Jimmy Kimmel recapped his favorite 2024 Oscars moments during his Jimmy Kimmel Live! monologue on Monday, including John Cena‘s nudity gag and Donald Trump‘s angry tweet.
“We had John Cena onstage naked, and somehow Trump still managed to be the biggest dick of the night,” Kimmel told the crowd.
At the ceremony the night before, which Kimmel hosted for the fourth time, Cena took the stage seemingly nude, covering himself with a winner’s envelope to present the award for best costume design. The gag was a nod to streaker Robert Opel at the 1974 Academy Awards, Kimmel reiterated on Monday, saying he wanted to pay tribute to the incident on its 50th anniversary.
When it came time for Cena to present the award, Kimmel shared that the network executives were terrified, much to his own amusement. He went on to thank Cena “for being a good sport, and I want to apologize for nearly killing our department of standards and practices.”
However, that wasn’t Kimmel’s last word on the prank-that-almost-didn’t-happen. He also talked a bit about the scathing post Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social during the Oscars—which Kimmel then read on stage—and the number of people who have since asked Kimmel whether it was real (it was).
“He wasn’t getting attention, he couldn’t stand it,” Kimmel said of the former president, “and so then the Adderall McFlurry kicked in.”
“There were meetings and side meetings; there were emails and texts and phone calls,” Kimmel noted. “People were sweating, somebody was crying.” But once they realized Kimmel was committed to seeing this through and would refuse to take no for an answer, the mood changed on the part of the network.
“There were intense discussions about the size of the envelope,” he explained. “And whether we needed to Velcro it to John’s body. And we had to fill his crack, and have socks, and various testicalia was discussed.”
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