2025 Oscars

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Aug 20, 2025

Will Emmy’s Variety Categories Overshadow Everything Else?

Vulture‘s Joe Reid thinks they could, with Colbert’s Late Show poised to nab its first-ever Outstanding Talk Series win, and SNL‘s 50th facing off against Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar, and the Conan O’Brien-hosted Oscars for Outstanding Variety Special (Live).

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Apr 15, 2025

Inside Late Night With Mark Malkoff Ep 47: Laurie Kilmartin

This week on our Inside Late Night podcast, comedian Laurie Kilmartin discusses her eleven years writing for Conan O’Brien, including most recently at the 97th Academy Awards.

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Mar 4, 2025

Andy Richter: Critics Praising Conan at The Oscars Should’ve Been Watching Him on TBS

“They are all 100% correct, of course,” Richter wrote today on Bluesky. “But I couldn’t help but feel as I read the reviews… You mean the Oscars [that] was basically an extravagant version of the show that we did on TBS for 11 years, as in same host, same writers, same sensibility? The one that went off the air in 2021? Ah, jeez, if only there was something like that on tv now.” [via TV Tattle]

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Mar 4, 2025

How Conan’s Longtime Costume Designer Made the Oscars Sandworm

Scott Cronick tells Indiewire he made the wacky Dune 2 mascot in his garage, using zip ties for teeth.

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Mar 3, 2025

Bowen Yang’s Post-SNL Red Eye to L.A.

Hours after playing JD Vance on SNL, Yang was on a plane to present at the Oscars. “I’m okay. I slept on the flight and Celsius [energy drink] is one of our great scientific conventions,” he told People magazine.