Late-Night Hosts Tackle Standout Moments From 2019 Oscars

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Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, Trevor Noah and Conan O'Brien all joked about the takeaways from the 2019 Oscars on Monday's episodes of their respective late-night shows.

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00:00It was the fifth year out of the last six years that a Mexican director won best director.

00:04Steven Spielberg was like, build that wall already, will ya?

00:09Late night hosts across the dial found plenty of comedy fare from the 2019 Oscars

00:14and took the time Monday night to share their thoughts on the annual event.

00:17ABC's Jimmy Kimmel, who was the host of the 2017 and 2018 shows, decided to weigh in on the fact

00:22that this year the Academy chose to go hostless. Turns out Kimmel was prepared to step in if needed.

00:28I watched the Oscars from home last night, in a tuxedo, I was in a tux, full hair and makeup,

00:33just in case someone called at the last second and said, hey listen, we need ya.

00:37Joking that he tried to take a no doubt well-deserved night off, Kimmel said,

00:41I tried pitching having no host for this show tonight, but ABC didn't go for it.

00:45But I'll tell you, this is some network. We had an Oscars without a host and a bachelor that won't have sex with anybody.

00:51And referencing the moment of the night that got everyone talking, wildly speculating,

00:55and quite frankly feeling a little awkward, Kimmel quipped,

00:59Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper has so much sexual chemistry.

01:03About a minute into the song, my wife started ovulating.

01:06It was a...

01:07Over on Comedy Central, Trevor Noah also chose to address the super sexy duet

01:11between Gaga and Cooper, although he decided to change it up a little bit.

01:15Now we then moved on to the other most talked about moment of the awards ceremony,

01:25Green Book winning the award for best picture, a result that was met with much controversy.

01:29It's been called the reverse driving Miss Daisy, because the driver is white

01:35and the passenger is black and also they drive in reverse the whole movie.

01:39One of the people who was most upset about Green Book's victory was Spike Lee,

01:43who won his first ever competitive Oscar on Sunday night for his film, Black Klansman.

01:47Referencing Lee's acceptance speech in which he urged the audience to stand on the

01:51right side of history when voting in the 2020 presidential election, a call to action that

01:55prompted President Donald Trump to complain via Twitter that the director was racist,

01:59Noah said,

02:00That, of course, was in reference to Trump's comments after the Charlottesville riots,

02:14which featured the end of Klansman, in which the president said,

02:23Noah concluded the topic by congratulating almost all of the winners from last night.

02:27Over on NBC's Late Night, Seth Meyers feared for his future after the hoseless award show, joking,

02:32It went so well, NBC asked to see me after work.

02:36He also touched on Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper's electric performance with this one-liner.

02:42Rami Malek took home the Oscar for best actor last night.

02:47Well, I'm pretty sure Lady Gaga took home Bradley Cooper.

02:50Late Night writer Amber Ruffin contributed to the Oscars commentary, saying that while Green Book won best screenplay,

02:55The real star was Samuel L. Jackson's face.

03:00Cause he opened up that envelope and his face was like, what?

03:04And over on TBS, Conan O'Brien poked fun of Trump in his presumed displeasure at the diverse ceremony, quipping,

03:11He was furious that best foreign film went to someone from another country.

03:15O'Brien also took a similar approach to Myers when discussing the event's lack of a host and the rating spike the telecast enjoyed.

03:22Ratings were up 11 percent. So today people are saying maybe we don't need a host anymore.

03:30Do you know what that means to me?

03:32Alright, look, we please just agree that shows need hosts. Guys, do not make me go back to working at the DMV.

03:39Hate it there.

03:41Can you imagine the Price is Right without a host? It'd be chaos. Everybody would come on down.

03:49To watch full clips of late night hosts sharing their thoughts on the 91st Oscars, head to THR.com.

03:54For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Lyndsey Rodrigues.

03:57And I'm not going back. I'm not. I won't do it.

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