien","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3115278/conan-obrien-tals-ice-bucket-challenge/","name":"Watch Conan O'Brien Take the ALS Ice-Bucket Challenge"}}]}] ```