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“The greatest night in the history of television”

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The Oscars were bordering on irrelevancy until Will Smith slapped Chris Rock on stage.
This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh and Will Reid, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Victoria Chamberlin, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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