“Adam, what are you carrying?” O’Brien requested Sandler from the stage. “You’re dressed like a man taking part in video poker at 2 a.m.”
Conan O’Brien opened the 97th Academy Awards with a hilarious monologue — and nothing or nobody was off limits.
After Depraved stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo kicked off the present with an electrical efficiency on Sunday evening, the comic hit the stage on the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.
And Adam Sandler was the star of O’Brien’s monologue.
O’Brien commented on how nicely dressed the gang regarded tonight, earlier than Sandler was noticed in his typical informal put on, a blue sweatshirt and bedazzled shorts.
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“Adam, what are you carrying?” O’Brien requested Sandler from the stage. “You’re dressed like a man taking part in video poker at 2 a.m.”
“No person even thought of what I used to be carrying till you introduced it up,” Sandler responded. “I like the way in which I look. As a result of I am a great particular person. I don’t care about what I put on and what I don’t put on. My snazzy gymnasium shorts and fluffy sweatshirt offend you a lot that you simply needed to mock me in entrance my friends!”
The section then noticed Sandler deciding to go away the ceremony, because the viewers all shorted “no” in unison. However the comedy legend did not depart earlier than giving Timothée Chalamet some love — strolling as much as the Oscar nominee and yelled, “Chalamet!” into his ear, as solely he may.

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Sandler additionally invited everybody within the room to “a recreation of five-on-five basketball at Veteran Park tonight. Midnight tipoff, the man from… Nosterafu... He is on my group.”
O’Brien cracked jokes about a number of of the Finest Image nominees noting how Depraved‘s audiences have been left questioning “the place did all of the minor characters go to varsity?”
He then made enjoyable of The Brutalist‘s period, “I did not need it to finish… And fortuitously it did not.”
In true O’Brien kind, nothing was off limits, together with the Karla Sofía Gascón drama.
“Little reality for you, Anora makes use of the F phrase 479 occasions. That is three greater than the document set by Karla Sofia Gascon’s publicist,” he stated earlier than the digicam pointed to Gascon.
“Karla if you’re going to tweet in regards to the Oscars, my title is Jimmy Kimmel,” he stated.
O’Brien additionally famous his disillusioned about Nicole Kidman’s movie, Babygirl lacking out on a nomination, noting the way it was a few man who could not give his spouse an orgasm.
“Antonio Banderas described it as probably the most difficult position of his profession, ought to have come to me man, ought to have come to me,” O’Brien joked.

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Like all award reveals, the host likes to poke enjoyable at how lengthy speeches may doubtlessly go, reminding nominees in regards to the size of award reveals.
“In case your speech goes too lengthy we’ll reduce to John Lithgow wanting not offended however barely disillusioned,” he stated because the digicam pointed to Lithgow.
“And in the event you nonetheless wont get off the stage, I will play hardball, I will present considered one of your previous headshots,” O’Brien threatened earlier than displaying Chalamet within the womb as a child.
The monologue did not simply finish there although, the previous late evening present additionally sang a tune about not losing time throughout the present, the place “for no good cause” the Sandworm from Dune 2 appeared taking part in Chopsticks on the piano.
And whereas the late-night host did not poke enjoyable at Blake Vigorous’s nasty authorized battle along with her It Ends With Us costar Justin Baldoni, a dancing Deadpool did seem on the stage.
The 2025 Oscars marks O’Brien’s first time internet hosting the awards present. O’Brien’s gig got here after Jimmy Kimmel hosted the 2 earlier years.