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The best jokes from Jimmy Kimmel's Oscar monologue

You wouldn't know from watching the Academy Awards that it was Jimmy Kimmel's first time hosting.

<p><span style="color: rgb(100, 100, 100); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">"It's been a wonderful year for movies," host Jimmy Kimmel observed. "Black people saved NASA and white people saved jazz."</span><span style="color: rgb(100, 100, 100); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"> </span><span class="credit" style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(100, 100, 100); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">(Photo: Robert Deutsch, USA TODAY NETWORK)</span></p>

You wouldn't know from watching the Academy Awards that it was Jimmy Kimmel's first time hosting.

Here's a sampling of jokes from his opening monologue:

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