The Old Ways Are Dead For what seemed like ages, host Jimmy Kimmel and executive producer Reginald Hudlin leaned into a risky, uncomfortable gag in which Kimmel was made, through deft use of crowd reaction shots from a previous year, to appear to be delivering a monologue to a live audience.
Twitter erupted. Furious viewers were either confused and outraged that a crowd of non-socially distanced celebrities had been gathered, or just outraged at what they were certain was a terrible choice akin to pro sports piping artificial crowd noise into empty stadiums.
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