Academy disposes of Conan O’Brien “One Battle After One other”-style in bonus post-Oscars sketch

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Conan O'Brien could by no means host the Oscars once more.

The host of the 98th Academy Awards appeared in a cheeky One Battle After Another-inspired sketch simply after Paul Thomas Anderson's movie received Finest Image, displaying the late-night host assembly an identical finish as Sean Penn's character, Col. Steven J. Lockjaw, within the movie.

The sketch (which you’ll watch beneath) begins with O'Brien being congratulated on his internet hosting abilities by legendary Saturday Night time Stay writerJim Downey, who performs one in every of One Battle After One other's white supremacist Christmas Adventurers Membership members, for placing on a "nice present" — so good in truth that he can be the Oscars host "for all times."

"I don't know what to say!" O'Brien replies with a shocked smile, earlier than being led to his new workplace on the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences. Earlier than O'Brien can get too cozy with the lifetime honor, although, lethal gasoline begins to leak from the ceiling.

Penn, who received Finest Supporting Actor for his function within the motion thriller, was unable to expertise the Oscar second firsthand as he didn’t attend the ceremony.

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"Sean Penn couldn't be right here this night, or didn't need to, so I'll be accepting the award on his behalf," final yr's Finest Supporting Actor winner, Kieran Culkin, stated upon taking the statuette for his peer.

Per a New York Times piece printed in the course of the Oscars ceremony, the 65-year-old opted out of Hollywood's greatest evening "to go to Ukraine, in keeping with two individuals who spoke on the situation of anonymity as a result of they weren’t approved to debate the matter." A consultant for Penn declined to remark when reached by Leisure Weekly.

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Forward of O'Brien's post-show "demise," the comedian entertained the star-studded viewers with a wide range of jabs and jokes, together with jabs at President Trump and a well timed knock on Timothee Chalamet's viral feedback about ballet and the opera.

"Safety is extraordinarily tight tonight. Simply gotta point out that," O'Brien stated at first of the present, seemling referring to experiences that security measures have been elevated because of the FBI warning of a possible "shock assault" from Iran. Nonetheless, O'Brien clarified that the true concern was "about assaults from each the opera and ballet communities."

Chalamet and accomplice Kylie Jenner have been noticed laughing at O'Brien, who received yet another quip in by telling Chalamet, "They're simply mad you unnoticed jazz!"

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