According to the New York Post, Kevin Hart will never host the Academy Awards.
“Whatever little hope you had, I want to destroy it right now… Those gigs aren’t good gigs for comics. It’s no shot to the Oscars, no shot to the Globes or anything else. Those just aren’t comedy-friendly environments anymore.”
Kevin Hart’s statement comes after comedian Jo Koy flopped at the latest Golden Globes.
The 2024 Oscars will have Jimmy Kimmel as the host.
Kevin Hart Should Have Hosted The 2019 Oscars
Hart has never hosted the Oscars.
He was to do it in 2019 but stepped down after 7-year-old homophobic tweets.
“I have made the choice to step down from hosting this year’s Oscar’s … this is because I do not want to be a distraction on a night that should be celebrated by so many amazing talented artists.”
“I sincerely apologize to the LGBTQ community for my insensitive words from my past.”
The announcement came after Kevin Hart posted a message on Instagram revealing that Motion Picture Academy officials had requested he apologize or they’d get another host.
“I think they got it right one year where it was like just a bunch of personalities acting as the hosts and that’s a nice thing. It’s a collaborative thing, different people get to be responsible for act one, act two, act three, but you know, the days of it being a room for a comic, those days are done.”
That said, the actor congratulated comics who have successfully hosted the Oscars.
“Shout out to those that have cracked the code and done it right early on, you know, the Chris Rocks of the world, the Billy Crystals of the world, the girls we’ve had like Tina Fey, Amy Poehler. Ricky Gervais.”
“There’s a lot of people that understand that if you’re not an industry comic, meaning a comic that has the relationships of all, then those rooms are very cold … It’s not the gig that it was of old. It’s too much pressure on the idea of a comic and what’s jokes and not jokes. So, it’s tough.”
