Overview
- Hosting the 98th Academy Awards this Sunday, O’Brien said his writers still haven’t cracked a workable joke about Best Picture nominee Train Dreams.
- He told Kimmel the team has produced roughly 5,000 attempts without success and said he might move on from targeting the film in his monologue.
- O’Brien read one discarded line to the studio audience, then waved off the ensuing reaction as pity applause.
- Polling Kimmel’s crowd suggested few had seen Train Dreams, which TheWrap notes is currently streaming on Netflix.
- He said he has been testing Oscars material at local stand-up shows in Los Angeles, with final decisions on monologue targets still unconfirmed.