It Almost Happened | Gabriel Iglesias

because you know after 2019 I wasn't sure what was GNA happen honestly for me I thought that 2019 was the best year I ever had in comedy and the reason why I say this is because I was this close to hosting the Oscars yeah pretty sure I got a good chance next [Applause] year the year that I almost got to host that was the year that Kevin Hart was supposed to host and I don't know if you guys remember the story or not but basically Kevin Hart was supposed to host the Oscars and anytime you host the background check is next level okay they go through all of your social media all the way back to Myspace people over 40 you know what's up come to find out that 10 years ago Kevin Hart had sent out a couple of tweets that were questionable so the academy confronted Kevin Hart about the tweets and they said Kevin can you please explain and Kevin was like yes I said those things I acknowledged them 10 years ago and I apologized 10 years ago can we move forward and the academy was like well good Kevin we're glad that you apologized because they've been brought to our attention again and we need for this to go away so we need you to apologize and Kevin said you can't make me apologize twice for the same thing 10 10 years apart and they said well you have to because if you don't you cannot host the Oscars and Kevin said well thank you but no thank you and he walked away from the job I would have done the same thing in his position because by him apologizing he gives more power to cancel culture and we can't give him more we got to take it back so now so now the academy was left with a problem trying to find a suitable replacement for Kevin Hart which is not an easy thing to do so they reached out to a bunch of actors to see if there was interest and everyone said the same thing thank you but no thank you we want no part of that Kevin Hart drama no one wanted the job me on the other hand oh I recognize a job opening when I see one so I had my manager call the academy and the academy was thrilled to hear from anyone they were like Gabriel gesias yes we know who he is he's very funny very witty we think he would make a good host for the Oscars please have him submit some comedy material so we can see what the vibe of the night would be and based on the material we'll make our choice so that's what I did I sat down one night got a pen piece of paper wrote out a bunch of jokes and I turned them into the Oscars and I think that's why they said no e

Channel: Gabriel Iglesias

Views: 107,178

Keywords: George Lopez, Alfred robles, Paul Rodriguez, Gabriel Iglesias, Mr. Iglesias, Fluffy

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Length: 3min 29sec (209 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 29 2024