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 unique 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 dwell on Hulu.
“Pleased Oscars Sunday!” he captioned a photo of himself with Sesame Street‘s Oscar the Grouch throughout a current Jimmy Kimmel Live sketch.
As Oscar displayed his iconic “scram” cardboard signal within the picture, Kimmel held up one in all 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 assist, 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 everyone was chummy and pleasant, and also you didn’t simply choose up the cellphone. So this new period the place persons are so beautiful 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 rare dramatic performance in A24’s upcoming movie If I Had Legs, I’d Kick You.
