Conan O'Brien

We all know that.

But what was the biggest, this is the question I wanted to ask before we have to wrap, which is, what was the thing about working on that show last year, the Oscars, that was there something that really profoundly surprised you?

Because it's,

You and I have both worked in different versions of show business, and then there's that show, which is still this kind of big, iconic thing.

Was there something that you took away from that?

Downstairs in like the basement?

No, there's a room downstairs.

Cause I go there too.

And we'll sit there and we'll think, okay, we just rehearsed, but now we got to go downstairs.

Last year it was, I think Cynthia and Ariana were practicing their song and they kind of wanted to clear the area.

You get out.

And all of us went down and just were all underground.

And then we were in this room and we're trying to figure out, should this joke go before this joke or after that joke?

But the thing that I find is the scale can change, but the process is the same.

It is.

Meaning if we were working on a show that was just gonna be a live, fun sketch show that we were gonna perform for an audience of 200 people at the Largo Theater,

it's still the same process.

Right.

You got to have the ideas.

You got to fight over them.