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He was alone in the empty Staples Center — but you couldn't tell at first. “Now it seems like it’s going to be less fun.”. President Donald Trump is continuing to make moves … “This has been a miserable year, a year of division, injustice, disease, Zoom school and death,” he went on, before lightening the mood a little with some cheeky digs at Norman Lear for his substantial age and Quibi for its substantial expense. 2020 Bustle Digital Group. Sure, the salvaged footage of ceremonies past was awkward and maybe went on a little too long, but playing to an empty room is a thankless task for any comic. “The big question is why would have you an award show in the middle of a pandemic.

Kimmel is hosting live from a stage in the Staples Center, but the massive stadium is empty due to COVID-19. All rights reserved. When the camera finally panned to what the arena really looked like, Kimmel was all alone. Jimmy Kimmel delivered his 2020 Emmys monologue alone in the empty Staples Center — but you couldn't tell at first. “Just like prom night,” he joked. We knew that when Jimmy Kimmel opened the 2020 Emmy Awards with his monologue, there would be no live audience to welcome him onto the Staples Center stage. The 90th Oscars - Live Oscar Sunday March 4th 8 e | 5 p Jimmy’s opening monologue from the 2017 #Oscars.

© Copyright 2020 Variety Media, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Business Media, LLC. Some of Kimmel's most popular comedy bits include - Mean Tweets, Lie Witness News, Jimmy's Twerk Fail Prank, Unnecessary Censorship, YouTube Challenge, The Baby Bachelor, Movie: The Movie, Handsome Men's Club, Jimmy Kimmel Lie Detective and music videos like \"I (Wanna) Channing All Over Your Tatum\" and a Blurred Lines parody with Robin Thicke, Pharrell, Jimmy and his security guard Guillermo. He may have dunked on Quibi, but it’s telling that he took time to celebrate small screen legend Norman Lear, whose shows have kept us company for over half a century. No seriously, I’m asking why are we having an awards show in the middle of a pandemic,” Kimmel began. It was the beginning of the answer to what might be the night’s biggest question: What can a major awards show look like with no one there to accept the awards? Welcome to the first major awards ceremony in the age of COVID-19 or, as Kimmel dubbed them, the Pandemmys. The veteran late night host previously addressed cracking jokes to an empty room and having an entirely virtual audience. “Just think about having a Zoom with your family and how complicated it is to get your grandma to look at the camera, get her whole face on camera, and multiply that by a million and that’s what we’re dealing with here,” Kimmel said.

Here are the best jokes from his Emmy monologue: “When Norman (Lear) was a boy, his fear was to not get kicked to death by a horse…the only thing I’m gonna be producing when I’m 98 is phlegm.”, “Quibi has 10 Emmy nominations this year [it won two awards]… it’s the dumbest thing to ever cost a billion dollars.”, “If you win, a guy will drive to your house and chuck an Emmy through your window.”, On not being able to swear on broadcast TV: “HBO can show us a big blue penis no problem, I can’t stay the word Schitt’s with a ‘C’?”, When the fake audience bit was revealed: “Wait, that would mean that I’m up here all alone, just like prom night.”. \"Jimmy Kimmel Live\" is well known for its huge viral video successes with 2.5 billion views on YouTube alone. Nestled among the audience of cardboard cut-outs producers installed in the seats sat a lonely real live Jason Bateman.

The show’s producers asked Kimmel to host the ceremony well before the pandemic swept the nation and shutdown Hollywood. Smaller Conferences Ready for Basketball With Limited Testing Resources, Up His Scent With One of the 10 Best-Smelling Cologne Gift Sets Money Can Buy, “You know what they say: You can’t have a virus without a host.”, “Of course I’m here all alone.

This isn’t a MAGA rally, this is the Emmys.”.

Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue recapped another busy start to President Donald Trump’s week. After a host-less edition last year, Jimmy Kimmel returned to emcee the 2020 Emmys and went straight to the heart of why this year has been an especially calamitous one so far. “Our old pal TV,” Kimmel called it with surprising earnestness.

Despite the understandable negativity going into the show, Kimmel still did his utmost to raise spirits and get viewers laughing in their living rooms. The footage, of course, was recycled from Emmys past.

“We need fun,” Kimmel told basically no one except those of us watching at home, sitting where we’ve been sitting for the last six months, watching the television that’s kept us informed and entertained.

Now in its fifteenth season, Kimmel's guests have included: Johnny Depp, Meryl Streep, Tom Cruise, Halle Berry, Harrison Ford, Jennifer Aniston, Will Ferrell, Katy Perry, Tom Hanks, Scarlett Johansson, Channing Tatum, George Clooney, Larry David, Charlize Theron, Mark Wahlberg, Kobe Bryant, Steve Carell, Hugh Jackman, Kristen Wiig, Jeff Bridges, Jennifer Garner, Ryan Gosling, Bryan Cranston, Jamie Foxx, Amy Poehler, Ben Affleck, Robert Downey Jr., Jake Gyllenhaal, Oprah, and unfortunately Matt Damon.Jimmy Kimmel’s Oscars Monologuehttps://youtu.be/fDkXHWMNNmc After a host-less edition last year, Jimmy Kimmel returned to emcee the 2020 Emmys and went straight to the heart of why this year has been an especially calamitous one so far.

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He managed to turn the lack of an audience into a bit, by having a fake virtual crowd from previous Emmys laugh along to his first few jokes.

“The big quest…

Eventually, Kimmel did get some company.

Because while the Emmys are always “frivolous and unnecessary,” as Kimmel pointed out, being able to enjoy the frivolous and unnecessary suddenly seems a profound luxury. The bit caused quite a lot of confusion on social media, before Kimmel finally revealed he was all alone in Staples; well, except for an immobile Jason Bateman. Here’s How to Hire One.

Can we really blame Kimmel for taking the chance to order up his own standing ovation?

The 90th Oscars - Live Oscar Sunday March 4th 8 e | 5 pJimmy’s opening monologue from the 2017 #Oscars.SUBSCRIBE to get the latest #KIMMEL: http://bit.ly/JKLSubscribeWatch the latest Halloween Candy Prank: http://bit.ly/KimmelHalloweenCandyWatch Mean Tweets: http://bit.ly/JKLMeanTweets8Connect with Jimmy Kimmel Live Online:Visit the Jimmy Kimmel Live WEBSITE: http://bit.ly/JKLWebsiteLike Jimmy Kimmel Live on FACEBOOK: http://bit.ly/JKLFacebookFollow Jimmy Kimmel Live on TWITTER: http://bit.ly/JKLTwitterFollow Jimmy Kimmel Live on INSTAGRAM: http://bit.ly/JKLInstagramAbout Jimmy Kimmel Live:Jimmy Kimmel serves as host and executive producer of Emmy-winning \"Jimmy Kimmel Live,\" ABC's late-night talk show. The Market for Private Chefs Is Booming. And yet, somehow, the screen kept cutting to the laughing mugs of the celebrities we’re used to seeing each year — glamorous people in expensive clothes like Allison Janney and Kerry Washington and, confusingly, Jimmy Kimmel?

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