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It’s no secret that Jimmy Kimmel has a way with getting celebrities to read pretty much anything off a phone screen when they appear on his show, and last night’s episode was no exception. Just in time for Mother’s Day, Kimmel enlisted the help of a handful of celebrities to read real (mostly cringeworthy) texts from their own moms. “Mom Texts: Celebrity Edition” has just about every silly
Anna Faris kicked things off with a particularly lengthy text from her own mother sent at 3:34 A.M., which began with a heartfelt declaration that her parents believe her to be the “greatest actress” of her generation, and concluded with a plea to give her Mom co-star Allison Janney their “love and congratulations”, because “no one deserves the Oscar more than her”. Gee, thanks, Mom. Faris’ mom wasn’t the only one with Oscars on the brain, either. Kristen Bell‘s mother tried to take advantage of her daughter’s relationship with Kimmel, who hosted this year’s proceedings. “Tell him to give you all the winners, so you can give me the winners, and I can win at my Oscar party.”
Other highlights included Ike Barinholtz receiving a text about Donald Trump‘s “small peanut” from his mother, 30 Rock‘s Jack McBrayer being slightly stunned by his mother’s hope that she hopes he “lives long enough” to see the Christmas ornament he bought her in person, and Adam Scott shuddering at his mother’s “lusting” for actor Simon Helberg after watching Florence Foster Jenkins.
From shameless requests for help booking hotel rooms (Black-ish star Anthony Anderson‘s mom just wants to live it up in Vegas, y’all) and not knowing how to text at all (Patton Oswalt‘s mom calls him from a landline) to an overuse of Emojis (poor Will Forte) and backhanded compliments about their children’s skills and accomplishments (Tony Hale‘s parents still don’t “get” Arrested Development), these mothers truly prove that stars are (sometimes) just like us.
