Oscars Preview: Jimmy Kimmel gets ready to host, and his thoughts on Jo Koy

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hello, Jennie
Mack with your daily comedy news. The

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Oscars are tomorrow. I thought i'd
put this out today so the episode would

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have a day and a half to
live before it got incredibly dated. Jimmy

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Kimmel is your host. He said, what sets the Oscar apart from other

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live events? Well, it's not
as sweaty as the super Bowl. It's

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classier than any other wards shows.
You know, the Oscars are the original.

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This is the big one. It's
the granddaddy of the mall, and

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everyone's aware of that. His wife, Mollie, is an executive producer on

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the show. She says the goal
is to keep it a happy, joyfull

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celebration for the people in the room. Keep it moving. Jimmy's also really

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good on his feet. He thrives
in spontaneous moments, so live TV is

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perfect for him. Jimmy said,
to be honest, sometimes I hope things

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go wrong because it mixes things up
a bit. You don't want everything to

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be too deeply wrapped up at a
bow. You want a little bit of

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a mess. Maybe somebody could slap
someone. You want a little bit of

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risk. And it's a live show, and you want to remind people that

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so something happens, which things seem
to be happening a lot, I feel

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like I'll be ready for it.
Kimmel's asked about Joe Coy. You may

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recall Joe said this horrible, horrible, mean, no, just terrible joke

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about Taylor Swift, who reacted by
basically murdering Joe Cooy's career. I hate

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to do this to you, but
let's share the just vicious joke that Joe

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Coy told about Taylor Swift. As
you know, we came on after a

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football doubleheader. The big difference between
the Golden Globes and the NFL. On

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the Golden Globes, we have fewer
camera shots of Taylor Swift. I swear.

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Oh, it's just it's so mean. And Joe, what are you

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doing that's vicious? Kimill said.
Part of the struggle there for Joe was

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that he's not part of Hollywood in
the way that Kimmel is. Kim Will

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said, it's a lot easier for
me than it is for Joe Koy.

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It's like if a stranger walks up
to you and goes nice shirt, Tom

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selek if it's one of your friends. You don't take offense to it,

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but if it's somebody you don't know, you might smack him one. He

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thinks Joe Coy should get another chance. Not that I have any business programming

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the Golden Globes, but I think
they should let Joe Coy host the show

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next year and give him a shot
at doing it over. It would be

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very smart. I think he learned
all the lessons, and he's a funny

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guy. I think it'd be nice
for everyone. Coy has said he'd love

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to return his host of the Golden
Globes, but with five months to prepare,

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not nine days. Jimmy kim Ole
will now have hosted the fourth and

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most Oscars behind Bob Hope, Johnny
Carson, and Billy Crystal. That's some

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serious company there, he says.
It just shows you how far we fall,

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and as a Culture Deadline asked he
actually enjoy hosting the show. It

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seems like a lot of pressure,
Jimmy said, I don't love the lead

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up to it, but I do
actually enjoy hosting the show. When I'm

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on stage and everything's ready to go, it's fun to show everyone we've been

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working on. I think it's like
secretly fixing up a car in a garage

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and then you bring the family to
see it. How much time does he

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prepare? He says, we really
start in earnest when it gets announced,

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because we can't tell anyone we're doing
it until then. So I started thinking

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about things that make little notes about
award shows all the time. You know,

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if I think of something, I
put it a little folder in my

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computer, and I fer back to
that stuff when I need it. But

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as far as writing specific jokes and
coming up with ideas for the show,

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I think we started like the day
we announced it to the press in mid

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November. Does he see the movies? Yes, I think I see more

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movies than almost anyone, not even
when I'm hosting the Oscars. But I

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figured out I think I see about
one hundred movies a year. I make

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a point to see all of the
features, even the short films, the

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short and animated, you know everything. Does he test his monologue. I

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don't trust a group of strangers.
And also I'm not sure that it really

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helps, because if you go to
a comedy club and try the jokes out

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in front of a comedy audience,
I don't think you're necessarily going to get

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the same response as you will get
for the people who the jokes are about.

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Right. Imagine you made a vicious, horrible joke about Taylor Swift and

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she basically murdered your career by making
an icy face. That would be terrible.

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A big difference between the Golden Globes
and the NFL. On the Golden

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Gloves, we have fewer camera shots
of Taylor Swift. That's what I try

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to do is test the jokes on
the people I know who get it,

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who've been to the Oscars, who
understand the dynamic there, and who've also

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been honest with me and will say
like, yeah, I like that one

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more than this one. Will there
be political jokes? I mean, I

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don't rule it out completely, but
it's not necessarily what the show's about,

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and it's not like I don't have
an outlet to do that five nights a

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week. So it definitely has to
be a joke that I can't resist for

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me to use it at the Oscars
deadline. If a joke doesn't go well,

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do you plan on blaming your writers? Kim Will said absolutely, I'll

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do it privately when I go to
their homes. And fire them in front

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of their families. They too asked
about Joe Cooy You may recall Joe Cooy

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told it's just horrible, horrible joke
about Terry Swift. Here, let's listen

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to it again. We have fewer
camera shots of Taylor Swift. Ah so

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mean. I can't believe Joe did
that, Kimble said, I felt bad

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for him. I don't think he
was put in a great position. I

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think it'd be the first person to
tell you that publicly blaming his writers was

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not the right move. But you
know, it's overwhelming. I think he's

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a funny guy, and I think
it's a shame that for a lot of

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people saw him for the first time, that was the impression they got.

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And I hope they look at his
other work. You know, the guy

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rifted a joke in the moment.
What are you gonna do? Tough enough

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writers? Kimmell says, this is
the crown jewel of awards shows. You

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know, it's an analogy people use. It's like when people say this guy's

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the Michael Jordan of this These are
the oscars of the chemical engineering world.

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You know, they don't say this
is the Golden Globes of the chemical engineering

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world. Do you want to do
more oscars? Jimmy said, I think

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I've retired from ruling things out,
so I'd never be so presumptuous as to

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assume they'd want me back a year
after year after year. But this year

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they wanted me, and they asked
me, and so I'm definitely gonna do

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this. One funny anecdote here,
they brought up that Jimmy Kimmel is the

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longest running late night host now and
the ratings seem good. Jimmy said,

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I know, it's crazy to think
about it. I mean, it's funny

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because even like my offices in our
building, ABC didn't want to pay fifty

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thousand dollars to remodel a room that
had windows in it because they weren't so

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sure that we were going to be
on and it'd be worth it. So

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the first two years I was in
a windowless basement. Really had to beg

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them to move me upstairs i could
get some sunshine on my body. People

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ask Jimmy Kimmel about a post show
tradition. Jimmy says, the award show

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tradition is in and out after the
show, and I think part of why

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is because when people are in LA, one of things on their list is

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to go to In and Out Burger, And there are a lot of people

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in La just for the Oscars,
and they wind up going like, all

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right, Also, you get very
hungry, So in and out is definitely

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the Award show tradition. Nothing as
McDonald's, but on Award Show night,

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it's in and out. Jason Zenniman
writes for The New York Times headline Wanted

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writers for Award Show jokes must be
skilled at diplomacy, hosts who have to

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entertain inside at the ceremony, and
outsiders watching at home. Presenters who changed

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their minds. No wonder the bits
are awkward. Jason brings up Joe Cooy,

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throwing the writers under the bus.
Jason says two of the three veterans

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who wrote jokes for the Golden Globes
Monologue declined to comment for this article,

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and a third didn't respond to the
request. Megan Ameron wrote for the twenty

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eleven Oscars and said, you want
it to be a little edgy, but

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not so much that it turns off
the grandparents. Bruce Falance expressed sympathy for

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that meanie. Joe Coy pointing to
the shots of the stars not laughing in

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his vicious mean joke about Taylor Swift, Bruce said, did he really need

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the reaction of Taylor Swift to swiftly
bring condemnation upon his soul? At south

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