Jimmy Kimmel explains what really happened during the Oscars Best Picture flub on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’

Jimmy Kimmel returned to the stage Monday night with his own perspective of what happened during the disastrous Best Picture presentation at the Oscars.

“Except for the end it was a lot of fun. It went very well. We were chugging along and then all of a sudden out of nowhere it turned into one of those Maury Povich paternity test shows. It was the weirdest TV finale since ‘Lost,’” the comedian said on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

“You know it’s a strange night when the word ‘envelope’ is trending on Twitter.”

Faye Dunaway announced “La La Land” as the Best Picture winner after Warren Beatty passed the card to Except halfway through acceptance speeches, producer Jordan Horowitz announced that “Moonlight” had actually won.

“I’m now sitting in the audience, watching these speeches. The plan is for me to end the show from the audience, in a seat next to Matt Damon,” Kimmel said Monday night.her during the final category of the nigh“We’re sitting there and we notice some commotion and Matt says ‘I think I heard a stagehand say they got the winner wrong.’ So we’re sitting there and we figure the host will go on stage and clear this up and then I remember, ‘oh, I’m the host.’ So, I guess no one else is going to go.”

Kimmel said his first instinct was to tell Horowitz to “take that Oscar and get out,” but instead the “La La Land” cast stayed on stage as the “Moonlight” cast joined the madness.t.“Now there’s mass confusion. The audience is confused, the people standing around me are confused, I assume everyone at home is confused. And I’m probably supposed to do something because no one’s doing anything,” Kimmel said.

“Now I see Denzel Washington in the front row trying to get my attention; he’s gesturing and he’s pointing. I don’t know what he’s pointing, but he says ‘Barry.’ Eventually I figure out that Barry Jenkins, the director of ‘Moonlight,’ is standing beside me and Denzel wants me to get him to the microphone to make a speech, which, you know, makes sense. Thank God Denzel was there to make sense.”

And despite speculation that the whole mess was a gag, Kimmel denied the rumors.“If I had pulled a prank, by the way, I wouldn’t have just had the wrong winner’s on the envelope. When they opened it, there would have been like a Bed, Bath and Beyond coupon. It was not a prank.”

Backstage, Beatty showed Kimmel the card while Stone told reporters that she’d held onto her cards.

“Just to make it more confusing,” Kimmel joked.

At that point, Dunaway had already left the area to avoid the scuffle: “Clyde threw Bonnie under the bus.”

“It wasn’t Warren Beatty’s fault. And Faye Dunaway made quite a getaway. She got the hell out of there,” Kimmel said.“She read the wrong name and she split. She wanted no part of it.”

In the 24 hours after the Oscars upset, PricewaterhouseCoopers accountant Brian Cullinan took most of the blame after he “mistakenly handed the back-up envelope for Actress in a Leading Role instead of the envelope for Best Picture to presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway,” PricewaterhouseCoopers said in a statement to the Daily News.“Once the error occurred, protocols for correcting it were not followed through quickly enough by Mr. Cullinan or his partner.”

The Academy issued a similar statement, apologizing for the mishap.

“We apologize to the entire cast and crew of La La Land and Moonlight whose experience was profoundly altered by this error. We salute the tremendous grace they displayed under the circumstances. To all involved — including our presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, the filmmakers, and our fans watching worldwide — we apologize,” the organization said.