Conan O’Brien Explains Why He Won’t Be Roasting Any Celebrities at the Oscars

Sparing us all the pain of having to watch Billy Crystal try to come up with a musical rhyme for “Brutalist,” the host of this year’s Academy Awards will be none other than former late-night talk show host/current acclaimed dramatic actor Conan O’Brien.

But what will a Conan-hosted Oscars look like? Will there be singing? Pre-filmed bits? Will he spend an ungodly amount of time introducing Oprah Winfrey to Uma Thurman?

O’Brien recently chatted with Good Morning America’s Chris Connelly about his approach to the gig. One of the first questions that was posed to him was about just how mean he plans to be on “Hollywood’s Biggest Night.” It’s a fair line of inquiry considering that brutally ridiculing famous people has basically become the norm for movie award show hosts. Ricky Gervais very (very) vocally took that approach to hosting the Golden Globes in recent years,…