This weekend, Conan O’Brien will host the Oscars for a second time. His first time hosting last year was a massive hit with viewers, so much so that he was signed to return almost immediately. By the time he arrives on the Oscars stage on Sunday, we can be sure his monologue jokes have been fine-tuned, as he's been practicing them, though he’s not the only one.
A new profile in THR mentions that Conan O’Brien has been doing a number of surprise appearances at comedy clubs in Southern California in recent weeks, where he’s been performing his Oscars monologue in order to see how it works in front of a crowd. This isn’t a new endeavor, as he mentioned last year on his Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend podcast that he’d done the same thing last year. He explained…
