https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/jimmy-kimmel-john-mulaney-not-hosting-oscars-1235961406/

ABC and the Academy are now back to the drawing board (https://puck.news/jimmy-kimmel-out-as-oscars-host/) as they search for a host for the 2025 Academy Awards.

Oscars may move away from a comedian as host, but four past hosts remain viable (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/who-will-host-oscars-2025-1235965714/)

Four past hosts, however, may remain viable. At 78, comedy legend Steve Martin — who hosted in 2001, 2003 and, with Baldwin, 2010 — is now ...

Jimmy Kimmel Turned Down Hosting 2025 Oscars because "I'm Not Good at Balancing It" with Late Night Show
by Zack Sharf
Aug. 12, 2024


Jimmy Kimmel appeared on the latest episode of Gavin Newsom, Marshawn Lynch and Doug Hendrickson’s “Politickin’” podcast and opened up on his decision to turn down hosting the 2025 Oscars.

The late night favorite is a four-time Oscars host, having emceed Hollywood’s biggest night in 2017, 2018, 2023 and 2024. Kimmel enjoys the gig, but he admitted that it comes at a price and detracts from “Jimmy Kimmel Live” because all of his focus needs to be on the Oscars.



“I just decided I didn’t want to deal with that this year,” Kimmel said.

“It was just too much last year. You wind up pushing everything off till after the Oscars, and then you have to do everything you promised to do after the Oscars, after the Oscars. I did two years [2017 and 2018], it went well. I did another two years [2023 and 2024], it went well. I figured I’d take a little break.”



“I’m not good at balancing. I’m really not,” he added.

“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.”

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/jimmy-kimmel-rejected-2025-oscars-host-offer-1236103982/