Now that the sting from the Fresh Prince’s open-hand slap is starting to subside, let’s take a step back and assess the winners and losers of Sunday night’s all-time Oscar weirdness.
Jimmy Kimmel also applauds Denzel for helping him through 2017’s mess when Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway announced the wrong winner. “(Denzel) was the one who was directing me from the audience because I was just up [on the stage] f***ing around,” Kimmel said on the Bill Simmons Podcast. “So maybe he’s the common denominator.”
But it was Smith’s outburst that's probably going to do what no amount of show tinkering could -- get people to tune into next year's show to see what lunacy might happen next.
"Look, I understood the feeling,” says The Juice, presumably with ominous music building underneath. “In my life, I've been through a lot of crap. I was raising two young kids and every comedian in the country had O.J. routines and don't think I wouldn't want to B-slap a couple of those guys, but you’ve got to accept it’s human."
Note to comedians: Ditch the O.J. routines.
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