“I was like, whats happening?”
a Kimmel associate said of the unexpected moment.
“I knew it, because he totally went off script,” McNearney toldVariety.
Jimmy Kimmel at the 2023 Oscars.Rich Polk/Variety via Getty Images
“He came out talking about the importance of editing anytime you read a text from your dad.
I was like, what’s happening?
Within three seconds, one of our writers said the prompter’s out.
I could just see it in his face.
And he came back, he’s like, ‘I just did all that without prompter!'”
In fact, according to Walt Disney TV’s Rob Mills, most of the show did.
“All the envelopes were correct, no one slapped anyone, there was no egregiously bad dance number.
We’ve come such a long way from Rob Lowe and Snow White to’Naatu Naatu.
‘There really was nothing but good stuff.”
EW has reached out to representatives for the Oscars show and Kimmel for comment.
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