Jimmy Kimmel Turned Down Hosting 2025 Oscars Because ‘I’m Not Good at Balancing’ It and Late Night Show: ‘It Was Just Too Much Last Year’

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1. > “I just decided I didn’t want to deal with that this year. It was just too much last year…I’m not good at balancing. I’m really not. It’s not one of my strengths. I’m all in when it comes to something like the Oscars. I think about it in the morning and at night, and when I have ideas I want to work on them, and then my nightly show seems like a nuisance. We have all our writers from the show working on the Oscars, so it distracts them. It’s fun to do, and it feels good when it went well, but, for me, just was too much, to do it three years in a row.”

2. Also, “I am not good at this, at all.”

   Pretty sure he said that, and it just got left out of the article

3. I like his honesty. Unlike Fallon that pops up everywhere and never stfu! 🙂

4. Is there no one else in Hollywood besides Kimmel?

5. Get Ricky Gervais you cowards!

6. Pick Conan this time

7. “Also I sucked at it”

8. I’ve enjoyed the host-less shows just fine. I host the Oscars at my place every year, and I don’t need people staying over 4+ hours because entertaining guests for that long is exhausting. Just hand out the awards so I can kick people out earlier!

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10. Colbert should do it. Seems like a very obvious choice and I’m surprised they haven’t tapped him yet.

11. They should just have average humans go up and do it

12. Is there an upside for anyone who’s already fairly famous to host it?

13. Get Craig Ferguson. He’d be a great host.

14. I would love to see Conan do it!

15. Kimmel is a jerk and shouldn’t be hosting anything.

16. Huh.. I guess Oscars is running out of Hollywood.

17. Tom Papa. Don’t know why he isn’t a Megastar.

18. Maaaan, gimme the mic! I’ll host that shit.

19. Does Mulaney want to?.

20. I want Christine Baranski to host the Oscars. Or some other gala type show, she has the right mix of charm and flair. She would be a delightful host