Kevin Hart has shut down any speculation that he may host the Academy Awards or Golden Globe Awards in the near future.
“Whatever little hope you had, I want to destroy it right now,” Hart told Sky News.
“Those gigs aren’t good gigs for comics. It’s no shot to the Oscars, no shot to the Globes or anything else. Those just aren’t comedy-friendly environments anymore. I think they got it right one year where it was like just a bunch of personalities acting as the hosts and that’s a nice thing. It’s a collaborative thing, different people get to be responsible for act one, act two, act three, but you know, the days of it being a room for a comic, those days are done.”
Previously, Hart hosted the BET Awards, the MTV Video Music Awards and the MTV Movie Awards. More recently, the comedian was tasked with hosting the Academy Awards in 2019. However, the Academy and Hart went their separate ways after he received backlash for anti-gay tweets posted years prior.
“I’m sorry that I hurt people. I am evolving and want to continue to do so. My goal is to bring people together not tear us apart. Much love [and] appreciation to the Academy. I hope we can meet again,” he tweeted in December 2018.
While he may not be interested in hosting award shows, Hart remains supportive of those who do take on those gigs.
“Shout out to those that have cracked the code and done it right early on, you know, the Chris Rocks of the world, the Billy Crystals of the world, the girls we’ve had like Tina Fey, Amy Poehler. Ricky Gervais,” he continued.
“There’s a lot of people that understand that if you’re not an industry comic, meaning a comic that has the relationships of all, then those rooms are very cold. So, me doing it is, of course, at an advantage, because I know the room and for me, and familiar with so many. But, for others it’s not the same.”
