All jokes apart, Kevin Hart has no plans to ever host the Oscars.
During an look on “Watch What Happens Live” on Thursday, the comic informed host Andy Cohen that internet hosting the Academy Awards present is “not going to happen” for him.
“Kill the idea of it. It’s not going to happen,” he stated, later including that “there’s no return of good.”
Hart was tapped to host the 2019 Oscars, however he stepped down from the gig amid controversy over his outdated homophobic tweets and jokes that had resurfaced on-line shortly after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences introduced that he’d be the host.
The “Jumanji” actor initially refused to publicly apologize for his previous feedback, claiming that he had already performed so years earlier than. But he tweeted an apology to the LGBTQ neighborhood the next day when he introduced his choice to step down. He has since expressed remorse for the way he dealt with the scenario.
Hart stated on “WWHL” that the Oscars has a “phenomenal stage” however that his priorities have advanced through the years. He stated he as soon as seen internet hosting the present as a “notch on my belt.”
“I’m far beyond and past that, so I don’t need that at this point,” he stated.
Earlier within the clip, Hart had addressed the backlash fellow comic Jo Koy obtained after internet hosting the Golden Globes final weekend.
Hart defended Koy, saying the Golden Globes is “a tough room.”
“It’s an industry room where the expectation is one of, like, consequence,” he stated. “Everybody’s on edge about, ‘What are you going to say about me?’ So it’s not one that’s attached to immediate laughter.”
Koy was criticized after a number of of his jokes fell flat through the award ceremony. He informed “GMA3” the following morning that internet hosting the Golden Globes was a “tough gig.”
