"It has been a lot happening in a very short time," the comedian tells PEOPLE at the Sundance Film Festival premiere of 'If I Had Legs I'd Kick You'

Seconds before Conan O’Brien appears on the big screen for his dramatic acting debut, you see a close-up of his black dress shoes, toe-tapping impatiently. Although his signature physicality still comes through,

Bronstein, a bit of a cult figure in the film world, made her directorial debut in 2008 at the SXSW festival with “Yeast,” which featured a pre-fame Greta Gerwig and was hailed by by New Yorker critic Richard Brody as a “mumblecore classic.”

Oscars host Conan O’Brien says he’s still unable to live in his home due to the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles and that the show’s organizers “want to be sensitive to what’s happened” to residents.

Leary and O’Brien both got their start in comedy, as a stand-up comedian and 'Saturday Night Live' writer, respectively.

Conan O’Brien is one of the lucky few whose Pacific Palisades home is still standing after the LA wildfires, but he says he knows many who’ve been affected by the devastation, including his podcast co-host Sona Movsesian.

“We look like two Irish aunts,” Leary joked after Fallon brought out a side-by-side photo of the two stars, who are third cousins. “We look like sisters, that’s what we look like. Two old sisters.”

Jay Leno was warned by his “Tonight Show” predecessor Johnny Carson that hosting the Oscars was “a no-win situation.”

Sona Movsesian, Conan O'Brien's assistant and a longtime comic character in her own right, posted that the Los Angeles fires claimed her home in Altadena.

Comedian Conan O'Brien is the latest former late-night host to receive the Mark Twain prize: a distinction for American humor.

Conan O’Brien, the writer turned late-night host turned podcaster, will receive the Twain Prize for American humor at Kennedy Center on March 23.

WASHINGTON — Comedian and host Conan O'Brien was named the newest recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for lifetime achievement in comedy on Thursday. O’Brien, 61, has carved out an improbable decadeslong career arc, moving from goofy television ...