Bradley Cooper caps weird Oscars run with a perfect Abbott Elementary cameo
Who cares about a mere Academy Award? Bradley Cooper just scored a big win with an Abbott Elementary appearance
Bradley Cooper has been gunning for gold for the past few months with a slightly bizarre Oscars campaign for Maestro. The actor, bless him, knows no other way—see also: The Star Is Born’s crusade—so his remarks this time around led to multiple tweets (fun!) and think-pieces (it’s truly not that serious, people). Deep down, Cooper probably knew he wasn’t going to walk away with an Academy Award on March 10. He may have lost to Oppenheimer’s Cillian Murphy, but he’s won lifelong bragging rights for something no other Best Actor nominee of the year can boast about (yet): He secured a cameo on Abbott Elementary.
ABC’s funniest ongoing sitcom aired a special post-Oscars episode that rolled right after the ceremony ended. The cold open of season three’s “Willard R. Abbott” features Melissa’s (Lisa Ann Walter) students doing show-and-tell when a wise kid announces he’s brought a famous person he saw standing outside. Here’s your reminder that Cooper is from Philadelphia, where Abbott is set, so this collaboration makes perfect sense. To hammer this fact in, he also gets to say he was waiting on a hoagie from his childhood favorite deli when he decided to help out Melissa’s student with the project.