John Mulaney explains why he refused the Oscars 2024 host offer

John Mulaney opens with the drop in the accommodation concert for the 2024 Oscars.

While appearing on Marc Maron Wtf podcast Monday – the same episode in which Maron announced that his podcast would end After 16 years – the actor explained why he had decided not to be intoxicated awards to show.

“Well, I was very flattered. They came to see me, should be last summer. And I knew Jimmy Kimmel was not going to do it. And they offered it, “he started.” And it was honestly that I had a lot. And they are months and months of work. »»

The Hollywood Reporter had reported That the first awareness had gone to Kimmel, who has already spent the Oscars four times. But Kimmel finally said no, as he would have organized this year’s Emmy Awards, which was also broadcast on ABC.

Conan O’Brien then welcomed the 97th Academy Awards. Mulaney sang the praises of O’Brien for his accommodation mandate. “He came out and he was not only so funny, but he raised the show to the point that I almost convinced myself that I had seen these films and that I had not seen one of them,” he joked.

Maron added that he was also proud O’Brien “just locked up and possessed the fucking thing” during accommodation rather than resorting to “self-worries”, which Maron says that he noticed with O’Brien because he has known him for so long and watched him “do a joke” and then “dismantle it”.

Mulaney recently launched the Netflix talk show Everyone lives with John Mulaney.

Mulaney said “there was a plan to do more” and that they “understood it”. And although “it was very pleasant”, he also noted that he had “really felt the 12 weeks in a row” to make the show.

“We reduced what we did if we did it every day,” said Mulaney.

During the description The talk showMulaney said that it was a “bizarre persistent leave-show with persistent leaves, not quite trying to be a variety show in some respects.

“It was more than just that we were able to try a lot of songs and jokes and have guests,” he said. “We just have to try whole episodes where it seemed very tight and episodes where we suffered in terms of production.”

When you attend the following event on Netflix in January, Mulaney had first teased The talk show as a “really fun experience”. The guests included Pete Davidson, Henry Winkler, Bill Hader, David Letterman and Natasha Lyonne.

“This is one of these programs that neither Netflix nor I really need to do,” said Mulaney at the time. “I never wanted to organize a talk show and they came out of the talk show game. It was the perfect time to do it.”