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Jeff Goldblum Is The World’s Ultimate Weirdo Dad; Should Adopt Us All Immediately

Today, we are all this confused baby named Ocean sucking on his face.

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For decades, Jeff Goldblum has eluded simple classification. He’s both an actor and a musician; an action star and a comedian; a nerd and a sex symbol. Jeff Goldblum is both a regular human being and an extra-terrestrial assemblage of smirks and jazzy hand gestures. Now, it’s all seamlessly fallen into place: Jeff Goldblum is just a dad.

After the birth of his first child which happily coincided with Independence Day this year, the 60-year-old actor has been settling into his new life as a parent and appeared on Conan overnight to talk about it. But, as Conan points out, “you don’t have notes for a Jeff Goldblum interview — you just say hello and then madness ensues”. 

Accordingly, Goldblum talks about naming his child Ocean, goes on an unsolicited rhythmic rant about slicing cranberries, then shows a video of himself singing while his bewildered infant sucks on his nose. “I nuzzle him, I smell him, I kiss him, I talk to him, I make jokes with him, I sing to him,” Goldblum says.

Today, we are all this confused little ocean child:

Tomorrow, we are all an embarrassed ocean adult, whose dad sang ‘Take Be Out To The Ball Game’ at his circumcision then told the whole world about it: