Conan O’Brien sagt, dass die Oscar-Verleihung ihn auf „kosmische Weise“ mit seinem verstorbenen Vater verbindet

„He used to watch Johnny Carson,“ O’Brien continued, „and my dad loved comedy, so I would sometimes get to stay up and watch Johnny with him. And I very clearly remember Johnny Carson hosting the Oscars and watching my father watch Johnny, and watching my father laugh, and thinking, ‚Wow, that’s cool, that man is making my father laugh.‘ And so to think that maybe now I’m part of that equation somehow, and in a cosmic way [it] links me to my dad, is pretty amazing.“