The Television Academy has opened the envelope on its first batch of presenters for Monday’s 74th annual Primetime Emmy Awards.
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King Kong ain’t got nothing on Lamorne Morris!
On Monday night, the former “New Girl” star guest hosted “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” and showed off his impersonation skills with a parody of the 2001 film “Training Day”.
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In the sketch, which played during Morris’ monologue, the actor played both himself as a rookie host, and Denzel Washington as his corrupt cop character Alonzo Harris from the film.
At one point, Alonzo tries to bully Morris into stealing a TV from the show’s green room. When an alarm goes off, he throws a bag of white powder on Morris, telling him, “Hold this.”
“Oh my god, is this crack? Did you put crack on my neck?” Morris asks.
“Crack? Hell no, those are Guillermo’s stones,” Alonso tells him.
Later in the sketch, a third character shows up, with Morris impersonating Eddie Murphy’s iconic character Axel Foley from “Beverly Hills Cop”.
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Also during the monologue, Morris threw some serious shade at the “Game of Thrones” prequel “House of the Dragon”, embarrassing his mother, who was in the audience, in the process.
“I don’t want to upset the show’s core fan base, which is men 18 to 49 who’ve never touched a t***y before,” he joked.
“Sorry, Mom,” he added. “My mom is here. My mom is actually in the audience right now. Mom, you don’t like it when I swear on TV, do you?”
His mother could be seen trying to cover her face, before confirming that she doesn’t like swearing.
“You know I once said the word ‘a**’ on TV and then she called me up the next day and she’s like, ’You know you don’t have to say that,
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taking classified documents from the White House without permission, possibly in violation of the espionage act? Well, now you know enough to get Morris’ jokes! On to them, then.“So you know how Donald Trump was keeping top secret files in his basement,” Morris said in the monologue. “Well, it turns out that since he left office the government has recovered more than 300 classified documents from Trump’s house.”Morris said that it was “amazing” Trump managed to do it, because, he joked, he once took a script home from “New Girl” and Zooey Deschanel “threatened to stab me with a ukulele.”Morris noted that Trump claims these documents are unclassified “because he said so, which, alright, take you word for it.
of Alonzo’s death in “Training Day.” Complete with a dramatic, slow motion parody of Eddie Murphy’s trademark laugh.At that point it turns out the whole thing was happening in Morris’ imagination. Kimmel’s sidekick, Guillermo walks in and after establishing that Morris isn’t actually taking the TV, decides to steal it himself.You can watch the whole monologue above now.
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