John Mulaney is opening up about turning down the internet hosting gig for the 2024 Oscars.
While showing on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast on Monday — the identical episode during which Maron announced his podcast would be ending after 16 years — the comic defined why he determined to not emcee the awards present.
“Well, I was very flattered. They came to me, must have been last summer. And I knew Jimmy Kimmel wasn’t gonna do it. And they offered it,” he started. “And it was honestly that I had a lot going on. And it’s months and months of work.”
The Hollywood Reporter had reported that the primary outreach had gone to Kimmel, who’s already emceed the Academy Awards 4 occasions. But Kimmel in the end mentioned no, as he reportedly did internet hosting this yr’s Emmy awards, which additionally aired on ABC.
Conan O’Brien went on to to host the 97th Academy Awards. Mulaney sang O’Brien’s praises for his internet hosting tenure. “He came out and he not only was so funny, but he elevated the show to the point that I almost convinced myself I had seen these movies and I’d seen not a one of them,” he quipped.
Maron added he was additionally proud O’Brien “just locked in and owned the fucking thing” when internet hosting moderately than resort to “self-erasing,” which Maron says he has seen with O’Brien as a result of he’s identified him for thus lengthy and has watched him “do a joke” then “kind of take it apart.”
Mulaney not too long ago launched the Netflix discuss present Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney.
Mulaney mentioned “there was a plan to do more” and that they had been “figuring it out.” And although “it’s been very enjoyable,” he additionally famous that he has “really felt the 12 weeks in a row” of doing the present.
“We would scale back what we were doing if we were doing it everyday,” Mulaney defined.
When describing the talk show, Mulaney mentioned it was an “evergreen, bizarre, not fairly any period discuss present that is also attempting to be a spread present in some methods.
“It was more than just that we got to try a lot of bits and jokes and have guests on,” he mentioned. “We just got to try whole episodes where it felt very shoestring and episodes where we were blowing it out production-wise.”
When attending the Next on Netflix occasion in January, Mulaney had first teased the discuss present as a “really fun experiment.” Guests have included Pete Davidson, Henry Winkler, Bill Hader, David Letterman and Natasha Lyonne.
“It’s one of those shows that neither Netflix nor I really needed to do,” Mulaney mentioned on the time. “I never wanted to host a talk show and they were getting out of the talk show game. It was the perfect moment to do this.”
