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\n Even if the winners won\u2019t get political in their speeches tonight, Conan O\u2019Brien had us covered.\n <\/p>\n
\n The second-time-around host packed a few political punches in his opening monologue.\n <\/p>\n
\n For one, he joked about the film \u201cHamnet,\u201d in which star Jessie Buckley plays a woman giving birth alone in the woods.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cOr as we call that here in America, affordable health care,\u201d O\u2019Brien said.\n <\/p>\n
\n He also noted that it\u2019s the first time since 2012 that there are no Brits nominated for best actor or best actress \u2014 and made a pointed allusion to the Epstein files.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cA British spokesperson said, \u2018At least we arrest our pedophiles,\u2019\u201d O\u2019Brien said, drawing a chorus of \u201cwhoas!\u201d from the audience.\n <\/p>\n
\n The host also noted that the award ceremony would be watched by more than a billion people around the world, and to honor that, he spoke in Spanish to welcome viewers in Spain and Brazil.\n <\/p>\n
\n Then he welcomed those watching in Los Angeles in the same language, acknowledging the city\u2019s large Spanish-speaking population \u2014 and perhaps offering an extra nod of support for immigrants living in the US.\n <\/p>\n
\n Muy bien, Conan!\n <\/p>\n
\n He kept it going even after his opening monologue.\n <\/p>\n
\n After the first commercial break following the best supporting actress category, O\u2019Brien joked that the show was coming to the world live from the \u201chas a small penis theater.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cLet\u2019s see him put his name in front of that,\u201d OBrien quipped, seemingly teasing President Donald Trump adding his name to the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.\n <\/p>\n
\n He also joked about the Oscars being aired on YouTube beginning in 2029, noting, \u201cIt\u2019s the future.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cSome people are worried this will change how the Oscars are viewed,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I\u2019ve been assured that there will be\u2013\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n His remarks were then interrupted by mock YouTube commercials starring actor Jane Lynch selling faux powerful flashlights, meant to tease the streaming platform\u2019s abundance of ads.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even if the winners won\u2019t get political in their speeches tonight, Conan O\u2019Brien had us covered. The second-time-around…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-331484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}