O.K., let's get *at* it - the totally superficial (me) Oscars. KIMMEL is good.

[UTUSN]

[Control-Z]

1. Has it started already? n/t

[randr]

2. Art is what makes humanity great.

The highest of all spiritual expressions is conveyed by our creation of cinematic art.
Story telling, music, lyrics, dance, photography, designing arts of infinite magnitude combine to display humanity it all its wonder.
We are all better through our participation in this most America and Universal celebration.
I give thanks each year that I live in a time and place of such joyous creativity.

[UTUSN]

3. Thing is, I remember KIMMEL from his Ben STEIN DAYS and then the CAROLLA days

And he's always been *likeable* despite all the wingnuts he hung with. Plus, he BLASTED LENO over the Conan thing. He's just *natural*.

[metroins]

4. I dislike him

Due to Kimmel days.

I honestly ignore him because I saw him during those days.

[UTUSN]

5. Just for me, what are "Kimmel days"?

[metroins]

6. I meant Corolla days

I accidentally wrote Kimmel.

I'm a man and I thought the man show was awful. Not because of any reason other than it was just horribly written.

I don't like crude humor and Kimmel is that type of humor.

I can watch Fallon and Gordon; Kimmel, no thanks.

[UTUSN]

7. O.K., thanks for clarifying.

[OriginalGeek]

8. No argument here

I think he's funny.

[UTUSN]

9. ty

[vanlassie]

10. An OJ Documentry won something. He said "OJ, you get an extra slice of bologna tonight."

[UTUSN]

11. X-cellent!1

[meadowlark5]

12. I thought him saying that "you might come up here tonight and make a speech

a speech our president will tweet about during his 5am bowel movement"

[blogslut]

13. Viola Davis' speech

Damn

[KT2000]

15. yes - amazing

and so real! Who shows so much heart as she just did.

[UTUSN]

14. Wow that was really nice about Letterman

[True Dough]

21. Yeah, I like Kimmel's brand of humor

And he acknowledges Letterman as an inspiration. You can sense some similarities in their approach to comedy.

[edbermac]

27. Best bit was Kimmel as Leno

On YouTube classic putdown of jay during the Conan debacle.

[True Dough]

32. Yeah, great impersonation

and copying the elements of Leno's style. Probably safe to say that Jay will never be a guest on Kimmel's show.

[liberalhistorian]

16. I'm liking him so far.

He has just the right balance of whimsy and business, and he seems to know when to insert himself and when to leave things to others.

He did make a crack in the beginning about how "given the longevity of the other hosts" this would likely be his last, as well as his first, time. But he's a lot better than some of the other recent hosts, certainly better than Chris Rock from last year, who was terrible (imo).

[avebury]

17. Having a bus tour walk through

the Oscars was pretty funny.

[pinboy3niner]

18. And if Denzel pronounces you man and wife, it's legal. :) nt

[TexasBushwhacker]

19. That worked out better than I expected

But I wanted to yell at the people "Put down your fucking phones!"

[NewJeffCT]

25. These folks will likely never be that close to so many celebrities again

who can blame them for wanting to get as many pictures as possible?

[TexasBushwhacker]

35. I would want to spend more time shaking hands

But I guess that's just me.

[progressoid]

20. He just tweeted Trump!

[True Dough]

23. Uh huh!

And here it is:

Link to tweet

[True Dough]

22. And this long-running "feud" between Kimmel and Matt Damon

never gets old for me!

[NewJeffCT]

26. How did that start, anyhow?

I remember many years ago, after Kimmel broke up with Sarah Silverman she made a song how she's now f-ing Matt Damon, and his response was a song that he is now f-ing Ben Affleck. I had remembered Kimmel from his days on The Man Show with RWer Adam Corolla and I thought it was great that he could make a video about him having sex with a man. Was that the start of the feud?

[True Dough]

30. It actually all started when Kimmel

began using that line, "And our apologies to Matt Damon. We didn't have time for him tonight," which was during the third season of Jimmy Kimmel Live -- as if Damon was a guest backstage who got bumped. Kimmel said he randomly selected Damon because he was a high profile celebrity, after a night where the guests on the show were pretty lackluster. He said the audience remained amused every time he did it.

Then they arranged for Damon to come on the show and blow up over it.

Then came the Silverman/Damon "revenge" video. Silverman and Kimmel reportedly remain friends. It was supposedly an amicable split between them, so all parties have been playing along. Pretty remarkable.

[NewJeffCT]

33. Thanks!

it's been going on for a long time, I see

[True Dough]

34. It has

And Kimmel has the better platform and the upper hand more often. Damon has been a good sport about it.

[brush]

29. Is it a real feud or just a bit both play along with?

And did anyone else see the scold on Justin Timberlake's face after his Oscar show intro when Kimmel came on.

Seems like he was directing it towards Kimmel.

[True Dough]

31. See my answer above n/t

Not real.

But I missed the scowl on J.T.'s face. Not sure what was going on there. He and Kimmel rival Jimmy Fallon are close friends, of course. So maybe he's not a fan of Kimmel's, or maybe it's just more shenanigans.

[Initech]

24. I was rolling at Robert DeNiro's contribution to "Mean Tweets"!

"Yeah well soon I'll be a great grandfather in action movies, so fuck you!"

[underpants]

28. Damn I missed the mean tweets

The running gag with Damon was hilarious.

"Ben Affleck....and guest"

On edit - Are we SURE Wolf Blitzer didn't read the card wrong too?

[True Dough]

36. So not only was there the La La Land/Moonlight best picture fiasco, there was this...

Link to tweet

YIKES! What a night!