Barbie and Oppenheimer 's big 2024 Oscars wins and snubs may have dominated the awards talk, but Jimmy Kimmel has other things on his mind when it comes to Hollywood’s biggest night. Mainly, how to host a great show that people will enjoy, and poking at the expense of his friend Matt Damon . In an interview with THR , late-night host Jimmy Kimmel and his executive producer and wife, Molly McNearney, talked about Matt Damon, hosting the Oscars and retirement.
Kimmel has hosted the ceremony four times; however, just because he has done it a bunch does not mean that it was an instant "yes" when he was asked if he would take up the mantle again. Kimmel talked about how great it was to be able to write jokes about films that a wide audience has seen like Oppenheimer and Barbie, especially since he has a love-hate relationship with Matt Damon . He even mentioned a joke about this during the interview, “I was distracted.
I just thought of Matt Damon as DunKen, like the donut,” a reference to Barbie and the extremely popular Super Bowl ad that starred Damon alongside his buddy Ben Affleck . Despite tangents about Matt Damon, Kimmel got on track enough to relay some advice that he had gotten about the hosting gig from Billy Crystal , advice that may have helped him to stick with the gig once again: Well, that’s the advice that the great Billy Crystal gave me. You’ve got to kill in the room, and it makes sense because if nobody’s laughing, it’s not going to seem funny to .
