GET INTO IT. IT'S TIME FOR, THE NEWS.

OF COURSE THE BIG NEWS STORY WAS THE ACADEMY AWARDS.

AWARDS, "CODA" WON BEST PICTURE AND THAT'S PRETTY MUCH WHAT

EVERYONE'S TALKING ABOUT. I DIDN'T SEE ANYTHING ELSE

HAPPEN, DID YOU. >> NO, NO, I WAS THERE, NO.

>> James: I MEAN, OF COURSE, WILL SMITH STORMED

ONTO THE STAGE AND SLAPPED CHRIS ROCK FOR TELLING A JOKE ABOUT

HIS WIFE, JADA PINKETT SMITH. IF YOU HAVEN'T SEE IT, I MEAN,

YOU HAVE, YOU HAVE, YOU HAVE SEEN IT.

THE WHOLE-- THE WHOLE DISINTD THROUGH ME OFF IN A HUGE WAY AND

ALSO COMPLETELY RUINED MY CHANCES IN THE OS CARPOOL.

I HAD DAME JUDY DENCH SMACKING WOODY HARRELSON.

SERIOUSLY THOUGH, I APPLAUD CHRIS ROCK FOR RECOVERING AND

KEEPING THE SHOW MOVING. (APPLAUSE).

>> James: IT WAS AN INCREDIBLY DIGNIFIED RESPONSE.

I WILL TELL YOU THIS. WILL SMITH CAN'T TAKE A JOKE,

BUT CHRIS ROCK CAN TAKE A PUNCH. WITHIN A STEEL JAW.

>> James: UNBELIEVABLE. PEOPLE ON SOCIAL MEDIA WERE

CONFUSED ABOUT WHAT THEY JUST SAW.

THE HASHTAG #WHATJUSTHAPPENED IMMEDIATELY TRENDED ON TWITTER.

EVEN THE SEAT FILLERS WERE LIKE (HESITATING)

"SHOULD I FILL IN FOR WILL SMITH?

OH, NEVER MIND, HE'S COMING BACK.

RUN!" THE CELEBRITIES IN THE AUDIENCE

DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO THINK EITHER.

LUPITA NYONG'O WAS SITTING BEHIND WILL SMITH AS HE

REPEATEDLY DROPPED THE F-BOMB WHILE YELLING AT CHRIS ROCK

HERE SHE IS AS IT WAS HAPPENING, IT'S THE FIRST TIME ANYONE IN

HOLLYWOOD WAS LIKE, "PLEASE POINT THE CAMERA AWAY FROM ME,"

SHE'S LIKE, "THIS IS THE CRAZIEST, SCARIEST THING I'VE

EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE. AND I WAS IN THE MOVIE "US.""

THE EVENT OVERSHADOWED THE ENTIRE EVENING, WHICH CONTAINED

SOME UNEXPECTED MOMENTS. LIKE THIS ONE, WHERE RYUSUKE

HAMAGUCHI, THE DIRECTOR OF "DRIVE MY CAR," WAS GIVING HIS

ACCEPTANCE SPEECH FOR BEST FOREIGN FILM, ALONGSIDE A

TRANSLATOR WHO WASN'T NEEDED. I LOVE THIS.

IT'S THE CLASSIC, I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT TO DO, SO I'LL JUST LOOK

I'LL LOOK BUSY, IGNORE ME, TAKING SOME NOTES.

ONCE SHE REALIZED HE DIDN'T NEED HER TO TRANSLATE ANYTHING, SHE

JUST STARTED SKETCHING KEVIN COSTNER.

IT LOOKED LIKE SHE JUST THOUGHT OF A GREAT WILL SMITH JOKE AND

SHE WANTS TO REMEMBER TO TWEET IT LATER.

AND THERE WAS THIS ODD MOMENT. WHILE INTRODUCING THE CATEGORY

FOR BEST SOUND, JASON MOMOA BURPED ON COMMAND,

THESE PEOPLE ARE GENIUSES, THEY ARE THE NOMINEES FOR ACHIEVEMENT

IN SOUND. ( IMPRESSIVE BELCH )

A MAGICAL NIGHT IN HOLLYWOOD. AND, OF COURSE, THERE WAS THIS

MOMENT FROM BEFORE THE SHOW, TIMOTHEE CHALAMET SHOWING UP TO

THE OSCARS SHIRTLESS. LOOK AT THAT.

CLASSIC CHALAMET, OUT HERE LOOKING LIKE A SEXY LITTLE

MAGICIAN. ALTHOUGH IT DID CREATE AN

AWKWARD MOMENT ON THE RED CARPET, WHEN SIR ANTHONY HOPKINS

SHOWED UP WEARING THE EXACT SAME THING.

ALAYS A NIGHTMARE. AND THEN, OF COURSE, TO TOP THE

EVENING OFF WILL SMITH RETURNED TO THE STAGE TO ACCEPT THE OSCAR

FOR BEST ACTOR. THIS IS TRUE, DURING HIS

ACCEPTANCE SPEECH, WILL SMITH SAID HE WANTS TO BE A VESSEL OF

LOVE. ALTHOUGH EVERYONE IN THE ROOM

WOULD HAVE SETTLED FOR A VESSEL OF CHILL-THE-(BLEEP)-OUT.

BUT WILL SMITH'S EVENING ENDED WITH HIM BEING HANDED A BEST

ACTOR OSCAR. WELL THAT, AND A W.W.E.

SMACKDOWN BELT. AND THAT'S THE NEWS