Oscars Writer Wins Bet For Conan O’Brien’s Joke About Kendrick Lamar & Drake

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A writer for the Oscars made a bet with one of the show’s executive producers and is now $50 richer. At the halfway point of the Academy Awards telecast, host Conan O’Brien made a quip addressing the feud between the rappers. “Well, we’re halfway through the show, which means it’s time for Kendrick Lamar to come out and call Drake a pedophile,” O’Brien joked getting laughs from the Dolby Theater.

The joke was in reference to Lamar’s performance at the Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans where he performed “Not Like Us,” a Drake diss track.

Oscars writer, Skyler Higley, who has worked with O’Brien before on late-night show Conan and Taylor Tomlinson’s After Midnight, shared on social media he had made a bet his joke would be well received. RELATED: Nikki Glaser Grades Conan O’Brien’s Oscars Hosting & “Selfishly” Says Her Favorite Moment Was Adam Sandler-Timothée Chalamet Joke “Wrote the Kendrick Lamar joke and bet our executive producer $50 that it would kill.

just made $50,” Highley posted on X, the microblogging platform formerly known as Twitter.wrote the Kendrick Lamar joke and bet our executive producer $50 that it would kill.