Kaelin's Entertainment Report: Conan O'Brien Joke Writer Speaks Out, Adrien Brody Acceptance Speech, & Chappell Roan Surprise Collab

A joke writer for Conan O'Brien wrote the joke about the Drake and Kendrick Lamar beef & he has not picked a side between the two rappers/ Adrien Brody had the longest acceptance speech at The Oscars ever, at 5 minutes and 40 seconds. Lastly Elton John and Chappell Roan played Pink Pony Club at an afterparty for The Oscars.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Cawen's Entertainment Report, and he's on the Bread Show. Conan
O'Brien's joke writer wants everyone who missed the comedic timing
of his OSCARS joke about the Drake Kendrick beef to
know that it was just a pop culture reference. There's
no ill intent. No, Conan is not picking sides in
the beef, which a lot of people think that he is.
Skyler Higgley, who wrote the joke for Conan, says, and

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if you missed the joke, it was. He says, we're
halfway through the show, so that means it's time for
Kendrick to come out and call Drake a pedophile a
lah halftime. He said, the idea that it's being taken
as a real call out or taking sides in any
way and the beef is absurd. He said it was
simply a reference to Kendrick's super Bowl performance and a
cultural moment of the past year. Higher ups actually tried

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to get Conan to cut that joke as well, but
there was one producer who was really fighting for it.
And I mean, yes, it was written by his writer,
but if he didn't want to say it, he wouldn't,
so Conan obviously co signed it as well. Speaking of
the Oscars, Conan made it very clear that he's not
playing around with long acceptance speech. But that didn't stop
Adrian Brody. During his Best Actors speech Sunday night, he

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broke a record, going on for five minutes and forty seconds.
The Guinness World Records currently cites Greer Garson's nineteen forty
three Best Actress acceptance speech as the longest in Academy
history at five minutes and thirty seconds. This would mean
that Adrian's now the longest. There is some debate going
on because they don't have the audio of her full
speech because it was so long ago and they only

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have like three minutes of it archived. But historians have
written that hers was that long. Nonetheless, Adrian had people
asleep in the audience. I'm sure Sunday night, I mean
five minutes and forty seconds. I mean Jesus. And later
that night Chapel Roan she did a duet that we
didn't know we needed. She was joined on stage by
Elton John for a duet of Pink Pony Club. She
was the headliner at his thirty third Annual Eights Foundation

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Oscar party. It was a watch party in West Hollywood,
and she also did a cover of his song Your Song.
Elton was actually a very early fan of Chapel. I
interviewed her when she was opening up for Olivia Rodrey
Go on the Guts Tour, right before she blew up.
It was like seconds later, and I asked her if
anyone has reached out saying they were a fan of hers,
and she mentioned Elton, So he has been an early

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Chapel fan and boy was he right. By the way,
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