Kevin Hart Won’t Host the Oscars or Any Awards Show Ever Again
Kevin Hart speaks onstage during the 88th Annual Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre on February 28, 2016 in Hollywood, California.
Following comedian Jo Koy’s Golden Globes hosting gig, fellow comedians rallied behind the host. Kevin Hart is one of those comics who said that hosting gigs “aren’t good gigs for comics.” Hart told Sky News awards shows “just aren’t comedy-friendly environments anymore.” Offering a better option, the Lift star thought the best hosts would be “a bunch of personalities acting as the hosts.” This way, he believes the collaboration would make people responsible for the different segments of the night. He then declared that the days of that “cold” room being for a comic are “done.”
Hart also reiterated that he will not host the Oscars ever again. In 2019, Hart’s Oscars hosting gig ended after resurfaced homophobic tweets and stand-up material over a decade ago had him step down. The Oscars aired that year without a host for the first time since 1989. “Whatever little hope you had, I want to destroy it right now,” Hart said of him hosting any awards show whatsoever. He has previously hosted the BET Awards, the MTV Video Music Awards, and the MTV Movie Awards. During his interview, Hart praised his fellow comics who have had successful hosting gigs, like Chris Rock, Billy Crystal, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, and Ricky Gervais. Alluding to Jo Koy’s hosting gig, Hart added that “It’s too much pressure on the idea of a comic and what’s jokes and not jokes.”
During this year’s Golden Globes ceremony, Jo Koy was met with a silent room and uproar on social media for his jokes about Barbie and Taylor Swift. Of the latter, Koy said, “The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL: On the Golden Globes, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift, I swear.” He later told the Los Angeles Times he bared “no ill intent” toward the pop icon and that it was directed toward the NFL. During his opening monologue, Koy described Barbie as a movie about “a plastic doll with big boobies!”
Kevin Hart’s latest film, Lift, is out now on Netflix.
Netflix New Releases for January 2024
Streaming giant Netflix has a lot of highly-anticipated movies to offer their subscribers. From comedies to grisly dramas, the streamer’s January releases feature some of our favorite actors and producers. With the writers and actors strikes over, streamers and production companies are releasing projects that have been held off due to production being shut down in the latter half of 2023.
New Film and Television Series in 2024
For Netflix, one of the streamer’s highest-profile new series, 3 Body Problem, was bumped out of 2023 and into 2024. This is the first post-Game of Thrones show from creators David Benioff and Dan Weiss, arriving in the Spring. The sci-fi drama has been in the works since 2020, starring Eiza González, Benedict Wong, and Game of Thrones alums John Bradley, Liam Cunningham, and Jonathan Pryce. Additionally, the live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender series is just as highly anticipated for fans of the beloved original Nickelodeon animated series. It will be coming to the streamer in late February.
Sofia Vergara stars as real-life Colombian cartel boss Griselda Blanco in a miniseries, looking completely unrecognizable. In it, she creates one of the most profitable cartels in history. With six episodes that are each an hour long, Griselda creator Eric Newman said Vergara was perfect for the role “not only because she, like Griselda, is a single mother who came to America from Colombia with nothing and built an empire, but because it was unexpected of her to do. Sofia has been thought of one way, a beautiful and brilliant comedic actress, and she is so much more than that.”
For the movie fanatics, Netflix has a few standout films kicking off January alone. Another standout project is Society of the Snow, the harrowing story of the Uruguayan rugby team that crash-landed in the Andes mountains in 1972. Kevin Hart offers a new comedy in a heist film, and Dan Levy directs and stars in a dramedy titled Good Grief. Coming in March, Millie Bobby Brown stars in a fantasy action movie called Damsel. Later in the month, Lindsay Lohan stars in her second rom-com, Irish Wish. April brings Zack Snyder’s sequel, Rebel Moon Part 2: The Scargiver.
Take a look below at the new additions that will be released in January 2024 on Netflix:
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