{"id":228874,"date":"2026-03-16T23:26:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T23:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/conan-obrien-is-welcome-to-be-the-oscars-host-for-life\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T23:26:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T23:26:06","slug":"conan-obrien-is-welcome-to-be-the-oscars-host-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/conan-obrien-is-welcome-to-be-the-oscars-host-for-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Conan O\u2019Brien is Welcome to Be the Oscar\u2019s Host \u2018For Life\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\t\t<span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/conan-obrien\/\" title=\"Conan Obrien\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Conan O\u2019Brien<\/strong><\/a> really could be the Oscar host \u201cfor life\u201d as was mentioned as a joke during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/2026-oscars\/\" title=\"2026 Oscars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>2026 ceremony<\/strong><\/a>, which would at least mean he won\u2019t be replaced by AI! (At one point during the evening he joked that next year, the host will be \u201ca Waymo in a tux.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>Sunday\u2019s (March 15) Oscars marked his second year in a row hosting and it sounds like Disney is happy with his performance.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"hidearticle\"><em>Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/em><\/strong><span id=\"more-2189675\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Disney\u2019s <strong>Rob Mills<\/strong>, the executive VP in charge of the Oscars telecast told <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/tv\/news\/oscar-producers-in-memoriam-explained-conan-obrien-return-1236689787\/\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/tv\/news\/oscar-producers-in-memoriam-explained-conan-obrien-return-1236689787\/&#039;); return false;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Variety<\/a> on Monday, \u201cOh, that is no joke, <strong>Conan<\/strong> is host for life, yes. He hasn\u2019t even accepted yet. He\u2019s just being told. We\u2019re assuming that was not a comedy bit. We\u2019re going to treat that as if that was fact.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well, to be fair, ABC only contractually has the Oscars for two more years, but it sounds like they\u2019d be glad to have <strong>Conan<\/strong> back for them. After that, the prestigious awards ceremony <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/12\/17\/oscars-leaving-abc-moving-to-youtube-in-2029\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">will be moving to YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The popular comedian and television host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/03\/15\/conan-obrien-oscars-2026-opening-monologue-jokes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poked fun at many Hollywood stars in his opening monologue<\/a> and even got some jabs in at the <em>Turning Point USA Halftime Show<\/em> featuring <strong>Kid Rock<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/03\/16\/kid-rock-reacts-to-conan-obriens-joke-about-him-in-oscars-2026-monologue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">find out how he responded to being made fun of<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.2&appId=145071315902360\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/03\/16\/conan-obrien-is-welcome-to-be-the-oscars-host-for-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conan O\u2019Brien really could be the Oscar host \u201cfor life\u201d as was mentioned as a joke during the 2026 ceremony, which would at least mean he won\u2019t be replaced by AI! (At one point during the evening he joked that next year, the host will be \u201ca Waymo in a tux.\u201d) Sunday\u2019s (March 15) Oscars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":228875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-228874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}