Conan O’Brien is revealing secrets and techniques about internet hosting the Oscars 2025.
The comic, 61, lately had Oscars head author Mike Sweeney on his “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend” podcast they usually mentioned the jokes and sketches that needed to be reduce from the 97th Academy Awards, together with a promo that might’ve featured O’Brien and a 9-foot-tall Oscar statue taking part in a home couple.
“We’re fighting about things couples fight about,” O’Brien defined of the scrapped skit. “At one point, I thought wouldn’t it be great if it’s just on the couch? Let’s lay it on a really big couch and I’ll be vacuuming and say, ‘Could you at least lift your feet? Or could you at least get up and help? Load the dishwasher?’”
“We wanted to do it and they just said, ‘No, no no, that can’t happen,’” O’Brien stated of the Academy.
The TV host added, “One of the people from the Academy came forward and said, ‘Oscar can never be horizontal.’ And that blew my mind. Like, wow, this is like the thigh bone of St. Peter. This is a religious icon.”
O’Brien and Sweeney additionally stated that they needed to place an apron on the Oscar statue and costume it up like a housewife serving O’Brien leftovers, however the Academy equally shot that concept down.
“No clothing on Oscar. Oscar is always naked,” O’Brien stated the group instructed him.
This 12 months’s Oscars opened with a “Wicked” efficiency adopted by O’Brien spoofing the Demi Moore film “The Substance.” However based on the comic, he had greater concepts to kick off the present.
“It was the idea that, ‘Oh, Conan’s now going to goof on all the movies,’” O’Brien stated on the podcast. “It starts with me and I’m in ‘Wicked’ and I’m all green, finishing ‘Defying Gravity’ or one of those songs. And I finish it and then you cut to the next thing, which is ‘Gladiator II’ and ‘clang, clang, clang’ with swords and you see that I’m a gladiator but then you notice that I’m still green. And then you go on to ‘Conclave’ and you see people voting with their ballots and one of the hands is still green.”
O’Brien stated that then he would’ve been in “Dune: Part 2” the place Javier Bardem, whereas in character, was going to name out O’Brien for being in inexperienced for “Wicked” at first of the parody.
“The whole thing was that the dye wouldn’t come off and we had to shoot it in one day,” O’Brien revealed.
“We loved it,” Sweeney stated of the axed skit. “It was hammered out before the fires happened, and even after that we kind of honed it.”
The Academy finally determined to open the Oscars with a efficiency by “Wicked” stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo in a tribute to Los Angeles following the devastating wildfires.
O’Brien famous on his podcast that regardless of a few of his concepts getting scrapped by the Academy, he’s nonetheless grateful he had the chance to host the present.
“They ended up being very helpful, I want to stress that,” O’Brien stated. “They were great, and the ABC people were fantastic.”
