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Chapter 1: How did Conan O'Brien get the opportunity to host the Oscars?
Hey, Conan O'Brien here. Usually in this slot, we air a fan interaction episode, but we're not going to do that. We've had a lot of requests out there from people to talk about my recent experience hosting the Oscars. It is... It's only been about a week by the time this airs, a week or so, week and a half since I hosted the Oscars.
We're taping this a bit earlier, several days after the show aired. So it's still fresh in our minds. And I am joined to go over this experience with my head writer of many, many, many years. Some say too many years. Too many.
Yeah.
Mike Sweeney. Mike Sweeney has been with me almost since the very beginning of my late night show. He waited a little bit to see if it would survive or not. And then when he saw that it was probably going to make it, he came aboard. So he is a coward. I am. You should have led with the coward part.
Yeah.
Mike Sweeney has been with me for a long time. 30 years. 30 years. 11 of them quite pleasant. And we worked together on the Oscars along with Jeff Ross. And Mike Sweeney led the creative team. And- People seemed very happy with how it went. I had a blast doing it. And one of the reasons I think I was able to enjoy myself so much is I knew I had, we worked very hard to get material that we liked.
And I think the call came in from the Oscars in late November.
It was the day after we got back from Spain.
Yeah, shooting a travel episode in Spain. And I got a call and I called you. And I said, I'll do it, but you got to be on board. I just laughed really hard. You laughed really hard for a long time when you said, I just got a call.
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Chapter 2: What was the preparation process like for the Oscars?
It's a documentary cruise style.
It's a documentary cruise style as if it were a war zone. Right. So I always look like... I always look like, you know, a toy that a dog got ahold of and chewed up. And then suddenly I step out there and hit my mark and I'm a 19 year old girl. You looked great. And then I step out of it. It's like, oh, the old pumpkin's back.
That's an intimidating room. To be up on that stage and looking at all those people must have been intimidating.
You were in the audience. Yeah, what was it like in the audience? Were you scared for me?
Yeah, I, you know, I was really, um, you can say it. I know I was a little nervous for you and it was weird not to work it. It's one of the, you know, those big events that I would normally have worked. I didn't work at the event.
You brought tack.
I brought tack and we were sitting next to Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn.
Wow. What was that like?
We were behind the complete unknown cast.
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