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Jimmy Kimmel recently explained why he refused hosting the 2025 Oscars.
On the newest edition of Gavin Newsom, Marshawn Lynch, and Doug Hendrickson's Politickin podcast, Jimmy stated, "I just decided I didn't want to deal with that this year."
Jimmy, who hosted the Oscars in 2017, 2018, 2023, and 2024, admitted, "It was just too much last year." You end up putting everything off until after the Oscars, and then you have to follow through on everything you pledged to do after the Oscars.
"I did two years [2017 and 2018], and everything went smoothly. I did another two years [2023 and 2024], which went nicely. "I thought I'd take a little break," said the late-night host.
Jimmy commented, "I'm not good at balance. "I really am not."
"It is not one of my strengths. "I'm all in for something like the Oscars," the host concluded.
Jimmy clarified: "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 of our writers from the show working on the Oscars, so it distracts them," the late-night host said.
Jimmy said to the presenter of the podcast: "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."
Meanwhile, Jimmy said that there are many solid alternatives for prospective Oscar hosts, but "most of them don't want to do it".
"It takes a lot of time, and a lot of the people who you think, 'That person would be great' they know they'd be great, they just don't want to do it," he told me.
Jimmy said, "They call it a thankless job. I wouldn't necessarily call it that way, because when things go well, they don't, but it's a difficult situation."
