An awards show monologue doing a callback to a previous award show monologue? It happened tonight at the 2025 Academy Awards. Adam Sandler hugged Timothée Chalamet while shouting the young actor’s name most Sandleriffically. It was a reference to Nikki Glaser’s opening monologue for the 2025 Golden Globes, in which she said Timmy’s name sounds like something Sandler would say in his most stereotypical Sandman voice. And the Sandman obliged!
Adam Sandler has been having one helluva Q1 2025. He got to do bits at the Oscars and Golden Globes, and his performance at SNL50 briefly made Kanye West walk back his antisemitism. What’s next? Diffusing the increasing tensions between Ukraine and the Trump admin with the Happy Gilmore sequel on Netflix? Honestly, weirder things have happened.