Jimmy Kimmel Turns Viral Videos into Movies in Post-Oscars Show
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ABC/Randy Holmes(LOS ANGELES) — Right across the street from the glitz and glamour of The 86th Academy Awards on Sunday night, Jimmy Kimmel hosted his annual post-awards show special.
This year, Jimmy Kimmel Live! After the Oscars: 2014 featured Kevin Spacey as a guest, and utilized the Oscar winner and other Academy Award winners Ben Kingsley, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Christoph Waltz, as well as nominees Gary Oldman, Queen Latifah and Barkhad Abdi, in sketches that re-imagined famous Internet videos as blockbuster films.
The show began with Kimmel relaxing in what turns out to be the bed belonging to Ellen DeGeneres and wife Portia de Rossi — until they kick the interloper out by reminding him he’s got a show to host.
Spacey, who entertained Kimmel with his impressions of Jack Lemmon and Johnny Carson, apparently surprised Kimmel by announcing he had found Kimmel’s long-lost 1985 appearance on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson — when Kimmel was a young magician.
Spacey said for legal reasons they couldn’t air the clip, but said he’d post it on his website, KevinSpacey.com — which crashed immediately. When the smoke cleared, the video turned out to be another spoof, in which Spacey, as Carson in period attire, eventually accidentally shoots Kimmel with a crossbow bolt in a magic trick gone wrong.
The first viral video they spoofed used the Hemsworth brothers — and Martin Scorsese, Tom Hanks, and Meryl Streep, to boot — in a dramatic retelling of “Charlie Bit My Finger” called Bitman Begins.
Queen Latifah played Sweet Brown, the woman made famous by her news interview in which she witnessed a house fire in Sweet Brown: Ain’t Nobody Got Time For That. Sweet Brown herself appeared at the end, silencing — again on Kimmel — Matt Damon. Morgan Freeman introduced the snippet, in which Barkhad Abdi played a young Barack Obama and Adam Driver appears as Steve Jobs.
A cavalcade of Shakespearean thespians, including Kingsley, Oldman, and Waltz, starred in “Ameowdeus,” which adapted Amadeus to fit the life story of the “Keyboard Cat.” Kimmel himself starred as another Internet star, Dramatic Chipmunk.
The final video of the night starred Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Zeta-Jones and Samuel L. Jackson, and spoofed “David After Dentist,” in which a still-medicated teen fresh from a root canal waxes on nonsensically. David After Dentist Double Rainbow Oh My God! in 3D, as its name suggests, also takes the “Double Rainbow Guy” to task as well.
Jimmy Kimmel Live! returns Monday night at 11:35 p.m. with Toronto Mayor Rob Ford — who appeared briefly in the post-Oscar show — and Gonzo from The Muppets.
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