The writer behind host Conan O'Brien's joke about Kendrick Lamar and Drake at the 2025 Oscars knew the line would elicit big laughs from the audience. During last night's telecast from the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles,

In a sense, you could say it was like the good old days. Oscar night, whether the telecast is great or just so-so (I'm all but incapable of finding the Oscars outright bad - I'm too much of an entertainment junkie),

Conan O’Brien’s first-ever Oscars monologue, in his debut as the host of Hollywood’s biggest night, might just be the real winner of the evening.