As Conan O’Brien prepares to kick off the 97th Academy Awards as a first-time host, his associates in late-night are rooting for him.
Jimmy Kimmel, who hosted the final two years’ Oscars, had assist from a distinct Oscar as he wished his pal good luck in internet hosting Sunday night time’s awards present on the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, airing at 7pm ET/4pm PT on ABC and streaming reside on Hulu.
“Comfortable Oscars Sunday!” he captioned a photograph of himself with Sesame Road‘s Oscar the Grouch throughout a current Jimmy Kimmel Dwell sketch.
As Oscar displayed his iconic “scram” cardboard signal within the photograph, Kimmel held up considered one of his how that learn, “Good luck Conan!”
Throughout a press convention, O’Brien praised three-time host Kimmel and spouse Molly McNearney for his or her help, joking that they invited him to an costly restaurant and ordered “tons of appetizers that I don’t eat. I don’t eat shellfish. He ordered it after which caught me with the invoice, whereas Molly gave me all the pitches and the issues that I ought to know. Molly’s the genius in that equation.
“They’ve been very supportive and really useful,” added O’Brien. “And so, that’s good as a result of I got here up in a really totally different period of late-night when not all people was chummy and pleasant, and also you didn’t simply decide up the telephone. So this new period the place persons are so pretty to one another is one thing I don’t take with no consideration.”
Though O’Brien additionally joked that he “solely hosted in order that I may very well be invited to the Oscars,” maybe a nomination is in his future after the comic’s uncommon dramatic efficiency in A24’s upcoming movie If I Had Legs, I’d Kick You.
