After Conan O’Brien picked him out among the star-studded audience for wearing a casual outfit to the lavish Academy Awards, Adam Sandler loudly stomped out of the Dolby Theatre.

Ahead of the 97th Academy Awards, which recognize the finest in Hollywood, Hollywood’s A-list walked the red carpet outside the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on March 2.

At the season’s final major awards ceremony, celebrities made a big splash with their most magnificent outfits, which featured sweeping gowns, dramatic silhouettes, tailored suits, and an abundance of sparkle.

Then Adam Sandler came along.

Comfy and casual

“For such a prestigious night, it’s important that everyone is properly dressed, okay?” said TV funnyman Conan O’Brien, 61, who was hosting the 2025 Oscars. “You’re dressed well…Adam…”

Sandler was sat in the audience, surrounded by sophisticated celebrities dressed in their finest Oscar attire, when O’Brien delivered his eagerly awaited opening monologue.

“Conan, what’s up my brother?” said the 58-year-old star of Happy Gilmore, who was sitting in an aisle seat, his head covered by the hood of the light blue sweatshirt that he wore with some shorts and Steph Curry Kicks. “What’s going on, man?”

After O’Brien asks Sandler what he’s wearing, the comedian stutters a bit and strikes back, saying: “Nobody even thought about what I was wearing until you brought it up.”

O’Brien then tells the star of 50 First Dates, “You’re dressed like a guy playing video poker at 2 a.m., Adam.”

Defending himself in typical Sandler style, the Grown Ups star argued, “You know what, I like the way I look, because I’m a good person. I don’t care about what I wear or what I don’t wear. If my snazzy gym shorts and fluffy sweatshirt offend you so much that you had to mock me in front of my peers…”

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O’Brien quickly apologized from the stage, smirked, and glanced down at the podium behind him.

Rising to this feet, Sandler told the audience: “I’m going. I’m leaving, I have to!”

As the crowd shouted, “no!” and begged him to stay, the comedian joked, “No, it’s not you, it’s him.”

Pointing at O’Brien, who was trying to contain his laughter through the hilarious exchange, Sandler then said, “You caused this!”

Before leaving the ceremony, Sandler told the crowd: “You are all welcome to join me for a game of five-on-five basketball at Veteran Park tonight. Midnight tip-off. The guy from Nosferatu, he’s on my team,” he joked.

Golden Globes nod

Sandler then proceeded down the aisle in the direction of Timothée Chalamet, 29, who received a nomination for his role in the 2024 movie A Complete Unknown.

“And one more thing. CHALAMET!” Sandler shouted in the actor’s ear, before giving him a hug and leaving the Dolby theatre to the resounding applause from the audience.

Chalamet’s name sounded like something Sandler would utter in one of his trademark exaggerated voices, a joke that host Nikki Glaser made at the Golden Globes earlier this year.

When Glaser asked Sandler to say Chalamet’s name aloud, he did it in typical Sandler fashion, which elicited a lot of laughter.