A joke about Robert Downey Jr’s previous additionally fell flat throughout Kimmel’s opening monologue
Jimmy Kimmel took to the stage for the fourth time as Oscars host for the 96th Academy Awards on Sunday night time and did not maintain again along with his monologue.
He set the tone straight away by thanking the group for his or her “partial standing ovation,” after which turned on them after they gave a full and rapturous applause after he singled out Greta Gerwig and famous the controversy round her non-nomination as Greatest Director.
As the group roared, Kimmel turned on them, “I do know you are clapping, however you are those who did not vote for her, by the best way. Do not act such as you had nothing to do with this!”
He then identified that Margot Robbie was additionally snubbed in the perfect actress class earlier than noting that she and Ryan Gosling have the perfect comfort prize even when they don’t get Oscar gold, “you’ve got each already gained one thing far more necessary, the genetic lottery.” (Ryan, after all, was nominated for Barbie however misplaced to Robert Downey Jr. later within the night time.)
The enthusiastic crowd was much less sure what to do with Robert Downey, Jr. as Kimmel poked enjoyable at his profession lows, and his struggles with dependancy. RDJ took it on the chin, hilariously clapping again a silent “Preserve it going, maintain it going,” when Kimmel tried to linger.
The late-night host known as out everybody concerned in filmmaking for the rising size of their motion pictures, stating that they’re averaging half-hour longer than simply three years in the past.” Once I went to see Killers of the Flower Moon, I had my mail forwarded to the theater,” he quipped of the three hour, 26 minute movie.
“Killers of the Flower Moon is so lengthy within the time it takes to observe it, you possibly can drive to Oklahoma and clear up the murders your self.”
He bought one other sturdy response from a person within the viewers when he famous the almost half-century hole between the final time each Robert De Niro and Jodie Foster had been each nominated on the identical night time.”
Fourty-eight years in the past, Robert De Niro and Jodie Foster had been each nominated for Taxi Driver, and so they’re each nominated once more tonight,” he famous.
“In 1976, Jodie Foster was younger sufficient to be Robert De Niro’s daughter, now, she’s 20 years too outdated to be his girlfriend.”
At this, De Niro laughed vigorously and Foster nodded simply as vigorously.
