Watch: John Cena's Outfit While Presenting 'Costume Design' Oscar is... Nothing!

And the Oscar for Best Dressed Presenter goes to... John Cena, who went onstage in nothing at all to present the Best Costume award?

The pro wrestler and film star was the lead actor in a skit with host Jimmy Kimmel, who took note of the date of last night's Oscars broadcast being the fiftieth anniversary of the infamous moment when a streaker stormed the stage in 1974, interrupting David Niven's introduction of Elizabeth Taylor.

Kimmel set up the gag by musing, "Can you imagine if a nude man ran across the stage today?" A beat later, when nothing happened, Fallon repeated the question, at which point Cena peeked from behind a large set element, summoning Fallow with, "Pssst! Jimmy!"

Kimmel and Cena argued over a supposed stunt in which Cena was meant to streak naked across the stage.

"I, uh, changed my mind – I don't want to do the streaker bit any more," Cena told Kimmel, obscured from view except for his massive left pectoral and shoulder. "I just don't feel right about it, man," Cena went on to add. "It's an elegant event. You know, honestly, you should feel shame right now for suggesting such a tasteless idea."

"It's supposed to be fun!" Kimmel protested.

"The male body is not a joke," Cena replied.

"Mine is!" Kimmel cracked, as the audience laughed. "You wrestle naked!" Kimmel went on a moment later. "Why not?"

"Dude, I don't wrestle naked!" Cena exclaimed. "I wrestle in Jorts!"

Kimmel fired back with: "Jorts are worse than naked!"

Kimmel finally shoved the envelope for the Costume Design award into Cena's hands, saying, "Fine, just give out the award, then. God, you're the worst."

At that point, Cena resorted to using the oversized envelope as a shield to cover himself as he gingerly crab-walked to the mike. As he emerged from behind the set piece, he looked to be entirely naked except for sandals on his feet. Grimacing, he took his position at the mike and said, "Costumes..."

The crowd burst into laughter.

"...they are so important," Cena said. Then: "I can''t open the envelope..."

"Oh, my god," Kimmel groaned, striding out to join Cena at the mike. A few moments later, after cutting to clips from the films that had been nominated ("Barbie," Jacqueline Durran; "Killers of the Flower Moon," Jacqueline West; "Napoleaon," Janty Yates and Dave Crossman; "Oppenheimer," Ellen Mirojnick; and "Poor Things," Holly Waddington), the camera returned to Kimmel and Cena, with Kimmel seeming to put the finishing touches on an impromptu, Romanesque toga made from a drape. "There!" Kimmel groused. "You look beautiful."

In reality, stage hands sprang into action to drape the hulking wrestler, who wasn't really nude. (Kimmel did lend a hand.)

"Backstage photos show the actor wearing a skin-toned hybrid of a jock strap and thong to cover the sensitive parts front and back," the Huffington Post revealed.

"It was national TV after all," the Huffington Post added, "so a wardrobe malfunction would have added to previous controversies on Hollywood's biggest night."

That didn't stop trolls on Twitter from grousing about "Satanic" Hollywood and the "emasculation" of a strapping example of manhood like John Cena.

Even as the pearl-clutching over "the degradation of men" and the so-called "humiliation ritual" of Cena's skit boiled over in some quarters of X, others appreciated the joke and its underlying critique of how women are routinely expected to appear in garments that leave little to the imagination, covering not much and accentuating even what's being concealed.

"The humor of Mr. Cena's performance actually derived from how clearly it mirrored what the women are always doing," Rhonda Garelick wrote at the New York Times, "right down to the mincing, precarious steps."

Others made jokes of their own. Comedian Dana Goldberg made light of how lesbians and gay men would respond to Cena taking the stage in his uncovered state.

Gay Twitter more generally expressed appreciation in slightly different terms.

"Poor Things" won the Oscar for Costume Design, by the way.

Watch the skit below.