”This is the 5th year out of the last six years that a Mexican director won best director.
Steven Spielberg is like ‘build that wall already, will ya?!'"
Late night hosts across the dial found plenty of comedy fare from the 2019 Oscars
and took the time Monday night to share their thoughts on the annual event.
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel, who was the host of the 2017 and 2018 shows, decided to weigh
in on the fact that this year the Academy chose to go “hostless.” Turns out Kimmel
was prepared to step in if needed.
"I watched the Oscars from home last night in a tuxedo. I was in a tux, full hair and
makeup just in case someone called at the last second and said,
'Hey, listen we need you,'"
Joking that he’d tried to take a - no doubt well deserved night off - Kimmel said,
"I tried pitching having no host for this show tonight, but ABC didn't go for it,"
"This is some network. We had an Oscars without a host and a Bachelor
that won't have sex with anybody."
And referencing the moment of the night that got everyone talking, wildly speculating,
and quite frankly feeling a little awkward, Kimmel quipped
"Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper had so much sexual chemistry,
about a minute into the song my wife started ovulating,"
Over on Comedy Central, Trevor Noah also chose to address “the super sexy duet”
between Gaga and Cooper although he decided to change it up a bit.
["Yankee Doodle" plays]
Noah then moved on to the other most talked about moment of the awards ceremony -
'Green Book' winning the award for best picture, a result that was met with
much controversy.
"It's been called the reverse 'Driving Miss Daisy' because the driver is white
and the passenger is black. And also, they drive in reverse the whole movie!"
One of the people who was most upset about 'Green Book’s' victory was Spike Lee
who won his first ever competitive Oscar on Sunday for his film 'BlacKkKlansman.'
Referencing Lee’s acceptance speech in which he urged the audience to stand on
the right side of history when voting in the 2020 presidential election - a call to action that
prompted President Donald Trump to complain via Twitter that the director was racist,
Noah said "That's right. President Trump called Spike Lee racist.”
"It was like 'BlacKkKlansman,' that's offensive folks.
Should've been called Black Very Fine People on Both Sides.'"
That, of course, was in reference to Trump’s comments after the Charlottesville riots -
which feature at the end of Klansman - in which he said:
Noah concluded the topic by congratulating "almost all of the winners from last night."
Over on NBC’s 'Late Night,' Seth Meyers feared for his future after the
hostless awards show, joking,
"It went so well, NBC asked to see me after work."
He also touched on Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s electric performance
with this one liner:
“Rami Malek took home the Oscar for best actor last night,
I’’m pretty sure Lady Gaga took home Bradley Cooper."
Late night writer Amber Ruffin contributed to the Oscar’s commentary saying that
while 'Green Book' won best screenplay,
"The real star was Samuel L. Jackson's face,
'cause he opened that envelope and his face was like, 'What?'"
And over on TBS Conan O’Brien poked fun of Trump and his presumed displeasure
at the diverse ceremony quipping:
"He was furious that best foreign film went to someone from another country,"
O’Brien also took a similar approach to Meyers when discussing the events lack of a
host and the ratings spike the telecast enjoyed.
"Ratings were up 11 percent, so today people were saying,
'Maybe we don't need a host anymore.' Do you know what that means to me?"
Alright, look, can we please just agree that shows need hosts?!
Guys! Don’t make me go back to working at the DMV! I hate it there.
”Can you imagine ‘The Price is Right' without a host?!
It’d be chaos! Everybody would ‘come on down'!"
To watch full clips of the late night hosts sharing their thoughts on the 91st Oscars,
head to THR.com. For The Hollywood Reporter News, I’m Lyndsey Rodrigues.
And I’m not going back! I’m not! I won’t do it!