Conan O’Brien Got Approached for His Drake Oscars Joke

Today on a bonus episode of SiriusXM’s “Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend,” Conan O’Brien sits down with his head writer Mike Sweeney to recap the 2025 Oscars and reveals he was approached in a store about his Drake-Kendrick Lamar joke. Listen to the full episode anytime on the SiriusXM app.

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“This has happened to me a couple of times,” Conan says, “but I walked to some store this morning to get a cup of coffee, and this young black gentleman came up to me and went, ‘Conan, I got to ask you, did you write that joke about Drake?’ And I said, ‘I did not. That is the handiwork of Skyler Higley.’ And I got to give it up.”

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During the episode, Conan also reveals what Mick Jagger shared with him backstage at the Oscars and how his joke about Timothée Chalamet’s suit was improvised.

New episodes of “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend” premiere every Monday on the SiriusXM app or wherever podcasts are available.