The 89th Academy Awards concluded last night with a grand cosmic joke: the award for Best Picture was bestowed upon the wrong film. But before that colossal misstep, host Jimmy Kimmel regaled the crowd with a battery of amusing one-liners. Smooth move, dumbass.”On Donald Trump and new standards:“Remember last year when it seemed like the Oscars were racist?”On the progressive nature of this year’s Best Picture nominees:“Black people saved NASA and white people saved jazz. That’s what I call progress.”On Damien Chazelle’s need to win:“Tonight is important for Damien. We discriminate based on age and weight.”On Meryl Streep’s presence:“She wasn’t even in a film this year, she just wrote her name down.”On Sam Jackson’s renown:“Samuel L. Jackson is the hardest-cursing man in show business.”

Source: National Post February 27, 2017 17:03 UTC