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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Jennie Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The Oscars are tomorrow. I thought i’d put this out today so the episode would have a day and a half to live before it got incredibly dated. Jimmy Kimmel is your host.
He said, what sets the Oscar apart from other live events? Well, it’s not as sweaty as the super Bowl. It’s classier than any other wards shows. You know, the Oscars are the original. This is the big one.
It’s the granddaddy of the mall, and everyone’s aware of that. His wife, Mollie, is an executive producer on the show. She says the goal is to keep it a happy, joyfull celebration for the people in the room. Keep it moving. Jimmy’s also really good on his feet.
He thrives in spontaneous moments, so live TV is perfect for him. Jimmy said, to be honest, sometimes I hope things go wrong because it mixes things up a bit. You don’t want everything to be too deeply wrapped up at a bow. You want a little bit of a mess. Maybe somebody could slap someone.
You want a little bit of risk. And it’s a live show, and you want to remind people that so something happens, which things seem to be happening a lot, I feel like I’ll be ready for it. Kimmel’s asked about Joe Coy. You may recall Joe said this horrible, horrible, mean, no, just terrible joke about Taylor Swift, who reacted by basically murdering Joe Cooy’s career. I hate to do this to you, but let’s share the just vicious joke that Joe Coy told about Taylor Swift.
As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader. The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Globes, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift. I swear. Oh, it’s just it’s so mean.
And Joe, what are you doing that’s vicious? Kimill said. Part of the struggle there for Joe was that he’s not part of Hollywood in the way that Kimmel is. Kim Will said, it’s a lot easier for me than it is for Joe Koy. It’s like if a stranger walks up to you and goes nice shirt, Tom selek if it’s one of your friends.
You don’t take offense to it, but if it’s somebody you don’t know, you might smack him one. He thinks Joe Coy should get another chance. Not that I have any business programming the Golden Globes, but I think they should let Joe Coy host the show next year and give him a shot at doing it over. It would be very smart. I think he learned all the lessons, and he’s a funny guy.
I think it’d be nice for everyone. Coy has said he’d love to return his host of the Golden Globes, but with five months to prepare, not nine days. Jimmy kim Ole will now have hosted the fourth and most Oscars behind Bob Hope, Johnny Carson, and Billy Crystal. That’s some serious company there, he says. It just shows you how far we fall, and as a Culture Deadline asked he actually enjoy hosting the show.
It seems like a lot of pressure, Jimmy said, I don’t love the lead up to it, but I do actually enjoy hosting the show. When I’m on stage and everything’s ready to go, it’s fun to show everyone we’ve been working on. I think it’s like secretly fixing up a car in a garage and then you bring the family to see it. How much time does he prepare? He says, we really start in earnest when it gets announced, because we can’t tell anyone we’re doing it until then.
So I started thinking about things that make little notes about award shows all the time. You know, if I think of something, I put it a little folder in my computer, and I fer back to that stuff when I need it. But as far as writing specific jokes and coming up with ideas for the show, I think we started like the day we announced it to the press in mid November. Does he see the movies? Yes, I think I see more movies than almost anyone, not even when I’m hosting the Oscars.
But I figured out I think I see about one hundred movies a year. I make a point to see all of the features, even the short films, the short and animated, you know everything. Does he test his monologue. I don’t trust a group of strangers.
And also I’m not sure that it really helps, because if you go to a comedy clu…
Right. Imagine you made a vicious, horrible joke about Taylor Swift and she basically murdered your career by making an icy face. That would be terrible. A big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift.
That’s what I try to do is test the jokes on the people I know who get it, who’ve been to the Oscars, who understand the dynamic there, and who’ve also been honest with me and will say like, yeah, I like that one more than this one. Will there be political jokes? I mean, I don’t rule it out completely, but it’s not necessarily what the show’s about, and it’s not like I don’t have an outlet to do that five nights a week. So it definitely has to be a joke that I can’t resist for me to use it at the Oscars deadline. If a joke doesn’t go well, do you plan on blaming your writers?
Kim Will said absolutely, I’ll do it privately when I go to their homes. And fire them in front of their families. They too asked about Joe Cooy You may recall Joe Cooy told it’s just horrible, horrible joke about Terry Swift. Here, let’s listen to it again. We have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift.
Ah so mean. I can’t believe Joe did that, Kimble said, I felt bad for him. I don’t think he was put in a great position. I think it’d be the first person to tell you that publicly blaming his writers was not the right move. But you know, it’s overwhelming.
I think he’s a funny guy, and I think it’s a shame that for a lot of people saw him for the first time, that was the impression they got. And I hope they look at his other work. You know, the guy rifted a joke in the moment. What are you gonna do? Tough enough writers?
Kimmell says, this is the crown jewel of awards shows. You know, it’s an analogy people use. It’s like when people say this guy’s the Michael Jordan of this These are the oscars of the chemical engineering world. You know, they don’t say this is the Golden Globes of the chemical engineering world. Do you want to do more oscars?
Jimmy said, I think I’ve retired from ruling things out, so I’d never be so presumptuous as to assume they’d want me back a year after year after year. But this year they wanted me, and they asked me, and so I’m definitely gonna do this. One funny anecdote here, they brought up that Jimmy Kimmel is the longest running late night host now and the ratings seem good. Jimmy said, I know, it’s crazy to think about it. I mean, it’s funny because even like my offices in our building, ABC didn’t want to pay fifty thousand dollars to remodel a room that had windows in it because they weren’t so sure that we were going to be on and it’d be worth it.
So the first two years I was in a windowless basement. Really had to beg them to move me upstairs i could get some sunshine on my body. People ask Jimmy Kimmel about a post show tradition. Jimmy says, the award show tradition is in and out after the show, and I think part of why is because when people are in LA, one of things on their list is to go to In and Out Burger, And there are a lot of people in La just for the Oscars, and they wind up going like, all right, Also, you get very hungry, So in and out is definitely the Award show tradition. Nothing as McDonald’s, but on Award Show night, it’s in and out.
Jason Zenniman writes for The New York Times headline Wanted writers for Award Show jokes must be skilled at diplomacy, hosts who have to entertain inside at the ceremony, and outsiders watching at home. Presenters who changed their minds. No wonder the bits are awkward. Jason brings up Joe Cooy, throwing the writers under the bus. Jason says two of the three veterans who wrote jokes for the Golden Globes Monologue declined to comment for this article, and a third didn’t respond to the request.
Megan Ameron wrote for the twenty eleven Oscars and said, you want it to be a little edgy, but not so much that it turns off the grandparents. Bruce Falance expressed sympathy for that meanie. Joe Coy pointing to the shots of the stars not laughing in his vicious mean joke about Taylor Swift, Bruce said, did he really need the reaction of Taylor Swift to swiftly bring condemnation upon his soul? At south By Southwest today four pm Local time, Samantha Bee presents Wits End, a live game show. Doug Benson and James at Doomian face off in a game of custom made trivia created and hosted by Adam Kessner.
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Conan and Robert talk about meeting up at SNL in the late eighties and reminiscent about the ittoc they created together. It led to the birth of a talk show Late Night with Conan O’Brien that would change the way people call Late Night with David Letterman. We’ll see rare clips, including the Adam West pilot. Look, well, that’s a fun thing if you can find that, and some highlights from the beginning of Late Night. Again.
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So if we were at south By tonight, let’s do stand up Spotlight, then we’ll do the Creak and the Cave Presents stand Up, Let’s make the Conan Thing, and let’s do Stamptown. We’re gonna have to leave each one of these shows early to make the next show. The schedule does not allow you to double up there. But that is your comedy news for today. If you join the program, tell a friend about it.
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