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he pitched a series of ads in which he and a 9-foot tall Oscar statue were in a domestic partnership, but the Academy wasn’t exactly receptive to how he wanted to utilize the statue specifically.

This is a religious icon.” O’Brien and Sweeney also said that they wanted to put an apron on the Oscar statue and dress it up like a housewife serving O’Brien leftovers, but the Academy ...

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revealed that some of his ideas for the show were blocked due to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ strict rules about their iconic Oscars statue, which is aptly named Oscar.

One of the rejected jokes placed O'Brien next to a 2.7-metre Oscar statue as if it were his partner: "We fought about things that couples fight about," he said. "At one point, I thought ...

“And that blew my mind.” O’Brien joked that the Oscars statue “is like the thigh bone of St. Peter. This is a religious icon.” He also would have liked to have the statue dressed in an ...

Load the dishwasher?'” However, O’Brien and his team were told they couldn’t for a very bizarre reason: the Oscar couldn’t be horizontal. “We wanted to do it and they just said ...

The idea, according to Conan, was that a giant Oscar statue would remain completely motionless, but would be treated as if it was a person. This idea didn’t work for the Academy, not because of ...

Conan and his Oscars head writer Mike Sweeney were also keen to put an apron on the 9ft statue to depict it as a housewife. However, the Academy told them: “No clothing on Oscar. Oscar is always ...