Academy Awards host Conan O’Brien on ceremony secrets: “Oscar can never be horizontal”

Recently, 97th Academy Award-winning American comedian and broadcaster Conan O’Brien revealed the skit he was originally thought to open the show, sharing the DOS and DOS surrounding the iconic gold-plated statue itself.

With a former late-night talk show host SNL and The Simpsons The writer won strong reviews for his Maze Oscar and used his podcast Conan O’Brien needs friends This week, alongside longtime headwriter and telecast collaborator Mikes Weeney, we dive into some of the secrets behind Hollywood’s biggest night.

O’Brien reveals how he and O’Brien want to do promotional bits for the show where he and 9 feet tall are in an unfortunate relationship in their apartment, and a gross O’Brien begs for a peer-pine statue to help with housework while it lies on the couch. “There was a whisper, and one of the people at the academy came forward and said, ‘Oscars can never be level.” It blew my mind away,” O’Brien said. “Oh, this is like the bones of St. Peter’s thighs. This is a religious icon.”

Sweeney focused on how Statuette couldn’t dress, and dedicated the idea that Oscar had to be placed on the apron to dashing O’Brien’s leftovers. “Oscars are always naked,” they were told.

Now, audiences will be familiar with O’Brien’s cold opening before the opening credits on March 2nd. material.

The sequence partially replaced the long productions they intended, where O’Brien inserts himself into some of the season’s outstanding films. eviland continues the theme as a green combatant. Gladiator IIand conclave Green arms are expanded to vote, and Dunes: Part 2 and Nosfer.

However, the work was too complicated to shoot in time and would have run for 4-5 minutes. When the tragedy of La Wildfires unfolded, the TV cast producers pivoted to a tribute to Los Angeles and wanted to follow suit with a shorter piece. input material skit.

O’Brien also revealed: he hadn’t written Drake This Jokes (“I’m not that familiar with rap fights,” he said of the Drake Kendrick Lamar feud). Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger tweaked him behind the scenes to ask what the crowd was like. And then there was a final sidelined proposal that Sandwarm of the dunes would move on stage and award the award.