Jimmy Kimmel On Jokes You Won’t Hear At The Oscars, His Biggest Fear For The Show, His Future At ABC & The One Thing He Does Other Hosts Never Do: The Deadline Q&A
deadline.comJimmy Kimmel is hosting the Oscars this year for the fourth time. Other than Bob Hope (19 times), Billy Crystal (nine) and Johnny Carson (five), no solo host has done it more. (Whoopi did it 4 times as well.) But it is a good bet that among those hosts, no one has seen as many of the nominated films.
Kimmel is a self-described movie fan, and as I learned from our conversation he not only spends weeks, months even, prepping his monologue, but he also might be one of the few in the room at the Dolby Theater who actually has seen everything.
And I mean everything. Kimmel’s first Oscar show in 2017 was a baptism of fire that ended with the infamous Envelopegate when Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway pronounced heavy favorite La La Land as the Best Picture winner over what was soon revealed as the actual winner, Moonlight.
He returned the next year with plenty of comedic fodder from that mixup. After a few years off including, fortunately, the infamous Will Smith slap show, he was called back last year to put a bit of normalcy into the show, and the ratings climbed back in the right direction which the Academy hopes will continue this year, especially with juggernauts like Barbie and Oppenheimer leading the conversation, a key reason Kimmel decided to do another back-to-back turn as M.C.
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