Roger Ross Williams got “Kanyed” at the Oscars but Larry King showed him love, sort of.

// March 9th, 2010 // Where's the Beef

Roger Ross Williams got a second chance to give his Oscar acceptance speech on Monday night during an appearance on ‘Larry King Live,’ but instead was interrupted once again before crossing the finish line. At Sunday’s Academy Awards, Elinor Burkett, co-winner for Best Documentary Short ‘Music by Prudence,’ cut Williams off, but this time the culprit was the show’s host, who apparently tried to signal Williams that he’d gone on too long with his thank-yous.

Given the chance to finish his speech, Williams started from the top, complete with “Oh my God, oh my God,” but then carried on for close to a minute and a half before stopping mid-sentence. After looking around awkwardly, the camera panned to King who signaled Williams to come back to the set.

“I wasn’t cutting you off, Kanye” King told him, awkwardly referring to the incident at last year’s MTV VMAs, where Kanye West interrupted an acceptance speech by Taylor Swift. The singer was allowed to finish her speech later in the night when Beyonce invited her up on stage.

This was King’s attempt to be the Beyonce to Williams’ Swift. Watch:

In what was dubbed the “Kanye” moment of the night, ‘Prudence’ producer Burkett rushed the stage while Williams was doing his thank-yous and verbally nudged him aside so she could speak.

The problem is that she was not supposed to accept the award, and because of personal animosity between the two filmmakers, she said Williams rushed to the stage while his cane-wielding mother blocked Burkett from exiting the aisle.

In an interview with Salon, Burkett said she was shut out of Oscar-related events and because the two aren’t speaking to each other (related to a lawsuit over the film), they did not discuss who would be allowed to speak if they won.

“She just ambushed me,” Williams said of the moment Burkett emerged on stage. “I was sort of in shock.”