Jimmy Kimmel Pokes Fun at Austin Butler, Nicole Kidman’s AMC Ad and Pauly Shore in Delightful Oscars Monologue
thewrap.comNicole Kidman’s ever-present AMC ad.His genuinely funny monologue didn’t skimp on references to Will Smith’s infamous Oscar slap last year, with Kimmel joking that anyone who committed violence at the awards show would “be given the Best Actor Oscar and allowed to make a 19-minute speech.” After parachuting in as if dropped off by Tom Cruise’s “Top Gun: Maverick” character, Kimmel quipped, “I’m happy to see that Nicole Kidman has finally been released from that abandoned AMC where she has been held captive for almost two full years now.
It’s good to have you back. And thank you for encouraging people who are already at the movie theater to go to the movies.”“Everybody looks so great.
When you look around this room I can’t help but wonder if Ozempic is right for me,” he quipped about the insulin drug that’s often used for quick weight loss.
Kimmel also took a shot at Best Actor nominee Butler, whose still-lingering Elvis Presley voice has been much mentioned: “He was so convincing as Elvis, still is.”After noting that nominees Brendan Fraser and Ke Huy Quan starred in “Encino Man” 31 years ago, he then took a shot at the comedy’s star, Pauly Shore: “Maybe it’s time to reboot ‘Biodome.'” Kimmel then segued to “The Fabelmans” director Spielberg: “They say Hollywood is running out of new ideas.
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