Kimmel sparks Oscar applause for ‘overrated’ Meryl Streep

“The biggest award of the night”. While the treats were raining down on celebrities and stars from above, Kimmel joked, “Time to find out how well those Spanx really work”.

Kimmel added after the show he played the “lead detective”, saying: “You’re like the sheriff of the show, Warren Beatty could be in prison right now if I wanted him to be”. “You know it’s a unusual night when the word envelope is trending on Twitter”, Jimmy said, then explained how it felt to experience ‘envelopegate.’ Turns out, he had gotten off stage and was sitting with Matt Damon with the intent of ending the show from there.

Kimmel said that during the mix-up he was seated in the audience preparing to end the Oscars next to Matt Damon, whom Kimmel jokingly had a back and forth with throughout the ceremony, extending their ongoing “feud”. “Remember a year ago when it was the Oscars that were racist?” “You didn’t watch it, did you?” “You know, they got what they paid for”.

Kimmel said his priority was to try to articulate to the audience that the mixup wasn’t a prank, but that the task was easier said than done. So Jimmy Kimmel basically hijacked a Hollywood tour bus and made the people on board believe they were heading into an exhibit at the Dolby Theater.

And no Oscars monologue would be complete without a few jokes about the “overrated” Meryl Streep. Meryl Streep has phoned it in for over 50 films during her career. “Made even more unbelievable considering the fact that she wasn’t even in a movie this year, we just wrote her name down out of habit”.

Presenters and Oscar winners including Gael Garcia Bernal, Orlando von Einsiedel, Barry Jenkins, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Rich Moore, and Asghar Farhadi (by proxy) also made statements decrying Trump’s policies, either explicitly or implicitly.

Kimmel also poked fun at the president’s penchant for tweeting, noting that Trump would likely send a post on Twitter about the night’s speeches during his 5 a.m. “bowel movement”.