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Recently, Jimmy Kimmel gave fans a taste of his upcoming Oscar monologue and assured fans that he doesn’t want to be the permanent host for the Oscars.
Jimmy said about the number of times he has hosted, “You assume I’ve been asked about next year. Which is not a presumption I would ever make.” He continued, “Maybe we should let Johnny have that number.
I think it was also very different back then. I think it was more of a ‘show up and do a few jokes’ type of situation.
I’m not necessarily focused on the numbers part of it.” He added about his upcoming monologue, “This is kind of the hardest part because this is when I have three times as much material as I need.
I have to figure out what to cut and what to keep. That’s difficult because you do fall in love with jokes and then you hate to cut them.
You know you have a good show when you’re cutting good jokes.” Kimmel continued, “I feel like what people appreciate the most are really strong jokes.
And popping in when you need to be on stage and not being on stage when you don’t need to be. Just keeping the show moving in general.” He added, “It’s hard to make jokes about things people don’t know, so having movies where most of the room has seen them helps a lot.
In a lot of ways, it’s why Trump jokes work so well.
You don’t have to explain him at all before you can get right to the punch line.” Who else would you like to see host the Oscars other than Jimmy Kimmel?
