Skyler Higley is one of the newest up-and-coming comedians and writers in the Chicago comedy industry, according to Laugh Factory. In addition, he has written for After Midnight, Conan, and The Onion.

Oscars joke writer Skyler Higley defended the Kendrick Lamar and Drake joke he wrote for the 97th Academy Awards monologue.

Roughly halfway through the broadcast ( which we live-blogged with reckless abandon ), during a break between Oscars being ...

Conan O’Brien used his gig hosting the 97th Academy Awards to deliver the kind of vintage Coco humor that the game’s been ...

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 ...

Shortly after it aired, comedian and writer Skyler Higley—a former writer on Conan’s self-titled late-night show and a member of the team of writers Conan assembled for his Oscars gig ...

Conan O’Brien shocked the Oscars with a joke about the ongoing beef between rappers Kendrick Lamar and Drake, and it’s one ...

The writer behind Conan O’Brien’s controversial joke about Kendrick Lamar calling Drake a "pedophile" during the 2025 Oscars ...

Drake was the butt of the joke at another global broadcast this weekend when Conan O’Brien referenced Kendrick Lamar’s Super ...

In response to a variety of feedback and opinions on social media, the writer of the Drake and Kendrick quip, Skyler Higley, thanked the powers that be for keeping the joke in the telecast, and has ...

Shortly after O’Brien made the quip, the comedian’s joke writer Skyler Higley celebrated the joke’s success on X. “wrote the Kendrick Lamar joke and bet our executive producer $50 that it would kill.