Jimmy Kimmel's playing dead bit during Quinta Brunson's Emmys speech is DOA with social media users

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(NOTE LANGUAGE) At Monday night’s 74th Annual Emmy Awards, there was no actual celebrity slap, but some on social media say there was a backhanded one at Emmy winner Quinta Brunson — and Jimmy Kimmel is to blame.

Will Arnett and Kimmel were to announce the winners for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series, and the Jimmy Kimmel Live! host apparently thought it would be funny to have Arnett literally drag him across the stage to the microphone as he played dead.

Arnett joked it was the “thirteenth time in a row” that Kimmel lost in the talk show category,