NO We do self-depreciation like Conan O’Brien. His inexhaustible ability to make jokes at his expense is what made him so delicious to look in the first years in disorder of NBC Late at night with Conan O’BrienWhen the low notes of the show were his favorite race joke and an excuse to broadcast some of the gags of the strangest talk shows of all time. And that is why he turned out to be a host so attractive to the 97th Oscars on Sunday. Whenever O’Brien was on stage, balancing the humor ears with a palpable love for films and compassion for an industry where so many people have recently lost so much in the forest fires that ravaged Los Angeles, the ceremony was light and loose. A host who does not take himself too seriously gives each permission of customers to relax and have fun.
The Oscars were a kind of return to television for O’Brien, who welcomed Late at night From 1993 to 2009, when Jay Leno held a promise of five years to retire and give him The Tonight Show. But the first issues of the hearing were low. While rumors on the return of Leno swirls, the fans of O’Brien United united in a viral campaign “I am with coconut”. Instead of giving the host time to become his new time slot, as he had done with Late at nightNBC negotiated with the O’Brien camp for its departure. Leno actually retired, finally putting the show to his current host, Jimmy Fallon, in 2014. And although Conan’s exit agreement of $ 32 million came with the warning he had to stay in the air for six months, he found ways to make his bitterness known.
O’Brien quickly reappeared, with a series of stand-up dates which he nicknamed “The Legally forbidden to be funny on television”, which also gave the documentary Conan O’Brien cannot stop. Before the end of 2010, TBS had hired him for a new late evening show, Conanwhich took place until 2021. In the past six years, he also organized a successful podcast, Conan O’Brien needs a friend. And last spring saw the release of a famous Max Travel series, Conan O’Brien must go there. He had a more interesting and varied career since his departure from NBC that he would probably not have had him if he had kept his post in the office where Johnny Carson was once from the court. However, for those of us who have always found the character of the endearing coconut oppressed, there was still a feeling of liable old wrongs by bringing him back on a Big 5 network, as briefly, diverting what he called in his opening monologue “The biggest Hollywood evening which begins four in the afternoon”.
It was a solid monologue, memorable less for individual jokes than for the ease of good humor with which O’Brien delivered them. Each best image candidate has obtained their compliment in reverse. While photos at The brutalistthe length and WickedThe premise was obvious, the Conclave One-Liner was a winner: “His line line is: a film on the Catholic church, but don’t worry.” O’Brien also defused a certain tension by recognizing the presence of scandals Emilia Pérez Star Karla Sofia Gascón (“If you are going to tweet on the Oscars, remember: My name is Jimmy Kimmel”). And when gentle roasting was over, he elegantly sailed a transition to a serious support message to members of the Hollywood community affected by fires. “In moments like this, any price ceremony may seem self-indulgent and superfluous,” said O’Brien. “The Oscars also highlights an incredible community of people you will never see.”
Too many sketches, gags and interactions organized with celebrities generally lead to award ceremonies; These are the most common complaints concerning the Oscars. But the wacky bits are strong of Conan, and he nailed just about all. He closed the monologue by choosing a fun fight with an Adam Sandler, indigenous, on his relaxed outfit, then lost precisely the right duration with a production number promising not to waste time. An advertisement of extremely late style parody at night for “Cinemastreams”, a product that merges hundreds of smartphone screens to do what looks like a movie theater, would have been funny even without the very brand Martin Scoese camée. («Sa coupe de cette publicité a duré six heures – et très violente», a craqué O’Brien.) Au lieu de simplement amener les pompiers de Los Angeles sur scène pour des applaudissements solennels, comme d’autres récompenses l’ont fait cette année, il leur a donné des blagues légèrement énervées à lire («Nos cœurs vont à tous ceux qui ont perdu leur maison – et je parle des producteurs de producteurs de producteurs de producteurs de producteurs de producers of producers of producer producers producers Joker 2), Because who could possibly get angry with hero? The safe response of the evening to the evening to Late at nightThe immortal masturbation bear was a sand worm Dune It played “baguettes” on the piano, then returned, a few hours later, for a harp solo.
However, the best moments of this accommodation concert were only Conan being Conan, letting the winners take advantage of their spotlight and make fun of him so that everyone feels comfortable. It didn’t matter when a joke bombed because it was not long in making it a funnier on this failure (“not to be paid much!”). And when things became clumsy, he burst into an awkward template – a familiar oddity of his end of evening peak – it implied that he was just a simple clown, rimnacing for our entertainment. Well, you need a hell of a clown to make a four -hour ceremony feels something other than a slog. “If you always appreciate the show, you have something called Stockholm syndrome,” joked O’Brien, deep in the evening. Maybe yes. Or maybe it was just good accommodation.
