"I keep going out and trying them out. Not one of them is any good! And these are very good writers. So I blame Train Dreams. I think it's the movie. There are certain areas we cannot crack. One of them is the movie Train Dreams. It's a beautiful movie, but it's just no joke sticks to it."
"Starring Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones, Train Dreams is a moving portrait of Robert Grainier, a railroad worker and logger who lives a secluded life in the forests of the Pacific Northwest during an era of unprecedented change in early 20th-century America."
Conan O'Brien, hosting the 2026 Academy Awards for the second consecutive year, revealed during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! that he has been testing comedy material at Los Angeles clubs. Among the ten Best Picture nominees, Train Dreams presents a unique challenge: no jokes land with audiences. The film, starring Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones, depicts a railroad worker's secluded life in the early 20th-century Pacific Northwest. Despite his writers crafting thousands of jokes about the movie, O'Brien confirmed none work. He acknowledged Train Dreams as beautiful but fundamentally resistant to comedy, ultimately blaming the film rather than his writing team for the comedic failure.
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