Meryl Streep got a ‘totally undeserved’ standing ovation at the Oscars

He told it on his show Jimmy Kimmel Live last night, the post-Oscar episode.

“Matt, as you probably know, could have stared in ‘Manchester by the Sea’, he was the producer and it is nominated for six Oscars including lead actor and he could have taken that lead actor part for himself, but he didn’t”. Instead, she got a standing ovation.

The talk show host said he knew the country was divided and he had been encouraged to say something that would unite people.

The award show, which began with a phenomenal performance by Justin Timberlake on the song from “Trolls”, saw the United States president becoming a victim of trolls in a rare case.

Viola Davis won her first Oscar for her supporting role as a long-suffering housewife in the African-American family drama Fences. Note to self: Don’t get on Kimmel’s bad side, because he will effortlessly ream you out, along with a healthy dose of humor, so it doesn’t sting too badly. I’m excited, I’ve never been to the Oscars before.

Trump is set to address Congress on Tuesday evening for the first time as commander in chief. It’s a balancing act hit he hit just right in September, when he hosted the Emmys for ABC, and hit again Sunday in his opening monologue. “I hope we’re going to have fun tonight”.

Kimmel also asked actress Jennifer Aniston to give her sunglasses to one of the tourists and she complied. You have to say something.

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Kimmel then took aim at the commander in chief, quipping to the Hollywood audience, “I want to say thank you to President Trump”. ‘This is Meryl’s 20th Oscar nomination… she wasn’t even in a movie this year, we just wrote her name in out of habit’.

“It has been an fantastic year for movies”. He toasted 2016 as the year “black people saved NASA and white people saved jazz”. That’s what you call progress.

“If everybody stays perfectly still, maybe we can make them think they’re at the wax museum”.