Here’s What Nikki Glaser Thought of Conan O’Brien Borrowing Her Joke at the Oscars

There’s no beef between Nikki Glaser and Conan O’Brien after he reprised her Adam Sandler/Timothée Chalamet gag during his Oscars monologue. In Glaser’s original bit at the Golden Globes, she observed how the name “Chalamet” sounds like the nonsense syllables a dimwitted Sandler character would blurt. The Sandman himself punctuated her point. 

The gag got such a great response that O’Brien reprised it during his Oscars monologue. The joke started with Conan roasting Sandler for wearing his usual hoodie-and-baggy-shorts ensemble to the prestigious ceremony, but it ended with Sandler bellowing another raspy “Chalamet!”

Glaser told Live With Kelly & Mark, per Deadline, that the shout was “selfishly” her favorite moment of the night. “I really loved when he was talking to Adam Sandler and then Adam Sandler ran up to Timothée Chalamet and goes, ‘Chalomeeeeet!’ That was the joke I made at the Golden Globes,” she said. “So it felt like a callback to my joke. … It was so awesome.”

O’Brien says he can’t take credit for the rest of the Sandler bit either, since the former SNL comic came up with it himself. “Adam and I are old friends,” he told Entertainment Tonight. “I called him up and he liked (my) idea, and then he said, ‘I have another idea.’ And it involved him dressing in the way that he's most comfortable — which of course was his idea because he doesn’t want to put on a tux. I mean, that was all Adam.”

Glaser is known for roasting celebrities, but she gushed about O’Brien’s Oscar performance. “I mean, we know he’s funny,” she said. “We know he’s going to kill. We knew we were in good hands, but there was a silliness to it, with the Sand Worm playing the harp. There was wild stuff happening.”

The comic also appreciated that O’Brien took some chances throughout the night. “He did the Kendrick (Lamar) joke halfway through,” she noted. “They thought outside the box and it was a traditional Oscar show, but Conan injected some silliness into it.”

In other words, Glaser is Team Coco. Her final Oscars grade? “Conan… A+.”