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Jimmy Kimmel is set to host the 2023 Oscars, BUT, he's not ready to stay quiet about last year's "slap incident" involving Chris Rock and Will Smith.
In an interview with Extra, Kimmel said that the comedy community is still mad about the incident, and that it needs to be addressed in one way or another. He did not comment on how it would be addressed or mentioned in the upcoming awards show.
Kimmel told Extra, “It’s got to come up in some way... You know, I don’t want to really make light of it necessarily, because it wasn’t [light] to comedians. You know, comedians are mad about it. … It’s like, it’s one of those things that for a group of people that find everything funny, it’s, like, not funny, you know? But of course … when they read the wrong winner one year when I hosted the Oscars, we had to make mention of that the next year.”
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