Jimmy Kimmel won’t be turning the other cheek at this year’s Oscars.
“If somebody comes up on the stage and slaps me?” Kimmel began.
The father of four then gave his take on if the slap heard around the world is “almost boring to joke about at this point.” Will Smith hit presenter Chris Rock at last year’s Academy Awards after Rock made a joke about his wife Jade Pinkett Smith.The slap is not the comedian’s first Oscars scandal. Kimmel was famously at the helm of the 2017 ceremony when #“La La Land” was mistakenly named the winner of Best Picture after Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway had been given the wrong category envelope.
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