Nobody was spared by Conan O’Brien’s jokes throughout Sunday’s Academy Awards.
Proper off the bat, the veteran comic and first-time Oscar host took purpose at one among this awards’ seasons greatest dramas: “Emila Pérez” star Karla Sofía Gascón’s tweet controversy.
Whereas riffing on all of the Greatest Image nominees throughout his opening monologue, O’Brien stated, “I loved ‘Anora.’ I really did. Yeah. True story. Little fact for you, ‘Anora’ uses the f-word 479 times. That’s three more than the record set by Karla Sofía Gascón’s publicist.”
Not lengthy after nailing a historic Greatest Actress nomination, a sequence of ugly outdated X posts by the Spanish star got here to mild. In them, she disparaged Muslims, knocked range on the Oscars and referred to as George Floyd a “drug addict swindler.”
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O’Brien’s jokes about Gascón didn’t cease at only one.
After acknowledging the actor, who’s the primary transgender lady to earn a Greatest Actress nomination, he advised the viewers, “And Karla, if you’re going to tweet about the Oscars, remember, my name is Jimmy Kimmel.”
Elsewhere within the monologue, O’Brien ribbed every part from the Catholic church to synthetic intelligence, Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos and people legend Bob Dylan.
The energetic opener climaxed in a musical quantity titled “I Won’t Waste Time,” which featured a dancing Deadpool and the sandworm from “Dune 2” on stage.
O’Brien largely averted politics throughout his opening bit.
Previous to the present, the comic stated he thought fastidiously about the place he’d throw his punches on the evening of his huge gig.
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“It is all about threading the needle. I’m there, really, to talk about these films, to talk about the industry,” he advised The New York Occasions in an interview printed on Thursday.
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“And yes, there’s going to be political jokes here and there; there have to be,” the comedian added. “But if it’s a screed, I’m doing a disservice to everybody. I’m actually doing a disservice to the people who might agree with the screed, in my opinion.”
“However anyone voted should not be a prerequisite for whether you enjoy the show,” he continued. “I feel very strongly about that.”
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