Conan Will Host The 2025 Academy Awards | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

hey there welcome to con O'Brian needs a. friend I am the aforementioned coob. joined by Sonam of sessan and uh. MJG well just I don't want to know your. middle. name the less I know about you at this. point the better you don't want to know. an animal too well before you put it. down any Hoots what's up gang what's. happening what's the hats you tell us. yeah big news news yep yep it was. announced that was it uh Friday I guess.

was announced that uh was this Evergreen. we like to keep oh that's right sorry. yeah uh yes yes uh there is some big. news out there would you like to tell us. what it is Sona well you've been tapped. to host the Oscars in 2025 which is a. really big deal it's really cool that's. cool oh why are you guys silently. applauding oh wow guess what that is the. amount of Applause I'll get when I walk. out on stage I think there's also. partially reason the sound of two hands. clapping there's partially a reason clap.

America's wanting to know because you. know Sona and I are essentially your. co-hosts on this podcast why aren't we. co-hosting the Oscars yes yes I know I. can I can I oh yeah go ahead I have to. mention this vulture article real quick. okay because vulture is my favorite. entertainment article and it said Conan. O'Brien will host the 2025 o Academy. Awards and at the end it says now that. O'Brien is our official host we got to. ask will his assistant Sonam messian be. there will she get to be on stage what. happen happens with sonum messian and.

all this so it's not just us asking Wait. nothing about Matthew James gorley you. know what after I said it I was like oh. he didn't mention. any um no no there's another article. it's in uh the passadena. post well it's actually a it's not it's. more of a Supermarket circular and it. said it said uh 89 cent sale on roast. beef pre-sliced and Matt J gorle and it. definitively says should not be should.

not be in any way uh son where we go. where do we what do you want us to do. boss okay uh Sona it's the Oscars I know. uh they made him you they let me in. which was probably a mistake but I don't. know Sona um it's a big that's a big. night that's come on I know so much. about movies you only know about Bond. films that's not true that's true that's. not true the movies you know about are. not in the Criterion Collection let's. put it that way you don't know about the.

classics are you kidding me yeah I'm. steeped in the class okay boy see this. is the type of you can have the. Oscars yeah that's this is this is a. great top to the show right here what. about you Sona what have you got to say. for yourself pit yourselfself I am the. only person in this among the three of. us who knows new things including new. movies you new movies like after 1991. yes exactly so I think it's a natural. one new movie yeah yeah that came out.

this year now I'm on the spot and I'm. really. nervous conclave I know heretic with my. boy Hugh I mean I there's just look I. can't you hit I'm a millennial okay but. you're pitching yourself and I think. vulture is pitching you yes and shout. out to vulture I think they they do. amazing work vulture they're okay but. um ice by vult.

God damnn Gorly uh but listen um Pitch. yourself for what you would do on air. okay you're a millennial and stuff but. seriously what are you gonna do okay I. can't sing right sold I can't dance and. you have and you have hard G's I'm Terri. yeah I'm terrible with like if you have. M like prepared material for me yes. anything that requires I can do any. accent okay let's hear it oh my God give. me an accent uh French South African.

French is like this I can do French it's. easy South African I'm African no. you're that's not. bad no District n District n yes no. she's very good wait a minute okay okay. Austrian uh AUST Austrian Kristoff walz. I is Austrian what you just say the. names of people in your impressions oh. my God vulture are you listening yeah uh.

it's like a German oist no I don't. know what that is shut up sh sh sh what. sh in German you said no I thought. that was another thing you want me to do. in i i crush it with accent no no can I. just say something I was skeptical. you're out gorle and and listen vult I'm. hosting the Golden Globes yeah sure yeah. um but Sona uh I am impressed yeah. because now I'm thinking of all these. really funny bits I could where I'd say.

everyone settle down and then I hear a. French person in the crowd comes in and. theow the Oscar are my Super Bowl you. guys have sports I don't have sports. listen Matt you are so not a part of. this conversation that I can't even hear. you right now okay God and I guess it's. a silent Jay cuz I can't hear you oh my. God now Sona Sona yeah um I think you. have a good chance of being in the.

Oscars Som Scottish guess what I'm. pretty sure I don't have to clear this. with anybody at the Academy yeah I mean. my feeling is they gave me the keys to. the whole show that's my guess yeah I. think because I and so uh I guess what I. say goes so you're going to be the first. 40. minutes and I'm going to say I'm going. to say listen uh the Oscars is all about. uh it's not just about United States. it's about the world of film here now is. everyone in the world representing All.

Nations you come out in a combination of. 15 different National costumes easy and. you welcome everybody in different. accents yes go give me an accent just. start do going. going and then we go oh Scottish I'm a. Scottish person oh. Scottish merid you got to get married. you can't do orer merid I'm doing Brave.

just hey hey guess what guess what. Gurley I've never agreed with Sona. before but you've got to shut the. up I can't just like think of a can you. just tell me. ACC yeah Mexican do Mexican soda yeah. yeah in in do it do Mexican in front of. Eduardo uhuh I can I be honest I I not. look into his eyes and do a Mexican. accent you I'll do it like.

Conan that's not what I. do that's it we're killing time here uh. listen yeah and the Oscars is all about. killing time yes it it's when they run. it efficiently it's 6 hours long you've. got four hours where you have to come up. with material and no no no it's 4 hours. of solid show and all theu stuff they. have to get through how important are.

the awards I think I'm being given I. think I get uh probably a total of 48. seconds total on the okay if they're. smart that's what they'll do uh anyway. um yes uh I will be hosting the 2025. Oscars apparently uh with sonum of. sessan woman of a thousand voices and. with I'm going to be nice here uh the. backstage behind the scenes. help on the only one that would truly.

truly appreciate this you're a. freeloader you're just a goddamn cail. riding hack I'm the only one that L I. said you're going to be there I don't. want to be backstage I want to be in the. lights I want to be rubbing elbows with. Nicholson Nicholson n you'll have to go. to his he's at home in his basement I. don't think he's been to the last like. 15 Oscars he's living in another time oh. you anyway.