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It’s Hollywood’s biggest night! The 2016 Academy Awards are airing tonight, February 28, and Decider has got all of your Oscars needs satisfied. You can live stream the 2016 Oscars here, and click here to check out the rest of Decider’s coverage.
You thought Chris Rock addressing #OscarsSoWhite was over after his monologue? Think again. As a continuation of his hysterical and pointed opener calling out Hollywood’s systemic racism and sexism, the host rounded up a few of his fellow comedians, including Whoopi Goldberg, Tracy Morgan, and Saturday Night Live‘s Leslie Jones to give the Academy a much needed diversity lesson. How, exactly? By crashing this year’s Oscar-nominated films.
The parody video began with Whoopi Goldberg (who was confused for Oprah during tonight’s red carpet coverage by an ignorant beauty site) appearing in a frame of Jennifer Lawrence-starring Joy. The Oscar-winning comedienne starred as herself, and cheekily mopped the floor behind Lawrence (Joy is about Miracle Mop inventor, Joy Mangano, for those of you who haven’t seen). The joke wasn’t just in the physical comedy, however, but Goldberg’s comment on how, in so many words, Hollywood wouldn’t even get around to making a TV movie about a black woman who invented something: “Even if she cured cancer.”
Skip to The Revenant, where, instead of the film’s infamous bear attacking Oscar-nominee Leonardo DiCaprio, it’s Saturday Night Live star Leslie Jones and she’s pissed. “I called your agent sixteen times!” she yells, before body-slamming Leo and adding insult to injury: “He should’ve called me back.”
Cut to Tracy Morgan, channeling his inner Tracy Jordan for all you 30 Rock fans for his “appearance” in transgender artist tale, The Danish Girl. Enter Alicia Vikander, inquiring about his dress and his alleged fooling around with another man. “I’m the danish girl!” he shouts, while shoving a pastry in his face.
And last, but not least: the host, himself. Chris Rock stood in for Matt Damon as lost astronaut Mark Watney in The Martian. “I’m still here!” he shouted to his NASA compadres, played by Jeff Daniels and Kristen Wiig. “Yeah, but it’ll take $2,500 of our white dollars to get him down,” says Daniels, which, on cue, welcomed a shock of gasps from the Dolby Theatre crowd.
Needless to say, it was a win for Rock and his team, who brilliantly shined even more light on how few Academy nominated films feature actors of color. Watch the entire video below.
