Conan O’Brien revealed on his podcast that the Academy cut some of his planned sketches for the Oscars 2025.
Conan O’Brien is revealing secrets about hosting the Oscars 2025.
The comedian, 61, recently had Oscars head writer Mike Sweeney on his “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend” podcast and they discussed the jokes and sketches that had to be cut from the 97th Academy Awards, including a promo that would’ve featured O’Brien and a 9-foot-tall Oscar statue playing a domestic couple.
“We’re fighting about things couples fight about,” O’Brien explained 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 said of the Academy.
The TV host added, “One of the people from the Academy came forward and said, ‘Oscar can never be horizontal.
