Jerrod Carmichael Addresses Infamous Oscars Slap On ‘SNL’

Jerrod Carmichael was hosting this week’s episode of “Saturday Night Live.”

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He started out his monologue by saying that he didn’t want to talk about the Will Smith Oscars slap.

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“But… I’ve got a question,” he said to the audience. “Do you want to talk about it?”

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“Isn’t it kind of crazy… it feels like we’ve been talking about it for so long,” he commented.

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He said it feels like it happened so long ago, “ it feels like we’ve been living in the wake of it our entire lives.”

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He admitted that it was exciting when everyone was talking about it on Monday.

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He said that, “it was just too much by Tuesday.”

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On Friday, he said he promised himself he’d never talk about it again.

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Until Lorne asked him to talk about it again during his opening monologue on “SNL”!

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