And This Year’s Unlikely Awards-Season Darling Is…Adam Sandler!

There were plenty of surprises in store for viewers of the 2025 Oscars on Sunday night, from Anora’s sweep to Timothée Chalamet’s butter-yellow leather Givenchy suit and Halle Berry recreating her infamous kiss with Adrien Brody on the red carpet.

One of the most welcome, however, came courtesy of Mr. Adam Sandler. During his opening monologue, Oscars host Conan O’Brien set up a bit that involved the legendary comic attending the year’s fanciest and most decadent Hollywood event in classic schmuck style—specifically, basketball shorts, sneakers, and a bright-blue sweatshirt that I have to assume he borrowed from one of his young daughters.

After O’Brien accuses Sandler of being dressed like “a guy playing video poker at 2 a.m.” (fair, and also…kind of hot? I may have problems), Sandler responds: “Did my snazzy gym shorts and fluffy sweatshirt offend you so much that you had to mock me in front my peers?”

It wasn’t Sandler’s first time popping up during an award show this year, either. He was also roped into Nikki Glaser’s monologue at the Golden Globes back in January, when she joked that Chalamet’s name “sounds like something Adam Sandler would say” before getting Sandler himself involved. (A nominee that night, he was dressed, for the record, in a perfectly respectable dark jacket.)

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