Oprah Winfrey Joins Jimmy Kimmel’s Oscar Aftershow (Video)

It's Winfrey's first appearance on "Jimmy Kimmel Live"

Will Oprah Winfrey be a part of Jimmy Kimmel's annual post-Oscar show celebrity comedy sketch? Winfrey is confirmed to be a guest on "Jimmy Kimmel Live: After the Academy Awards" special on Feb. 26, marking her first-ever appearance on Kimmel's show.

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Winfrey, an Emmy winner, Oscar nominee for "The Color Purple" and recipient of the Academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award last year, will join a line-up of Kimmel guests that will also include George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Martin Scorsese, Tom Hanks, Helen Mirren, Don Cheadle, Charlize Theron, Cameron Diaz, Samuel L. Jackson and Kimmel's neighbors, John Krasinski and Emily Blunt.

Oscar telecast host Billy Crystal will also be on hand to help Kimmel kick off his seventh post-Oscars show, while Coldplay will end the special with a performance on the "JKL" outdoor stage.

Check out video of two of Kimmel's classic Oscars aftershow celebrity skits, Tom Hanks' "Toddlers & Tiaras" spoof and the celeb-packed "Handsome Men's Club":

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