It’s also just very weird to have an Academy Award in my house. I mean, I know I’m talented and everything, but there’s more to it than that and I recognize that. It makes me appreciate the way things line up that have nothing to do with me. I’ve had such a lucky career, so many things have just fallen into place. Sometimes I see it, and it’s like someone tapping me on the shoulder. When I got back to New York, I put the Oscar on top of an upright toy piano, and where I am now, it’s on a table in the main room of my house with notebooks near it, near a computer. I’m just a guy, and she’s giving me an Academy Award. When they said our name and we went up to the stage, it was so weird being up there with her. I knew Martin because I was on Saturday Night Live a few times when he was in the cast in the early 1980s. The presenters for the award were Martin Short and Carrie Fisher. He saw me at a little club in Boston and that’s how I ended up on The Tonight Show. Peter Lassally was the producer of The Tonight Show. When we were sitting there, that’s when I thought of the line I’d say if we won: “We’re really glad we cut out the other 60 minutes.” I also knew I was going to thank Johnny Carson and Peter Lassally. Dean was there with his wife, Sally Menke, who edited the movie. I was with Paula Mazur and Mike and Mike’s girlfriend. My girlfriend was a ballet dancer in New York, and she had a performance.

We were seated 15 or 20 rows to the left of the stage near the other people in the same category. They said yes, so I went back to Mike and said, “What are we going to do?” We didn’t even have an idea yet. I went to HBO and asked them if they’d be interested. I started thinking that maybe I should try to do a 30-minute movie with my friend Mike Armstrong. In 1988, I was doing stand-up, and I had a relationship with HBO. It’s a Hollywood fish-out-of-water story that only Wright himself could tell - mostly because, cue Wright deadpan, it happened to him and not somebody else. You’re so alive,” he explains - many of the memories continue to remain incredibly crisp. And although Oscar Night went by quickly - “When it’s happening, everything is heightened.

“It was one of the greatest flukes of my career,” Wright tells me over the phone. While Wright wore the customary awards-show tux, it’s hard to imagine a person in greater contrast to the glitz of the Oscars, and nearly 35 years later, no one is more surprised by the achievement than Wright himself.

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