Jimmy Kimmel wasn’t letting Kelly Ripa get off easy.
Ripa and Mark Consuelos switched from hosting to being guests on Thursday night (Feb. 27) when they appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! to talk about Live with Kelly and Mark‘s After The Oscars Show.
Having been involved with the Oscars multiple times as a four-time host, Kimmel shared that he has observed the Live co-hosts handle the challenge of hosting the morning-after awards show special and has joined them on their show several times.
He sympathized with the co-hosts, acknowledging how difficult the experience can be. “It seems like an absolute nightmare,” he said. “You have to stay up so late for the Oscars, only to wake up very early… It’s a tight schedule backstage.”
After being prompted to “describe what it looks like backstage,” Ripa offered up, “Picture Jimmy’s desk cut in half, and then picture eight people standing there trying to interview Jennifer Lopez. It is wild.”
Kimmel eventually asked if they “can hear what’s going on” while covering the awards show, but Consuelos claimed they are situated in “the worst place to see the Oscars.”
“They’ve got like a small, really old flat screen TV,” he shared, noting that “the volume’s low” because of their proximity to the event.
Ripa added, “We’re too close to the stage, so we can’t have volume. And then like Mark said, the monitor is about the size of like your average, you know, like a kitchen television? Tiny, tiny. And then a bunch of executives are standing in front of it, so we’re trying to sort of see beyond them to watch the show, and we miss everything.”
She recalled “the La La Land moment” of the 2017 Oscars — which Kimmel was hosting — where the movie musical was accidentally announced as the Best Picture winner instead of the actual winner, Moonlight.
“We knew before everyone else that something had gone horribly wrong,” she remembered. “We didn’t know what. We just saw people running, screaming into headsets, and running backstage, and we started packing up because I was like, ‘Guys, whatever is going on right now, we need to evacuate this building.’”
Kimmel said the moment “wasn’t that intense” for him, as he “just kind of wandered up on stage and said, ‘Well, something’s wrong here.’”
After reiterating how “wild” the fiasco was backstage, Ripa noted how “relieved” Kimmel must feel to not being hosting this year’s ceremony.
“I mean yeah, of course, this is Conan [O’Brien]‘s problem now,” Kimmel quipped.
Kimmel then shared a revelation of his from their chat.
“I’m also realizing that when I came back, you were always so very nice and you were like, ‘Oh, what a great job you did hosting the show’… You didn’t really see any of it,” he joked.
Following laughter from the audience, Ripa assured Kimmel that they would see his monologue.
“We do, that’s the only thing we get to see, is your monologue,” she continued. “And then they sit us in the seat, and we wait for the winner.”
Jimmy Kimmel Live! airs on weeknights at 11:35/10:35c on ABC. Live with Kelly and Mark‘s After The Oscars Show airs on Monday, March 3.
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