After Courtney B. Vance won a well-earned Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or a Movie Emmy for his superb work as Johnnie Cochran on The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, Jimmy Kimmel returned to the stage and quipped, "I have to believe that Johnnie Cochran is somewhere smiling up at us tonight."
After giving the crowd a second to process the hilariously dark put-down he'd just fielded out there, he asked them, "Too soon?"
Naturally some took to Twitter expressing their outrage at Kimmel's "offensive" joke (implying that Cochran helped a murderer get away with it and is now residing in Hell), while others praised him for his quick wit.
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