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The Real Reason Jimmy Kimmel Decided to Host the Oscars Again · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: Jimmy Kimmel's gonna be back hosting the ninety six Academy Awards,
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Speaker 2: a night that will mark his fourth time doing so,
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Speaker 2: with one of those prior gigs happening to be one
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Speaker 2: where the wrong movie was announced as Best Picture La
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Speaker 2: La Land rather than the correct winner, Moonlight. Never forget
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Speaker 2: that that twenty seventeen moment made him wary to host again,
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Speaker 2: but he chose to return, and then swore to himself
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Speaker 2: after a second turn as a host he was done.
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Speaker 2: So what changed his mind? He tells the La Times.
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Speaker 2: I knew there was a nominated movie that people had seen,
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Speaker 2: Top Gun Maverick, and it just makes the job so
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Speaker 2: much easier. So Jimmy thought he was done again until
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Speaker 2: he had a similar experience, adding then this year, I
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Speaker 2: was sitting in a movie theater watching Barbie, and I thought, well,
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Speaker 2: maybe I will do this again, because at least I
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Speaker 2: have a point of reference for everyone. The ninety six
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Speaker 2: Academy Awards can aira March tenth, seven Eastern on ABC
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Speaker 2: that's
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