Conan O'Brien: Last News

end is nigh for late-night talk shows.“I don’t know if there will be any late-night television shows on network TV in 10 years,” the “Jimmy Kimmel Live” host said. “Maybe there’ll be one but there won’t be a lot of them.”Jimmy’s right. The culling has already commenced.

Adrien Brody finish his speech,” O’Brien said in a statement.This year was O’Brien’s first time leading the show, which attracted its biggest broadcast audience in five years despite the winning movie, “Anora,” being relatively small. An estimated 19.7 million viewers watched the 97th Academy Awards ceremony earlier this month, according to broadcaster ABC, with a big lift among people aged 18 to 49, driven by mobile and laptop watches from younger viewers.

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.’ And that blew my mind.

his podcast. “I was just at ‘SNL’ and I saw Tina with her husband Jeff Richmond,” O’Brien, 61, told his “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend” podcast guest Amy Poehler.

2025 Oscars.The “Emilia Pérez” actress, 52, went to the award show Sunday despite her social media controversy, and was a victim of one of Conan O’Brien’s jokes during his opening monologue.O’Brien, 61, brought up Gascón’s publicist stressing over her scandal and joked, “Karla Sofía Gascón is here tonight and Karla, if you are going to tweet about the Oscars, remember my name is Jimmy Kimmel.” The camera then cut to Gascón who smiled and bowed her head from her seat in the audience.The next day, Gascón posted an Instagram where she thanked the Academy for her nomination and invite to the ceremony — and made a reference to O’Brien’s joke.“Thank you to the members of @theacademy for the nomination as best leading actress, for the invitation to the gala; I liked it a lot, very entertaining and fun, especially your fabulous host Jimmy Kimmel, he is fantastic, every day he looks more like the great Conan O’Brien.

Oscars viewers who are watching the show on Hulu claim the streaming service has been crashing throughout the night.“Hey Hulu, get your shit together!!! No one can watch #TheOscars right now on your service!” one person wrote on X.Follow The Post’s live updates from the Oscars 2025 for winners, red carpet pics and moreAnother fan tweeted, “#Hulu owes me a damn refund right about now. All that advertisement about streaming the #Oscars2025, only for the site to not work.”“Y’all better give everyone a free month at the very least.

nearly four-hour Oscars is some undeniable fact of life. The sun rises in the east, the sky is blue, the Oscars take one-sixth of a day.But 30 minutes could’ve oh so easily been cut from Sunday night’s strange and sloooow Academy Awards.Why, exactly, did Margaret Qualley dance during a pointless tribute to James Bond that featured godawful covers of “Diamonds Are Forever” and “Live and Let Die”?Why, exactly, did Queen Latifah belt “Ease on Down the Road” from “The Wiz” as a tribute to Quincy Jones?Why, exactly, did “Wicked” stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande perform a “Wizard of Oz”-themed medley of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” “Home” and “Defying Gravity?”Friends, I have no idea.All of that stuff should’ve been axed.

years-long beef and Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show during the 2025 Oscars.A little over two hours into the Oscars broadcast, O’Brien, 61, joked, “Well, we’re halfway through the show, which means it’s time for Kendrick Lamar to come out and call Drake a pedophile.”K-Dot, 37, headlined the NFL’s halftime show and performed his Grammy-winning Drake dis track, “Not Like Us,” on the field at the Superdome in New Orleans.The song was teased from the start of Lamar’s performance, leaving fans wondering whether he would perform the song in which he accuses Drake of being a “pedophile.”“I want to play their favorite song, but you know they love to sue,” the Pulitzer Prize-winner rapped, seemingly nodding to Drake’s legal actions against their shared record label, Universal Music Group.Lamar ultimately performed the dis towards the end of his halftime show, though he removed one word from the song.Instead of spitting the line, “Certified Lover Boy? Certified pedophiles,” a lyric which also references Drake’s 2021 album “Certified Lover Boy,” Lamar omitted the word “pedophile.”But Lamar still performed two of the song’s other brutal bars: “Say, Drake, I hear you like ‘em young / You better not ever go to cell block one.”He then rapped, “Why you trollin’ like a …,” leaving out the word, “b–ch?,” before adding, “Ain’t you tired? / Tryna strike a chord and it’s probably A minor.”The line “A minor” definitely struck a chord with the crowd, who chanted along loudly.Aside from Lamar and Drake, O’Brien took aim at Karla Sofía Gascón, Adam Sandler and Timothée Chalamet during Sunday’s broadcast.“‘Anora’ uses the f-word 479 times,” O’Brien began one of his opening monologue jokes, referring to one of the year’s Best Picture nominees,

award for best gift giver.At the 2025 Oscars, the host, 61, gifted celebrities and seat fillers with a snack box and a funny note beneath their seats.“Dear Star/Seat filler, I hope you enjoy these complimentary snacks,” the letter read, per “E! News.” He also quipped, “I tried my best to include a gummy, but Disney said that was a ‘hard pass.’ Have a great night, Conan.”The letter also had a cartoon drawing of O’Brien drawn on it.As for what was inside the box? Well, the comedian supplied the guests with a bottle of water and a pretzel, according to a post on X.Along with the sweet gesture, O’Brien also took the opportunity to roast some of Hollywood’s biggest attendees during his opening monologue.Despite her recent controversy, Karla Sofía Gascón attended the Academy Awards, and O’Brien took a moment to poke fun at her almost career-ending tweets.“I loved ‘Anora.’ I really did,” he said of the Best Picture winner. “‘Anora’ uses the F-word 479 times.

Oscars. In a playful opening, O’Brien was introduced as a “four-time Oscars viewer.”On the stage, he was full of self-deprecating jokes and seemed relaxed as he goofed around.“A Complete Unknown.

controversial social media posts resurfaced in January.Carol Leifer, a former “Saturday Night Live” writer who has also worked on “Seinfeld” and has written for the Oscars for many years, weighed in on how this year’s host Conan O’Brien and his team of writers might handle the scandal.Leifer, 68, is prohibited from revealing details about Sunday’s ceremony, but notes, “it really comes down to whoever’s hosting, whether they want to shine a light on that, or they want to sidestep it.”After Gascón came under fire for her old social media posts, Netflix reportedly ditched the actress from the campaign. “‘First out trans actress to receive an Oscar nomination is a massive bigot’ feels like a Ryan Murphy subplot,” one person joked on Twitter amid the controversy.

Rated R (language, some drug use and bloody images).PARK CITY, Utah — What will surely go down as one the most stressful movies of the year is “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,” which premiered Friday at the Sundance Film Festival.Writer-director Mary Bronstein’s absorbing psychological drama about a mother at her breaking point is two hours of mounting anxiety and nervousness. For Rose Byrne’s falling-apart Linda, and for us.I’m sweating just thinking about it.Bronstein takes otherwise unremarkable domestic moments — driving with a pet hamster in the backseat, arguing with a parking attendant, dropping a pizza box — and depicts them through the eyes of a mom struggling to cope. Basically, a horror film.

his beloved late parents.The comedian’s mom, Ruth Reardon O’Brien, died at age 92 just three days after his dad, renowned physician Dr. Thomas O’Brien, passed away on Dec.

Conan O’Brien is mourning the loss of both his mother and father.The comedian’s mom, Ruth Reardon O’Brien, has died just three days after the death of his dad, renowned physician Dr. Thomas O’Brien.The couple both passed away at their Brookline, Massachusetts, residence. Thomas died on Monday, Dec.

“Conan O’Brien Must Go,” that was recently renewed for a second season. He also joked that he wanted to join “The White Lotus” Season 3 and offered to play a male gigolo.

“The White Lotus” creator Mike White and offered to play a sex worker on the Emmy winning HBO series. The comedian and former talk show host, 61, recalled his hilarious pitch during a recent episode of his “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend” podcast.“Before you guys started shooting ‘The White Lotus,’ ran into none other than Mike White in a restaurant,” O’Brien told his guest, Walton Goggins, who will star in “The White Lotus” Season 3.O’Brien continued, “We start chatting because we’ve met each other once or twice before and he’s a very funny, cool guy.

be any more jealous? On the latest episode of his podcast, “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend,” O’Brien, 61, reminisced with ex Lisa Kudrow, 60, about “Friends.”O’Brien and Kudrow were romantically linked from 1988 to 1993, and the comedian recalled that Kudrow was impressed by Matthew Perry in the early days of filming “Friends.” “You called me up, and you were raving about … ” O’Brien said, as Kudrow interrupted and said, “Matthew.”“Yes. And you were saying, he’s so funny … There was part of me that was jealous,” O’Brien confessed. “Like, I was okay.

Whoopi Goldberg, 68, said in an Instagram Story she shared early in the morning in Rome. “It is the butt crack of dawn, okay, but this is the time we’ve been told to come over. And I mean, who minds walking down these streets? Nobody.

podcast “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend.” The show follows O’Brien, 60, as he visits “friends” that he’s made (aka, fans who have called into his podcast). The result is a travel show that feels self indulgent, at times – as all celebrity travel shows often do – but it’s also entertaining and provides an off-beat and quirky look into a variety of countries.

Conan O’Brien had some lavish praise for late comic Norm Macdonald following the news of O.J. Simpson’s death — and why Macdonald was fired from “Saturday Night Live.”O’Brien, 60 — who was promoting his Max series, “Conan O’Brien Must Go” — appeared on CNN with Jake Tapper in the hours after news broke on April 11 that Simpson died at the age of 76 from cancer.When the conversation turned to Simpson, O’Brien wasted no time in remembering how Macdonald mercilessly ripped Simpson on “Saturday Night Live” in his “Weekend Update” segments after Simpson was arrested in the 1994 murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.“It was a huge deal back then.

Conan O’Brien returned to “The Tonight Show” on Tuesday for the first time since exiting the job in 2010. O’Brien, who was on the show to promote his upcoming Max series “Conan O’Brien Must Go,” spent much of his time reminiscing with host Jimmy Fallon, 49, about his time on the show. “It’s weird to come back,” O’Brien, 60, told Fallon.