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Between jokes about Will Smith’s infamous slap in the face at the 2022 Oscars, returning host Jimmy Kimmel slammed Nick Cannon’s large child count during his opening monologue at this year’s Academy Awards. And shortly after the ceremony wrapped, the Masked Singer host himself responded to the call, which he enjoyed.
“I heard about it,” Cannon told TMZ as he exited a restaurant Sunday night (March 12). “It’s hilarious. I created Wild N’ Out – I can hear jokes all day.”
The Jimmy Kimmel Live! The host effortlessly joked about Cannon’s headline-grabbing fertility rate — the drumline star is a father to 12 children, eight of whom were born within two years — by mentioning one of the night’s nominated films, Avatar: The Way Water cost Disney two billion dollars. “Just to break even, all of Nick Cannon’s kids had to see Avatar four times,” Kimmel quipped.
However, there are no hard feelings between the two men. “Kimmel is my man,” Cannon added.
The former America’s Got Talent host first became a father when he gave birth to twins with his megastar ex-wife, Mariah Carey, in 2011. In the years after the couple split in 2014, he had 10 more babies with five other women: Brittany Bell, Abby De La Rosa, Bre Tiesi, LaNisha Cole, and Alyssa Scott.
Many have wondered if and when Cannon will end his oat sowing, including the TMZ reporter, who ended their Sunday night chat by asking if he plans to limit his number of children — not that they’re getting a real answer would have the question. “I don’t know. What are you doing later?” he joked, laughing slyly as he closed his car door.