Jimmy Kimmel mocks Robert Downey Jr.’s former drug problem at Oscars 2024
11.03.2024 - 00:53
/ nypost.com
Sunday night’s Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, starting with the old drug problems of a star of “Oppenheimer.” “This is the highest point of Robert Downey Jr.’s long and illustrious career,” the funny Kimmel, 56, said. “Well, one of the highest points.”The 58-year-old Marvel Cinematic Universe actor was arrested several times throughout the 1990s on drug-related charges.Downey Jr.
didn’t chuckle at the bit, but the host kept on giving the un-laughing actor grief anyway.“Is that an acceptance speech in your pocket, or do you just have a very rectangular penis?” he asked.Then Kimmel set his sights on “Killers of the Flower Moon” star Robert De Niro. “In 1976, Jodie Foster was young enough to be Robert De Niro’s daughter,” Kimmel said, referring to her role in the film “Taxi Driver.” “Now, she’s 20 years too old to be his girlfriend.”The 80-year-old actor welcomed his seventh child last year.
He shares the baby girl with his partner, Tiffany Chen.The “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” star also mocked “Maestro” actor-director Bradley Cooper’s habit of bringing his mother as his guest to award shows. “How many times can a man bring his mom as his date before he is actually dating his mom?” he cracked.While acknowledging the actors and writers strikes that ground Hollywood to a halt for months last year, the jokester sent up the whole town.“It’s not just a bunch of heavily Botoxed, Hailey Bieber smoothie-drinking, diabetes prescription-abusing, gluten sensitive nepo babies with perpetually shivering Chihuahuas,” he began.
“This is a coalition of strong, hardworking, mentally tough American laborers. Women and men who would 100% die if we even had to touch the handle of a shovel.”Kimmel was back to emcee at the Dolby Theatre in
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