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Jimmy Kimmel Explains Oscars Mix-Up on His Show

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Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel opened up about the flub while returning to his late night chat show Jimmy Kimmel Live on Monday night (27Feb17). He was supposed to end the show sitting next to longtime “enemy” Matt Damon in the audience, but his plans went awry when he realised an error had been made.

“We’re sitting there and we notice some commotion and Matt says, ‘I think I heard a stagehand say they got the winner wrong.’ So we’re sitting there and we figure the host will go on stage and clear this up and then I remember, ‘oh, I’m the host.’ So, I guess no one else is going to go,” he laughed.

“Mass confusion” then ensued, with the presenter crediting Denzel Washington for helping him realise what to do to rectify the awkward situation.

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“I see Denzel Washington in the front row trying to get my attention; he’s gesturing and he’s pointing,” Kimmel explained. “I don’t know what he’s pointing, but he says ‘Barry.’ Eventually I figure out that Barry Jenkins, the director of Moonlight, is standing beside me and Denzel wants me to get him to the microphone to make a speech, which, you know, makes sense. Thank God Denzel was there to make sense.”

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