Conan O’Brien has revealed the surprising rules about the treatment of Oscars and says the statuettes are treated as a “religious icon”.
The 61-year-old took over hosting assignments at the 97 Academy Awards held at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles earlier this month. The comedian received a positive response after taking over Jimmy Kimmel, who has had the role in the last four years.
But O’Brien was eager to put his own stamp on things and threw a number of sketches to the organization committee that they did not find funny – because they would be considered disrespectful to the trophies.
“At one point I thought it wouldn’t be nice if it’s just on the couch?” he said on Conan O’Brien needs a friend Podcast.
“Let’s put it on a really big sofa and I want to vacuum and say, ‘could you at least lift your feet? Or could you at least get up and help? Load the dishwasher? ” ‘
However, O’Brien and his team were told that they could not for a very bisarr reason: Oscar could not be horizontal.
“We wanted to do it, and they just said,” no, no no, it can’t happen, “he said.
“One of the people from the academy came out and said, ‘Oscar can never be horizontal.’ And it blew my mind.
The prestigious recognition is made of bronze and plate with 24 carat gold.
Then he suggested to dress the trophy in an apron to portray it as a housewife figure and was told, “No clothes on Oscar. Oscar is always naked.”
The comedian marked himself with a performance “focused on silliness and self -printing, far more comfortable with mocking themselves than the stars present or film culture as a whole” wrote The independentAdam White in a review of the ceremony.
O’Brien came headlines and pulled a violent applause for a comment on “standing up to a powerful Russian” in a thin veiled tomb against US President Donald Trump’s relationship with Russia’s Vladimir Putin.
He also provoked gasps and laughter for a comment on the ongoing beef between rappers Drake and Kendrick Lamar. “We’re halfway through the show, which means it’s time for Kendrick Lamar to come out and call Drake a pedophile in a diss -not like us.”
Then he suggested he was not afraid of any setback when he had a “lawyer”.