This 12 months’s Academy Awards are going to look slightly totally different. For one factor, there gained’t be any musical performances on the Oscars for any of the tunes up for Greatest Tune… which we really feel is a mistake. Nor will four-time host Jimmy Kimmel be presiding over the ceremony as he had for the previous two years. As a substitute, one other late night time TV character, Conan O’Brien, will probably be internet hosting his first Oscars on Sunday, March 2.
O’Brien is a former author for The Simpsons who shot to fame within the ’90s because the host of Late Night time with Conan O’Brien earlier than briefly transitioning to The Tonight Present on NBC. When O’Brien fell out with NBC in 2010, he moved over to TBS to host a brand new late night time present known as Conan for 11 years earlier than retiring from weekly internet hosting. Since 2021, O’Brien has targeted on podcasting and different comedic endeavors. He’s additionally a two-time host of the Emmy Awards and the White Home Correspondents’ dinner.
What to anticipate from Conan O’Brien on the Oscars
Within the video above, O’Brien factiously guarantees that the nine-hour telecast will embody “a number of second within the Oscars the place I’ll be shirtless and oiled,” earlier than including, “I feel that’s going to harm this system extremely.” Though O’Brien has usually let himself be the brunt of his personal jokes, he’s most likely kidding about going shirtless.
O’Brien can be much less political along with his comedy than Kimmel is, however there should still be some jokes amongst occasion strains. That stated, we wouldn’t be stunned if O’Brien’s frequent collaborator, Robert Smigel, brings his well-known puppet Triumph the Insult Comedian Canine to the Oscars. If there are going to be political jokes at this 12 months’s Academy Awards, theyr would virtually definitely come from Triumph… if he’s going for use there.
How we expect Conan O’Brien will do on the Oscars
The quick reply is he’s going to do effective. Even when O’Brien didn’t have many years of late night time comedy reveals in his resume, internet hosting the Emmys is so much like internet hosting the Oscars. There shouldn’t be any issues with O’Brien’s efficiency, and if there are awkward moments through the present, he’s all the time managed to take advantage of out of these as effectively.
We’d prefer to see O’Brien honor the legacy of nine-time Academy Awards host Billy Crystal by opening the present with a music that comes with himself into all 10 of this 12 months’s Greatest Image nominees. However that could be asking an excessive amount of.
