CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

Deadline Hollywood reports:

Jimmy Kimmel wasn’t the first choice to host the Oscars. Or the second. Or the 11th. So goes the riff on one of the more memorable scenes from Top Gun: Maverick in the first trailer for Kimmel’s upcoming Oscars hosting gig.

Oh, and because it’s the Oscars, they were able to actually get Jon Hamm and Charles Parnell to recreate their roles from the film.

At one point, while describing the mission, Parnell says, “ABC has tasked us with finding a host who is unflappable…and unslappable.” Kimmel retorts, “That’s good, because I can’t get slapped. I cry a lot.”

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