Jimmy Kimmel is learning the difference between authentic Vanuatu tribesmen and cartoons.
The Oscars host embarrassed himself before the event even began last night when he posted to Twitter from the red carpet featuring his sidekick Guillermo.
.@IamGuillermo and the #Moana dancers = party on the red carpet! #Oscars @TheAcademy @ABCNetwork, Kimmel posted to his Jimmy Kimmel Live Twitter account.
this is “hidden fences” all over again…. #Tanna #Oscars pic.twitter.com/MFZjJv8IjN
— Elise Cooper (@elisejcooper) February 27, 2017
Kimmel tweeted a corrected version several minutes later, after realizing the gaffe.
.@IamGuillermo and the #Tanna dancers = party on the red carpet! #Oscars @TheAcademy @ABCNetwork pic.twitter.com/zkgX8C6GJl
— Jimmy Kimmel Live (@JimmyKimmelLive) February 27, 2017
.@IamGuillermo and the #Tanna dancers = party on the red carpet! #Oscars @TheAcademy @ABCNetwork,” it read.
Tanna was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film but ultimately lost out to The Salesman, a story about an Iranian couple.
Tanna is an island in the South Pacific and setting of the real life story of two lovers from different tribes who defied their parents and tradition to marry for love. Moana is a 3D computer-animated musical about a Polynesian tribe fighting off blight with the help of Moana, the chief’s strong-willed daughter.
Kimmel dedicated much of Sunday’s award show to Donald Trump, framing most of his commentary around the 45th U.S. president and partisan politics.
“This broadcast is being watched live by millions of Americans, and around the world in more than 225 countries that now hate us, and I think that is amazing,” he said, according to Reuters.
Kimmel also fed into those alleging the president is racist by comparing his administration’s criticisms to the #OscarsSoWhite controversy from the 2016 Academy Awards.
“I want to say, ‘Thank you, President Trump,’” Kimmel said. “I mean, remember last year when it seemed like the Oscars were racist?”
Kimmel went on to declare “no tolerance for fake news” – “fake tans we love” – and to troll Trump with the Twitter post: “@realDonaldTrump. u up? … #Merylsayshi.”
The tweet is in reference to Meryl Streep’s tirade against Trump at the Golden Globe Awards in January that garnered a sharp response by Trump over Twitter as “one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood.”
Kimmel noted that Streep was up for best actress for “Florence Foster Jenkins” – the 20th Oscar nomination of her career – and ruthlessly mocked Trump’s assessment of her talents.
From her mediocre early work in ‘The Deer Hunter’ and ‘Out of Africa’ to her underwhelming performances in ‘Kramer vs. Kramer’ and ‘Sophie’s Choice,’ Meryl Streep has phoned it in for more than 50 films over the course of her lackluster career,” Kimmel said.
Kimmel called on the audience of privileged movie starts to give an “undeserved round of applause” to the “highly overrated Meryl Streep.”
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