Conan O'Brien has managed to remain culturally relevant, and even to thrive, without having a talk show for years at this point. He's still got that old-school showbiz in him, and he's hosting this year's Oscars.

The Academy had to face the music, which had grown louder than the kind it used to play rambling winners off the stage: The Oscars were so white — and as a close look at its voters revealed, so old and so male,