‘Terrified’ ABC execs were ‘sweating’ over John Cena’s naked Oscars skit — demanded bigger envelope
nypost.comJohn Cena’s “nude” 2024 Oscars skit — and said ABC execs were “terrified” over the idea.In his “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” monologue Monday night, the 96th Academy Awards master of ceremonies gave a post-mortem on the previous night’s ceremony, in which Cena, 46, memorably appeared onstage— with nothing but a strategically placed envelope covering his penis — to present the award for Best Costume.It was an homage of sorts to the incident 50 years earlier, at the 1974 Oscars, when a naked streaker ran onto the stage behind David Niven on live television.“Getting this on the air . . .
of all the times I’ve hosted the Oscars or the Emmys or anything, no comedy bit has ever received more scrutiny than this,” Kimmel, 56, said in his monologue.“There were meetings and site meetings, emails, and texts, and phone calls and people sweating,” he continued. “Somebody was crying.
Then once they realized we weren’t going to take no for an answer … there were intense discussions about the size of the envelope ….
whether we needed to Velcro it to John’s body and we had to fill his crack and have socks … various testicalia was discussed.”“They kept demanding we make the envelope bigger and bigger.”Kimmel then flashed the much-larger envelope that ABC officials wanted Cena to use (basically the size of a box).
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