re: The Oscars were awesome this year -- Kimmel was a great host

Kimmel was perfect. He didn't try to oversell the jokes.

The jokes themselves were on-target. They didn't go overboard on the Trump bashing or on the topic of last year's show being "racist".

The opening number was good. They didn't try to make it an Oscar moment. They just had a great performer come out and open the show.

The Mean Tweets were run-of-the-mill, but the bit with the tourists was awesome. A nice mixture of sweet fan adoration and bringing the proceedings back down to Earth. For a little while the stars had to back off of calling each other national treasures and see that to the rest of us they're mostly attractions to distract us from daily life.

The Matt Damon stuff was a great running gag. Unfortunately Kimmel won't be able to return to that well if he does the gig again. But for one night, it was damn funny.