Kimmel knocks Britt for SOTU rebuttal at Oscars: She’s an ‘adult woman with the brain of a child’

Jimmy Kimmel slams Sen. Katie Britt at the Academy Awards for the Alabama Republican’s much-derided rebuttal in the State of the Union address.

The late-night TV host took the stage in 1996.^th Sunday’s annual Oscar ceremony featured a rapid succession of wisecracks, mostly directed at Hollywood stars who attended the ceremony in Los Angeles.

But in a non-political monologue, Kimmel harshly criticized Britt without mentioning the congressman’s name.

Kimmel said of Emma Stone’s Oscar-nominated role in “Poor Things” that she plays “a grown woman with the brain of a child.”

“It’s like the woman who spoke out against the State of the Union,” Kimmel quipped, drawing laughter from the audience.

Britt was widely criticized on social media for what detractors called a “melodramatic” rebuttal to President Biden’s State of the Union address on Thursday after Scarlett Johansson impersonated her on “Saturday Night Live.” skewered.

Kimmel has frequently criticized former President Trump. told CNN Ahead of hosting the Oscars ceremony, he said that depending on reports, he may add political words to his monologue in the “final moments” of the ceremony.