Conan Recaps The 2025 Oscars With Head Writer Mike Sweeney | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

hey con O'Brien here uh usually in this. slot we uh we air a fan interaction uh. episode but we're not going to do that. we've had a lot of requests out there. from people to talk about my recent. experience hosting the. Oscars uh it is um only been about a. week and a half since I hosted the. Oscars uh we're taping this a bit. earlier uh several days after um the. show aired and um so it's still fresh in.

our minds and I am joined to go over. this experience with uh my headwriter of. many many many years some say too many. years too many uh Mike Sweeney Mike. Sweeney has been with me almost since. the very beginning of my uh late night. show he waited a little bit to see if it. would uh survive or not and then when he. saw that you know it was probably going. to make it he he came aboard so he is a. coward um. [Laughter].

but Mike swe you should have led with. the coward party yeah Mike Sweeney came. uh has been with me for a long time and. 30 years 30 years and um 11 of them. quite Pleasant and we worked together uh. on the Oscars along with Jeff Ross and. Mike Sweeney uh led the creative team. and people seemed very happy with how it. went I had a blast doing it and one of. the reasons I think I was able to enjoy.

myself so much as I knew I had we worked. very hard to get material that we liked. MH and I think the call came in from the. Oscars in late November it was the day. after we got back from Spain yeah. shooting a travel episode in Spain and I. got a call and I called you and I said. I'll I I'll do it but you got to be on. board you I just laughed really hard you. laughed really hard for a long time when. you said they D I just got to call they.

said would you want to host the Oscars. and I why were you laughing just because. the timing of it you. we you got really sick in Spain along. with few other people and also just the. it just seemed random out of left like. could not it was on our brain it was not. on our radar not on the. radar hit meun it was as if I had got a. call that said we want you to be the new. Miss America right exactly it was that. random and from Left Field I would have. laugh l so.

um I said yes and then we quickly had to. go and. tape uh HBO Max very kindly said okay. yes we we you're supposed to finish this. travel season so yes go host the Oscars. but can you uh knock this other travel. show off very quickly squeeze it in. quickly so we immediately dashed to. Austria uh and we're shooting a show in. Austria when I get the call that uh my.

father had passed away so I rush home. and then while I'm home I see that my. mom is going too and she went 3 days. later and that was an experience that. was very intense and uh a bunch of you. were very kindly uh flew out for that. which blew my mind and I still thank you. for that that means the world to me of. course um Eduardo and no show um it was. duly noted Eduardo yeah I called for you.

I said and of course Eduardo Eduardo. Eduardo I'm so sorry yeah Eduardo sure. sure whatever um the funeral is not. properly miked yeah he. didn't well I'm glad you can laugh at my. parents death um no no I'm kidding I'm. laughing too and that's they would have. wanted that um who knows no I don't. think so been you know while you were. gone you you left Austria and we were we. had to stay there another few days oh.

I'm so sorry that must have been tough. for you well yeah we had to go on to. Vienna yeah um one of the crown jewels. of I had to go mourn my parents while. you guys went to Vienna and shot b-roll. different and drank schnaps yeah uh just. so you understand it wasn't just you. that had a difficult Journey exactly so. then the van was kind of cramped but um. we shot we were like what do we do so we. I don't even know if we talked to you. about this we shot something with Jordan. yeah uh that seen that you haven't seen.

yeah I'm cutting it without even seeing. it yeah so then there's a real role here. because that rolled right. into uh right into Christmas I mean felt. like days after which rolled right into. January which rolled right into the. fires uh I've been living in a hotel. since then right and so I remembered us. noticing that the Oscars are getting. closer and closer and because of all. this madness we haven't been able to get.

together in a room and get going and so. you were instrumental in putting. together uh we I mean some of the names. were obvious because it's people you and. I had worked with for a long time but I. think we put together a murderer's row. of writers amazing amazing writers we. just laughed I missed being in a room. with this crew oh man and we were we all. some downstairs in this very in this.

building it's a big conference room. there and we just would laugh and I. would come in I would come in and it was. therapy for me because I would come in. and uh anyone who knows me knows that I. um I'm like a fish in water in tropical. water when I'm in a writer's room I'm. just so happy to be around writers and. uh to be joking around usually riffing. on things that could never make it into. an Oscar show.

and there was plenty of that but and. that was a good shorthand to bring this. crew back that had already written for. you so that yes they knew they knew my. style and and also just goofing around. like you know it was just an instant but. I mean Brian Kylie uh L Matt O'Brien. lorri Kil Martin Dan Cronin Dan Cronin. Jesse gasal and Jose Royo we also work. on the Travel shows y Skyler uh Higley. yep and uh did we mention Brian Kylie oh.

and by the way yeah yes twice Brian. Kylie was also there and then also Brian. Kylie uh um Kylie Kama oh and uh Scott. Garner came in to help shoot some of the. amazing he he's amazing and he helped. give a great look to some of the things. Scott gner was a writer yeah on the tbsr. joshr Josh comr fantastic we mention KY. Brian Kylie uh yes Berkeley Johnson bery. joh and you should see Berkeley's. Johnson it's a joke I've been doing for. 15 years and it's always better um it's. so satisfying but uh we have to tell.

this story uh Skyler Higley uh wrote the. um the Drake joke halftime the half for. halfway through the Oscars halfway. through the Oscars which means it's time. for Kendrick Lamar to come out and call. Drake a pedophile and he wrote that joke. and I mean this has happened to me a. couple of times but I I walked to some. store this morning to get a cup of. coffee and this young black gentleman. came up to me and went con I got to ask.

you did you write that that joke about. Drake and I said I did not that is the. handiwork of Skyler hickley and I got to. give it. up I'm I'm not that well versed in the. rap battles but um but I got major props. from this gentleman excellent and uh but. we started working and then just. generating ideas and it's the same it's. the same thing we've done back when we. would do Emmy shows or any kind of uh.

ComicCon shows which is just generate. thousands of ideas and throw most of. them out we had so many ideas that like. you can't get too attached to any idea. because the you just know that things. are going to get cut and for example we. had a whole big cold open y that we. loved and and it was not the substance. cold open that we end up going it was a. different one and it was basically. hammered out.

before the fires the idea of it before. the fires happened and then even after. that we kind of honed it and it it would. have been like three or four minutes. long and it was you yeah be starting out. in Wicked so you're in it was it was. well was the idea that I'm G to oh k's. now going to goof on all the movies and. so it starts with me and I'm all green. in Wicked finishing define gravity or. one of those songs and I finish it and. then you see you cut to the next thing.

which is Gladiator and clang clang clang. with swords and then you see that I'm a. gladiator but then you notice that I'm. still green and then you go on to con. conclave conclave and you see people. voting with their ballots and then one. of the hands is still green and then PE. and then you cut to me and dune and uh. um one of the charact javar bardam is. saying I can't hear you take because. they all wear those masks in the sand. take off take it off and I finally take.

it what's your problem man and I take it. off and I'm green and he's like what the. hell man did you start this with Wicked. and I went yeah we and this stuff. doesn't come off and the whole thing is. that the die wouldn't come off and we. had to shoot it all in one day and it. was kind of a conceptual idea which we. were but we thought oh this is we can. carry this through the whole thing where. then all the characters in every movie. that have inhabited are laughing at me. and giving me a hard time because I. started out as green including no forat. to they're all they're all piling on me.

like you don't start with green everyone. knows that stuff doesn't everyone knows. that stuff doesn't come off you shoot. you shoot the Wicked at the end I know. but we had one day and no one told me. that's a good bill scars thank you so we. thought um so we thought uh that that. was um we're like oh yeah this is the. idea and then we realized this is so. complicated to shoot and it takes so. many differents setups and started to.

kind of fall out of well it was more and. but also then the Oscars said we're. opening CU of the fires with this big. yes that's true musical tribute and that. we were like wait you you can't a five. minute musical tribute and then go into. a five or four minute so we need. something quick we needed something. quick and I was obsessed right always. obsessed with coming out of dore's back. right since I was a child no.

I I just I me that visual of my hair. coming out of my head was something I. was obsessed with and that ended up. being uh uh good but it's one of the. things you learn which is that you. constantly it's not just it's with. monologue jokes and it's also with bits. and this is this is more about the. process don't fall in love with anything. because also the times change you know. if something is8 weeks out or nine weeks. out what's funny now isn't the story. four weeks later so so many of the.

narratives kept changing with the Oscars. race that and and things would seem. funny now but then not later and then we. got a lot of clarity because I started. going out to different clubs right and. doing jokes and I could see which ones. consistently work well that was. incredibly helpful and and I think also. just you know for for just confidence in. that oh no these these jokes are good. you know they they really also I mean. the audiences were very nice because I. would go out and say I mean I know Nikki.

Glazer does this as well but it's a very. good tool to go out and try things out. with an audience but I would say please. don't record this and they wouldn't. right right which was really nice um. because all they'd have someone would. have to do is put that online and you're. completely screwed well the other. landmine which I didn't think about I. wasn't really aware of is like I've. heard the term award season but it never. I was like award season there was a. different award show so once we were. going to go to a club and they're like. oh sure you're go on after so and so.

who's hosting the D you know Jud app is. hosting the DGA Awards he's going to do. his monologue first and you're just like. wow there are so many you know we can't. even be there when he does his because. we don't want to hear something like we. can't be influenced we don't we want to. make sure there's no overlap so you get. into this thing where then you say okay. that show's over I know but uh this this. Comics out hosting the spirit award. and um they're doing the circuit and.

trying jokes about so you have to. wait and if anyone does any joke you. can't do that joke then obviously it's. gone so we had a couple of areas where. we're just like uh no we can't do that. we can't it's gone now because someone. else did it so the whole thing was. fascinating but I have to say the the. real. education uh the real behind the scenes. education was um you know the academy. of Motion Pictures they are very serious.

about certain things and we had the this. real lesson in and again I don't fault. them I'm just this is what they do they. the the Oscar the Oscar the image of. Oscar is very important to them and. there'd be times where we'd be shooting. bits to promote the Oscars promos to run. promos to run on ABC or to go on the. internet that would you know promote the. Oscar and I remember the was a giant. Oscar statue and I shot something with.

it it was really fun and at one point I. I said it would be really funny it was. about Oscar and I the Oscar and I uh. sharing an apartment and we don't get. along our marriage is crumbling and um. this was actually out there they ended. up releasing it and I ended thought it. came out pretty well but it's just uh a. 9- foot Oscar and I bickering and he of. course the Oscar is not doing anything. it's just standing there like a statue. and I'm saying what happened to our. marriage and we're fighting about things.

that couples fight about but at one. point I thought oh this would be really. great if the Oscar was just on the couch. let's lay it on a really big couch and. I'll I'll be vacuuming and say could you. at least lift your feet or could you at. least get up and help load the. dishwasher and we wanted to do it and. they just said no no no that can't. happen and I said there was whispering. there was whispering in this big room. and then one of the people from The. Academy came forward and said Oscar can. never be. horizontal and. that blew my mind like wow this is like.

the thigh bone of St Peter you this is a. religious icon but um and we tried to. put an apron when it was serving you. leftovers and they're like uh no. clothing on Oscar yeah is always naked. so he's always naked but he won't lie. down there's rules I didn't know oh no. there's just rules rules there's a lot. of rules with Oscar and then you realize. oh this has been around this award. ceremony has been around since. 1929 right and there's a lot of.

different sort of shorthand for what can. and can't happen but they ended up being. very helpful I want to stress that they. uh they let us everyone was great they. were great and the ABC people were. fantastic um and the producers we worked. with Raj and Katie they were amazing. they would just make anything happen. they would just anything we said they. would say yes let's that sounds funny. let's make it happen so the day we met. them they were so nice I like oh this is. the classic rope a do yeah you in the.

first time we asked for something you. know and they were amazing right yeah. every step of the way my experience of. it. was once I but once I said yes I would. always wake up at 3:00 in the morning. and look at the ceiling and go what. that's a uh what what what I I said yes. to what and then this takes about about. an hour and a half to get back to sleep.

and that's just the deal that's just. what what it's like I was we I I talked. to a few other some of the writers and I. was waking up at 3: thinking of things. that either were still up in the air or. that I forgot to do that day they my. came to me at 3: in the morning I was. like just and then I couldn't go back to. sleep till this. week it was this week I have been I have. been I refus to I mean we finished it's.

now Friday we did Sunday night was the. show and it's been my wife is just I I'm. I am horizontal all the time I'm glad I. know Oscar can't be but she doesn't like. you horiz yeah I never has. [Laughter]. uh um but uh the response was really. lovely and then just but the thing I. keep going back to is what I what I miss.

most about it is the. lighting I had it's the best lighting. I've ever had it's the best lighting I. ever will have um and it's Bobby. Dickinson and Noah Mintz and they were. like looking at my face and touching. little dials and adjusting things during. the rehearsals and they also adjusted my. face um. manually but I'm sorry I swear to God I. looked at myself in a monitor at one. point in rehearsal and I'm like I'm like. who's that guy it's not me yeah and I.

know online people were speculating uh. you know did Cen get some work done or. something he's like it's called lighting. it's called lighting which by the way if. you've checked out the podcast this is. not Oscar lighting and also we do these. travel shows and I'm always I'm always. my brand of Comedy has always been hey. this this could be really funny let's. just go do it and we shoot it with no. thought towards lighting or I'll run. into a 7-Eleven and do something it's a.

documentary Cruise style it's a. documentary Cruise style as if it were a. war zone right so I always look like I. always look like uh you know a toy that. a dog got a hold of and chewed up and. then suddenly I step out there and hit. my mark and uh I'm a a 19-year-old you. look. great and then I and then I step then I. step out of it it's like oh oh the old.

pumpkins. back that's an intimidating room to be. up on that stage and looking at all. those people must have been you were in. the audience so what was yeah what was. it like in the audience were you were. you scared for me yeah I you know I was. really um you can say it I know I was a. little nervous for you and it was weird. not to work it it's one of you know. those big events that I would normally. have worked I didn't work at the event. you brought Tac I brought Tac and we. were uh sitting next to Kurt Russell and. behond.

wow wow what was that like we were. behind the complete unnown they are so. much fun yeah we were in the fourth row. Ariana Grande and Cynthia Revo were just. a few rows ahead of us your seats were. much better than I said they these are. not the no I think you made a mistake I. do I really think you made a mistake um. and I I just didn't move the whole time. CU I was like I can't draw attention and. also if you leave this seat someone's. going to take it from you yeah and and. also every time You' come T would be. like yeah Cony and i' be like stop.

talking you can't do that here it's the. osar who sat behind you uh behind Oprah. Oprah sound. Oprah better SE behind us better seats. Oprah Oprah Winfrey had to look through. your big hair to try and see who had won. an Oscar oh my God how did that happen. so you know Erica Brown was there as. well who works on the show and I was. like we have to get you to meet Oprah so.

we were following her and we we have. I've introduced Erica Brown to former. First Lady Michelle Obama twice twice. twice yeah and you know she's from. Jacka everybody everybody back home is. just like oh my God and so you know I. was like we'll just walk by her and I'll. like push you into her you know like. just like oh that's a good idea shove. you into her yeah and you were telling. Tac to be. quiet so what did you do following Oprah. and then she just disappeared and I.

think she went out of like a special. exit you know well she has trap doors. installed yes before she goes people. show up and install trap doors yeah she. helped design that it was really. exciting to just be there in the. audience watching you and and just like. hearing the jokes for the first time you. know I mean it was it was awesome it was. really really cool and everybody around. was talking about how great you were. doing it was fun it was a lot of fun it. was uh but to have um also to have an.

orchestra you get spoiled between the. lighting and an orchestra High that's. the first time they put the orchestra. that high right IDE was incred cool it. was really cool they had a trapo an. Oculus and opened to revealed the the. orchestra on it was very it was neat. yeah and they had a bond tribute for no. good reason other than I assume it was. for you g I have some. notes let's hear it no how much of the. show do you guys is the joke that that.

is the joke uh well no anything I'm. doing we wrote yeah like the rest of the. they have a great they have a very good. team right headed up by John Ma and who. works on man he's he work on every award. show it's working one right now I'm sure. he's the Soul Train Awards he's working. on the Mark Twain Awards um I said Soul. Train okay but I'm just I'm a stickler. for accuracy so. the soul twin yeah and so.

um I Zack alanus did that very joke in. one of the clubs I was in oh sorry it's. okay it's okay I just want to make sure. that he doesn't think we ripped him off. uh yeah I have to say the that was a. that was a of all that was a highlight. probably in a long career that was just. so oh yeah so fun and and then but I. just was thinking lighting the lighting. is amazing Orchestra everyone in the. crowd's wearing a tuxedo and I mean you.

hosted the Emmys twice and that's true. right but but yes this so it's like oh. well okay you know how to do that but. then I don't know there just you it was. a different level of getting scared. before something OS you get intense you. get intense a big G because then you. know people are watching like whatever. around the world or something well. I I wondered I'm like why are you so out.

of your mind and waking up at 3:00 a.m. and then afterwards you're like oh. that's why because it really is highly. scrutinized what's it like backstage. what's the that's interesting is it. chaos is it controll no it is a machine. I that my experience of it. was that the way they have it set up is. the winners drift off stage right and. that they're taken into a whole uh you. know it's like a Digest Ive system it's. like they're taken through they're taken.

through the Winner's walk then they're. taken right into a press there's a quick. I think Glam shots then they're taken. into the Press Room then they're going. taken this way and I'm on the other side. mostly I'm either going to but I'm. always coming off from from uh stage. left so I'm coming out to either my mark. on stage left or to the center so. there's not a lot of. interaction but every now and then you'd. have this amazing moment and the one for.

me was I'm backstage and I'm watching. the monitor cuz you're you're just. watching the monitor in between I'll. I'll go and talk to the writers and. we'll think what could be a funny idea. what could be a funny thing we could say. here we were constantly trying to think. of what's something that could come up. uh what's happening in the show and what. can we comment on every now and then. there's not much to do we know which the. next joke is it's not for 10 more. minutes so I'm sitting there stage left. and I'm looking at my monitor and I'm. just aware of like a presence to my left.

and I kind of just look over and it's. this guy and I IM I immediately see that. it's MC Jagger and who I've never met oh. and MC Jagger uh looks at me and he. starts nudging me and in kind of a comic. American Voice he's like hey hey how's. the crowd how's the crowd how's the. crowd how's the crowd out there how's. the crowd doing how's the crowd doing. how are they how are they and I said uh.

crowd's really good cuz they were I said. it's a it's a good crowd and I said but. you don't have to worry about that cuz. you're MC Jagger and he went oh no no. I'm not going to try and do a MC Jagger. but he said I always worry about the. crowd and I said wait a minute so you're. with the Rolling Stones and you're in. Buenos Aries and you're um getting ready. to come out and start the show and. you're going to start off with. satisfaction uh and you're anxious that. the crowd isn't going to be good and he. said I he said oh no definitely I wear.

an air piece and I listen to the crowd. and sometimes I can tell the crowd isn't. quite there yet and I have to give it a. little extra up front and I was so. relieved because I realized obviously. he's 35 levels Beyond me but nothing. ever goes away meaning I've had many. people give me a hard time cuz I'm at a. small gathering and I'm supposed to get. up and give a toast and Liza can tell. I'm anxious and I'm getting worked up.

and I'm looking around the room to see. is this a good room and she's like it's. a dinner party what's what are you doing. and I'm like it's just never goes away. you're always worried about that stuff. and to hear that Mick. Jagger who's I believe. 81 the front man for the Rolling Stones. my God is asking people how's the asking. me how's the crowd you think I'll be all. right out there I don't know it's going. to be touch and go for you Mick how's.

the lighting yeah exactly yeah uh but he. I mean I was kind of intimidated because. I didn't know what he would be like he. was. incredibly nice he said to me at one. point oh and by the way we've never met. and I'm like he how do you know you've. never met me isn't your life just a blur. of occasionally an orange person comes. by he was lovely he was great and and. funny and thoughtful and I had a great. exchange with him and then I.

knew I I need to end this like don't. hang on too long so I said well anyway. wonderful lovely it was very nice to. meet you too and I I walk away and I. think Ruthie has me walking away from. him and I saw that Ruthie was filming it. and I just walk up and go like okay that. just blew my mind that was. cool that's pretty crazy back. into the tent with the. Riders that'll cool you down were you. guys in a tent we were it's kind of a. black dutin kind of roped off area and.

we had monitors and we had a um you know. we had the scroll of the script and so. we would like after Flo one Brian kie. had a joke about you know it's the first. win for. laia it's your move Estonia yeah and you. guys are on the Fly just like com what. the process of you doing that and then. getting that into the teleprompter for. him in time like how much time was there. the there was this uh producer named.

Rachel was right in the room with us and. she really helped with the script along. the way during the show we our script. guy John CAU who we could not have done. any of this without a her he came out. from New York just to work on the show. which was amazing because he worked the. old show walked the whole way he walked. the whole way CU we wouldn't give him. bus fa right and he's he's right now. only in Iowa he's still on his way back. home but she so we tell jot you know. okay let's do this and then.

she'd uh talk to the prompter person and. it would come right up and he'd read it. and be like get okay you've got 10. seconds to get out there there was one a. couple of times yeah there was a moment. that I was happy about which is we're I. don't if we're backstage but we it's. very just before the show and we see uh. Timmy shalamay coming in right and he's. wearing a bright bright yellow outfit a. red carpet coverage red carpet coverage. Dr and he's wearing this suit that's. just bright bright like creamsicle.

creamsicle yellow M and I said well he. won't get uh you know he won't get um. hit driving his bike at night and people. around me were like that's funny and so. I just kept it in my head and I walked. out there and it was one of the first. things I said like hey it's hey you. won't get hit on your people like and. I'm like that's not even on a prompter. but it was just kind of it was a nice. feeling to feel like it is the same. thing. as you can just think of something and.

say it and this giant important room if. it's if it's okay they'll laugh at it it. doesn't not all have to come through. this this huge process of Agony you were. very I mean you were very loose you know. I I had a few pills in me they worked. yeah cuz you were as Loose as a Goose. and it. it it was it was a really uh fun night. and um I mean I have to say uh lots of.

thanks and gratitude to ABC Academy they. they really did and the producers Raj. and Katie they they made they took. really good care of us and they seemed. to. know that yeah con this needs to be what. Conan wants it to be it's got to be his. in his voice they were very good about. that and everyone was very support of. Michael Bearden the the uh conductor the. musical director great who worked out. the uh. yeah he was great he a great.

collaborator right that's a guy that. worked with Whitney Houston and Michael. Jackson I mean the list of people he's. worked with is insane so I I had huge. moments of inadequacy saying yeah I want. to sing this song and he would sit down. at the piano out and start and we'd be. like making it up and thinking wouldn't. you rather be working with a real. musician right he would transpose the. key on the spot like oh okay let's try d. flat yeah d flat yeah it sounds like. you're a d flat and um but there were so. many fun things like we've always liked.

the sensibility has always been we love. puppets and silliness so we got obsessed. with sandworm we early on and I kept. putting off ordering it up I'm like I'm. like is this we're gonna have a sandworm. first the sandworm was sitting in the. audience and I'm like uh all right a. sandworm oh oh and then there was one. idea where the sandworm comes out yes. with an envelope we're like no how how. are we going to get it's not going to.

move and then we realized that then it. was going to come down upside. down and and was going to have lines and. so there was just there's a whole. there's there's a whole Lifeline to. these things there's a whole Evolution. and then finally it became clear um. sandworm needs to be uh in the orchestra. uh and needs to have gone to the. Berkeley School of Music who played the. Sam Worm uh we it was a a guy who does a. creature oh.

acting but but also crucially from our. team uh the gentleman the artist who who. dresses me and who uh Scott kronic who's. been with me for years um who I married. you married on on television on. television uh he and his partner in New. York you officiated the wedding is that. right you're not married but I also was. married to him for while that for a. while then Liza found out and the whole. thing. that enhanced your own marriage exactly.

um but he built the sand worm and in. three days he built it in three days and. so it was behind the harp but then we. had different ideas for who should be. behind the piano and it wasn't quite. working out we couldn't quite figure it. out and then finally it occurred to us. the sandworm should be the person on the. piano and then the sandworm can show up. again on the harp as a call back that. happened we came that happened like the. day before the osar we realized I think. it was the day before we realized it was.

that Friday that yes sand worm should. come out on the piano first and then. show up later on on the harp because. he's a. multi-instrumentalist important but when. he came out the first time we rehearsed. that. song uh rolled out on the pan it was. such a great reveal such a great almost. as dramatic as you coming out of Demi. Demi Mo's back it was just like whoa. that's a great Tableau cuz you're. singing in the foreground and there's. this worm pounding away at the keys yeah.

it was like okay but Scott chronic. designed the costume and then at the end. of the show before the show was even. over I think someone from the academy. said uh we'd like to keep the sandworm. like because because they have a museum. so so I don't know if it's ever going to. happen but if you go to the academy. Museum you can see that you can see the. you can see the shark from Jaws you know. you can see the the the snow globe from. from Citizen Kane and oh their's.

sandworm their sandworm from the 97th. Oscars ruining the museum uh dragging it. all down I heard they had to get rid of. the shark from Jaws to make room for the. sand the sand it's priorities I I think. they have the right the sandworm ate the. shark because he's above it in the food. chain we mentioned Scott gner he uh he. directed uh the substance he also we did. a ad parody Cinema streams yeah did a. great job with that and then he shot our. to Jeff Bezos.

arriving yeah at the Oscars. yeah a reason I'll never get a package. again yeah yeah BOS is probably like see. to what he never gets a package again. he's petting a white cat and yeah Matt. Shaw our our travel show editor Ed if. we're just going to list we were working. on the Travel shows during well like we. had to come in on the weekend and edit. and I didn't even tell you cuz I thought. you you'd be like what are you do why. are you working I was so enraged when.

the osar when people would try to talk. to me about the travel shows every now. and then Jeff Ross would say something. like so anyway you know if we do end up. going to India be like it's that about. the if about the I don't want to talk. about. it yeah I learned I'm a real Pleasant. chap you know what yeah we were real. Pleasant leading up to your mind works. constantly when you're focused on. something and you know I feel like a lot. of times when you're getting your. Creative Energy out you're just making. fun of us more than you normally.

that's that's in your head feel that I. felt like it was. of it was just elevated so it was a real. joy for all of us who work for you it. wasn't always easy to be around Picasso. okay but boy did he fill a lot of. museums with wonderful work two three. Pico sand. yeah those are my Muses but also Sweeney. weren't you we were in a we were in. Austria and weren't you trying to then.

pull together this writer room from. across the world as well as a during the. day you would be directing the Austria. show and then at night you would come. back to the hotel and then we would all. chill and you would be going and trying. to pull together I was on the phone with. different writers managers because. initially it was like were often funnier. than the writers yes the managers were. very ENT very they got great ideas. they're great to chat with in. salsburg um. yeah and uh that was all coming together.

over there yeah but then we ended up you. know we we reassembled our old team and. they was the best move they they were. the funniest yeah it was so much fun it. was great Inc great to have that room. that writer room good to see them all. again a nice reunion it was really. really nice to see everybody also to. have everything humming where there's a. writer's room downstairs working on the. Oscars I'd be in there joking around. then I'd come up here and we would do a. podcast abuse these people abuse people.

on multiple levels I know you're really. good you had room set up just to make. fun of people people are going to get. the wrong idea about me from these jokes. you're making oh yeah yeah any who can I. also ask you went on Kimmel which is. really funny and he gave you advice to. sit down did you sit down by no not that. much no you were on your feet though I. was on my feet the whole time cuz I'm. very hyperactive yeah Jimmy's advice was. sit as much as possible cuz it's a lot. of standing and um I can't sit still and. so there's footage I mean I got to give.

a shout out since you're naming everyone. you've ever met I I I think hey doing an. amazing job um I'm going to list the. people that served in the Korean War now. on the American side um no but uh uh. Ruthie uh and Samantha who are on the. who handle the social media they did. this amazing thing where they were. shooting video all the time sort of Day. in the Life video and and posting it but. there's not only am I not sitting down. but at one point I'm doing a Russian.

dance while the writers around me are. [Music]. chanting the show is only half over and. I'm expending energy and doing that leg. kick. dance and then I it's Madness absolute. Madness but that's the world I like to.

live in anyway it was a uh it was an. honor it was a privilege it was a thrill. and uh Mike Sweeney uh would not have. happened without this man he prop no. we'd have found something else sure of. course very quickly so the first thing I. learned about is everyone's replaceable. what's next so you better show up to. work what I mean you've hosted the EM. you Latin. gramys Latin Grammys yeah come on Edo. what do you think I think you're perfect. fit I think I think you you're Spanish.

killed during. the and you're hindian you're a Chinese. your Mandarin uh the key to the Mandarin. was they were laughing so they couldn't. hear the. Mandarin um but anyway it was uh it was. a real highlight but it's also man it's. nice to have that behind us yeah I gotta. say well great job I I know I haven't. said that till now no you you really. nailed it fantastic well we can't just. be patting ourselves in the back there's. work to be done there's work to be done.

yeah so uh this man can I talk to you. can I talk about this guy you what you. do and what you did now now I'll be. Sebastian Maniscalco this guy this. guy this guy all right. that was our Oscars uh podcast talk down.