Chris Rock has hosted the Oscars twice, and says he’d be down to do so a third time — though he doesn’t see it happening, in part because he hasn’t been shy about the show’s dry format. “Like, is it a TV show or is it that scene from About Schmidt where Jack Nicholson gets the award for selling insurance?” he cracks.
And in part because he doesn’t know that the show will have a host ever again. He and Steve Martin were the closest the Oscars got to hosts this past year, and all they did was riff for a few minutes at the top of the show.
Rock had said no to presenting initially, being busy and all with Fargo. But producers came back with the idea of him doing a bit with Martin, and Rock, who’d long admired Martin from afar, was in.
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