Love is a funny thing! Ellie Kemper and husband Michael Koman have kept each other laughing for more than a decade.The Office alum announced the duo’s engagement during a December 2011 interview with Conan O’Brien. “I want to mention something.
It’s sort of a big deal around [the Conan] office. You got engaged,” the talk show host said, describing Koman as a “very talented writer who worked for me for many, many years.”Kemper couldn’t help but gush over her then-fiancé, noting, “Michael’s a delight, as you know, so of course [my parents] like him a lot.”While her family came around to the Nathan for You writer, they initially had some reservations.
Kemper recalled a conversation she had with her grandfather at Thanksgiving years before getting engaged that made Koman “squirm.”“There was a pumpkin pie and a pecan pie out, and my grandpa said, ‘Ellie, what kind of pie are you gonna have?'” she said on Conan. “And I said, ‘I don’t know, Grandpa.
They both look really good. I think I’ll have pecan.’ He said, ‘Are you sure, Ellie? Because it’s OK to keep your options open.
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